Suggested workshops:
• Mud sculptures: We’ll learn about different types of soil and use them for creative construction.
• Recycled paper: We’ll learn how to recycle used paper.
• Compost making: We’ll see how compost is made on the farm and how it can be done in your backyard as well.
• Tour and nature lookout: We’ll tour the farm and the surrounding area, exploring the flora and fauna along the way.

Eyal's Farm, Kibbutz Ramat Rachel

Swimming pool

The semi-Olympic-size swimming pool is covered and heated during the winter months. The toddler’s pool is in use only during the summer, and is shaded by a large pergola. The swimming pool has reserved hours for aquatic exercise classes.

Spa

The Ramat Rachel Spa is a world unto itself – on entering the spa doors, clients enter a realm where peace and serenity reign.

The Spa caters to hotel guests and to a loyal clientele of local residents who are already familiar with the professional staff and high quality facilities. Guests are welcome to indulge in the wide range of treatments offered: massages and holistic treatments such as Shiatsu, Ayurveda massage, aromatherapy, reflexology, and Reiki (to name but a few) ; facial and other treatments (for example mud wrap) ; nutrition counseling and clinical dietary counseling.

Hotel guests are accepted on an advanced reservation basis and enjoy preferential rates.

Gym

A fully equipped, modern exercise room enables guests to continue their fitness routine while on holiday, for a nominal fee. In addition, guests are invited to participate in the wide range of classes that are held during the course of the week, such as stationary cycling, Pilates, osteoporosis prevention, yoga, belly dancing, folk dancing, Salsa, aerobics, Feldenkrais, step work, body sculpting, and more.

Members of the gym’s professional staff are on call to provide guidance and support at all times.

The full Israeli breakfast included in the price of the room is an excellent way to start a busy day of sightseeing.
Guests are invited to choose from the variety of salads, egg dishes, fresh baked goods, local cheeses and other dairy products generously arranged on large, marble topped buffets.

Lunch and dinner are also served buffet style and start with a colorful selection of salads and other appetizers based on Israel’s freshest produce. A varied menu includes a choice of attentively prepared soups, side dishes, and main courses, but guests should be sure to save room for the tantalizing cakes and sweets from the desert buffet.

The hotel stocks a carefully selected choice of quality Israeli wines and a large assortment of non-alcoholic beverages.
The lobby cafe, open from morning till midnight, serves drinks and light meals throughout the day and provides a place for guests to enjoy a quiet moment or catch up with friends over mid-morning coffee, afternoon tea, or a before dinner aperitif.
The pool snack bar, with its outdoor/indoor seating and panoramic views of the surrounding landscape, provides light meals and beverages throughout the day.

The observation deck provides a panoramic view of the golden Dome of the Rock in the Old City, Mount Sc opus and most of Jerusalem and Bethlehem and the Church of the Nativity. Stairs lead down from the deck to an ancient stone quarry where construction material for the buildings in the adjacent archeological site was mined.

Mitzpeh Yair is a living memorial for Yair Engel, a third generation member of Ramat Rachel and grandson of two of its founders. Yair died in a diving accident in 1996 during his military service.

Mitzpeh Yair

Mitzpeh Rachel overlooks and takes its name from the tomb of the biblical Rachel, which is located just off the Jerusalem – Bethlehem road.

Archaeology park at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel

The Olive Columns are situated on top of the Ramat Rachel Mountain, on the axis connecting the center of Jerusalem to Herodion, overlooking the ancient main entrance to Jerusalem – the ‘Patriarchs’ Road’.

The olive trees, symbolizing strength, fertility, and peace, continue to thrive due to an advanced irrigation system and the devoted attention of the garden’s caretakers.

Olive Columns Park

Easily accessible from the city center and providing ample, free parking, Ramat Rachel’s conference and event facilities are in use throughout the year. The hotel’s catering staff is experienced at creating menus and fine food for groups numbering forty to nine-hundred.

The hotel can provide audio-visual equipment such as slide and overhead projectors, TV, VCR, white boards, flip charts, telephone lines for telemarketing needs and Internet connection.