Petra Movenpick

... sidestep, three months ago when I was organizing this holiday, my brilliant Jordanian travel agent Saadia suggested we stay at the Movenpick Resort. Reportedly the best hotel in town, and literally one minute from the entrance to Petra, I jumped at this. ...

... to go scuba diving in Egypt i decided I would check out the other side of the red sea and dive there. I was taken to a gorgeous resort, movenpick, to dive. It is located on the kiwi reef and as I said, the resort was fabulous. As I hadn't dove in so long ...

... the top was a good view of the Monestery which is larger than the Treasury although not as ornate, still an outstanding artifact from Petra.  The Mosaics were quite intricate and the view from this area was spectacular.  You were able to get a ...

... sells for. Best Part of the Day: The walk to the High Place of Sacrifice Worst Part of the Day: Toe is sore (Finally, I want to say that I have written these two entries on Petra from a tiny internet cafe in the old town of Jerusalem. ...

We got up at first light to visit Petra at 7am - get there before the crowds, and complete the visit before the mid-day sun! Amazing natural wonder and ancient ruins in one place!  After hiking around the 5km long site for 4 hours, we took a donkey ...

Petit déjeûner à l`hotel   En service privatif avec guide anglophone et chauffeur , la journée entière sera consacrée à la visite  de la cite  ...

... our hotel for dinner, and then went straight to bed. The next morning, we got up and went to the ancient city of Petra, which was absolutely incredible. We started off walking down the "Siq" which was a main thoroughfare of the city, essentially a roman ...

... talking swarms of people because what you've got to remember here is that virtually no-one actually stays at Petra, those who do stay in the Crown Plaza or Movenpick as part of a scheduled tour, but the majority are just bussed in for the day and so ...

... in the area for our lunch and Movenpick was one of them).   But…we didn’t miss out at all, the Movenpick resort hotels had supplied food for every one of us – inside was an apple, banana, bottle of water, chicken/cheese roll, ...

... St Katherine's) and some were downright scary (Cairo). But Mum had been the one to organise the accommodation in Petra, so we stayed at the Movenpick which, on top of being stunningly gorgeous and conveniently located right at the mouth of Al Siq, is also ...

... the ca  parking lot where we camped for the night. We rewarded ourselves with dinner at the Movenpick Hotel! December 12, 2010 We awoke in the Petra parking lot to a continuing very brisk wind, which in this country means blowing sand. The ...

... thoroughly exhausted by the day. Paul and I decide to go to the hotel bar for either coffee or drinks. The bar at the Movenpick is gorgeous – lots of hand-carved and painted wood panels cover the walls and ceiling. We sit on a banquette and revisit ...

... at Mount Sinai.  She is going out with a Bedouin guy!   They picked me up and we went to the Movenpick Hotel roof top for a drink. They were playing nice Arabic music and one of their friend and a waiter danced ...

...         We went up to the bar and sat on the verandah watching the stars come out and eating lovely Movenpick ice creams for which the group is justly famous (I had crème brûlée and Steve tried lemon and lime). See their website ...

... Twessy perhaps one of the best of the guides I have ever had. I think that if there is one thing that I learned in Petra , it’s that archaeological sites are alive!  Walking into the site, we could see a red line in the stone about two ...

... beskrive. Håper bildene snakker for seg selv. Vi har også gått i turistfella og rei på kamel opp igjen et stykke nede i Petra. Det var overraskende morro.. Ellers har vi bare nyti dagene på fint hotell og med masse god mat og vin.. Håper alle har ...

... the hotel for a shower, the best mango ice cream ever, and quick nap.  That night I went to a restaurant called "Petra Kitchen" and took a Middle Eastern cooking course with 4 other tourists.  It was fun and the food was really good.  ...

... the road with a very white bark. A silver birch jacqumontii? No, they had all been painted white. Arriving at Petra the hill we were going down was immediately apparent. Fine going down but apparently the equivalent of a 45 storey building on ...

... , a cultural requirement really. Music, mint tea and quiet conversation with strangers followed by the tramp out and an ice cream at the Movenpick Hotel on the way home. The only disconcerting part was the thought that it was a nice 40 minute trek in the ...