Hotels in Israel

Hotels Netanya Israel

Park Netanya

King David 7 Netanya

The Park hotel has over 8 floors and includes 90 rooms (of which 6 are family suites which include 2 rooms each). All hotel rooms have a view to the Mediterranean sea.

Every room has a TV, telephone, refrigerator, air conditioning in the summer, winter heating and a bathroom. The hotel is located in the center of the city, above the Tsok beach. Around the hotel you can find a boardwalk, restaurants, amphitheatre, green gardens, lawns and play grounds.

Among the hotel facilities you can find a magnificent lobby, a swimming pool for adults, a pool for toddlers, a dry sauna, a gym, a bar, conference room, meeting rooms, a synagogue, a restaurant, a convention hall for up to 400 people and more.

View from the room: view to the beach, view to the city, view to the gardens and to the pool.

Number of rooms: 90

The Seasons Hotel Netanya

Sderot Nitza 1 Netanya

The Seasons hotel is located along the coast north of Netanya. It is a quality hotel with a long tradition of luxuriates hosting and an exclusive pleasant atmosphere. The seasons hotel is designed in a unique and relaxing style. Its rare location on the spectacular cliff allows an amazing and breathtaking observation over the Mediterranean Sea. The endless magical white beaches of Netanya touch the ever green boardwalk at the footsteps of the hotel.
The Seasons hotel lets you choose the nature of your vacation: a calm vacation or an active vacation, the sea or the swimming pool. The hotel offers a variety of activities, sports and relaxing experiences together with a culinary festival. Actually, you’ll might just choose to experience it all!

Description of the rooms: The Seasons hotel is a Botik hotel with 102 spacious rooms. All of the rooms are designed carefully with a great innovation that reaches the smallest details out of the concern for the convenience of the guests. There are rooms of various kinds, from the garden room, over to the studio rooms (44 sq.m.), the large suites (100 sq.m.) to the super suites (150 sq.m.). The garden rooms observe the pool and the ever green garden with its seasonal flowers and designed landscape. All of the other rooms of the hotel turn to the deep blue of the Mediterranean. Just before dusk one can watch the breathtaking sunset while sitting in the big wide porches of each of the different rooms in the hotel.

Every room has a cable TV, telephone, refrigerator, air conditioning in the summer, winter heating and a huge bathroom. Also, all of the rooms are equipped with double glass windows to protect the guests privacy and a personal safe.

View from the room: view to the beach, sea view, pool view and Other

Number of Rooms: 102

Blue - Bay Hotel Netanya

Kings 37 Netanya

The renewed Blue Bay Hotel is located on a beautiful cliff, surrounded by the blue waters of the Mediterranean.
The unique location of the hotel, half way between Tel Aviv and Haifa, along the strip of a spectacular beach and still near the central business, shopping and culture areas allows its guests the perfect combination of recreation, entertainment and business.
The warm and personal service make the hotel stay an unforgettable experience.

Description of the rooms: The hotel, which was recently redecorated, includes 215 spacious and comfortable rooms with a view to the beach. All of the rooms are designed in an elegant and modern style. All of the rooms include a plasma TV, a safe, a refrigerator and a hairdryer.

The cliff rooms: 27 suites and garden rooms which a small kitchen, a porch, a small garden and a view to the sea giving its guests a very special atmosphere.

The hotel rooms: 189 rooms and suites directing the sea and designed in a modern style. Some of the rooms include parquet flooring and a porch.

Business Services: In the business floor all rooms have a free wireless Internet access and a free entering to the business lounge

View from the rooms: view to the beach, view to the sea.

Number of Rooms: 215

Kibbutz hotels Israel

Pundak Genosar

Kibbutz Genosar

The Kibbutz hotel (The Genosar inn) is located along the northern coast of the Kinneret. In front of the amazing landscape of the Golan Heights and the Kinneret coast.
At the inn you’ll find: air conditioned rooms, a number of family units, a seasonal swimming pool, a beach, grass surfaces, a kosher restaurant, a lobby bar with a cafeteria and a souvenir shop.

Every room has a cable TV, refrigerator, air conditioning in the summer, winter heating, a toilet and a bathroom.

View from the room: garden view
Number of rooms: 70

Google map: Kibbutz Genosar

Shefayim Hotel

Kibbutz Shefayim

The Shefayim Hotel invites you to experience a family vacation with many options for entertainment and fun. The kosher hotel restaurant, managed by an experienced chef, offers a rich menu with a variety of delicatessen. The breakfast buffet will give you a chance to taste some of these wonderful flavours.

In the hotel you’ll find: The hotel bar and cafeteria a souvenir shop, a synagogue, a daily guided tour in the kibbutz that will present to you the life in the kibbutz.
Hotel guests are welcome to enjoy a free pass to Shefayim’s water park with its many facilities: water rides, swimming pools, a soccer court, a tennis court, a basketball court and a gym.

At night (Needs to be arranged in advance) you can dance in our night club, watch our artist’s shows or listen to folk stories in our Bedouin tent.
The Shefayim hotel brings you the good of all worlds: a relaxing vacation or an active one. An eastern evening or an active night club. You just need to choose.

The hotel rooms are very big and well designed (You have an option of up to 4 beds in each room). The hotel has rooms, rooms in high floors with a view to the Mediterranean that match the needs of either an individual or of families.

Every room has a cable TV, phone, radio, air conditioning, a toilet and a bathroom.

View from the room: ocean view, garden view
Number of Rooms: 150

Ohalo Mansion

Kibbutz Kinneret Jordan Valley

Ohalo Mansion has 70 hotel rooms and a restaurant that provides hot meals and breakfasts. The Mansion allow its guests to access the Sea of Galilee in a few min. The Mansion’s beach is equipped with barbecue facilities and play grounds. Conference rooms and halls are available at the kibbutz together with a pool and a synagogue.

The Mansion has standard rooms and family rooms. Every room has a cable TV, phone, refrigirator, air conditioning, a toilet and a bathroom.

View from the room: ocean view, garden view
Number of rooms: 70

Dead Sea Hotels Israel

Daniel Dead Sea Hotel

Ein Bokek, Dead Sea

Daniel Dead Sea Hotel offers you a rare combination of entertainment, Recreation and spa. This unique combination creates a very special experience that you will not find in any other hotel. Daniel Dead Sea offers a variety of quality entertainment options, recreation opportunities and an health club of the highest standards.

The character of the hotel is derived from, among others, the area where its located in. The oriental features of its interior design together with the abundance and the variety of the food, and of course the warm reception makes this hotel what it is.

Daniel Dead Sea Hotel is waiting for you with its 302 luxury rooms and 12 suites. Every room gives its guests a view of the amazing desert and the Dead Sea. Like the Daniel Hotel in Herzliya you can also find in the hotel a substantial investment in the well-being of the hotel guests: wide beds, comfortable sitting rooms, mosaic in the lobi and big and comfortable bathrooms.  If you’ll choose one of the suites you will get all these and lots more.

The top of the Daniel Dead Sea attractions is the Spa: a two-story complex that includes a pool, a Jacuzzi, a Turkish Hamam, Saunas and other unique facilities in the first floor.  The second floor is the treatments floor, where the professional health team of the hotel offers a selection of health and beauty treatments in the tradition of the Far East together with the unique Dead Sea treatments.

At night, after the sun sets our Dead Sea hotel comes to life, eliminating any need to go outside the hotel.  At the end of a day full of experiences, you can make yourself comfortable in the Tuskanian wine bar at the lobby or just relax with a glass of beer in our Scotish “castle” pub. If you wish to move your thighs, you can visit our “Millennium” night club, and enjoy the dancing to the small hours of the night. The hotel’s professional club bowling hall includes 8 tracks and in addition to all these, the hotel has its own business, seminars and events halls as well as private businesses floor.

In the Daniel Dead Sea Hotel you can escape life’s race for a few moments and enjoy a unique and healthy life experience of pure pleasure and relaxation. This is the place to enjoy the unique nature of the Dead Sea.

Every room, of the 302 rooms and 12 suites, includes anything you’ll ever need: mini-bar, colour TV connected to the hotel’s internal movie channel, hair dryer, refrigerator and even a phone system with a direct line for foreign calls, voice Answering Service and a wake up service.
All rooms have a classic design with a contamination of the authentic desert: wide beds, comfortable sitting rooms, mosaics, huge bathrooms and more.
The desert landscapes, mountains and the Dead Sea that surround the hotel add to the unique vacation experience.
View from the room: sea view, pool view, view of the mountains
Number of Rooms: 302

Moriah Plaza Dead Sea

Neve Zohar Dead Sea

The Morih Plaza Dead Sea Hotel specializes in health and recreation vacations and is located at the lowest place of the world.
The Morih Plaza Dead Sea is a classic hotel with 220 rooms, offering a personal service and a pleasant intimate atmosphere.
The hotel has a high quality spa offering a wide range of beauty and health care facilities: Swimming in the Dead Sea in the hotel’s outdoor swimming pool, a gym, a sauna and a Jacuzzi.

All the rooms balconies face the sea. Each room has a satellite TV and an internal movie channel, a radio channel, a direct dial telephone, a safe, a hairdryer, coffee drinks, room service and a laundry service (dry cleaned). Handicap rooms are also available.

View from the room: view to the beach
Number of Rooms: 220

Meridien Dead Sea Hotel Fatal

Dead Sea

As guests of the Meridiaen Dead Sea hotel you’ll have the ability to choose from a big variety of restaurants with Mediterranean Sea and Europeans menus. The hotel’s Mineral spa is the most luxurious spa in the region and you’ll need to pay extra for it.  The private beach is located opposite the hotel, which is a short walking or you can just take the every 20 min shuttle. The hotel has two beautiful huge pools, children’s pool and external and inner pools with the Sea’s water. In the hotel you’ll find one of the most advanced conferences centres in Israel. The guests can use either of the two tennis courts. If you want some sun then you can use one of the two tanning areas: the internal or the external one.

Our entertainment teams are an endless source of unique and original productions and activities that you can enjoy while staying at the hotel. For those of you who want it – you can order glat kosher food 3 days in advance.

All of the rooms have a balcony turning the sea. All the rooms have a TV, a mini-bar, and a safe. The family suite has a bedroom and a living room with a door separation (the living room has an opening sofa), TV in each room, bathroom and 2 balconies. Spa hotel is renovations to the middle of September עמכם Sorry Lks de Suite: a
View from the room: Sea view
Number of Rooms: 580

Hotels Jerusalem Israel

Moriah Jerusalem classics

Moriah classics Jerusalem Hotel is located in the heart of the city of Jerusalem. The hotel is a 20 minutes walk from the old city walls where history of the east and the west meet.

The hotel offers 395 spacious rooms including non smokers and handicaps rooms, suites and connected rooms. In each room you’ll find bathroom, toilet, mini-bar / refrigerator, hairdryer, personal safe, direct dial telephone, radio and television cables. The hotel also has a business floor, a business center, 2 restaurants, room service 24 hours, an outdoor swimming pool (besides in winter, different opening hours for men and women), conference halls, underground parking lot (additional fee), laundry services, and a club for children (summer and holidays).

View from the room: city view

Number of Rooms: 395

Location
St. George 9 Jerusalem
The hotel is located in the new hotels area by Mandelbaum Gate in Sderot Bar Lev. Just in front of the prophet Samuel neighbourhood.

Crown Plaza Jerusalem

The Crown Plaza hotel is located at Aliyah Shnia 1 st. The hotel has 397 rooms including luxury rooms, suites and a presidential suite. All the rooms are air conditioned. Each room includes a mini-bar, closed circuit video movies channel, cable TV, iron and a coffee corner.

In the hotel you can find a wide range of conference rooms and conference halls with an option to celebrate family events with up to 1000 people. In the business club on the 21st floor you’ll be provided with secretariat services, fax, word processing, internet and other business services.

You can also enjoy the great health club which includes a dry and wet sauna (Tắm hơi) and a gym (additional fee). You can relax in the heated indoors swimming pool, the tanning porch circled by lawns, tennis courts, children club (be aware that the club is opened only on weekends and it operates without a guide) and a selection of restaurants.

View from the room: city view
Number of Rooms: 397

Tiberias Israel hotels

Holiday Inn Tiberias

The Holiday Inn Tiberias hotel is located at the Derech Ha Merhatzaot, on the coast of the Sea of Galilee. The hotel has 250 rooms including suites, family rooms and garden rooms. Most of the rooms have a view to the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights.  Each room is air conditioned and has a mini-bar, phone, TV, radio, hair dryer and a coffee kit.

The hotel has a private beach that is opened only for the guests of the hotel (not in the winter). The guests of the hotel also enjoy a free entrance to the famous Tiberias spa which offers an indoor and outdoor mineral water pool, a Finish sauna, semi Olympic pool, health mud from the Jordan River and a huge variety of health and beauty treatments (additional fee). You can also enjoy the tennis court, basketball court and ping pong tables. Children can enjoy the kids club and the arcade room while their parents enjoy the variety of restaurants that this amazing Tiberias hotel offers.

View from the room: Sea view
Number of Rooms: 250

C Hotel Tiberias

The hotel is located at 13 Ziidl Tiberias in the center of the city and it is divided to 2 sections:
The big section includes 105 pleasant rooms and one luxury suite. The guests of this section can enjoy the hotel’s outdoor swimming pool, lobby - bar, halls, children games room, synagogue, the entertainment activity for adults and the spa which is located in the smaller section.
The smaller section includes 65 rooms and a lobby – bar. But the main attraction in this section is the spa center which offers an indoor heated swimming pool, a wet and dry Sauna, a Jacuzzi and a health and beauty center with a huge variety of treatments.

View from the room: City view
Number of Rooms: 170

Hotels Tel Aviv Israel

Dan Tel Aviv Hotel

The Dan Tel Aviv hotel is located in the best place in TA, right in the heart of the city and the beach, close to all of the major entertainment, shopping and business centers.

The hotel offers: a conference room, fine food, an indoor heated swimming pool and an outdoor swimming pool facing the sea.

The Dan Tel Aviv rooms: there are 280 rooms including 84 executive rooms facing the sea, 41 luxury suites, one Presidential suite and one royal suite.
Types of rooms:
Standard rooms: up to a couple + baby. These are small rooms facing the inner courtyard of the hotel.
De Luxe rooms: a bit larger rooms with a small living room facing the city or the inner courtyard of the hotel.
Executive rooms: up to 3 persons in a room. These rooms are facing the sea and are equipped with everything one needs for a perfect stay including a small living room.

De Luxe and Executive guests can get access to the business lounge if they’ll pay 250NIS per night per room and they are over 18.

View from the room: Sea view, city view, garden view.

Number of Rooms: 280

Location
99 Yarkon st. Dan Tel Aviv is located almost on the beach and a short walk from all the major shopping and businesses centers, as well as the culture centers.

David Intercontinental

David Intercontinental Hotel is a new luxury hotel, and is considered one of the most prestige hotels in Israel and in Tel Aviv in particular. The hotel is located on the boardwalk of Jaffa, a short walk from the famous and lucrative Neve Tzedek neighbourhood where you can find many places to go to including many fine restaurants. The hotel has the largest conference center in the city and its an ideal place to hold big business conferences in.

The David Intercontinental hotel mixes a magical experience with a professional service and a very pleasant atmosphere to a perfect mix. The hotel has a fitness room, spa, Swimming pool, Wireless Internet connection, business rooms, huge lobby, gourmet restaurants and more.

The David Intercontinental rooms:
Standard room: Max occupancy 3 persons to a room.
De Luxe rooms: Max occupancy 3 persons.
Club room: Maximum occupancy 3 persons including business lounge entrance (entrance foyer will be given only over the age of 18)

View from the room: view of beach, ocean view, city view, another

Number of Rooms: 555

Hotels Haifa Israel

Dan Carmel Haifa

Located above all, on the summit Mount Caramel, the Dan Carmel hotel is in the center of activity and offers an amazing view of the Mediterranean Sea, Haifa bay and the city to its guests.  The exact location is 87 Sderot ha Nasi st.

The hotel offers a wide range of activities: a children club, arcade room for kids, a fitness club, a sauna, massage (additional fee), nights of salsa dancing, swimming at night in the hotel pool, barbecue nights, restaurants and gourmet meals.

In a walking distance from the hotel you can find the Bahá’í World Centre (the eighth world wonder, the A-Em garden, the new zoo, museums, theaters, auditorium, music center, shopping centers, cafe shops, restaurants and more.
The Dan Carmel hotel has 234 guest rooms including 18 suites and a royal Suite. All the rooms and the suites have big porches with a beautiful view.
Types of rooms:
Rooms with view to the Carmel (Superior) are located on the 1-4 floors and have a view of the ever green slopes of Mount Carmel. These rooms are suitable for up to 3 persons including infants.
Bay View Rooms (Deluxe) are located on the 1-4 floors and have a view of the Haifa Bay. These rooms are suitable for up to 3 persons including infants.
Carmel view rooms (Deluxe) are located on the 5-9 floors and have a view of the green hills of the Carmel to the sea horizon (in the south). These rooms are suitable for up to 3 persons including infants.
Executive rooms are located on the 5-10 floors and have a beautiful and romantic view of Haifa Bay, the Port and the Bahá’í gardens. These rooms are suitable for up to 3 persons including infants.

The Executive rooms guests have a free pass to the King David lounge on the 10th floor (including refreshments) as long as they are 18 or older.

View from the room: Sea view, city view and the view of the mountains.

Number of Rooms: 234

Meridian Haifa Hotel (Fatal)

Meridien Hotel Haifa is located by the Mediterranean Sea and offers the high standards of the global network of Meridian and Fatal.

The hotel has 200 rooms of which 160 are five-star level, spacious, luxury suites equipped a small kitchen, dining room, working room and more. The hotel has an indoor pool, the only one in the hotels of Haifa and the new and luxury spa in an Indonesian style that offer relaxation and tranquillity. In the spa you can enjoy a wide variety of health and beauty treatments, a dry sauna, a Jacuzzi, a tea house and more. Just make sure that you order treatments in advance.

The Meridien Hotel has 3 types of rooms:
The superior room: up to a couple and an infant.
The De Luxe suite: bedroom + living room up to a couple + 2 children.
The Royal Meridian suite: 2 bedrooms + living room up to a couple with 4 children.

View from the rooms: view of the beach, sea view, city view, view of the mountains
Number of Rooms: 203

Location
10 David Elazar st,
This hotel enjoys a perfect location. It is surrounded by the pastoral peace of the sea and yet in a short car drive or train drive you can be in the heart of the city. The hotel is located on the beach and has a convenient access to an organized beach with an amazing boardwalk. If you are a business man you’ll find the location even better since it’s only a 2 minutes drive from the high tech center of Haifa (Matam) and the conference center.

Hotel Arad Israel

Hotel Inbar Arad, Israel

The hotel is located at the entrance to the city of Arad, near the center of the commercial mall. The hotel has 100 rooms of which 7 suites and 17 connected rooms for families that want a door between their room and their children’s room.

The hotel has a spa - “Inbar Mineral Spa” which includes an indoor Dead Sea swimming pool and an indoor sweet water pool, both of them heated. The spa also has an infant indoor pool and a sauna. Is the spa you can beauty and health treatments and also visit the hair saloon and get your nails done. From the dining room and the lobby you have a view of the desert.

Each of the rooms has air conditioning, phone, cable TV, toilet, bath and a personal safe.

Number of Rooms: 100

Location
On road No. 31 who leads from the Shoket junction to the Dead Sea, at the entrance to the city of Arad.

Hotel Yafe Nof Arad Israel

This hotel is owned by an orthodox family and is suitable for orthodox Jews.
The hotel offers large and convenient rooms, fine meals, mikve, synagogue, pool, sauna, gym, conference halls, a daily shuttle to the Dead Sea, health treatments and attracting prices.

Each room has a bath, air conditioner, phone, mini bar and a tv (if you order in advance)

Number of Rooms: 120

Location
In the “hotels” area of the city.

Hotels Eilat Israel

Hotel Dan Eilat, Israel

The Dan Eilat hotel is located on the northern shore of Eilat. The hotel is very close to all major tourism, water sports and shopping centers. The hotel has 2 swimming pools, water slides, a gym and a modern spa with 18 treatment rooms (additional charge). The Dan Eilat hotel also has a big conference center with many halls, a children club, disco, youth club with Internet connection and video games.

The hotel has 373 rooms, 48 family suites and one presidential suite.
types of rooms:
“Standard” rooms on floors 3-10 with a balcony facing the sea, Up to 3 persons in a room (including infants).
“De Luxe” rooms on floors 3-11 in the center of the hotel. These are large spacious rooms with a balcony facing the Red Sea and the hotel’s swimming pools, Up to 3 persons in a room (including infants).
Executive rooms - Luxurious rooms on floors 12-13 of the hotel with a balcony facing the Red Sea and the hotel’s swimming pools.  Executive guests have a free pass to the King David Lounge which is located on the 14th floor (as long as you are 18 or older) , Up to 3 persons in a room (including infants).

View from the room: sea view, pool view, another

Number of Rooms: 374

The Eilat Princess Hotel

This prestigious and unique hotel has a very magical location. Its not near all of the activity centers but that’s part of its charm. The hotel offers luxury rooms and suites with a magnificent view of the sea, mountains or pool. In the hotel you’ll find a lobby – bar overlooking the sea, a spa, high quality restaurants, number of pools, lawns, tanning surfaces, a night club, conference halls and more.

The Princess hotel has 419 rooms including 64 suites equipped with a king size bed, mini bar, balcony, living room and huge bathes.
Types of rooms:
De Luxe rooms facing the mountains and sea or the pool, junior suites, De Luxe suites, thematic suites and a presidential suite. All rooms of the hotel are planned for up to a couple + two children.

View from the rooms: view of beach, sea view, pool view, view of the mountains

Number of Rooms: 419

Location
The hotel is located at the most southern point of the coastal strip of Eilat, near the border with Egypt.

Hotels Nazareth Israel

Hotel Al Motran

Hotel Al Motran is one of the most impressive houses in the old city of Nazareth. The hotel is located near the famous and colourful market of the city of Nazareth and various restaurants. The ground floor of the hotel is built according to the Ottoman architecture like most houses of the rich citizens of the city during the 19th century.

The hotel has 2 floors and each floor has one suite planned for a large family or a few couples. One suite has 3 bedrooms with double beds and the other has 4 bedrooms with doubled beds. Both suites has an oriental design which comes to life through the furniture. In each suite you will also find a bath, toilet, well equipped kitchen with a refrigerator and electric stove, a satellite tv and if you’ll need beds for the children.

The service and hospitality are formidable.

The Plaza hotel, Nazareth Illit

Plaza Hotel Nazareth Illit is located in the heart of The Galilee. It observes the ancient city of Nazareth and is located near the national park of Tsipori.
The location of the hotel makes tours in the ancient city, the famous churches and the market of Nazareth very easy. In the area you’ll find many attractions like jeep tours, ATV tours, The city of Nahalal, Mount Tavor, The sea of Galilee and many more.

In the hotel you’ll find 184 rooms, 6 suites and one royal suite.
Each room has 3 separated beds, wireless network, mini bar, air condition, cable tv, a safe, hair dryer, direct phone and you can request a non smoking room or a handicapped accessible room .
The rooms are divided between business rooms and family rooms.

The hotel offers various facilities and services: a fitness and health club, an outdoor swimming pool, babies swimming pool, a kindergarten and a Synagogue, business lounge where refreshments are provided for connections to the Internet.
A lounge that offers refreshments, conferences halls containing up to 1,000 persons, one of them on the edge of the pool. 2 restaurants: The “Aoazis” and the “Panorama Plaza”, the “Iris” coffee bar and a pool snack bar.

Other services are: The laundry room, babysitting service, entertainment program, organized trips in the area, a free parking lot and internet access in the hotel lobby.

Hotels Masada Israel

Masada is an historical attraction and as such doesn’t have in hotels at the spot so there are no hotels Masada but there are very close hotels near by in Arad.

The closest guest house is the Desert Experience

Its located in Arad ( Moav St. number 72) just 50 meters before you turn to Masada.
It’s a relatively new place, less than a year which has three suites and seven rooms. Each room has a balcony and a simple and clean design, a Jacuzzi and an amazing view.

The entire building is facing the breathtaking desert landscape of brown – red  colors, tibia - white, yellow - blue.

In the hotel you’ll find the lobby which is also a coffee shop, a spa where you can take a Swedish massage, Hawaiian massage, unique athlete’s massage which is suited for the bike riders that visit the place. There is also reflexology, Tuina Shiatzo all for an additional fee.

The hotel serves vegetarian meals, including soups, pastas, nostrils, pulse salads, wines and special deserts, which include among others pancakes filled with nuts and honey.

Flights to Israel

Cheap flights Israel

If you’re looking for cheap flights to Israel then you have 2 options: the first one is to wait for big tickets discounts like companies usually do after the holidays in the end of January, beginning of February or the second option is to find a low cost airline company.

The low cost airline companies started as internal airline companies in the US and later appeared also in Europe. If you ask yourself how do these companies offer such cheap flights here are some facts you need to know about low cost companies:
1.    Low cost companies have only an economy class tickets.
2.    They have only one airplane model.
3.    You cant refund or change you ticket
4.    They fly to secondary air ports
5.    They usually fly for short distances
6.    They sell their tickets through the internet or the phone
7.    You need to pay for all extras

Low cost companies offer their cheap tickets to Israel only on the UK-Israel line for now. So if you want to buy cheap tickets to Israel from a low cost company you better come through the UK, but as we wrote in the beginning one can sometimes find even cheaper tickets through the regular airline companies at certain times.

London Israel flights

London Israel flights are among the most popular flights line to and from Israel. The reason is that London is a very attractive city for Israelis but more important is the reason that a lot of people who come to visit Israel from NA are flying through London.

As for today you can find Direct London Israel flights with ELAL, British Midland or British Airways.  There are many indirect flights you can find as well like: Cyprus Airways, Turkish Airlines, KLM, Air France, Swiss and more.

For many months there are talks about the “Open Skies” law that is supposed to pass in the Israeli parliament allowing cheap airline companies to compete in the direct London Israel flights market, companies like Easyjet and others but as for today you cant find tickets of these companies from London to Israel. The main problem is the monopoly of Elal and when this problem will be solved also cheap Israel airline companies like Arkia and Israir will be able to compete in this line.

El Al Israel airlines

El Al Israel Airlines is the national airline of Israel. It operates regular international passenger and cargo flights between its hub at Ben Gurion International Airport and destinations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as domestic connections to Eilat. If you ever been an Israeli man abroad while a war break in Israel then you probably know how helpful El Al is for Israeli citizens that need to join the army during a war. El Al will always find a place for them on the plan and usually won’t charge them for the flight.

El Al started flying in September 1948 and became the former national carrier of Israel, El Al has played an important role in Israel’s humanitarian rescue efforts, airlifting Jews from Ethiopia, Yemen, and other countries where their lives were at risk.

In the last decade El Al is fighting for its survival while our world is becoming more connected and where globalization is everything. Many international airlines companies are competing with El Al offering cheaper flights to and from Israel, including other Israeli companies like Arkia and Israir. The monopoly of El Al becomes even more jeopardized with the attempts of the Israeli parliament to establish an “Open Sky” policy. If and when these laws will pass El Al will find itself competing against very cheap European airlines like Easy Jet and others.

Some Israelis and Jews around to world still choose to fly El Al as an act of support in the Israeli market and in the state of Israel. But in a more and more global world and with the economic crisis price becomes a bigger issue.

Israel attractions

Israel is a land of many attractions: historical, spiritual, health attractions, nature attractions and almost any kind of attractions one can think of. And of course there are the people who are the main attraction sometime, since Israel is a land of many cultures and one can find in it almost any kind of food or tradition that there are in the world.

If I think of it, only to describe all of the attractions in Jerusalem or in the Dead Sea would take a mini book to write. But I thought to start with the most popular ones and to continue to the less known ones. And what better attraction there is in Israel than the ancient city of Jerusalem. So that would be my first Israel attraction and I’ll see how to keep going from there – if you have any ideas or attractions you want me to write about – please feel free to contact me.

Jerusalem tours: Places to visit in the ancient city.

It doesn’t matter in what time of year you take a tour to Jerusalem; it will always fill you with a strong feeling of awe and delight. The noises of the market, the prayers in the ancient Western Wall, the numerous churches, mosques and museums turns the ancient city to a major attractions among all the Israel attractions.
In order to truly enjoy the tour take at least half a day to visit the major sites.

If you come by car you can park in the underground parking lot near the gate of Yaffo. If you come by bus, take the number 1 bus from the central bus station to the gate of Yaffo which was built in the year of 1538 together with the rest of the walls and the gates of the ancient city. It is considered one of the most important gates in the wall and in the past the road that came out of it lead straight to Jaffa and that’s why it is called the Yaffo gate (Jaffa gate in Hebrew). When you turn to the south you will see on your right the famous David Citadel which you should pay a visit to – click here for more details.

When you finish the visit to the citadel you’ll continue down the road that you were on and you’ll see a police station to your right. This used to be the Turkish police station when the Turks controlled Jerusalem. Down the road you’ll see the Zion gate and if you’ll walk outside of it you will come to the grave of King David and above it the Cenacle that held the Last supper of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles and disciples.

After the visit in the grave you can go back through the Zion gate and climb on the wall (you’ll need to pay for it) and walk with it until the Ashpatot gate (the south entrance to the ancient city). From there it’s a short walk to the Western Wall, the only historical remnant from the wall that surrounded the holy temple. One of the greatest attractions is the caves that go under the Western Wall, you’ll have to book the tour in advance but its truly worth it . From there you should go back towards the Yaffo gate and look for the market in the Christian quarter where you must try to get the lowest prices for the souvenirs that you want to buy.
You can end your tour in one of the amazing restaurants near the market.

Dead Sea spa

One of the main reasons to visit the Dead Sea while you are in Israel is the health benefits that this place has to offer. And if we are talking health what can be better than a Dead Sea spa?

There are 3 really good Dead Sea spas that are worth a visit:

The best one is the Daniel Dead Sea hotel’s spa. In this spa you can find anything you can ever want from a spa: a pool, a Jacuzzi, a Turkish Hamam, Saunas and other unique facilities in the first floor and above it a whole health and beauty treatments floor. The professional health team of the hotel offers a selection of health and beauty treatments in the tradition of the Far East together with the unique Dead Sea treatments.

Another good Dead Sea spa is the Morih Plaza Dead Sea Hotel’s spa. This is a high quality spa offering a wide range of beauty and health care facilities: an outdoor swimming pool with water from the Dead Sea, a gym, a sauna and a Jacuzzi.

Some say that I left the best for last, although I personally prefer the previous 2 spas but another luxurious spa (some say the most luxurious in the region) is the mineral spa of the Meridiaen Dead Sea hotel so make sure to check it out as well so you can decide for yourself.

Car rental in Israel

Car rental is very convenient in Israel. You can find a car rental agency in almost every city. The prices are not expansive and there’s a good chance that you’ll know the company you rent from, since most care rental companies in Israel are a branch of an international car rental company.

Before you rent a car in Israel there are a few things you need to know:

A day of rent = 24 hours. So if you’ll be late by one hour in returning the car they’ll charge you for another day. So if you plan to return the car later then the end of the 24 hours make sure to tell it to the person you rent from and usually they’ll agree to charge you only for the extra hour or two.

Car insurance – Make sure that your rental contract includes an invalid car insurance.

Full tank – Just like in most of the western world, most companies will ask you to return the car with a full tank or else they’ll charge you for the gas price and it will be much more expansive than the regular gas price.

In order to rent a car you must have an international driver licence, you need to be over 21 and have at least 2 years of driving experience.

In most cities you can rent a car for one day but in Eilat you’ll usually need to take the car for at least 3 days.

The prices that companies will publish usually don’t include V.A.T which is 15.5% as for today.

You are not allowed to drive a rented car outside of Israel: Egypt, Jordan, Gaza or Jericho.

Car Rental Tel Aviv Israel

You can find many places to rent a car in Tel Aviv.
One of the leading car rental agencies is Avis which has two branches in Tel Aviv: The first one is located in a Yarkon st. 113 and is open from 8AM to 6PM Sunday- Thursday and to 2PM on Friday.
The second one is located in the Hilton hotel next to Atzmaot Park and is open from 8AM to 5PM Sunday – Monday and until noon on Friday.

Another good car rental company is Eldan which offers a bug variety of car models. The Tel Aviv branch is located at a Yarkon st. 114 and is open from 8AM to 6PM Sunday- Thursday and to 2PM on Friday just like the Avis branch which is located in the next building. If you have the time you can check out both Avis and Eldan for the best price on the car model you desire.

Another car rental company you’ll might want to check out is Suncar which is located at the Yarkon st. 200. The opening hours are 8:45AM to 5:30PM Sunday- Thursday and until 1:30PM on Friday.

When you rent a car in Israel, you can find a huge variety of cars from Chevrolet to Mazda, Jeeps or Vans – you don’t need to compromise but you can use the opportunity to drive the car you always wanted but never got a chance to buy.

Car Rental Haifa Israel

If you plan to travel the North of Israel, renting a car in Haifa can be a very good idea.
The variety of cars is more or less the same as in any big city and the prices are sometime cheaper than renting a car at the airport or in Tel Aviv.

In Haifa you can find a few good car rental companies as Suncar which is located at 131 Yaffo st. Opening hours are 9AM to 5:30PM Sunday – Thursday and Friday until 1:30PM. Suncar offers a huge variety of car models and its prices are pretty convenient.

The international and very familiar and reliable car rental company Avis also has a branch in Haifa at 2 Pal Yam st. Opening hours is from 8AM to 6PM Sunday – Thursday and until 2PM Friday.

Most of you probably know Avis so there is no need to load you with details.

Another good international rental company is Hertz which is located at 104 Histadrot st. Near the famous Check Post junction.

If you plan to rent a car in the North be prepared to meet some high speed Israeli drivers which find it easier to drive faster in the empty Northern roads. And that’s why there is a bigger chance to get caught by a policeman for speeding so please drive carefully and according to the law.

Car Rental Jerusalem Israel

If you plan to rent a car in Jerusalem you’ll be happy to know that you have a few good options:

The first one is the international Avis Company that has 3 branches in Jerusalem – the first one is at 22 King David st. Opening hours are from 8AM to 6PM Sunday-Thursday and until 1PM on Friday.
The second one is at 21 Yermiahu st. Opening hours are from 8AM to 5PM Sunday-Thursday and until 1PM on Friday.
The third one is at 26 Moshe Baraam st. in the industrial area of Talpiut. Opening hours are from 8AM to 5PM Sunday-Thursday and until 1PM on Friday.

If you are a religious Jew and you don’t drive during Shabbat then you don’t have to pay for Shabbats when you rent a car in one of the “Kosher” car rental agencies like Aviv. Aviv’s Jerusalem branch is located at 92 Agripas st. Opening hours are from 8:30AM to 6:30PM Sunday-Thursday.
Another good rental company is Eldan which also has 3 branches in Jerusalem:
The first one is at 24 King David st. just next to the Avis branch. The second one is at 22 Givat Shaul st. (Beit Ha Dfos) and the third one is at the 17 Oman st. in the Lev Talpiut mall.

Visiting Israel? Places to visit in the Western Galilee

On your way north, you can take a short break with a nice trip for a romantic couple, a loving family or just people who like fresh air. 3 places to visit in 3 nice and short trips you can take in the western Galilee.
The French Emperor and a Goat Diary Tour
Next to the train tracks on the eastern side of Akko you can find a unique path to Mount Napoleon. From the mount you can watch over Akko and its harbour from a very unfamiliar angle. Standing on the mount you can watch over the Medetiranin and its coasts, the Haifa bay, the Zevulun valley and the mountains of the Galilee.
Akko, one of the ancient port cities in the world, sat in, ancient times, on this small Mount that got his name from the unimpressive visit of Napoleon Bonaparte that failed in conquering the city. Even though the Caesar and his troops didn’t manage to go through the city’s walls a huge iron statue of Bonaparte riding his horse towards the city stands on the Mount.
On the road between Akko and Nahariya, lies Kibbutz Shomrat, right next to the Bahá’í World Centre, green fields and an aqueduct. In Shomrat you will find a small but very special goat diary. Where you can take a free tour and buy some of the finest goat cheese, yogurts and other goat’s milk products.
Phone: 04-9854802
Walk on the water with a bottle of wine in your hand
How many times did you get a chance to walk on a beautiful rocky coast with lagoons and natural pools of water? You can do that in an easy walking path on the coast of Akhziv and feel the spray of salty water on your face for 3 miles. You can actually choose between walking on the water line or on the paved path. During the walk you’ll surely meet many fishermen, watch the small geysers and hear the heavenly music of the waves.
When: Best just before sunset.
How do you get there: Take road number 4 to Akhziv and just after Akhziv park your car on the side road and start walking.

Akhziv’s winery

On road number 4 just before Rosh Hanikra you’ll find the Kibbutz Gesher A Ziv. In the Kibbutz the one who searches can find a very small winery that delivers not more than 2,500 bottles a year. Next to the winery you can find an Art workshop of artists from all around the area.
How to get there: Kibbutz Gesher Ziv
When: All week in advance. Saturdays and holidays: 15:00-10:00
Phone: 050-7713687 Mark
The river of honey
The Peki’in stream takes its course down the slops of Mount Meiron from Beit Jan to Akhziv. In the low part of the stream, in the middle of a beautiful valley one can find a path that takes him through many gardens to a grave of a righteous man.
You should par next to Peki’in bridge and go south, down the terraces in the fields. On your right you’ll see a garden of pomegranates, next to it you’ll find another garden of peppers and tomatoes and after a few hundred yards you’ll come to a hidden spring of water, between the rocks.
Go up the mountain, just above the spring, where you’ll find the grave of Oshaia Ish Tiria that on him it was said that “when he died, they saw his bed floating in the air and the angels leading him to heaven”.
How to get there: take the 884 road to the Peki’in bridge.
In the valley oh Peki’in, just down the slopes of Mount Miron you can find the “garden beehive”, the path to there is rounding between olive trees until it reaches the huge tent where you’ll taste the hot black coffee and listen to the stories of Abu Dvash, the owner of the beehive.

After you’ll drink the coffee, you’ll get a chance to buy as much honey as you want, watch the goats and the chickens playing and even ride one of the 2 camels that Abu Dvash got as a present from a Bedouin Sheikh.

How do you get there: 1.2 miles before Peki’in on the road from Hossen to Peki’in.
When : anytime.
Phone: 052-2477897

Places to visit in Israel: Amram Valley

Amram valley is one of the most beautiful places in the mountains of Eilat. But the trip I am writing about isn’t an easy one. It will take you around 7-8 hours of walking (it’s a 7.5 miles walk) so its better to take it between November to April so it wont be too hot. If you are going to do it in the Winter pay attention to floods in the desert.
Amram valley is located about 6.2 miles north to the city of Eilat. If you are taking road number 90 you’ll need to turn west to a dirt road that leads to Amram valley and Amram pillars. After 1.5 miles drive you’ll get to a crossroad, take right and drive for another  1.2 miles. When you reach the parking lot and after you’ll ask the driver to wait for you next to the seismograph station in 7-8 hours, you take the path south towards Mount Amir (just follow the signs). After climbing 0.12m the path takes a sharp left up a small canyon after another 0.12m it takes 90 degrees to the south-west towards the copper mines of Mount Amir. On the right of you’ll see a magnificent small ridge of white sandstone. The 0.75m climb ends at the footsteps of a white sandstone cliff. This is the entrance to the Roman copper mines of Mount Amir.
The path will take you northwest up the slop and down the slop on the other side through a gap in the mines cliff. When you’ll reach the other side you’ll face a crossroad of 2 paths: one taking left to Shahrot stream and the other right to where we are going to. You can walk left a few minutes in order to get a view of the Eilat bay, the southern Arava, Aqaba, Mount Solomon and Mount Hezekiah.

In the end, you took right and came to a narrow and straight valley with beautiful mix of coloured sand that makes the walls of the valley. In the end of the colourful valley the path will take you west (your left) to the saddles between mount Amram and Mount Amir. In this crossroad you’ll see a path marked in red going right – to the north and down to the Amram valley and another path marked black going northwest to the Amram observatory. We will go to the observatory, climbing and then going down the slop for 0.3m until we meet another path that came from Amram pillars. We’ll climb with the path (now marked blue) for another 0.36m until we reach another crossroad on a saddle and from there continue with a red path going right until we reach the AMAZING Amram observatory where you’ll get to see one of the most beautiful sights you ever saw.
After taking some pictures and smoking a cigarette and of course drinking a lot of water, we’ll take the red path north which takes us close to the cliff’s edge (you can take a pick just be careful) for another 0.6m until we reach Poa hill. Another 0.6m of walking will bring you to the beginning of a descending path and after another 0.4m you’ll reach a stream channel in the bottom of Amram valley. After a few yards it will take a 90 degrees turn to the east and the colours of the valley will change from white to red.
In the stream channel there is always shade so you can stop for a rest and a meal if you want. After another few yards the cannel will take a sharp turn to the north and get much wider. You walk north for another 0.2m and then the channel takes right until it reaches a high waterfall, you go around the waterfall and climb towards the seismographic station.

Travel Tours Israel: Zikhron Ya’akov

Many of the tourists that come to Israel never thought about visiting Zikhron Ya’akov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zikhron_Ya%27akov) but I personally think that place definitely deserves a visit. If you like good chocolate, beautiful beaches or some European atmosphere then you should stop by Zikhron Ya’akov.
Zikhron Ya’akov is a piece of history, a remnant of 19th century.

Just next to Zikhron you can find Benyamina and in Benyamina you’ll find the amazing chocolate store of Avital where you can spoil yourself a bit. With the chocolates you should head to Ramat Hanadiv where you’ll find the Baron garden, the Israeli answer to the Versailles gardens. Its not the same but it’s the closest to Europe that you’ll feel in Israel. In the planning of this garden the appropriate location of each plant was considered carefully so the visitor can enjoy each and every splendid odour:
lavenders, rosemaries, palms and more. You don’t need to pay for your visit.

When you’ll feel hungry you should head to the Meyasdim street, Zikhron’s pedestrian mall where you’ll find many good restaurants, bakeries and coffee shops.
Now it’s the time to choose your thing:
Are you the extreme type? Because if you are then you should try the Paradive’s (http://www.paradive.co.il/english.shtml )skydiving experience. In second thought you’ll might want to try it before lunch.
If you come from the mid west and after 3 days in Israel you already miss your horse or if you just like riding horses, a great way to tour Israel is by horse riding. It can be an hour ride or a few days ride – its up to you. Check out Mechora Ranch (http://www.mechora.co.il/page.asp?ID=17 ) for more details.
Or you can just drive to watch the sunset in one of the most beautiful beaches in Israel – Ha Bonim beach. You’ll have to pay for entrance if you come by car and you cant enter the water since it’s a nature reserve area but what you’ll find there is worth the trip to Moshav Ha Bonim: hidden corners, lagoons, small pools of water, remains of a sunken ship and more. You should plan about an hour or more of a comfortable trip.