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Old Feb 4, 2019, 1:45 am
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Originally Posted by BATLV
Don't use Google for this. Use Waze, it is much more accurate in Israel. It is 25 minutes to central Eilat ( maybe 23-24 minutes to the hotels in the northeast.) And that is before even taking into account congestion, the checkpoint on route 90, the wait for taxies - since there will be more demand and not so much more fleet ( and taxies are crucial because buses in Israel are non-reliable and inexistent on weekends.
Actually busses in Eilat run over the weekends, but it's not like you need much transport if you stay in the north beach or city hotels, you can practically walk to anywhere you might need, and even more so once ETH is out of the way.
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