Kibbutz Beit Alfa Guest House

Perfect

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The location is nice and the Kibbutz is welcoming.

The room needed to be cleaner. Many living and dead mosquitoes and other bugs. Kitchen wasn't fully stocked (we only had one fork, no bowls, etc).

Nice place to stay

There's plenty to do and see in this area and the kibbutz is a very pleasant place to stay.

Before we arrived, the office called us to tell us that if we came after 5 PM there would be no one in the office to greet us - so they sent us a phone number of someone on "Night" duty who could answer questions and open the gate of the kibbutz for us if necessary. We thought 5 PM was early to close a hotel office. We called that number and received minimal assistance. Eventually, we wandered around and finally located the room with the key in the door after we ran into one of the kitchen staff (but the kitchen and dining room was closed). She showed us the room and told us there would be no breakfast served in the dining room and that she would bring it to us in the morning. If we hadn't run into her quite by accident, there was no one else there to give us this notice. There were no notices or information sheets in the room and no staff. After 8 PM, we wanted to drive from the kibbutz to nearby Beit Shean for dinner, but the kibbutz gate was closed and we were provided with no code to open it. We waited until another car come with the code and left, hoping that we would be able to get back in around 10 PM. Before we came back, we tried to call the person on night duty to find out how to open the gate. We called three times, with a few minutes in between each call and no one answered. Luckily, when we came back the gate was open as someone else had just left - but there is not a lot of movement in the late evening there. We might have had to wait for a while. The room itself was pleasant and clean, but very basic and simple. Given the lack of service and the very basic facilities, we felt that the place was overpriced. The location in the scenic kibbutz grounds and in an area rich with scenery and historic sites is the primary asset.