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Eilat Slideshow
Top Hotels in Eilat
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Magic Palace Eilat
32 reviews -
Magic Sunrise Club Eilat
16 reviews -
Isrotel Agamim Eilat
87 reviews -
Crowne Plaza Hotel Eilat
85 reviews
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Royal Beach by Isrotel Exclusive Collection Eilat
140 reviews -
Leonardo Club Hotel Eilat
26 reviews
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Rimonim Eilat
75 reviews
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Isrotel King Solomon Eilat
70 reviews
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Isrotel Royal Garden Eilat
84 reviews
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Isrotel Yam Suf Hotel Eilat
88 reviews
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Golden Tulip Privilege Eilat
12 reviews
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Royal Tulip Eilat
15 reviews
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Le Meridien Eilat
79 reviews
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Dan Panorama Eilat
684 reviews
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Eilat Princess Hotel
52 reviews
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Dan Eilat
336 reviews
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Shalom Plaza Eilat
56 reviews
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Nova Like Hotel Eilat - an Atlas Hotel
65 reviews
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Prima Music Eilat
120 reviews
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Club Inn Villa Resort Eilat
12 reviews
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Leonardo Plaza Hotel Eilat
83 reviews
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Isrotel Riviera Club Hotel Eilat
32 reviews
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Astral Village Hotel Eilat
18 reviews
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Paradise Gardens Hotel Eilat
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Palmira Hotel Eilat
7 reviews
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Astral Eilat Marina
25 reviews
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Holiday Inn Eilat Patio
17 reviews
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Astral Seaside Hotel Eilat
8 reviews -
Caesar Eilat
35 reviews
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Club Hotel Eilat
63 reviews
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Hotel Siesta Eilat
15 reviews
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Dalia Hotel Eilat
23 reviews
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Herods Boutique Eilat
54 reviews
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Vista Hotel Eilat
31 reviews
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Astral Nirvana Hotel Eilat
6 reviews
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Herods Palace Hotel Eilat
110 reviews
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Herods Vitalis Spa Eilat
55 reviews
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Hilton Eilat Queen of Sheba
164 reviews
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Edomit Hotel Eilat
10 reviews
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Red Mountains Eilat
1 review
Eilat
Travel Blogs from Eilat, Israel
Bedouin Tents
This is a top pick! ... a hike in the Red Canyon in the foothills of Eilat, tiredness never quite set in, replaced by goofiness. Back in Eilat; Julia, Heather, Beverlyn and I chill at the beach for a bit before heading back to the boardwalk for a leisurely stroll and ...
Day 23: Eilat
This is a top pick! ... only other couple in the hotel and they are our next door neighbors. Keith is from the U.K. and Atmit is from Israel. Harvey determines that Keith has commitment issues and Atmit absolutely agrees. We talk and laugh. Then comes the live ...
Day 22: Camel ride and the Eilat Mountains
This is a top pick! ... place, growing organic produce, fruit, olives, grapes, cheese. I'm putting it on our list for our next visit to Israel. Before getting on Farouk again, Eli tells us some interesting information about camels. I don't remember any of it now, ...
Eilat... The resort city of Israel
This is a top pick! ... , we head to Ben Gurion's gravesite at Kibbutz Sde Boker which provides for a fabulous view over Ramon Crater. Arriving in Eilat, we regroup and head to the boardwalk where Julia and I meet up with family friends Miki and Shifi Assif. ...
The Red Sea
This is a top pick! Fishes and more fishes. Eilat is located on the northern tip of the Red Sea. Home of world class deep sea diving. For a close look at the marine life, my tour went to an underwater observatory. Some of the tour went snorkeling after ...
Day 21: Eilat Mountains and Bedouin Camp
This is a top pick! ... are really enjoying ourselves! We begin our ascent into the mountains, on a rough 4x4 route, with beautiful views of mountains and Israel/Jordan valley in the distance. Shor points out the subtle colors of iron, copper, sulphur and gypsum. ...
The Inquisition
This is a top pick! There are stories about crossing the border into Israel. Terrible stories. Stories involving stressful sessions of rigorous questioning. Questioning that lasts for hours. We prepared ourselves for a strenuous day and hoped that our ...
Beer Sheeva, Worlds biggest Crater, Kabbutz
This is a top pick! ... caught a bus down from Tel Aviv to hang out for 2 days too! Nir kibbutz is a richer than most and they are famous in Israel for their dairy. He gave us a tour of the dairy, date fields and the other agriculture sites on his Kibbutz. It was sweet. ...
Sun and Sand at the Red Sea
This is a top pick! After a wonderful Christmas in Jerusalem I am now having a fine time in Eilat on the Red Sea, with my former NZ next door neighbour Sarah, a Canadian. We are staying at her Uncle's house, overlooking the Red Sea and the Aqaba Mountains in Jordan. So far ...
Bus ride banter
This is a top pick! ... death. Maybe not all gifts are a good thing...maybe a gift is only as good as its giver. I arrived into southernmost city in Israel, Eilat, 5 hours later and I stumbled off the bus into the still dark morning. I was told that there was a bus that ...
Passport to Israel - BBYO (Part I)
... enjoy my photographs from Ein Avdat (they're among my favorite). After lunch we drove several hours to Eilat, the southern most tip of Israel. Driving across the desert offered brilliant views....imagery that I won't ever be able to explain...and ...
The Long Short Cut Back to Egypt...
... a short while. We shared a few drinks with Tony and had dinner before a relatively early night. Today we visited 3 countries (even if Israel was for 45 minutes.) Tomorrow is an even bigger day for us. We drive back to Sharm El Sheikh, then fly to Cairo ...
Under the Sea
Talk about "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"!!! We went off to the Coral Beach Reserve where we hired masks and snorkels so we could go snorkelling. Most of the people who were there were wearing wetsuits if they were going into the water or wrapped up in ...
Welcome to Panama City, Israel
... to vary from the original itinerary - which called for us to spend our last two days in Israel in Tel Aviv. We went to Eilat, Israel instead. The change can be blamed on me, I explained to Skippy that Petra (the site from Indiana Jones and The Last ...
Back to the Stone Age
... of the Negev Desert we straddled the blurred line between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. At Timna Park in southern Israel, we saw marks in the rock where ancient peoples used stone tools to mine precious copper out of the red sandstone. Even ...
Overnight buses...yuck!
... 're only going to countries that recognize Israel as a country, however should you want to visit Other Arab countries after visiting Israel, do some research first because some countries won't let you in, because they don't acknowledge Israel as a ...
Red Sea's most wealthy
... pas moyen de faire etamper une feuille de papier independante du passport. Du moins pas au poste frontalier de Eilat. On ne realise la petitesse d'Israel que lorsque on traverse le pays en une heure ou deux. Eilat est situe a l'extreme sud d'Israel, ...
Day 5 - Timna National Park
Day 5 - Timna National Park Israel occasionally gets a nice warm wind in from the desert called Hamsin in Arabic. We were lucky to have one of those while in Eilat. Day 5 was the warmest day with 39 degrees. We decided to spend it in a part ...
Winter Warmth
... family and a short taxi ride we were at the central bus station of Jerusalem and shortly after that we were on the bus to Eilat. Not surprisingly I slept about half the journey, if not more! (I have a motion-sleeping condition, every time I get in a car, ...
First little bump in the road...
... girl I had met on the bus 2 weeks earlier) and the second one was to get to the easiest border crossing from Israel to Jordan. Now, I got to Eilat and tried calling Maya, but she just wouldn't pick up her phone anymore. After waiting in a hostel for a few ...
Day 4 - Red Sea Relaxation
... nbsp; We now had a few days in the red sea town of Eilat, wedged in between the coasts of Jordan and the Egyptian Sinai. Eilat has one coral reef and we lived right next to it in the aptly named and highly recommended Reef Hotel. Sadly Eva got ambushed ...
Eilat
... a Visa from the consulate office before crossing since I was leaving from Cairo. Oh well - I headed back through the Israel crossing and into Eilat. I hopped off the bus at the first building that said "Hostel" and got a room for the night. Since it was ...
Eilat
... En Gedi (the wadis where David hid from King Saul), Qumran (where the Dead Sea scrolls where found), and the Las Vegas of Israel known as Eilat. Our hotel is so close to the border that Bill literally ran to Egypt and back. Tomorrow we head to ...
the Journey to Eilat
Sandro, B, asnd I were off to Eilat for the weekend. We bought tickets at the Tel Aviv us station and boarded the 9.30 bus. In Japan there are gangs of young people (not yakhuza) known as Chimpiraz who will often have loud clothes, dyed ...
Kibbutz Life
... up company - the Arava Power company - who are planning a massive solar energy project, approved by the government, to make Israel a world leader in solar power. I have spoken to them about working with them on the project and they seem quite interested. ...
The Laundry Stalker
... power start up based on the kibbutz (but not part of it). The project is apparently on the verge of becoming something big. I came to Israel wanting to get involved in environmentally friendly business and this may be the chance I've been waiting ...
Qumran, Messada, Eilat
... infamous fortress of Masada, near the south of the Dead Sea; then finally to the southern-most point of Israel, the Vegas-like resort town of Eilat. ABOUT MESADA Masada is a half-kilometre high mountain top fortress built by King Herod the Great, a ...
Day 6 - Red Canyon
... found on the go everywhere. They are usually accompanied by 3 armed men per group wherever they go. Guns are abound everywhere in Israel. If you go to a supermarket there tends to be a guard at the entrance with a handheld metal detector. But they seem ...
Southbound in Israel
... the scene. The plateaus stretched as far as the eye could see, falling suddenly into giant cliffs and then rising again. Eilat was warm, sunny and beautiful. All prerequisites to make the shortlist of my perfect holiday. Though we didnt quite make it ...