Yearly Archives: 2026

If you've booked with us, you're staying in a building that's part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. Nobody mentions this at check-in. In this part of Tel Aviv it's an ordinary thing to be: the next building alo…

If your last visit here was a while ago, the transport has moved on further than the city has. There is a light rail now, which opened in 2023, and the train in from the airport has become the normal way to arr…

July in Tel Aviv has a shape to it. You go to the beach early, you come back, and then there is a stretch between about midday and four when going outside is a poor idea. This is the list for that stretch. The…

June is when the swimming season properly begins: the sea has warmed up, the days are long, and the water is busy from early morning. It is also, in most years, when the jellyfish turn up for a few weeks. Both…

Jaffa is the old port city that Tel Aviv grew out of, and it is close enough to walk to. From our door it is roughly 40 minutes south along the seafront, or about fifteen on a bike. Go in the afternoon, so you…

Tel Aviv is flat, compact and warm, which makes it close to an ideal cycling city, and the network of separated lanes has grown steadily for years. For a visitor it is the fastest way to cover ground without wo…

Tel Aviv has one long beach, and everybody who lives here treats it as about eight different ones. The names refer to the stretch in front of a particular street, and each has picked up its own character. Here…

"200m from the beach" is the kind of thing every listing says and nobody quite believes. Here is what it actually means, along with everything else you can reach on foot before you have finished your coffee. Th…

Two things come up in nearly every family enquiry we get. Several of the apartments sleep five or six people properly, and dogs are welcome in all of them. Neither is easy to find 200m from the beach in central…