Kayma by Isrotel Exclusive - Dead Sea

Ein Bokek’s hotel district was built out in the 1990s and early 2000s, and then construction stopped. For two decades, nothing new on the shoreline until Kayma.

Kayma by Isrotel Exclusive opened at Ein Bokek in September 2025 as the first hotel built at the Dead Sea in 20 years, the product of an eight year construction project that cost NIS 128 million, according to reporting by The Jerusalem Post.

The scale is the story. Forty rooms in separate low rise structures around a central infinity pool, on a strip where the neighbors run to several hundred rooms apiece. Ynet’s coverage describes local stone, white plaster, and bamboo wood, drawing on the colors and textures of the desert and sea. Our full Kayma by Isrotel Exclusive review covers strengths and weaknesses.

Kayma gets called adults only. The official wording is narrower. Isrotel’s property page says the hotel is intended for guests aged 10 and older, to keep the atmosphere restful.

Isrotel’s official pages state that Kayma welcomes guests ages 10 and older, which makes the hotel an adults oriented property with a specific cutoff at age 10, so families traveling with younger children need to pick one of the family resorts elsewhere on the Ein Bokek shoreline.

The deadsea.com review adds two practical details: guests aged 10 to 17 stay in adjoining or connecting rooms, and reservations are accepted only from adults over 18. A couple traveling with a teenager can book Kayma. A family with a toddler cannot. Couples are the core audience, which is why Kayma appears in our guide to Dead Sea hotels for couples.

The rooms are large by Dead Sea standards, and each has a balcony or terrace. Many open straight onto the pool deck or the beach. Suites add panoramic sea views and separate sitting areas, per the deadsea.com listing.

The infinity pool sits between the room blocks and the shoreline, heated year round, with lounge chairs submerged in the shallow end. A January swim at 430 meters below sea level is a normal part of a winter stay. The Jerusalem Post’s reviewer counted two connected pools plus the roped off sea area beyond.

Buffet service is the norm across the Ein Bokek hotels. Kayma skips it.

Kayma is the only Dead Sea hotel that serves every meal a la carte, with breakfast ordered dish by dish from a menu and cheeses sourced in part from Isrotel’s own dairy at Mitzpe Hayamim in the Galilee, per the deadsea.com review of the property.

The lobby restaurant serves breakfast in the morning, then a fish and dairy menu at lunch and dinner, open to outside diners as well (The Jerusalem Post, 2025). A beachfront steakhouse grills meat in the open air, and head chef Amir Kalfon runs all three services, per the deadsea.com review. The Ein Bokek restaurant guide covers the strip’s independent options.

The spa has wet and dry saunas, a Turkish hammam, a jacuzzi, and a fitness room, and its treatment menu leans on Dead Sea mud and minerals. Our Dead Sea spa and wellness guide sets expectations for what the hotel spas on this shore deliver.

The beach is the real amenity. Kayma has direct access to the water with a roped off swimming area for guests, though the shoreline itself stays public, like all of Ein Bokek Beach. Dead Sea water is about 34.2 percent salt, roughly ten times the ocean, so read how to float in the Dead Sea and keep each soak to 15 to 20 minutes.

Isrotel runs three hotels at the Dead Sea, priced and pitched as a ladder.

Noga is the value and family pick, Nevo is the full beachfront resort, and Kayma is for adults who want quiet and plated food. Our Nevo by Isrotel review covers the middle option; the Dead Sea hotel comparison guide widens the field.

Kayma costs the most of the three by a wide margin. Isrotel’s Dead Sea portfolio page showed rates from approximately NIS 2,157 per couple per night as of July 2026. Treat that as a floor, because Dead Sea rates swing hard between midweek and weekend.

Isrotel’s page lists roofed parking with electric vehicle charging stations, and the deadsea.com review reports it is free. The hotel stands inside the Ein Bokek strip, so the promenade, the mall, and the pharmacies are a short walk away; the Ein Bokek area guide maps the surroundings.

Kayma suits couples who want the quietest room on the strip and food focused guests happy to pay a premium to skip buffets. Most other groups get more resort per shekel at Nevo or Noga. Confirm the age rules for your party before booking; the adjoining room requirement for teenagers is worth a phone call.

• Kayma Hotel Dead Sea, Isrotel Hotels (official property page), https://www.isrotel.com/isrotel-hotels/dead-sea/kayma/
• Dead Sea Hotels, Isrotel Hotels (official portfolio page), https://www.isrotel.com/isrotel-hotels/dead-sea/
• “Luxury Isrotel Kayma Hotel opens at Dead Sea,” The Jerusalem Post, 2025, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-872343
• “’The most luxurious hotel ever in Israel’ opens on shores of Dead Sea,” Ynetnews, 2025, https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/h1hcmvvuel