No matter how hot the weather - and when I was last in Israel last month it was well into the nineties - or how wearying the antics of other Israeli hotel chains, the minute one steps into a Dan Hotel, everything feels cool, calm, collected.
My favourite is the Dan Tel Aviv, where I've stayed four times now.
As with all the best rendezvous, being there makes you feel excited and tranquil, both at once.
Situated on the most beautiful beachfront in the world, you enter the Dan on Hayarkon Street, across from where one of the most stunning reconstructions of Bauhaus architecture is taking place. (Much of it, as it happens, is a Dan project). And such is the welcome, it's pretty sure you'll return.
