I wouldn’t recommend this Nazareth, Tiberias and Sea of Galilee tour with BeinHarim.
First of all, the first stop in Nazareth wasn’t the beautiful Church of the Annunciation where we only had 45 minutes, but an overpriced souvenir shop where everything was the usual stuff you can get anywhere. And what left us speechless was what the guide Dan told everybody: “don’t waste my time (very polite!) going to other vendors who sell stuff made in China, the best souvenirs are here” and then we saw the same exact things everywhere around Jaffa in Tel Aviv the next day. But mainly, wasn’t that a waste of OUR PAIED TIME spending an hour in that shop?? We’ve also been forced to get in (the bus drops you in front of the entrance, and not knowing Nazareth you just follow what you are told) instead who wasn’t interested (like us) could have just walked the 350 meters that separated us from the Church of Annunciation and have an extra hour there.
We didn’t stop nor visit the Church of Cana, other big disappointment.
The stop in Tagba was ok (25 min).
The Capernaum stop was ridiculously short but time for a $ 25,00 pp + drinks lunch in again another obliged place wasn’t. And when you let the guide know you are not participating to this extra (we paid over 220 euros for this tour, for 2 adults) there was no consideration. Of course, he wouldn’t get a commission from it! Very unpolite and unprofessional behaviour. You have to give people the choice to where they wanna go and eat, as there was also a Pizza Hut and other places too. And respect who brought their own lunch (as on the tour schedule wasn’t mentioned nowhere that we would have gone somewhere for lunch).
But the worst part, was the last stop: a ridiculous fake baptism (for who wanted to do it, again extra charge) in a non sacred spot on the Jordan River, where even the bathrooms to pee needed a fee. The real place where Jesus was baptized and where also the Pope went is in Jordan, so has nothing to do with this. So from 12:30 that we left Capernaum in a hurry, the rest of the tour was completely a waste of time and money, as first we drove to the lunch place, then lunch, drive to this river and a super long stop for people wanting to get in the water, buying their own video of te so called “ceremony”, having to shower and dry. Ah and of course another shop to go through!! This tour was a complete rip off and I do not recommend it at all.