Unplugged Bar, Eilat

Advantages: Excellent diving and cheap CDs
Disadvantages: Eating out in restaurants is pretty expensive

...back with us. Eating out tends to be expensive but we found a great little cafe that sold the most delicious falafel I'd ever tasted for about £2 and that included either a pint of beer or a glass of wine. The local pubs were good as well. We kept going back to the Underground Bar which is about 5 minutes walk from the town's main shopping mall. If you bought 3 pints of beer your 4th was free and the prices were very reasonable. Drinking in the hotel was expensive, though, at approximately £4 per drink but there was always some kind of entertainment such as cabaret acts or quizzes. We thoroughly enjoyed Eilat and we are looking forward to going back at some stage. We only paid £199 for our holiday because we went at the end of January but it tends to be pretty expensive to go on a package otherwise. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend... Read review

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Advantages: An unusual place for winter sun, good water activities
Disadvantages: Guns on display and getting home.

...to the Jordanian border. According to our rep Eilat has an average rainfall of 3mm a year, so true to form it rained that first night and it rained a lot. ~First impressions~ It was New Years Eve when I crawled out of my bed after a fitful nights sleep due to the thunderstorm. The room had a double bed, drawers and a bathroom with shower, toilet and sink all in double vision. The room was clean and despite my best efforts remained that way, as the cleaner did a good job of tidying it up after me. The room was in a small apartment block near the pool and more importantly by the bar. The breakfast room was a standard selection of cereals, fruits and breads. At the reps meeting I realised that there was not a lot to Eilat, it was basically a small town on the Israeli coast of the Red Sea. To the north is the Negev Desert, to the south and west is Egypt... Read review

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Advantages: Hot weather, water sports, and great hotels.
Disadvantages: All entertainment costs money!

...Eilat, is the glamourous holiday resort in Israel, situated next to the the desert, (similar to Las Vegas in that way)It is also next to the sea. Being Jewish, and with half my family living in Israel, I go to Jerusalem a lot, but i much prefer Eilat. Israel has a reputation, for having many orthodox jews and synagogues all over the place, but Eilat is quite the opposite. It attracts 90 thousand tourists a year, but not all are Jewish. This is for many reasons. A key factor of Eilats popularity, is that even in winter, the temperature rarely drops below 25 degrees, and is almost always sunny. In the summer, the temp, rarely drops below 35 degrees! Secondly, there are many hotels, all incredibly fancy, reasuringly expensive, and luxurious, ranging from 3 to 5 stars. There has been a lot of competetion to make the best hotels in Eilat... Read review

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