Old and New Jerusalem Full-Day Tour

Really good day out - good focus on the top spots and a bit of variety. Gets you the basics so you can wonder off on your own after

Great day. Very well organized. Saw and visited the most important places. Our guide was kind to answer individual questions and give additional imformation. Would have been nice to have some extra stops at the mount of olives. Highly recomended!

It was a very informative tour. However, our bus was 15 minutes late to start. Then our tour guide left/forgot about us before we had a scheduled lunch with the group (we had to ask the shop keeper where our tour went and had to find them ourselves). Then the guide left us at Yad Vashem, we were only 5 minutes late. We had to pay another 60 shekels to catch a cab back to the old city and walk to our hotel from there.

Very organized. Very interesting. Very emotional. Great guide who was informative, funny, engaging and well versed.

Dispite really bad weather, cold, rain, wind, - we really enjoyed the tour and it is thanks to our guide person. He was extremely knowledgeable, thoughtful and helpful. It was the second year in a row we traveled to Jerusalem and took similar tour- and both times it was an amazing experience

This tour offers hotel pick-up, and this was prompt (about 8:30 AM). At about 9:00 AM, you arrive at Mt. Scopus, where you are left to your own devices for up to half an hour (or more), near the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Here, you are informed you will await the bus that will take you on your tour, and given a bus number to look for. There is little apparent coordination, and your bus could come next, or it could come in forty-five minutes. However, they do advise there is a coffee shop for us to get coffee in. Our bus came about a half hour after our arrival at this makeshift depot. Fortunately, there were trees for shade, while we waited for a bus that might come at any moment. Our guide, Avishai, welcomed us and herded us all into bus number sixteen. From there, we were driven along the eastern and southern edges of the Old City, with a brief photo opportunity for the skyline of the Old city and then for the Garden of Gethsemane. As we got out at the first stop, Avishai informed us that we needed to keep our photos brief and after he was done talking. During his "presentation", my wife and I noted several historical inaccuracies. After arriving within the walls of the Old City, Avishai stopped near some posters of the Armenian Genocide and informed us that, "Israel does not allow such posters, as we have good relations with Turkey." I thought this was an Old City tour, and not a geopolitical symposium. My wife and I found his commentary here inflammatory. Avishai then moved us like cattle to a selected gift shop for some shopping. At this point, my wife and I were growing weary of Avishai's abrasive style and pondered leaving the tour. After being left at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, with little informative commentary from our guide, we chose to simply leave the tour. Yes, we walked off and we advise you do the same, but before spending your money on this waste of time. Get an audio guide of the Old City for less cost, and do it yourself. This tour was a waste.

One of the company's vans broke down, so they had to scramble to make things work. the effect is that we sat around a lot and our tour-time was shortened. Still our guide managed to take us to a store where she get a kick-back and left us shopping for a long time.

Absolutely a great full day tour. I, nor my girlfriend have ever been. I am RC and she is Russian Jewish. We had such a great educational journey. It was deeply felt and eye opening. Our guide was a local from Jerusalem and was more than professional. We recommend this tour as it accompasses all four quarters and The West Wall. Great tour!

We had a great time on the Old City tour. Our guide Yoel brought the city to life through his stories. I would recommend this tour to anyone I met. A+

Great tour! Sagi was fantastic full of knowledge and good humor :) he kept us moving but allowed us enough time to take in the places and ask questions.