Women-Friendly Travel in Madinah
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Madina Oberoi
Built in 1988 and remodeled in 2000, the Madina Oberoi is a 5-star hotel with Islamic Design and luxuriously furnished rooms. It provides an uninterrupted view of the Prophet’s Mosque and the Green Dome. Its dining options include international and Indian cuisine. The hotel offers various services including babysitting, hair salon, parking garage, room service (limited hours), laundry, and barbecue grill, parking garage and more. It also hosts a business center and conference room(s).
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AlJaad CROM Madina Hotel
The AlJaad CROM Madina Hotel is a 4-star hotel with fresh décor and modern amenities. It is located in Al-Madinah’s city centre and is within walking distance from the Prophet’s Mosque and Bab Al Salam Gate. This state-of-the-art hotel is equipped with modern technology (wireless Internet access) and offers guests a variety of restaurants, a café shop, a ballroom, a business center, pick & drop services accompanied with 24-hour front desk, onsite car rental and tour assistance services. The rooms have coffee/tea makers, direct dial phones, cable television service, soundproofed walls, rollaway beds and refrigerators.
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Le Meridien Hotel
Le Meridien was built in 1978 and remodeled in 2006. The interior has been decorated with fine Italian marble in a unique and traditional Saudi Arabian style. The hotel is a 20-minute drive from the Medina International Airport and 7km away from the Qiblatain Mosque, Islamic University and the Sultana Shopping Center. It offers convenient and flexible meeting facilities for businessmen and religious travelers, an onsite barber shop and a spacious yet intimate lobby. It is open for both Muslims and non-Muslims.
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InterContinental Hotel Dar Al Iman
The Dar Al Iman InterContinental is located right on the Masjid al Nabawi’s plaza, and is only a 10-minute walk from King Abdul Aziz library. The Taiba Mall and Bin Dawood Supermarket are right next to Dar Al Iman. The hotel offers a safe, a mini-bar and a private bathroom to each room with laundry, ironing, 24-hour front desk and tour desk services too. The onsite Rotana Restaurant offers buffet and an à la carte menu. Wireless Internet is available in the entire hotel (including the Business Centre) and costs S.A.R. 20/hour and S.A.R. 75 per 24 hours.
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Hilton Madinah
The Hilton is a 5-star hotel located only a short walk from Masjid Al-Nabawi, a perfect place for Hajj and Umrah visitors. It is smack in the heart of the city’s shopping district and provides a range of breathtaking views of the Holy Mosque. The hotel offers on site laundry, dry cleaning, currency exchange and an ATM/Cash Machine. It also provides a 24-hour front desk, a business center and a designated smoking area. Wired Internet is available in both the business center and public areas at a cost of S.A.R. 50/hour.
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Madinah Möevenpick Hotel
The Movenpick Hotel is a family-friendly city-center hotel to the north of Masjid Al-Nabawi. The Baqi Al Gharqad; Quba’ Mosque is also nearby. This 4-star property features 3 restaurants (Marrakech that serves authentic Moroccan cuisine, Shiraz serves traditional Persian cuisine and Movenpick Hotel Restaurant has an international buffet) along with a 24-hour business center, wireless Internet access (for a charge) and meeting/conference rooms for small groups. The staff can readily arrange concierge and wedding services. Other routine amenities include dry cleaning/laundry and tour assistance services. Moreover, the hotel also has to offer a multilingual staff, child care and several room-oriented complementary services.
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Madinah Marriott Hotel
The Madinah Marriott is a 5-star hotel located opposite Madinah Governor Office. The hotel offers free of cost shuttle buses to Haram 24/7 which is just a 2 minutes drive. Along with that there is 24-hours room service, coffee shop, business center and high speed wireless Internet access at competitive prices. Furthermore, the hotel provides coffee in the lobby, toll-free phone calls, copy & fax service and network/internet printing.
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Ramada Madina Al Hamra
A newly built hotel in 2007, the Ramada Al Hamra is a 0–star property 15 meters away from Prophet’s Mosque. It offers deluxe rooms with coffee/tea stations, 21-inch plasma screen TV and a guest safe box in each room. Each room is provided with a free daily fruit-basket and there is onsite open buffet and an à la carte menu restaurant. Other amenities include free local telephone calls, wake-up calls, an ironing board (furnished upon request) and a multilingual hotel staff.
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Al Muna Kareem Radisson Blu Hotel
Al Muna Kareem was built in 2005 and lies 70 meters from the Prophet’s Mosque. This 5-star hotel along with many other hotels is located in central Madinah near Masjid Al-Nabawi and Baqi Al Gharqad. The onsite restaurant provides 3 meals a day. It offers complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access along with meeting facilities that include banquet facilities and conference rooms for small groups. Other amenities include onsite shopping facilities and laundry/dry cleaning services. Even guestrooms offer separate sitting areas and have complimentary wired and wireless high-speed Internet access.
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Elaf Taiba Hotel
A short walk from the Prophet’s Mosque and King Abdul Aziz Library, Elaf Taiba offers comfortable rooms with satellite TV and a mini-fridge in each. It has an onsite restaurant that offers numerous dishes. The business and commercial areas especially the Sultana Street are very close by the hotel. The hotel offers services including a laundry, business center, currency exchange, ironing, ATM/Cash machine, packed lunches and a 24-hour front desk. Wireless internet is available in public areas at a cost of S.A.R. 60 per 24 hours.
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Anwar Al Madinah Möevenpick
This hotel in Al Munawarah has a lot to offer in terms of graceful accommodation and is only a 3-5 minute walk from Masjid Al Nabawi. Connected to a shopping center, it’s right in the heart of the shopping district and 3 km away from the Madinah Dates Market. The rooms are spacious and fitted with modern amenities. Each room offers cable TV, work desk and a refrigerator. Apart from the normal services including laundry, dry cleaning, front desk, ATM/Cash machines, the hotel also has to offer a multilingual staff, shopping on site, flat-panel televisions and work-desks. There is access to both wired and wireless high-speed internet with a surcharge.
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Ramada Madinah Al Qibla
The Ramada Madinah Al Qibla was built in 2007 and is located 15 meters from Masjid Al-Nabawi. With deluxe rooms with coffee/tea stations, 21 inch plasma screen TVs, a multilingual staff, high-speed internet connection, ironing boards (on request), free local telephone calls and wake-up call facilities, the Al Qibla is definitely worth visiting. The hotel offers various room types based on your leisure or business oriented needs.
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InterContinental Hotel Dar Al Hijra
The InterContinental Dar Al Hijra is a luxurious hotel which is just a couple of minutes walk from the Prophet’s Mosque. The hotel offers a splendid view of Ohud Mountain and is close to famous sites such as Quba’ Mosque, Qiblatain Mosque and tombs of Madain Salah. The onsite Al Safa Restaurant provides food 3-times a day that includes international cuisine and Arabian specialties. Apart from the usual business center, currency exchange, tour desk, laundry and dry cleaning, the hotel provides car rental, concierge and bellhop services too. Wireless Internet is available in the entire hotel free of cost.
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Elaf Al Huda
The hotel, built in 2009, is located close to Masjid Al-Nabawi and Baqi Al Gharqad. The various amenities it provides start off right away with a complimentary reception and then include 24-hour room service, high definition television in rooms, private and second bathrooms, coffee in lobby, tour/ticket assistance, laundry/dry cleaning, currency exchange, multilingual staff and a concierge desk. It is a completely smoke-free property with 2 restaurants (that offer international and themed buffets) and a coffee shop/café. One special feature is that it provides cribs (infant beds) which can be extremely useful for very small children. Wireless Internet is available in public areas and costs S.A.R. 60/hour.
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Al Harithiya Sheraton Hotel
Built in the year 1999, this 3-star hotel with a 4-star location is 1.1 kilometres away from Masjid Al-Nabawi and overlooks the Holy Mosque of Prophet (SAW). It provides a limited variety of amenities including services such as direct dial telephone, cable & satellite TV, refrigerator, ironing board, dry cleaning but no laundry.
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Madinah Dates Company/Dates Market
Madinah is known for being one of the biggest producers of high quality dates; you are likely to find all kinds of shops in the Dates Market selling distinct variety of delicious dates suiting to all kinds of tastes. There is a factory outlet of Madinah Dates Company where you will find a more selected category of dates.
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Street vendors
Street vendors are also a part of the city’s attraction, famously known to be selling every kind of product. They offer both affordable and high quality goods. These inexpensive shops are easily distinguishable from the more expensive alternatives, since they sport giant signboards claiming ‘Everything is 2/5/10 Riyals.’
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Souvenir Shopping
Some of the most popular souvenir items of Madinah include their high quality prayer mats for worshippers and their exotic non-alcoholic perfumes (called Iturs), which visitors from abroad are known to buy in bulk to take back home. Other souvenirs include magnets pointing towards the Ka’abah, caps, tasbeeh or rosary beads, abayas (the black cloak muslim women wear), pictures of the holy city and mosques, religious CDs, copies of the Holy Quran, clocks sounding Azan or the call to prayer (correct to the second) for nearly 5 million cities, etc.
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Taiba Land Resort
Taiba Land Resort Street Al-Khalil Str POBOX 587 Telephone 48458600 Fax 48458709
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Ghanimah Theme Parks and Parks
Ghanimah Theme Parks & Parks Address: Street ِAirport Str Telephone 48132166
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Al-Hokair Group
Al-Hokair Group Address: Street ِAbu Baker Al-Seddig Str Telephone 48312056
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What to do with Children in Tow
There are several entertainment areas in and around Madinah that can be attractive for children. These places include King Fahd Park, Al Hamra Park, Al Nakheel Park, Central Park, Taibeh Land Tourism Village, Aliyet Al Medina Souk, Rashed Mega Mall Complex, Al Hassen Mall, Al Bu’aijan Park, Al Gadi Park, Al Hukair Luna Park, Wild Baydha Park, Agool Park, Abu Terboosh Park, Bayt Al Madina Park and Nowres Park.
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Jannatul Baqi
Jannat-ul-Baqi is the burial ground of some of the closest companions of the Prophet (PBUH) including some of his wives and daughters. It is right next to the Masjid Al Nabawi and Muslim men should definitely visit the site and say a prayer for the deceased. Please note that the area is forbidden for women.
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Kaaki Museum
It is a specialized museum of Madinah which unravels the early stages of Madinah’s development. The museum contains visual media and pictures of the city.