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Do not think of a hotel at all: we visited the pampering B&B complex of the desert

While hotels are once again raising prices, the B & Bs are giving a fight and in a big way, showing that their value for money is much more lucrative.

During the "Arava time" in Tzukim, instead of firing the workers in Corona, they became builders and added cabins with private pools.

So why pay more for a hotel?

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Ziv Reinstein

Friday, 07 May 2021, 00:02 Updated: 07:28

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Arava Time B&B on the Cliffs (Photo: Ziv Reinstein, Editing: Yardena Abodi Fox)

And which sources have never been, and if people do not lose their livelihoods and go into debt - the hotels "have short memories" and they return to raise prices while abroad is not really an option. Look for a night on Shavuot approaching the hotel, and you get thousands of dollars a night.

But the Central Arava not Quiet about the yeast, and develop tourism. In the Zaman Arava B&B complex in Tzukim, Yair and Shira Lederman added two luxury guest cabins to the five already in their possession, and in one of them they hosted me. "I have five workers and I turned them into builders," says Yair. One or I sent to the Knesset.

Thus, along the confluence of Nahal Tzofar with Nahal Eshos, there are seven luxurious cabins at a price of NIS 1,600-1,200 per night for a couple, including breakfast. True, not cheap, but there is nothing to compare to the Value For Money you will receive, certainly not in front of a hotel in Eilat in the coming summer months.

We will start with private heated pools that each cabin has on the porch, continue to a state-of-the-art BBQ stand if you are in the carnivorous section, local boutique beers waiting in the fridge and finish with a fireplace with trunks inside - ready to ignite in case of night chills.

On the wall is a dedicated backgammon facility and the bathroom is equipped with a wide shower and some four taps from each direction to increase the current on the body in the shower, after which you pour straight into a thick white bathrobe.

You can "get stuck" here for days and just stare.

The balcony in the cabin during the prairie (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Simple and pleasant.

The bedroom in the B&B (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Good morning, Lucia

In the main compound of the B&B, Shira is waiting for me, who operates "Lucia's Breakfast", Yair's mother who lives in the north, who occasionally comes to instruct the employees exactly how to prepare it and what new dips or salads should be served, in addition to squeezed apples, coffee and eggs Of your choice.

"People's needs changed during the Corona period and they want more felt and more insulation," says Shira, who is also in charge of orders and finances. According to her, the Corona did well for the Arava, "because many Israelis do not fly abroad and suddenly the Arava is not just a place on the way to Eilat, and they stop here."

Shira is also responsible for ensuring that guests have enough content in case they still manage to get out of their cabin.

And the content in the cliffs exists, and by and large.

From the artists' village on Fridays, through the two culinary points "Ursula" and "The Deli - Route 90" to a walk on the cliffs after which the settlement is named.

But beyond that, during the prairie, guests receive a text message on their mobile phone, with a link to a web page of attractions that take place in the area on days when they are staying in the complex.

"This is how we sew all the ideas for the guests, where to eat and what to do," adds Shira.

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The cabins were renewed with a hammock hanging from the ceiling.

You can sit for hours and stare at the landscape (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The idea from the north, the taste from the south.

"Lucia's Breakfast" (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

There is nothing to compare the Valio Four Money you will get at the hotel.

The pool in the B&B (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

And there is also accommodation for NIS 165, including breakfast

As evening falls, Yair takes me to meet one of the nice people I got to know in the Arava - Amos Aviran from Moshav Paran.

Aviran, who has been in Moshav for 46 years, is generally a Nahalalnik from the Jezreel Valley, but a man speaks with all his limbs. I get on his old desert Land Rover, which can happily accommodate about seven people, and he takes me to one of his favorite routes - Mount Eshet. Even before, a jump to the Joshua Falls near Paran, which are a kind of show of travertine (dripping streams) in the rock named after Herzl Yehoshua, a man from Paran who died in 2015. Next to them, a charming wooden table, above it a spiral spiral system and near a fire-ready place - from those corners Nice that no one knows except the locals - I just want to retire and sleep there.

Amos also has a khan called "Khan Aviran", which he founded about 20 years ago.

"I bought a jeep and guided tours and then the need arose from the travelers for accommodation, so I opened a khan," he explains.

There you will find four accommodation units and five more cabins, and Amos makes sure to mention that they even have underfloor heating.

Compared to the pompous B & Bs of Zaman Arava, with Amos you will pay only 165 shekels per person in the khan, including breakfast, but naturally you will not come to it to be alone with yourself, but with the desert and what it has to offer.

But for those who still need a pinch of pampering in the khan, there is also a huge and shared Jacuzzi to relax the aching muscles after a day of walking.

Khan Aviran: 052-3868938.

You don't have to be a pompous B&B.

A bench, a cymbal method and a place for a fire in Joshua Falls (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Levels the roads faithfully.

Amos and his old desert jeep (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Simple, convenient and cheap.

Khan Aviran in Moshav Paran (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The star of the prairie

When darkness strikes us, we meet Alon Goldstein from Ein Yahav at the monument to those who go to Petra, between Paran and Idan.

It was established in memory of five adventurers who in 1953 wanted to be Meir Har Zion and Rachel Saborait, but were unlucky and they met in the Jordanian army.

Goldstein is quite fresh in the Arava, only six years old, but as a high-tech man from the center he knows how to combine both a livelihood and his true love - the stars.

In the star observations he makes, he explains to couples and families about the mythology of the stars from Greek times to the present day.

"I started tinkering with the stars because I loved hiking," he says, "you come to the desert at night and it catches me, but only when I moved to the prairie did I have a chance to engage in it."

Two jars await on the Shefers mat - one of coffee and the other of tea, in addition to a giant telescope - one of four that he is equipped with.

Goldstein explains the zodiac signs, laser-points the stars, sketches some of the figures that make up the stars, such as the hunting goddess Artemis, twins, a lion and more.

"Every season has a different sky," Goldstein explains, "in the summer it's more pleasant to watch the stars at night, and if it's in the prairie in the summer - then only at night."

Price: NIS 80 per person from the age of 6. 054-5234197.

"Every season has a different sky."

Goldstein in action at the observatory (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

So free accommodation in the Shakesh area, from the discounted one in the Khan to the pampered B&B - there are quite a few options to sleep in the Arava. Each one is different and suitable for everyone in a different way. What is certain is that in the Arava you will not find a vacation in a hotel in neighboring Eilat south. In the neighboring Dead Sea to the north.

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