Plan Your Trip

Practical guides, where to stay, tours, itineraries and 7 regions — start here.

This is the hub for planning a trip to Israel: every guide on the site, sorted by the question it answers. Start with the practical guides if you are still deciding — whether you need a visa, when to go, how safe it feels on the ground and whether a rental car is worth it. Move to Where to stay once your dates are fixed: neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood hotel picks for Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea and Eilat, chosen for location rather than star count. The tours and day trips section compares the guided options for the places that are hard to do alone — Masada at sunrise, Bethlehem, Petra, the Galilee — with honest notes on when a tour is worth it and when a bus or a rental car does the job. If you would rather follow a plan, the two itineraries string all of this together over 7 or 10 days, and the seven region pages go deep on each part of the country. Booking links on these pages are affiliate links, always labelled; they never change our picks.

Practical guides

The decisions to make before you book anything: entry rules, season, safety on the ground and whether to drive.

First time in Israel

Shabbat in Jerusalem & Jewish Holidays 2026–2027

Where to stay

Where to base yourself in the four places most visitors sleep, by neighbourhood and trip style — no star ratings, no invented review counts.

Hotels in Jerusalem

Best Hotels in Jerusalem 2026

Hotels in Tel Aviv

Best Hotels in Tel Aviv 2026

Dead Sea hotels

Where to Stay at the Dead Sea

Hotels in Eilat

Where to Stay in Eilat

Tours & day trips

Guided options compared for the sites that are hard to reach or understand on your own, with a plain verdict on when a tour pays off.

Jerusalem tours

Jerusalem Tours Compared

Dead Sea & Masada tours

Dead Sea Tours Compared

Day trips from Tel Aviv

The Best Day Trips from Tel Aviv (2026)

Masada: visiting & tours

Masada Visitor Guide

Bethlehem from Jerusalem

Bethlehem Day Trip from Jerusalem

Petra from Israel

Nazareth & Sea of Galilee

Nazareth & Sea of Galilee Day Trip

Caesarea, Haifa & Akko day trip

Caesarea, Haifa & Akko Day Trip from Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv food tours

Tel Aviv Food Tours

Multi-day tour packages

Israel Tour Packages

Itineraries

7 Days in Israel

One-week Israel itinerary: Jerusalem, Dead Sea and Masada, Tel Aviv and Jaffa, plus the Galilee — day-by-day timings, costs, transport, hotels and tours.

10 Days in Israel

10 days in Israel, north to south: Tel Aviv, the coast, Galilee, Golan, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and Eilat with Petra — timings, costs, hotels and tours.