IBRA MOTEL
Read moreThe striking Art Deco-style facade, pierced by four wrought-iron balconies, marks the four rooms with urban views out of a total of sixteen. Inside, a salmon-colored lobby leads up to a staircase with a red and black balustrade. Comfortable rooms in a collector's seventies style, with occasional pieces of Tyrolean-painted furniture. Bathrooms range from walk-in showers to hallucinatory clawfoot tubs for cleanliness folded in three. All with great modesty.
OYO 142 AL SHARQIYA SANDS HOTEL
Read moreIn the role of Ibra's grand hotel, with restaurant, pool table and even a swimming pool surrounded by a real lawn please, ask for OYO 142 Al Sharqiya Sands Hotel. Isolated in the middle of a rocky outcrop to the south of the city, it attracts locals and tourist crews on a stopover, with no pretensions of extreme seduction. With its twenty or so comfortable, air-conditioned rooms, the place provides the essentials. A dip in the pool, a good night's sleep and off you go.