Cook's tourists' handbook for Palestine and Syria.

  • Thomas Cook (Firm)
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cook's tourists' handbook for Palestine and Syria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Any person or persons contemplating a Tour to Palestine including Egypt and elsewhere or not, should make out a programme, or name the places they wish to visit, and Messrs. Cook & Son will send them, without delay, a quotation which will be as low as it is possible the journey can be accomplished for, and including all charges. Hotel Coupons are issued not only for the countries passed through in reaching the East, but in the East also, and at such a rate as to ensure economy with every comfort. It should be remembered that in Palestine and Syria the only good hotels are at Jaffa (p. 67), Jerusalem (p. 101), Damascus (p. 332), and Beyrout (p. 367). While the follow- ing remarks apply more particularly to hotels to which the traveller may resort en route to the East, they are also appli- cable to hotels in the East for which special coupons are provided. The advantages of taking Hotel Coupons may be briefly summed up as follows :— I. Time, expense, annoyance in bartering, and ultimate dissatisfaction, are saved by going to a well-recommended Hotel. II. It is a great drawback to pleasure to arrive in a Foreign town beset by porters and commissionaires and rabble, a perfect stranger, and without any definite idea where to go. III. Letters from home, or telegrams, may be found upon arrival at the Hotel, thus saving trouble or expense in sending for them to the Post Office or Consulate. IV. The charges are all fixed, thus obviating the chance of imposition, and the disagreeable task of having to drive a bargain at each stopping place. V. The charges being fixed at the lowest sum to ensure good accommodation at one uniform rate, the tourist is enabled to count the cost of his tour before starting. VI. Travellers with coupons, bespeaking accommodation by letter or telegraph, are always provided for even in the busiest seasons if they inform the hotel-keeper that they have coupons.