Aqaba Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today we started a bit later after the long day in Petra the previous day. Stopped by the markets to get food for lunch then headed for Wadi Rum. Short 2 hr trip took us to the Wadi Rum visitor centre where we transferred to 4WDs for our trip out into the desert.Rattly old Landcruisers, but still functional and our driver in traditional Bedouin ...

It's amazing that we are able to get any sleep at all before someone knocks at our door at 1 AM. A quick change into our clothes, which we laid out the night before, grab the water bottle, and headlamps and we get on the bus by 1:30. It is a short 10-minute ride to the entrance of the protected area that includes St. Catherine’s Monastery ...

After getting off the boat in Aqaba we had to go through immigration and meet our new guide for the trip who was to help us through customs. While on the boat one of the attendants took our passports so they could go through border control and wait for us in the office. Although this is odd, and I felt bad parting with my passport, I have read b...

Monday 13th July. We packed up and left the camp with 2 young English women who had been in the Middle East working and had a good command of Arabic so we shared a taxi to the port of Nuweiba where the car ferry hoes across the sea to Jordan arriving at Aqaba. We bought our tickets in US dollars (60 each) and hoped this slow ferry would leave ar...

Question: What is a stupid tourist? Answer: She who bargains over the price of a rock with a vendor in Petra, when there are rocks for free all around. Then after successfully bargaining, she is seperated from her group. I found that a bit amusing, but we helped her find her group some several hundred meters away. I split up with the wife. She f...

Most of us woke up early this morning. Many of us didn't sleep too well. The drooping "walls" between rooms didn't stop various snores from carrying. My wife and I suffered a concerted mosquito attack at 3:00 am, and we had ants in the bed in the early morning. Since the "floor" was just a carpet thrown over the sand of the desert, many things h...

As mentioned in the last post, although I desperately wanted to dive at Ras Mohammed and the Thistlegorm wreck down near Sharm El Sheikh, my dive pusher couldn't tell me when they could get the requisite ten people required to make the trip a goer. That, coupled with the fact that the Fuji guy in Dahab couldn't fix either technical problem with ...