Dead Sea Resorts

Resorts of the Dead Sea, located directly on its coast, near the beaches, are very numerous.

The Dead Sea resorts in Israel include a dozen beaches that are on the north and west coast of a unique salt lake. The Dead Sea resorts in Jordan are concentrated on the east and west coasts. There are all the necessary conditions for comfortable rest: hotels with medical and SPA-centers, clinics, sports complexes, swimming pools and restaurants.

Dead Sea Resorts in Israel

The Dead Sea resorts in Israel stretched along the Dead Sea coastline on the territory of this country, which is almost 70 km. There are several resort areas with public (free) and private (paid) beaches.

Three kilometers north of the Qumran National Park (half an hour's drive from Jerusalem) is the most northern Israeli beach on the Dead Sea - Kalia Beach. There are massage parlors, umbrellas, showers, fresh water swimming pool, and a park of water attractions. This resort area is located on the territory of the kibbutz Kalia settlement, where there are quite comfortable small cottages for overnight.

Just south of Kalia Beach is Neve Midbar Beach, a beach resort area for exotic lovers, as the usual amenities of the beach (locker rooms, showers, toilets, security umbrellas, sun loungers and towels for rent) offer accommodation in Huts, a Bedouin tent or in your own tent for only 50 shekels.

And very near is a small resort of the Dead Sea in Israel - Biankini Beach (Biankini Beach). Part of the beach is occupied by mud pools, fresh water swimming pool and SPA-center with various wellness procedures. There is also a hotel complex Biankini Resort Village with 45 rooms (of which 34 are bungalows in the hotel B & B format with an equipped kitchenette). The accommodation is located 120 meters from the coastline, on its own beach. The resort is designed for family rest (there is a children's pool, a zoo).

Medical bathing in the Dead Sea, as well as its curative mud - to the services of the guests of Israel's largest health center - the four-star resort hotel complex Meridian for 600 rooms. It is located on the western coast of the Dead Sea: from Tel Aviv by car, you can get there in about two and a half hours, and from Jerusalem - for one and a half.

This complex has its own sandy beach, three restaurants, cafes and a developed leisure infrastructure. The SPA center includes two dozen treatment rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools with Dead Sea water, mineral and hydrogen sulfide baths, saunas, massage showers. In accordance with medical prescriptions, massages, balneotherapy, peloidotherapy, physiotherapy, etc. Are held here.

However, the best resorts of the Dead Sea in Israel are in Ein Bokek. This resort is located on the west coast about 200 km from Tel Aviv and about 150 km from Jerusalem. In Ein Bokek there are more than a dozen hotels, there are several hospices. Equipped with umbrellas and showers, the public beach of Ein Bokek Beach is free.

It should be noted that it is at this resort that the largest Israeli medical centers operate: the Dead Sea Research Center, the International Psoriasis Treatment Center and the IPTC Clinic dermatology clinic. They have a private beach for their clients - International Beach.

Nearby is the resort clinic Dead Sea Clinic, which deals with the treatment of dermatological diseases and joint pathologies. As well as the resort complex Solarium-400 (Solarium-400) with living accommodation for tourists, its own clinic specializing in skin diseases, beach area, baths, showers, etc.

Three kilometers south of Ein Bokek is one of the Dead Sea resorts in Israel - Neve Zohar. Neve Zohar Beach is free, but you can stay at the Neve Zohar. After another 25-27 km, you can find yourself in the Ein Gedi reserve (in the vicinity of the Moab hills), in the immediate vicinity of which there is a free equipped beach Ein Gedi Beach. There is also the Ein Gedi Resort and the Ein Gedi Hot Springs SPA Center with six swimming pools filled with thermal hydrogen sulfide waters from natural hot springs. The therapeutic center of this resort offers peeling with Dead Sea salt, mud wraps and other procedures.

Also in the number of resort areas on the Dead Sea in Israel are paid beaches Neve Midbar, Mineral and Einot-Tsukim, as well as free beach Hamey Zohar.

Dead Sea Resorts in Jordan

The Dead Sea Resorts in Jordan are located south of the capital - the city of Amman. The beaches of Amman Beach and O Beach are about an hour's drive away. In the beach resort area of Amman Beach there are showers with fresh water, a swimming pool, free sun loungers, playgrounds for children, cafes and restaurants. And the beach of O Beach (two kilometers from Amman Beach) has a beautiful sandy beach, swimming pools, lounges, four restaurants and an excellent SPA center.

One of the largest climatic resorts in the Middle East is the Dead Sea resort in Jordan Swaymeh, located 55 km from Amman - on the northern coast of the Dead Sea.

Here - right on the shore of the Dead Sea - is the resort complex Dead Sea Spa Hotel, which offers accommodation in rooms of a four-star hotel or in some comfortable bungalows, as well as all services of dermatological and rheumatological treatment at the Medical Center Dead Sea Medical Center. Specialists of this resort spend: body massage, mud masks, ultrasound therapy, galvanic therapy, microwave therapy, cryotherapy and hydrotherapy. In the center there is a gym, a solarium and an indoor pool.

In addition, in Swaymeha there are 40 hotels of the international format Resort & Spa, which include high-class SPA-centers with treatment rooms, swimming pools, mud baths, etc.

The best resorts of the Dead Sea

The best resort of the Dead Sea can be considered the Jordanian resort Mоvenpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea in the area of Swaymeha (on the northeast coast of the Dead Sea), which in July 2014, the famous American magazine Premier Traveler Magazine was named among the 10 best resorts around the world - for its unique for the region spa complex Zara Dead Sea Spa and the innovative methods of treatment used here.

Zara Spa, which has an area of 6 thousand square meters. Meters and 31 treatment rooms, being one of the most advanced in the Middle East, offers more than 70 health and beauty treatments using the healing properties of Dead Sea water and mud.

Prices for the Dead Sea resorts

Specific prices for the Dead Sea resorts can be called only relative to the cost of using paid beaches. In Israel, it can be from 25 to 60 shekels ($ 7-16), and for children - on average $ 7-12. Plus approximately 70 shekels ($ 20) is worth a visit to the middle-level SPA center.

In Jordan, the entrance to a paid beach is between 15 and 25 Jordanian dinars ($ 20-35)

And SPA hotels in Swaymech offer rooms from $ 105-128 per night to $ 245-280. Prices for treatments in the SPA-centers are very different. For example, in the Zara Dead Sea Spa in Jordan, admission is free if the visitor orders procedures for 100 Jordanian dinars ($ 140) per person per day.

Reviews about the resorts of the Dead Sea

Most of those who leave their comments about the Dead Sea resorts emphasize the high level of medical services provided by specialized clinics, and also note a significant improvement in well-being after sea bathing and mud cure procedures.

Many holidaymakers warn: at the Dead Sea in the summer is very hot. And also - that for swimming in the sea you need rubberized shoes (to reduce the chance of slipping) and that it takes too long to stay in the water (maximum 15-20 minutes). And, coming out of the sea, be sure to take a fresh shower: all the resorts of the Dead Sea took care of this and equipped the beaches with shower cabins.