{"id":855,"date":"2009-08-12T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/08\/12\/1200-for-airfare-and-8-nights-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:34:08","slug":"1200-for-airfare-and-8-nights-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/1200-for-airfare-and-8-nights-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"$1200 for airfare and 8 nights in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the link:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/vacations.travelzoo.com\/vacations\/633882\" href=\"http:\/\/vacations.travelzoo.com\/vacations\/633882\">http:\/\/vacations.travelzoo.com\/vacations\/633882<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so cheap that there have to be catches.&#160; Here&#8217;s what I note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only one dinner is included.<\/li>\n<li>You fly out of New York, Chicago, or Miami.<\/li>\n<li>Dates are very limited.<\/li>\n<li>Airport taxes of $130 are not included.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sure all kinds of other tips, taxes, gratuities, fees, and deposits are required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m paying almost this much just for my plane ticket at the same time of year (dead of winter) and this includes 8 nights &#8220;in first-class hotels.&#8221;&#160; (Not sure if &#8220;first-class&#8221; is synonymous with &#8220;one-star.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I bet there&#8217;s somebody out there who&#8217;s hungry and childless who has been waiting for just such an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>If you go, let me know, but don&#8217;t blame me for a thing!<\/p>\n<p>(If you inspect the map carefully, you will learn that Galilee is a city on Israel&#8217;s northern border.&#160; I <em>love <\/em>learning new things!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the link: http:\/\/vacations.travelzoo.com\/vacations\/633882 It&#8217;s so cheap that there have to be catches.&#160; Here&#8217;s what I note: Only one dinner is included. You fly out of New York, Chicago, or Miami. Dates are very limited. Airport taxes of $130 are not included. I&#8217;m sure all kinds of other tips, taxes, gratuities, fees, and deposits are\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/1200-for-airfare-and-8-nights-in-israel\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}