Prices & Departure Dates
Prices shown are per person travelling. 'Twin/Double' prices per person apply when there are 2 people travelling, sharing a room. The 'Single supplement' applies for single travellers who require their own room and needs to be added to the 'Twin/Double' price. If you are happy to be paired up with another single traveller of the same sex on your tour, this can be arranged, thus avoiding the single person supplement.
All our scheduled tour departures are guaranteed subject to a minimum of 2 travellers. To date we have not cancelled a single trip!
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| Amman Pre-Tour accommodation |
USD $119 |
USD $60 |
| Madaba Post-Tour accommodation |
USD $99 |
USD $70 |
New Years in Wadi Rum - 8 Days Go Guide : :Check out the go guide for details of the tour, info on visas, climate, money, what to bring and more!
Bolt-ons
Make the most of your time away! Listed below are the optional activities that are available on this trip. Please note that you will need to book these prior to travel as we cannot always guarantee availability of these activities once you are on holiday.
| Ever wanted to know how to make real, authentic Middle Eastern hoummus? Based just up the road from the entrance to the Rose City, Petra Kitchen - a locally managed business staffed by local Jordanian people, offers a hands-on approach to the preparation of a Middle Eastern repast. At Petra Kitchen, enjoy a cooking session which will result in the mysteries of dishes such as baba ghanoush, fattoush, sambousek b’jibn (cheese triangles) and proper hoummus-from-scratch dispelled before your very eyes and with your very involvement. Then enjoy the fruits of your labours - a faraway feast, fit for a king, sultan or khedive! Something good’s cooking at the Petra Kitchen! |
Experiences
If you are interesting in trips with similar experiences to this one, then check out some of the ones we've listed below.
| Get your adrenaline pumping with our selection of off road adventures. Take an exciting 4x4 ride across the red desert of Wadi Rum in Jordan or the Western Desert in Egypt, or perhaps test out your Quad biking skills by the coast in Morocco. |
| Experience breathtaking sunsets, incredible starry skies and the vast, beautiful landscapes of some of the world's most spectacular deserts. See the incredible limestone formations of the White Desert in Egypt, camel trek across the endless rolling sand dunes of the Sahara or India's great Thar Desert and climb Dune 45 in Namibia. |
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| The Rose City of Petra is the jewel in Jordan’s glittering archaeological crown, and is now one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. Accessed on a walk through a narrow, deep and winding cleft in the rock that is known as the Siq, the end prize is the hidden valley where the Rose City of Petra lies. And the first sight to behold is the façade of Al-Kazneh – aka the Treasury of Petra. This rose red building actually served as a royal tomb, but got its name from the legend that pirates hid their treasure there. With a backstory like that and its amazing appearance its no surprise to learn that it was this building that served as the Holy Grail’s resting place In Indiana Jones and the last crusade.
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Petra is full of ancient tombs, temples and ruins ripe for modern-day discoverers like us! |
What You See and What You Get
We have listed below the key highlights on this trip as well as all the things that are included. Additionally, where appropriate, we have listed the items thar are not included the trip price.
Trip Highlights
- Amman - Citadel, Archaeological Museum & souqs
- Umm Qais - Roman Decapolis city
- Petra - Nabataean Rose City
- Umm ar-Rasas - ancient walled Byzantine and
Umayyad period city on the caravan trading routes
- Madaba - Christian market town, Church of St George, Jordan’s finest Byzantine mosaics
| - Jerash - Ruins of ancient Roman city
- Dead Sea - opt for a dip
- Wadi Rum desert
- Mt Nebo - views across the Promised Land
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What's Included
- Breakfast daily, 2 dinners including New Year’s Bedouin Party at Wadi Rum camp
- Wadi Rum dinner & camp/4x4 desert safari
- Airport arrival and departure transfer on day 1 and day 8
- Escorted by a qualified Jordanian tour guide
| - 6 nights - 3 star hotels, 1 night - Wadi Rum deluxe desert camp
- Dead Sea - free time and mud bath
- Touring of Amman, Jerash, Dead Sea, Petra, Wadi Rum, Umm ar-Rasas, Mt Nebo and Madaba
- All relevant transfers and transportation in private modern air-conditioned vehicles
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What's Not Included
- Laundry, drinks and items of a personal nature
- Entrance Fees: $90-110 USD
| - International flights and visa
- Tipping Kitty: $40-50 USD
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Postcards
Here's what some of our past travellers have written in to us and said about their experiences on this trip.
I was on the 28 Dec departure of New Year in Wadi Rum. I wasn't able to complete a tour evaluation form so am taking this opportunity to give feedback.
All of us very much appreciated the upgrade to the Crown Plaza Resort at Petra. The Petra tour was very good, as was the Dead Sea. We had to ask for an hour's shopping time in Aqaba as it had not been scheduled, hence we were rushed getting to Mt Nebo and only just were allowed in as arrived right on closing at 4.30, and sun had set unfortunately.
The Toledo Hotel was excellent.
I was disappointed that the Mosaic City Hotel in Madaba did not have a room in which I could smoke, as this was requested when I booked. I had to use an outdoor balcony in extremely cold weather as the whole hotel is non-smoking.
I was very grateful for your help on arrival at Amman airport and
being put in the hands of Hassan for drive to hotel. He was a very friendly person and also did my transfer from Madaba back to Amman as well as other private shopping trips and transport to the border.
I appreciated being allowed to charge all tour expenses up until the end, due to my losing my wallet and credit cards in a taxi in Amman and having to wait for emergency card & cash. Fortunately, the Toledo Hotel Manager loaned me sufficient cash to meet my tour expenses. The Toledo was, as the Manager, Mr Hakam, said, my home away from home and I would have been far more stressed had I not had them to help me out. I can't speak highly enough of all their staff.
Finally, I must commend our tour guide, Raed, who was a lovely person. Nothing was too much trouble for him. He was very knowledgeable and interesting and was also very supportive to me in my distress at my loss.
Gwyneth Owen, Dec 2008
