Lonely Planet Review

By far the smartest offering in the old city this brand new four-star hotel is housed in a renovated (read completely reconstructed) tower house. Fortunately the renovations have been done with care and thought and the result is a delightful mix of Yemeni joie de vivre and European sophistication. The small standard rooms are well presented with large windows, heavy wooden furniture and stone floors. The suites, on the upper floors, are similarly decked out and big enough to get totally lost in. The tacky paintings are a feature most could do without, however. The big draw of this hotel are the arresting views which get bigger and better the higher in the building you climb and finally culminate in an ocean of terracotta reds and whites in the finest mafraj (sitting room) in San'a.