Israel Group Vacation

[Anonymous]

We were considering a company like Backroads, but think we can probably find something similar for less money.

Can you recommend the company that you used, and ballpark prices?

This would be for a family of four, 2 parents and 2 DCs: one 20 year old and one 17 year old.

This would be our first trip there.

[Anonymous]

A question that really only matters for trips to Israel: Are you Jewish, Christian or other? There are tons of family tour groups that cater to the above.

All the trips are more expensive than you'd expect.

[Anonymous]

Backroads is a wonderful company if you can afford it. Never gone to Israel but other trips.

[Anonymous]

Authentic Israel

[Anonymous]

I have a recommendation if something like $14K plus airfare and food is in your budget.

[Anonymous]

We are Jewish.

$14K pp person +airfare is more than we want to spend, but I guess it also depends on how long that’s for.

We have done other Backroads trips in the past and they have been so well done, but they are def expensive for a week. But they really do take care of every little detail.

Will check out Authentic Israel and any others you can recommend. What about Mazada, they keep showing up in my searches…

[Anonymous]

Meant to sign about post -OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are Jewish.

$14K pp person +airfare is more than we want to spend, but I guess it also depends on how long that’s for.

We have done other Backroads trips in the past and they have been so well done, but they are def expensive for a week. But they really do take care of every little detail.

Will check out Authentic Israel and any others you can recommend. What about Mazada, they keep showing up in my searches…

Our Synagogue runs a 10 day family trip for about $5k pp plus airfare. $14K is insane. Are you in the DC area?

[Anonymous]

Your kids might be a bit too old for this, but pre pandemic we were looking at a family trip through BBYO (we were supposed to go in June 2020 which was obviously canceled). I think the cost was about 2,500 pp not including airfare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are Jewish.

$14K pp person +airfare is more than we want to spend, but I guess it also depends on how long that’s for.

We have done other Backroads trips in the past and they have been so well done, but they are def expensive for a week. But they really do take care of every little detail.

Will check out Authentic Israel and any others you can recommend. What about Mazada, they keep showing up in my searches…

Our Synagogue runs a 10 day family trip for about $5k pp plus airfare. $14K is insane. Are you in the DC area?

Yes, we live in DC now but are not currently members of a synagogue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kids might be a bit too old for this, but pre pandemic we were looking at a family trip through BBYO (we were supposed to go in June 2020 which was obviously canceled). I think the cost was about 2,500 pp not including airfare.

Thanks, I will check it out

[Anonymous]

I don’t think Israel is really a place where you need an arranged tour. It’s safe and easy to get around, save for the West Bank, where you should have an escort (and I highly recommend visiting it for a more rounded view of modern Israel). I went there with my elderly mother and we did Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Eilat, all by ourselves.

[Anonymous]

PP, I don’t know about that. It’s hard for first-timers to know what order to see things in, and you don’t get the narrative you would from a guide

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Israel is really a place where you need an arranged tour. It’s safe and easy to get around, save for the West Bank, where you should have an escort (and I highly recommend visiting it for a more rounded view of modern Israel). I went there with my elderly mother and we did Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Eilat, all by ourselves.

Disagree - we learned an incredible amount from our tour guide. We would have missed a lot without a guide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Israel is really a place where you need an arranged tour. It’s safe and easy to get around, save for the West Bank, where you should have an escort (and I highly recommend visiting it for a more rounded view of modern Israel). I went there with my elderly mother and we did Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Eilat, all by ourselves.

Strongly disagree. Israel is one of the few places in the world where I think it would be tremendously advantageous to do a group tour and I normally hate them.