You come to a vacation in Eilat, and you want to go to a Petra tour.

I recommend you to find a reliable and reputable tour operator online at a website like TripAdvisor.

If you wondered, then all the hotels in Eilat will offer you to book a tour to Petra from them at the reception.

The price of Petra tour at the hotel’s reception can be the same as the price that you can find in the internet, or a little bit higher or lower.

Yet, as you may understand the hotels just sell you tickets to a tour to Petra for one of the tour operators who operate this tour from Eilat, and they get a commision for each client.

However, the receiptionists at the hotel don’t care about the quality of the tour or about the reputation of the tour operator. They will just sell you tickets to the cheapest tour operator that offers them the highest commission, and you will have absolutely no idea who will be your tour operator.

The price of the tour doesn’t indicate about its quality. I mean that if you pay at the hotel an expensive price for the tour, then it doesn’t mean that you get a good tour operator. The hotel will send you to the same cheap tour operator, but they will justr get a bigger commision.

You can also just end up in some unknown group that isn’t even organized by a licenced company.

So, don’t book a tour without knowing who will be your tour operator!

Have a nice tour! 🙂

Visiting Eilat?

Do you want to travel to Jerusalem or to Petra?

First of all, you will really like Eilat. It’s sunny 333 days in a year with a beautiful sea and nice people.

I live in Eilat, and about 90% of the tourists who I meet in Eilat want to visit Jerusalem – the City of Gold.

It’s also very recommended to travel from Eilat to Petra, the Red-rose City, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, for at least one day.

Where can you buy a tour to Jerusalem and a tour to Petra from Eilat?

Well, there are many websites that offer these tours. You can also buy these tours from your agent at your hotel or from your tour operator.

I will tell you a little secret. Your ‘tour operator’ in Eilat is not really a tour operator. He is just a local agent who buys a list of tourists from agencies in Russia. Your agent in Russia sells your information (name and hotel) to agents in Eilat.

Your agent will meet you at your hotel in Eilat and convince you to pay him a lot of money, and get vouchers for the tours. They tell people that you must buy the tours from them right now, because that afterwards they won’t be available, and if you buy the tours from someone else, then you won’t have an insurance and probably nobody will come to pick you up to the tour and you will lose your money.

The truth is actually the opposite. These agents don’t have any license. They just charge you excessive rates, and pay a small amount of money to the cheapest tour operator in Eilat, leaving a huge commission for themselves. Of course that this tour operator is far of being the best.

Most of the agents in the hotels send their tourists to some obscure tour operator called ‘Fun Time’. You can read the reviews of tourists about the services of that company on TripAdvisor.

The best tour operator in Eilat, according to LTG (Luxury Travel Guide) magazine and TH (Travel & Hospitality) magazine is ‘Mantis Tours & Travel’. You can be impressed by the super great reviews of this company on TripAdvisor.

When you book a tour online directly from a good reputable tour operator, you actually pay less and get much more.

So, for a conclusion, have a great vacation and enjoy your tours!

See you in Eilat! 🙂