Royal Beach Eilat

... , it is a world of big hotels everywhere, with the reddish mountains of Jordan that are so close. Our hotel was the Royal Beach, a beautiful hotel with several swimming pools and artificial waterfalls. From the hotel room, we had a wonderful view to the ...

... and of course Hebrew.  The city is a mix of the Jersey shore, Coney Island and the Bahamas. Our hotel is the Isrotel Royal Beach which is located right on the promenade and next to the marina.  We were upgraded to the presidential level and our ...

Today we are just relaxing in Eilat.  We have been going at it pretty hard and needed a day just to hang out.  We spent most of the day at the pool and we took a little swim in the Gulf of Aquaba. Now we are going to go walk around, take some ...

... in some of the most colorful snorkeling in the world. The coral reefs of the Red Sea are among the most impressive - globally. Coral Beach Nature Reserve was very cool. We had to walk to the water's edge and to the end of the pier in our shoes ...

... they are building many resorts. There are also smaller camps where local people can hire a small cabin for a weekend at the beach. Across the water we could see Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Crossing the border was fairly straight forward and relatively quick. ...

... all kinds of plans to go out on a boat, walks etc ....but in the end we just parked ourselves on deckchairs on a private hotel beach and baked ourselves. In Devorah's case, her ankles got the the short end of the stick. So much so, that she hobbled along ...

... see the minibus depot, but can't work out how to get one. End up back in town, walking along the almost deserted beach – quite different to yesterday.  Decide against a roast chicken breakfast , and bought drinks and some corn salad (?), which ...

... day on a beach on the Red Sea.  We drove south of Aqaba, on the road leading the border with Saudi Arabia. Someone had recommended a beach and dive center to us where we could snorkel, but when we stopped to look, it wasn't up to what we had hoped, ...

... one, we will be rolling into Cairo around midnight, or do we stay in the Israeli border resort town of Eilat which happens to have a very nice beach on the Red Sea??  Okay, abort original plan and start looking for the bathing suits...after all it ...

... to explore Aqaba a little bit. So Brett and I (using my handy dandy guidebook) found a recommendation for a restaurant within the Royal Yacht Club and headed down the street a ways to seek it out.   The restaurant was completely empty save ...