We have been searching to take a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for the last five years without success.
Either the date was not convenient or the itinerary was too exhausting.
In late October I received an email announcing a pilgrimage led by Metropolitan Nikitas in Jan. 2016.
Even though we had planned a Caribbean cruise late Jan. we quickly signed up for the pilgrimage.
The itinerary was very good, slow paced, and led by Metropolitan Nikitas who is well known to us.
When we went to select our flight from SFO to Jerusalem from the travel agent, we discovered that we on the west coast were limited to only a few airlines that would arrive in Tel Aviv before midnight. The group was flying Turkish Air and we had the travel agent explore if we could fly economy plus on the flight. Unfortunately the TA flight from SFO did not have economy plus class so we ended up booking business class. The total travel time was 18 hours - about 11 hours from SFO to IST.
Reading the TA web page Bus. class had flat beds allowing one to sleep during the flight in a normal position.
Either the date was not convenient or the itinerary was too exhausting.
In late October I received an email announcing a pilgrimage led by Metropolitan Nikitas in Jan. 2016.
Even though we had planned a Caribbean cruise late Jan. we quickly signed up for the pilgrimage.
The itinerary was very good, slow paced, and led by Metropolitan Nikitas who is well known to us.
When we went to select our flight from SFO to Jerusalem from the travel agent, we discovered that we on the west coast were limited to only a few airlines that would arrive in Tel Aviv before midnight. The group was flying Turkish Air and we had the travel agent explore if we could fly economy plus on the flight. Unfortunately the TA flight from SFO did not have economy plus class so we ended up booking business class. The total travel time was 18 hours - about 11 hours from SFO to IST.
Reading the TA web page Bus. class had flat beds allowing one to sleep during the flight in a normal position.
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