2020 ISRAEL Escorted Tours Hosted Tour Packages Family Vacations Country Combinations Hotels always First Class & Deluxe YEARS OF 5 EXCELLENCE homerictours.com1 HOMERIC TOURS ISRAEL 2020 00 Simply the Facts WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHOOSING Why Homeric Tours HOMERIC TOURS FOR YOUR VACATION: is Your Best Choice 51 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE Homeric Tours was born in 1969. Decades of knowledge and experience allows us to plan, arrange and execute the most WE CAN CUSTOMIZE YOUR VACATION memorable travel experiences for our customers. Whether it’s a pre or post extension, additional nights, combining countries or creating a fully customized itinerary, we can arrange it all for you. WITH HOMERIC TOURS, YOU ARE NEVER ALONE Our Homeric Tours representatives are in each of our destinations to offer assistance at all times. Whether you are on an independent vacation or escorted tour, assistance is only a phone call away. We provide our travelers 24/7 support from a Homeric representative. WE LOVE GROUPS Every package in this brochure is available for groups of any size. Our group department provides highly competitive pricing and complete expert coordination for worldwide air-inclusive or land-only group travel. See our group brochure for more details. EXCLUSIVE ITINERARIES We are continually creating new packages and itineraries with one of a kind experiences and beautiful destinations. We are always looking for the newest adventure, the hottest destination and the newest way of seeing it all. Our team loves creating new and unique itineraries for you! VALUE Who doesn’t want travel at the best value? Our customers are not interested in spending as little as possible. They care most to get quality travel for what they spend and we, at Homeric, are able to do that. USTOA Homeric Tours, as an Active Member of USTOA, is required to post $1 Million with USTOA to be used to reimburse, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the USTOA $1 Million Travelers Assistance Program, the advance payments of Homeric Tours’ customers in the unlikely event of Homeric Tours’ bankruptcy, insolvency or cessation of business. Further, you should understand that the $1 Million posted by Homeric Tours may be sufficient to provide only a partial recovery of the advance payments received by Homeric Tours. More details of the USTOA Travelers Assistance Program may be obtained by writing to USTOA at 345 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1801, New York, New York 10001, or by email to [email protected] or by visiting their website at www.USTOA.com. 2 HOMERIC TOURS ISRAEL 2020 homerictours.com Why Homeric Tours We had a wonderful trip! Thank you for all your help. Homeric crew was SPOT ON at every pickup, transfer, is Your Best Choice tickets, tours and hotels were nice too. Athens was really nice and Crete our favorite island. – JELKA B., WATSONVILLE, CA As usual you did a magnificent job in coordinating this trip, a complicated one. The fights, connections and lodgings where excellent!!! We enjoyed very much our private tour in Portugal, Spain and Tenerife. – ORFIE M., NEW HYDE PARK, NY We returned from Morocco yesterday evening. Everything was great and we had a wonderful time. We are grateful to Homeric Tours for an AIRLINES USED BY HOMERIC TOURS: impeccably organized trip. Very rarely in our personal and professional life we had such a splendid experience! Thank you very much. –LOUCAS & PENNY T., NEW YORK, NY We did have a most memorable trip to Croatia, Slovenia & Montenegro. We thank you for your help in arranging the details! – CHARLOTTE M., DALLAS, TX We had a great experience in Egypt and we will definitely recommend Homeric Tours services to all our family and friends. – MR. & MRS. LEO M., HIGHLAND, IN Thank you for all your help on this “complicated” tour package. I couldn’t have done it without you. – DEBBIE E., TRAVEL PROFESSIONAL Thank you for your help with our trip…we all had a Fabulous time….even in the record breaking heat! The tour Guide, Alfredo was Amazing and everyone really enjoyed Claudio who did the Rome tour as well. Thank you! – TERI D. CRUISE PLANNERS, LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL homerictours.com HOMERIC TOURS ISRAEL 2020 3 Israel Travelers have been coming to the land of Israel to be inspired, refreshed, and renewed. It is an enriching experience and home to many sacred and religious sites. Jerusalem, the Holy City, has been revered for centuries by Jews, Christians and Muslims. Haifa, home to the world headquarters of the Bahai religion boasts a majestic shrine atop Mt. Carmel. Safed, home to the mystical/spiritual part of Judaism (kabbalah) with its winding cobblestone streets and ancient graves of holy men, will amaze. Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, with its peaceful churches and the holy city of Nazareth, both reminders of Jesus’ life and ministry. Israel is for everyone —young, old, singles, couples and families. It is the land of all people, an exhilarating blend of ancient and contemporary that you will never forget. The Old City, Jerusalem 4 HOMERIC TOURS ISRAEL 2020 homerictours.com TOUR INCLUDED FEATURES: LAND OF THE BIBLE • 3-night accommodations in Jerusalem • 2-night accommodations at a Kibbutz hotel in 8 Days from $1670 Galilee Jerusalem, Nazareth, Galilee, Haifa, Caesarea, Tel Aviv • 2-night accommodations in Tel Aviv Annunciation and St. Joseph’s carpentry workshop. • Israeli buffet breakfast daily and total 6 dinners Caesarea aqueduct On to Safed, city of the Kabala, for a walk through • 5-day escorted tour by air-conditioned motor near Tel Aviv the mystic alleys and the beautiful streets of the coach, as per itinerary artist’s colony. Drive to Kibbutz for overnight. (B, D) • Sightseeing as per tour itinerary with English Israel DAY 5, FRI: GOLAN HEIGHTS / SEA OF speaking guide. Entrance fees included. GALILEE • All transfers as per itinerary Drive to the Golan Heights passing by the Druze • Hotel taxes and service charges villages. Enjoy an Israeli wine country experience. • Porterage of one suitcase per person at hotels Descend to the shores of the Sea of Galilee and pro- • USTOA $1 Million Travelers Assistance Program ceed to Capernaum. Visit the ancient Synagogue, the Mount of Beatitudes and Tabgha, the site of DAY BY DAY ITINERARY * Visit subject to the situation the miracle of fish and loaves. Continue to Tiberias DAY 1, MON: JERUSALEM for a short visit of the old center of Jewish learning. Arrival in Tel Aviv. You will be met and transferred to Optional excursions to Greece, Rome, Return to Kibbutz for overnight. (B, D) Dubrovnik, Paris, Cairo, Istanbul and Jerusalem your hotel in Jerusalem. Rest of the day at leisure. DAY 6, SAT: ACRE/ HAIFA/ CAESAREA / TEL AVIV on pages 14-15 DAY 2, TUE: JERUSALEM (New City) After breakfast drive west to Acre for a visit of the old Start the day at the Israel Museum’s Shrine of the Crusader stronghold and medieval fortifications. DATES & PRICES (Land Only) Book with the famous Dead Sea scrolls, then a visit Continue to Haifa for a panoramic sightseeing Land of the Bible tour starts in Jerusalem on Mondays. Homeric Tours will offer competitive airfares from to the beautifully renovated model of the Herodian tour, including the Baha’i Shrine, Persian Garden, USA in conjunction with the tour upon request. city of Jerusalem. Enjoy Ein Karem; a picturesque Mount Carmel and Haifa Bay. Proceed southwards village in the south western outskirts of Jerusalem. to Caesarea. Visit the ancient port and the Roman JERUSALEM: GRAND COURT / CROWNE PLAZA LEONARDO (deluxe) / DAN This small village has great significance in Christian theatre. Continue to Megiddo, identified as the site PANORAMA traditions, since this is where according to tradition of Armageddon. Drive to Jaffa for a short city tour and GALILEE: HAGOSHRIM HAGOSHRIM John the Baptist was born. Visit Yad Vashem the offi- continue to Tel Aviv. Overnight in Tel Aviv. (B, D) KIBBUTZ KIBBUTZ cial memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. TEL AVIV: METROPOLITAN / CROWNE PLAZA / DAY 7, SUN: TEL AVIV GRAND BEACH DAN Continue to Bethlehem*, the birthplace of Jesus Day at leisure to enjoy this beautiful city on your own. PANORAMA at the Church of the Nativity and Manger Square. Or you may decide to take an optional tour and visit JAN 6 - FEB 24, $1,735 $2,295 2020 Overnight in Jerusalem. (B, D) Dead Sea and Masada. Overnight in Tel Aviv. (B, D) MAR 2 - 30 $1,670 $2,175 DAY 3, WED: JERUSALEM (Old City) Price for the optional tour to Dead Sea and Masada is Enter the Old City of Jerusalem where you will see $120 per person. APR 6, 13 $1,865 $2,452 the Western Wall and the actual site of the Second DAY 8, MON: TEL AVIV APR 20, 27 $1,670 $2,175 Temple, the Temple Mount. Walk the Way of the After breakfast, you will be transferred to the MAY 4, 11, 18 $1,670 $2,175 Cross, the Via Dolorosa, to Calvary and the Church airport. (B) MAY 25 $1,780 $2,299 of the Holy Sepulchre, housing both the traditional B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner JUN 1 - JUL 27 $1,670 $2,175 site of Crucifixion and the Tomb of the Resurrection. AUG 3, 10, 17 $1,780 $2,299 Please note that the sequence of the tour and sites Continue southwest to Mount Zion, with the visited may be amended due to circumstances AUG 24, 31 $1,670 $2,175 traditional tomb of King David and the Room of at the guide’s discretion. SEP 7 $1,670 $2,175 the Last Supper. Visit the Garden of Gethsemane SEP 14 $1,780 $2,299 and Mahane Yehuda to experience the aromas, SEP 21 $1,670 $2,175 colors and the traders’ interaction with the crowds OCT 5 $1,865 $2,452 at the largest open market in Israel.