Old and New Jerusalem Day Trip from Tel Aviv

An interesting trip to old noisy Jerusalem, particularly interesting to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western wall. Interesting and very moving to visit the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Yad Vashem, in new Jerusalem. A very nice and knowledeable guide.

Our guide was very knowledgeable with 35 years of experience. He added insight at each tour stop to make the material more relatable. I wish the timeline had included more time for exploring and shopping not just at a pre-selected single store with high-pressure sales tactics. Elvis-themed coffee stop at the beginning was an unnecessary waste of time.

Our tour guide was excellent in describing the location and events of Jerusalem. I would definitely recommend doing this tour.

Excellent tour guide. Kept the group interested and educated. Answered questions and seemed very knowledgeable.

Hezi the guide and Oleg the driver made it a great and interesting day for us. In spite of the full programme it was never too stressful. Very well organized, very kind people, very much information.Thank you!!

I loved this trip, I’ve always wanted to see Jerusalem and it was amazing to do so. The morning was walking all around old Jerusalem including seeing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. I was disappointed about how short a time we had in the church - only 20 minutes. There are huge queues for the rock of Golgotha and Jesus’ tomb. The tour didn’t give us enough time to see everything or to queue for one of those and it would have been good to have some time to walk round Jerusalem on your own. The tour guide, Itamar, was full of interesting information but unfortunately I didn’t hear most of it. He repeatedly started talking before half of the tour group had caught up. He seemed to have little patience with those with restricted mobility issues who walked a bit slower - and it is quite difficult to walk round Jerusalem as there are lots of little steps up and down and uneven ground. Several times we were left well behind the group and missed all of the talk. In addition, he sometimes asked me to wait partway along the route for the last people while he gave information to the quicker members which meant I missed it all as well. He was very quiet when speaking so even if you were there when he talked, you had to get quite close to hear and with a group of about 50, that was almost impossible. However, even without the tour information, everything we saw was fascinating. You got time to spend on your own at the Wailing Wall which was lovely and an amazing experience. I was upset that the choice of lunch location was so inconsiderate - up about 60 steps to a rooftop bar which was just not feasible for those of us with walking difficulties. We ended up going somewhere else on our own. The afternoon session of this tour was entirely in Yad Vashem, the world holocaust museum. You are given quite a lot of time to look round this although you could spend days there without seeing and reading everything. It is a fascinating but hard experience and the guide was considerate in making sure people understood upfront that if they found it too much nobody would judge them and they could wait in the coffee shop or book shop if they preferred. We spent the whole time looking round the museum and it was a chilling experience but I’m so glad I did it. I was expecting more from the ‘new Jerusalem’ section of the tour than just the museum so that was a bit of a shame but the museum itself is a great experience. Overall an amazing tour and I’m so glad I did it.

Although the tour has a lot to offer, getting through the crowds and the ‘very’ narrow streets of the old city, especially the via Delarosa, etc., it creates delays and extremely difficult to stay with group. Those of us who are less pushy, and coming up with other tour groups who are more aggressive, it does not make the historical and interesting concepts too easy to enjoy! Try it and good luck!!

Well though and organized trip, seeing all major points in Jerusalem; very good explanations from the guide.

Bein Harim through Viator states that tours are in English but they will put you on a bi-lingual tour to save money in a tiny, squashed van. The tour then takes twice as long and you lose interest and can't understand anything as the guide switches back and forth between languages. The guide actually apologized to us at the end of the day and thanked us for our patience. DO NOT USE BEIN HARIM. Make sure it's another Israeli guide company.

Amir Call Or did an amazing job to share the stories and history behind Jerusalem. Will highly recommend this day trip, but pls make sure that you get Amir Call Or as your guide !