Passover in Israel

An interesting phenomenon has developed over the last 5 years. For Passover, the "Dead Sea" has become the "Miami Beach" of Israel. All the "anglos" and families that come from abroad, do a minimal cleaning of the house, then they lock their doors, pack up the car, and drive off to the fancy 5-star hotels of the Dead Sea. And there they spend a week doing the same activities their counter parts are doing in Miami - indulging in 3 gourmet meals a day, swimming in the pool, treatments at the spa, oh and of coarse, going to shiurim. The Dead Sea has become "the place" to be for Angols over Pesach.
I also heard of another "in place" for Anglos to be for Passover in Israel. For 18 years Eddie Freudmann has been running the passover vacation at the 5 star Sheraton Moriah Plaza hotel in Tiberias. Many Anglo families people have made this their Pesach home and have come back year after year.

The search for "Passover Hotels" in Google

I have been following the increase in users who are searching Google for the various terms to find a hotel for Passover. The most popular terms searched for are: "passover vacation", "passover travel", "pesach 2006", "passover hotel", and "passover tours". Whats also interesting is the gradual increase in searches for these terms from September thru December.

Search Terms	September 2005	December 2005
passover vacations	120	227
passover travel	0	51
pesach 2006	35	94

Hotels for Passover

Passover is a popular time to take a vacation, given that staying at home means a lot of scrubbing and cooking. There are many options for spending your Passover vacation in a hotel. There are hotels within the United States like in Florida, New York, California, Arizona. For people looking to go overseas there are hotels in warm climate places like Puerto Rico and hotels in holier places like Israel.

You can see a whole range of passover vacations at http://www.totallyjewishtravel.com/passover_resorts/