Outside forbidden zone
LeMeridien Medina
(http://www.starwoodhotels...). previously the sheraton, this is the only branded hotel in medina open to non-muslims. near the airport and often used by airline crew. one night is about 600 riyals.
The following hotels are open to all.
City center
Al-Majeedi ARAC Suites
It offers spacious and air-conditioned serviced apartments, all of which has a telephone, cable TV, and private toilet and shower with bathtub. Some of its amenities are currency exchange, dry cleaning/laundry, and safe deposit boxes. While staying here you can visit some tourist spots like Masjid Al Nabawi, Qiblatayn Mosque, and Masjid Musallah.
Taiba ARAC Suites
It offers air-conditioned suites aptly boasting a private toilet with shower and bathtub, cable TV, and phone. Some of its amenities are currency exchange, dry cleaning/laundry, and safe deposit boxes. While staying here you can visit some tourist spots like Masjid Al Nabawi Al Sharief, Qibalatin Mosque, and Baqi âAl-Gharqad.
Madinah ARAC Inn
It offers rooms furnished with air-conditioning, cable TV, a phone, private toilet and bath, and mini-bar. Some of its facilities are currency exchange, airport transfer, and dry cleaning/laundry. While staying here you can visit some tourist spots like Quba Mosque, Jannatul Baqi, Battleground of Khandaq.
Numerous 5 star hotels have been and are being constructed all around the Prophet's mosque within a radius of 500 m.
Al Andalous Suites
Madina Al Rawda Suites
Dar Al Hijra Intercontinental
Hilton Hotel
The Oberoi
Beyond these are many budget hotels extending miles from the Masjid Nabavi. The tariff depends on a hotel's distance from the mosque, the nearer the more expensive. Even these low cost hotels have facilities like proper beds with clean linen, carpeted floors, air conditioning, refrigerator in every room, tiled bathrooms fitted with either eastern or western type WCs sometimes both, 24 hours running hot and cold water. Kitchens with LPG and burners and sinks are also available for those pilgrims who would like to cook their own meals. But now all of these small old hotels are being demolished on a large scale to make way for starred hotels.
The following hotels are for Muslims only.
Medina has many hotels, most of which are very close to the Mosque,as it is visited mostly by Muslim pilgrims.