Tips for a turist in Israel

[Mihai]

My girlfriend will go to Israel in a trip soon.
Can you give me (her) some usefull information (links) and hints?
It is an organized trip but she may stay a few more days and she might need to use the public transport. I don't want her to get lost there.

[MrFun]

That's an ugly misspelling in your thread title.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by MrFun
That's an ugly misspelling in your thread title.

MrFun

[Az]

links:

http://www.inisrael.com/tour/main.html

http://www.goisrael.com/

Since she is on an organized trip, I assume she already saw all the hot spots ( Jerusalem, Nazareth)

My recommendations:
-go see Haifa, and Bahai gardens.
-remember: NO FRICKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT FROM FRIDAY NOON TO SATURDAY EVENING None. Nada. Zilch - might as well spend it walking around the city she's staying in, (hopefully somewhere near the sea).
-If she gets a chance to hang around Tel Aviv in weekdays, this can be fun.
-Dead Sea hotels, Eilat, and Tiberias offer wonderful spas. Personally I recommend the dead sea for spas. could be pricey, though.

oh, yeah, and I also got this telephone number, which is the telephone number of the ministry of tourism help line:

02- 6271422 ( with 02 being the Jerusalem area code, so if she's staying there, don't use it) They speak english there, I think.

http://www.israrail.org.il/english/index.html is the railways site, but schedules are in hebrew only.

http://www.egged.co.il/Eng/ that's the site of Israel's largest bus operator ( doesn't operate the busses in Tel Aviv, though )

[KrazyHorse]

remember: NO FRICKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT FROM FRIDAY NOON TO SATURDAY EVENING

Sucker.

[alva]

remember: NO FRICKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT FROM FRIDAY NOON TO SATURDAY EVENING

Why? Sabat???

[:) Smiley]

That's quite something, here public transport runs every day of the year.

[Mihai]

Thanks Az.
Very helpful. Especially the part about no public transport. In Romania the public transport is never shut down completly. Fewer buses, but still...

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Mihai
Thanks Az.
Very helpful. Especially the part about no public transport. In Romania the public transport is never shut down completly. Fewer buses, but still...

I think he means it's not safe to ride public transit at those times...?

At least thats what I took from it.

[Az]

No. No. NO. That's not what I meant. I meant NO PUBLIC TRANSPORT. *cries* *cries*

Ok, there is some, like a very small amount of minibusses, etc., and in our city of Haifa, a small assortment of bus lines, and there are cabs, but this is hardly enough.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Az
No. No. NO. That's not what I meant. I meant NO PUBLIC TRANSPORT. *cries* *cries*

Ok, there is some, like a very small amount of minibusses, etc., and in our city of Haifa, a small assortment of bus lines, and there are cabs, but this is hardly enough.

Oh.

Although I think she'll realize this when she goes to catch a bus and it doesn't come

[Tingkai]

Body armour

[TheStinger]

Don't throw stones at Israeli tanks.