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  • 4/5 Yugesh Narayan P. 1 year ago on Google • 13 reviews
    Avi gave us an insightful tour around Jaffa and we got to understand about the history of the place and about the evolution of Tel Aviv. Sandeman's initiative is really wonderful and a boon to tourists especially those wanting to visit on Saturday (Not a single tour company offers local tours on Shabbath).
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  • 5/5 Rodrigo T. 1 year ago on Google • 37 reviews
    Amazing tour of Jaffa led by Hadar. I must say she is one of the best tour guides I've ever had with Sandemans walking tours. Hadar's outstanding performance made the tour an unforgettable experience. She is a qualified local guide who provided us with valuable insights into Jaffa's interesting story. Additionally, she was very attentive and even gave us some valuable tips for great restaurants and places to visit, many of which I had the opportunity to explore. I strongly recommend Hadar’s to anyone who wants to know more about Jaffa and experience it with a top-notch guide. Thank you, Hadar, for rocking our tour!

  • 5/5 Adrián Q. 4 years ago on Google • 28 reviews
    It was a great walking tour with our guide AVI, great guy! Very knowledgeable, fun and enthusiastic with the whole group. The tour lasted 2.5 hours and he took us through the Old Jaffa and the main attractions of the city and its wonderful history. I would totally recommend to have this tour as soon as you arrive Tel Aviv!

  • 4/5 Amir S. 1 year ago on Google • 9 reviews
    The guided walking tour of Jaffa was great. Enjoyed every bit of it!!! The tour guide Hadar was very engaging and shared significant events, buildings/places vis-a'-vis historical timeline. My daughters 8 and 13 enjoyed the story telling and the whole experience as well.

  • 5/5 Djordje P. 4 years ago on Google • 8 reviews
    Mihal was our tour guide through Jaffa old town and it was well worth it. Her English is impeccable and her story telling abilities take you back to your childhood. :)

  • 5/5 Denis L. 6 months ago on Google • 6 reviews
    We enjoyed such a wonderful and rich tour of Jaffa as we travelled back in time with our tour guide Hadar. Her knowledge and passion for the city, as well as the human stories she shared, brought the place to life and made our experience so special. This tour is an absolute ‘must’ on your trip to Tel Aviv! Thank you.

  • 5/5 Ian W. 8 months ago on Google • 4 reviews
    Michal was a superb guide and showed us all round Jaffa on her tour which lasted more than two-and-a-half hours, including a quick break. We saw so much and learned lots about Jaffa's history and she delivered her tour in an entertaining, informative and relaxed way. She also highlighted an area to walk in after the tour on our way back to Tel Aviv. Highly recommended!

  • 5/5 sfearll 4 years ago on Google • 3 reviews
    Our guide Josh was excellent, charming and informative; he had a very good way of making ancient history relatable. We wished we'd had more time after the tour to explore other areas of Jaffa not covered by the tour, but it's a very good introduction. I enjoyed the dialogue, and the history, and the views!

  • 5/5 Martina C. 11 months ago on Google
    I recommend the old Jaffa tour with Hadar. Informative, easy to follow, and engaging.

  • 5/5 Hannah G. 11 months ago on Google
    We did a tour with Hadar yesterday. She is just the best tour guide there could be. Very informative with all the little stories an Jaffa is just beautiful. Thank you.

  • 2/5 Sen W. 9 months ago on Google
    I did the Jaffa Tour in Tel Aviv. It was average compared to other free tours I have done. The guide had a good sense of humour but altogether I left feeling like I didn’t learn anything all together interesting. The guide informed us that recommended amount to pay was 50 NIS (£12) per person but that we were also welcome to pay more. I think that is extortionate especially when you consider that there were around 20 of us the tour and the numbers means you don’t get a personal/quality experience of the guide that’s £250. In Nazareth, I had a qualified guide who drove me and my parents around Nazareth to different sites from 10am-4pm for £120. It was very personal - so the idea of a group paying more than £250 for just two hours blows my minds. Anyway, I paid 25 NIS (£6); the tour guide didn’t hide his disappointment when I handed him the money even though I honestly didn’t think it was worth even that.

  • 5/5 Elyse G. 1 year ago on Google
    Old Jaffa tour was fantastic with our guide Yuval. He was funny, knowledgeable and warm, he engaged each and every person. If you get him as your guide you are lucky, but all the Jaffa guides (we've done this tour twice before with friends) are excellent.

  • 5/5 Dejan P. 1 year ago on Google
    I really enjoyed the tour led by Noam who was very kind and informative. She managed to share the story of the Jaffa and Tel Aviv in the best possible way. I highly recommend the tour.

  • 5/5 Renata K. 1 year ago on Google
    Hagar's tour took Jaffa, and only understood what that meant when we learned about Andromeda! The tour was wonderful: informative, interesting, and entertaining! You won't regret your investment.

  • 4/5 Estela G. 1 year ago on Google
    Excellent history teller. Hadar enjoy talking and taking people to place and time of the events that happened in Jaffa through out the history. I totally recommend the tour! She also shared with us a map to find affordable and tasty food in Telaviv. Thanks for your work! Very well done! Estela

  • 3/5 Ari S. 1 year ago on Google
    Tour was good but not great. The size of the group (approximately 35 people) was too large and at each stop it took a while for everyone to gather. It was also impossible to connect personally with the guide with a group that large. The guide told stories about the sites and the history of the area which helped make the tour more enjoyable, but the size of the group hurt the pace of these stories.

  • 5/5 Anna G. 4 years ago on Google
    Extremely knowledgeable guide who made the tour an excellent experience. What a great ambassador for the country, city and the company. Definitely would recommend to others.

  • 4/5 Sue C. 1 year ago on Google
    Free Tour of Tel Aviv - Old Jaffa Great guide - good English. VERY large group - might have been better to split into 2 groups. Most enjoyable couple of hours, with lots of history about the area, its' inhabitants and the unique artist area. Such a surprise! No not miss this tour if you're in Tel Aviv.

  • 5/5 Francesca M. 1 year ago on Google
    I took a free Tel Aviv tour with Hadar who was the best guide ever!! Very knowledgeable and engaging, she told us many interesting facts and stories and you could really tell she loves what she does. Great experience, would recommend.

  • 5/5 Barbara M. 1 year ago on Google
    Our guide Hadar was super and took us on a great and informative tour through old Jaffa! I can only recommend this tour!

  • 5/5 Chloe O. 1 year ago on Google
    We took a walking tour of Old Jaffa in Israel and it was absolutely amazing! Our tour guide Hadar was so knowledgable and friendly - thank you! I look forward to trying SANDEMAN tours in other cities - they are too good to miss and I still can't believe they're free!

  • 5/5 Lea O. 1 year ago on Google
    Our tour guide was very enthusiastic and you could sense that she really loves telling tourists all these interesting facts about her home country and favourite town Jaffa. I especially enjoyed the connection between mythological stories and historical facts.

  • 5/5 María Soto G. 1 year ago on Google
    The best option to know more about the history of a place. Great explanation about Tel Aviv. Interesting facts explained by Bar, the tour guide, as well as tips provided to discover the city from a local point of view.

  • 5/5 Karen T. 1 year ago on Google
    Did Jaffa. Guide very knowledgable! Really great walk

  • 5/5 Barbara L. 1 year ago on Google
    Our guide, Hadar, was amazing. She was very knowledgeable and presented in such a way that we were really able to understand the history of the Jaffa area. We totally enjoyed the tour!

  • 5/5 Phillippa T. 1 year ago on Google
    Avi G was a brilliant guide, so knowledgeable , and interacted with all of us. The tour was extremely interesting and informative, and I would definitely recommend it.

  • 5/5 Daria R. 1 year ago on Google
    Great guide, who made the tour very interesting - 2 hours went by very quickly. Highly recommend.

  • 5/5 Lea H. 1 year ago on Google
    Tour of Jaffa was great, very interesting with an excellent guide.

  • 5/5 Tomas R. 1 year ago on Google
    Excellent Tour. Noam, the guide, was charming and funny. Great experience.

  • 5/5 Franklin H. 4 years ago on Google
    On the 4th of September 2019 we did a great free walking tour in the old Jaffa port and center. It was one of the best tours we ever did. And we did many guided tours ;-) Thanks to our guide Nicola who blends giving interesting historical information with a good sense of humor. You learn and laugh a lot doing this tour!!

  • 5/5 Chris J. 4 years ago on Google
    Really great tour. Loads of info, easy waking. Good pace. Just enough people not to be too many!

  • 5/5 Ben-Zion W. 4 years ago on Google
    The guided walking tour around Yafo was very informative and very entertaining, I really enjoyed the tour and learnt a lot of both history and culture from our guide, she was great! I highly recommend this tour!

  • 2/5 G. C. 4 years ago on Google
    ● I joined the tour in January 2020. The weather alert showed " Warning of FLOODING in Tel Aviv" on that day. I don't understand why the tour company didn't cancel the tour in advance. When meeting up, the rain was very heavy. There were puddles everywhere. The road has become river. There was flood run down the stairs as well. The tourist guide still decided to lead the people to walk into the rain. The group was too long to find out where the other people were. As the rain was too heavy to walk, the group was brought to arcade afterward. Waiting for about 30 minutes, there was no sign that the rain would become smaller. The guide made the decision that he wanted to continue the tour. Those people who didn't want to continue were abandoned in a place where was neither safe nor familiar to them. If the guide checked the weather forecast in advance, why he hasn't prepare another plan for raining? ●給2顆星有以下2點: (1)很難理解導遊為了賺小費把參加者的安全和信任丟在一旁的決定。 (2)導遊應該有提早查看天氣狀況,如果已經知道會下暴雨,難道沒有準備雨天備案嗎? 我在2020年1月份參加導覽,當天整個海法地區發佈暴雨洪水黃色預警,但我不懂為什麼導覽公司沒有事先通知參加導覽的人這樣的天氣狀況,並且取消當天的導覽。 當天早上在集合時很明顯雨已經非常大,而且每個地方都在積水,馬路上都是河流,還有從階梯上沖下來滾滾洪水,但導遊還是堅持帶著一群人往雨中走,整個30多人的隊伍拉得很長,幾乎看不到前方的人在哪裡。 後來因為雨實在太大,參加者被帶到一處不是很乾淨的橋下等待,大概等了將近半小時,雨勢看起來並不會變小,導遊做的決定是「他要在暴雨中繼續走導覽,想要跟的人就跟來,不想跟的人自己找路回去」。當時我們處在低漥的地方,回去的路跟向上走的路都嚴重積水或已成河道,根本找不到安全的路,不想走導覽的人等於被拋棄在一個既不熟悉又不安全的狀態中。

  • 5/5 Lauren T. 4 years ago on Google • 1 review
    Joined the free walking tour of Old Jaffa during my first day in Tel Aviv - wasn't really sure what to expect, but wanted to get out and do something. The tour was fantastic and left me completely impressed. Hadar led our group - she was incredibly knowledgeable, effortlessly discussing a large range of historical events, and was a great story teller, relaying the stories/myths associated with Old Jaffa and its history. She kept everyone entertained and engaged for the two hours that flew by. She was also quick to point out the best spots for pictures and had a great sense of humor. Highly recommend. Cross posted with TripAdvisor.

  • 5/5 Emily K. 6 months ago on Google • 2 reviews
    Hadar was an amazing guide who led us all around the city of Jaffa. We learned lots of interesting historical facts as well as some fun stories about the city. Highly recommend this tour to anyone who is in town 😊.


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