Originally Posted by
NYTA
Just about every hotel in Israel is Kosher including the King David, the Waldorf Astoria, the Intercontinental, etc. and none of these make Tel Aviv hotels bad per se.
I think what ruins Eilat is the corporate package tour machines that drive low-mid level employees of Israeli corporates to 3-4 day family vacations there. I have been a guest for some of them and they can be quite eye-opening in terms of the guests and their behavior. There are hotels in Eilat I would not return to because of this.
Interestingly I have found AirBnB rates in Eilat to be quite reasonable so clearly it isn't so much of a supply/demand issue of Eilat.
One cannot even compare the quality of restaurants say in Hilton Tel Aviv and Montefiori Hotel, or the Waldorf Astoria and Mahneyehuda. The Major hotels are just not good enough, certainly not to charge the prices they do. King David's La Regence is slightly better.
The packages you are talking about encompass ALL of Eilat's hotels. And, yes, those friends of mine who did not give up on Eilat completely as I had, go for AirBnBs with pools and nice view. They make their own food and do not leave the place, because the other problem of Eilat is that you have nothing to do there outside the pool/beach.