The Dead Sea Beaches, Ein Gedi and Ein Bokek
Which Dead Sea beach each tour from Tel Aviv stops at, whether its entrance is in the price, the Ein Gedi oasis on the longer tours, Qumran, and Dead Sea hotels at Ein Bokek and Ein Gedi. November 2026.
Every Masada and Dead Sea tour on this site ends at a beach on the Dead Sea’s west shore, but not every one pays the entrance. On Bein Harim Israel Tours’ From Tel Aviv: Masada & Dead Sea Full-Day Tour with Pickup, from US$125 per adult (checked November 2026), the beach stop lasts about an hour and a half and its entrance is in the price, after Masada with the cable car. The tour does not stop at Ein Gedi.
The calendar above is the tour by Bein Harim Israel Tours: US$125 for one adult on 2 December 2026 and 13 January 2027, start 7:15 AM.
The beach stop on each tour
| Tour | Beach stop | Beach entrance |
|---|---|---|
| Bein Harim Israel Tours, full day with pickup | Dead Sea, about 1.5 hours, swimming | Included |
| Abraham Tlalim Tours LTD, Masada, Ein Gedi and Dead Sea | Dead Sea, about 2 hours | Included |
| Abraham Tlalim Tours LTD, Masada at sunrise | Dead Sea, after Ein Gedi | Included |
| Tourist Israel Tours, Masada, Ein Gedi & Dead Sea | A private Dead Sea beach | Not included |
| Bein Harim Israel Tours, Full Day Experience | A Dead Sea beach | Not included (with Masada, about US$32) |
GetYourGuide listings, checked November 2026.
The beach stop on the full day by Bein Harim Israel Tours is the Dead Sea Mineral Beach. Reviewers describe what they found there. On 11 October 2026 a guest wrote of a private beach away from the hotels, with indoor showers, toilets, changing rooms and a lifeguard, and mud taken straight from the ground; one in September 2023 found the bathing area small. Several wished for longer in the water, and one in February 2026 counted from 14:15 to 16:00 on the beach and found that enough.
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Ein Gedi, on the longer tours
Ein Gedi is an oasis and nature reserve on the shore north of Masada; the park puts Masada some 18 km south of it. The full day by Bein Harim Israel Tours does not go there. Three listings do: Tourist Israel Tours (a photo stop and guided visit), Abraham Tlalim Tours LTD’s day tour (an hour at the En Gedi Spring) and its sunrise tour (springs, waterfalls and pools after the Masada climb). On all three, Ein Gedi’s entrance is paid on top. A reviewer of the sunrise tour on 1 September 2026 found parts of Ein Gedi closed by flooding, and the park authority warns of flash floods in winter, spring and autumn.
From Tel Aviv: Masada, Ein Gedi & Dead Sea Tour
Tourist Israel Tours: Masada, Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea with a guide, from the Israeli Textile Center at 6:30 AM; every entrance and the cable car are paid on top.
See the tour →From Tel Aviv: Masada, Ein Gedi and Dead Sea Day Tour
Abraham Tlalim Tours LTD: self-guided, an hour at the En Gedi Spring and two at a Dead Sea beach whose entrance is included; Masada and Ein Gedi entrances extra.
See the tour →Prices, ratings and review counts from the listings (GetYourGuide checked November 2026); operators price by date, so treat them as the shape of the market, not a quote.
Qumran
Qumran is near the north end of the shore, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves. On the full day by Bein Harim Israel Tours it is the lunch stop: an hour for a break, photos and lunch, optional and at your own cost. Kalia Beach is nearby on the map, at the sea’s north-west corner; none of the tours on this site names it as its beach.
Sleeping by the Dead Sea
The tours here are day trips from Tel Aviv. If you would rather wake up by the water, Ein Bokek, a hotel district south of Masada, and Ein Gedi are the two places the searches below cover.
Room searches
Dead Sea Hotels on the Israel Side
Each button opens an Expedia search for rooms in or near that place, through Stay22. The listings and prices are Expedia's; we name no hotels.
- Search hotels in Ein Bokek
Ein Bokek
A hotel district south of Masada; the park gives it as 12 km from Ein Bokek to the Masada cable car.
- Search rooms near Ein Gedi
Ein Gedi
By the oasis and nature reserve, north of Masada; the search shows every kind of room Expedia lists there, guest houses and hostels included.
If you stay by the Dead Sea, the tours from Tel Aviv will not pick you up there; where to stay in Tel Aviv is about the pickup side.
Masada, Then the Dead Sea Beach
Bein Harim Israel Tours' day from Tel Aviv hotels ends with about an hour and a half on a Dead Sea beach, its entrance in the price, after Masada by cable car.
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