Apply for an Alumni Tour

March 25 – April 6, April 7 – 19, or April 12 – 24

This application is for the Spring 2025 Alumni tour to the Holy Land.

Dates: March 25 – April 6 (Leave the US on March 24th)

This includes the day you arrive and a free/go home day at the end. 13 days in the Holy Land

Price: $2350 per person + participants arrange and pay for their own airfare

(includes lodging, tips, all food –excluding a few lunches on your own, and transportation from the airport)

Accommodations: BYU Jerusalem Center and Ein Gev Holiday Resort on the Sea of Galilee

This application, for the Spring 2025 tours, will be open for 2 weeks, closing on February 30th at 5 pm.

Applicants will find out about acceptance for this tour as promptly as possible because there is so little time to prepare.

A full payment of $2350 per person will be due for each participant in March.

Email questions to: April Cobb, chair@byujerusalemalumni.com, but please read the whole application and restrictions at the bottom of the page before asking questions.

All participants on these tours must be healthy and physically fit enough to climb at least 30 flights of stairs and walk 6-8 miles most days. This is not an appropriate tour for anyone with mobility issues. There is no work around.

Most available rooms in the Jerusalem Center are on the 2nd – 4th floors with the main level being on the 8th floor. There are no elevators to the lower parts of the building. The old city streets and tels at various sites are not accommodating for those who need assistance due to mobility issues. Please do not submit an application if this would cause issues for you or a person that you wish to bring with you.

Please read the current Jerusalem Center policies before applying to go on this program. All alumni and guests who go on our tours must commit to abide by the policies that the Jerusalem Center students agree to. This includes the non-proselytizing agreement and a very strict dress code while in the Jerusalem Center and in Jerusalem.

Alumni can use this form to apply for the opportunity to go on an 13-day tour to the Holy Land with other members of the BYU Jerusalem Center Alumni organization. They will have the opportunity to stay at the BYU Jerusalem Center. Please keep in mind that these questions will help us form a pool of participants to choose from to make the best use of the rooms we have been given. Answers to the questions will also save us time later in tracking down necessary information for participants..

Copy your responses to another document as you go. There is no option to save this form as a draft.

If you are bringing a travel companion who is also an alum from a Jerusalem Semester, please indicate that somewhere on the application.
This is not a normal commercial tour where you are driven everywhere. This is more like a student program experience.
(volunteer, attended specific activities, submitted a story or information for the website, no involvement at all but hoping to be involved in the future to make it worth the time of the many people who are volunteering their time so I can go on this amazing pilgrimage/vacation, etc...)
I know this is a weird question but something commonly asked by the Jerusalem Center and BYU housing.
*Please note that the Jerusalem Center cannot accommodate all food restrictions, such as severe gluten allergies and other serious allergies.
(Talented at singing or leading music, professional photography, physician or nurse, writing histories, leading people in games, etc...) We already have teachers and guides but if you have any other skills that could benefit the group, please let us know.
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Things To Keep In Mind

  • These are not reunion trips for individual semesters

    We are asked often if semesters can come together as a reunion trip. There are so few available rooms that we will not be accommodating reunions at this time. These tours are for individuals who are open to connecting to alumni from other semesters.

  • Alumni cannot apply in groups

    Applicants will be considered as individuals with their guest, except in circumstances that involve alumni who are willing to share a bathroom with another alumni and their guest. If several people from one family are alumni and they wish to come together, they will only be considered as individuals. Groups will not be accepted together.

  • There is not unlimited availability on tours

    As of now, we have 18 Jerusalem Center rooms available to us for two tours per year. (For now, those trips are in the spring and fall.) Alumni tours are in the Center during the student programs. Space is very limited. We are sorry that we can not accommodate more alumni and guests, but for now we are making the tours possible for as many people as we can.

  • These are not family trips

    Spouses can come on this trip together. An alumni can bring their friend, sister, or other family member; but the tours are not suited to children.

  • Parents and Grandparents cannot take these tours while their student is on the Jerusalem Center Program

    If you are accepted to one of our tours and then find out that your child or grandchild is going to be on the student program during that tour, you must let us know and will be given a raincheck to another tour when you do not have a student in the Center. No exceptions.