This delightful low-rise campus, lushly planted with exotic trees and plants (including two immense baobab trees), offers a luxurious on-site spa and a deliciously cooling pool. There are four categories of comfortable though simply furnished rooms (166 in all), and a new two-storey building with deluxe rooms sits on the edge of the valley with beautiful views.
The Synergy Spa, an upscale oasis with 11 treatment rooms, a heated saltwater indoor pool and couples massage rooms with private Jacuzzis, is open to nonguests for 130NIS.
A buffet breakfast (85NIS) and dinner (110NIS) are available at the restaurant; lunch is available at the kibbutz dining hall.
Kibbutz Ein Gedi, which has around 600 residents, was founded in the early 1950s; for years, the only access road was a dirt track to Arad. Ask the hotel for a walking tour of the kibbutz. At night, you might see ibex and hyrax on the grounds and snakes cooling themselves on the road.
