Crowne Plaza Jerusalem

... .  A good guide book, with pictures and pertinent facts, studied beforehand can be very beneficial. My favorite places in Jerusalem are (not necessarily in order): the Holocaust Museum, the Wailing Wall, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the ...

... ; It was amazing coming out of the desert right into Jerusalem.  It is a study in contrasts.  Upon arrival in Jerusalem, we drove to Mt. Scopis where the Hebrew University is and said the prayer over bread and wine and said a Shehecheyanu from a ...

... dinner.  We ate at a genuine Moroccan restaurant which was excellent.  Oct 28 is the first Susan G. Komen walk in Jerusalem.  The city wall tonight was illuminated in pink. Observations to date.  As mentioned our tour guide plays a ...

... how the bathrooms should be done. Grow up. The three primary custodians of the church, first appointed when Crusaders held Jerusalem, are the Greek Orthodox, the Armenian Apostolic and Roman Catholic churches. In the 19th century, the Coptic Orthodox, ...

... shops. Tonight we saw a fabulous laser light show outside at the Tower of David Museum.  The show traced the history of Jerusalem from -3300 to 1948.  After the show we had a nice dinner on the patio of Anne Ticho restaurant outside the city ...

... Aviv for an all nighter to the states!  Sheldon and I attended church last night at the King of Kings church in Jerusalem.  We took a taxi there and walked back through the market.  It was so nice to worship with like minded believers ...

... stuff. I went with my 1st cousins and their 1st cousins (other side of family). The other cousins had booked 3 rooms at the Crowne Plaza hotel. Quite flash. They very kindly let 4 of us (myself and 3 cousins)crash in their rooms over-night. We just ...

Today is basically a free day until 1:30 PM. We were  bussed down to Ben Yehuda and King George streets at 9 AM.  This is the pedestrian mall shopping area in the downtown business district and is the area where a lot of the bombings ...

... said Crown Plaza. He repeated YOU SAID Sheraton. I told him that I didn't even know there WAS a Sheraton in Jerusalem and we all said Crown Plaza!  He started driving and said "That is another $5, you want to go?". I said yes, we wanted to ...

... amazing to see only one or two cars on the streets and no public buses running.  We thought Haifa was quiet, but Jerusalem looks like a ghost town in comparison.  One minute Jerusalem is a bustling city and the next minute it is almost ...

... possible to walk on pavement stones that Jesus walked on - excavated from beneath subsequent layers of population in the old city. Jerusalem is a city of continual change - a look at photos from the 1930's show the wailing wall dramatically different from ...

... from the flight but for one reason or another we all slept for the rest of the journey to Petra. On arriving at the Crowne Plaza we dumped the bags and headed straight for the lovely little pool that sits on a sun terrace looking out towards the ...

... ; Of course on the other side of the valley, near the remains of a castle built in Crusader times, is "The Basin, by Crowne Plaza Petra."  Honestly, you can find a resort hotel or a resort restaurant anywhere.  Needless to say we did not stop ...

... the 800 stair climb (or in our case donkey ride). We finished the day with a celebratory beer at the well appointed Crowne Plaza resort overlooking a huge canyon at twilight.  Petra is an amazing place made even more so by the Jordanian people ...

... a bedouin headress to keep warm and I had sand in my hair eyes and ears. We had lunch in a lovely restaurant run by the Crowne Plaza hotel and after that inspected the small museum. Then we set about walking back. James had left us to ourselves and we ...

... place and incredible views of the Dead Sea that it offers, was breathtaking. We loved it. 2. Lunch in the swanky Dead Sea Crowne Plaza Hotel was decent though we kept looking in vain at the buffet for falafel and shwarma with no success. But the olives, ...

... church was being built on the remains of an old church site. It dates prior to AD 600 and includes depictions of Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem.     We travel to Machaerus which is suggested as the place where John the Baptist was held ...

... the front section of the floor of the Byzantine church.  Today, only part of the map has been preserved and clearly shows Jerusalem and the Holy Land.  It is made up of two million pieces of local coloured stones and shows valleys, ...

... a womb, again a juxtaposition of life and death. In most of the small rooms in the chapel there was dirt brought from Jerusalem and the graves of various monks buried in the dirt. The whole experience left us feeling quite somber and you realize that ...