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A short drive (2 minutes, can also walk) from the best snorkeling site in Aqaba, the Japanese garden and several others. Amazing coral reefs and lots of fish close to shore for the whole family to explore. About 20 minutes drive to town for lots of affordable food options which is not too bad if you have a car. Restaurant food seems a bit overpriced so we didn't have meals there. The grounds are very well kept and beautiful. Lots of greenery not typical in Jordan. Some swings for kids (right across the highway are bigger playgrounds right by the beach). Staff is wonderful. Rooms are basic but clean. AC worked well in the family rooms we stayed in. Enough towels provided.

We stayed at the Golden Tulip Hotel for 3 nights in May after booking on the internet through Agoda. It was a good choice for us, the location in the centre of Aqaba proving ideal. The restaurant is good , and there plenty of other restaurants nearby, including a 24 hour cafe . The hotel has a swimming pool . The room was comfortable, with excellent ensuite facilities. The room also had a well-stocked mini bar. We would recommend this hotel

This place is near to the beach (Japanese Garden, Gorgon I , Gorgon II, Seven Sisters and The Tank - http://www.aqabasanchor.com/#!divesitesinaqaba/c1z4z ), where you can sunbathe, snorkel or dive. There is also diving club so you can do some fun diving without any certification or you can make some PADI course or just use their diving service. The restaurant of the resort is nice and not expensive. The hotel is far away from Aqaba city, to reach it you can take a taxi or some local shuttle. The all staff is very helpful from the reception - Roni, via everyone till the manager - Marwan. If you are looking for some dive vacation I can recommend this hotel.

Me and my family spent more than great time, the price is reasonable according to the facilities and the level of luxury. The resort is full of magnificent pools, you cant feel it's crowded even if the hotel is fully booked. There are play activities all over the hotel, you will never get bored there. I didnt like: The lobby was so hot, it is not well conditioned i hope they work on it, i felt like in a sauna while i was checking in! If you booked online, make sure you are there 1 hour before the checkin time 3pm, because it takes time to confirm your online booking, they wast 1 hour of my reservation just to confirm my online booking! I liked: The minibar content was free unlike most of the hotels, although they didnt put alot of drinks. Staff are so friendly and polite. Pools, Pools, Pools ... i can swim all the day in such pools :) The resort is very clean in general.

I was informed that Agoda did not managed to book me in the hotel and thus my booking is not reflecting in their system. I have to wait for quite sometime specially when I arrived there are plenty of guest checking in as it is a weekend. One thing I have consider is that the timing from the place I came from is one(1) hour earlier than in Iqaba. This is due to daylight savings time.

This place is amazing and the have a nice an clean beach but they have two things they should improve it, first is the room service, the room is not clean and at the time I called the room service to clean they didn't show up until I saw the attendance outside and I give him tips to clean my room, the second thing is the breakfast is so bad , the fruit is caned not fresh and the most food is caned, they don't have good food for breakfast, at the end zero star for room service and breakfast.

Modern and clean hotel in an Ideal location. Decent sized comfortable rooms. The building itself is always clean and smell fresh. This is my 2nd time here eventhough I had booked with a 5- star hotel, I couldn't resist but to cancel my booking and return to Golden Rose. After all 'if it isn't broken; don't fix it'. Plus it was less than half the price-leaving more for spending. Also, they always have the most courteous, lovely and generous reception staff. Yes! I would always recommend Golden Rose as long as they maintain their current standard.

Our stay at Al Qidra in Aqaba was great. After a long international flight the staff made me feel welcome and gave me a room to rest in until my deluxe room was ready. The room was really large and comfortable and perfect for a romantic stay. The breakfast was lovely and tasty. The hospitality was above and beyond my expectations, the front of house looked after our every need including getting good prices for taxis and making sure we arrived and departed Aqaba without any troubles. We will stay there again without any hesitations.

This family-run hotel is well located for cafes and restaurants and just a short walk from the beach. Rooms are clean and comfortable. Please be aware that there are rooms with sea view, rooms with balcony and rooms with neither, but there are no rooms with sea view and balcony. There are no tea and coffee making facilities in the room. The hotel can help to arrange diving and snorkeling trips with a very good local company. The hotel restaurant is excellent. Under new management, this hotel is in the process of making improvements and is keen for guests to have as comfortable a stay as possible. All in all I had a very pleasant stay.

We booked to stay at Kempinski Aqaba for 1 night in January. We had wanted to pamper ourselves in a 5-star hotel after living it “rough” in Petra and camping in Wadi Rum on preceding nights. We know Kempinski is a 5-star hotel but the hotel’s service and décor is way beyond our expectations! From the main gate entrance where our car was checked right until the time we checked out, the service of ALL the staffs has been excellent. We were treated with utmost respect and greeted with friendly, genuine smile. Our double room was impeccably clean and luxurious. The furniture and décor of the entire hotel is first class in terms of design and quality. The same can be said about the toiletries in the bathroom. Everything is beyond luxurious! The mini bar is complimentary, so is the internet service in the room, if you have your own laptop. The view from our room is amazing – it faces the Red Sea and beyond that, you can see Israel on a fine, clear day. The beach is beautiful and as we were there during winter, it was not crowded but the sea was a bit cold. Along the beach, there were many beach chairs with mattress so soft and comfortable you have to tear yourself away! Besides the beach chairs, there were also many gazebo-like huts for guests, complete with soft mattress and throws of pillows. The swimming pool is large and overlooks the Red Sea and there is a bar in the middle of it, with stone stools discreetly constructed underneath the surface of the water level. We had dinner at the Fish-In Restaurant and again, we only have good things to say about it. We were greeted by the chef who came to our table personally to introduce the specialties on the menu and to make recommendations to us based on our preferences. We had the best grilled sea bass, preceded by a delicious starter called Arab Mezza, which is a mixed of local Arabic specialties in small portions, both highly recommended by the chef. The breakfast was another thing to rave about! Fist

We stayed 2 nights in Wadi Rum desert camp, and loved every minute. It was clean and friendly, service and food were excellent, and the desert itself was pristine and utterly mesmerising. We did a half day jeep tour which we loved, it really gives you a feel for the quiet and stillness and breathtaking beauty of the place. And stepping outside the tent at night - wow, the stars!!! We especially appreciated how welcome the staff made us feel despite the fact that they were fasting for Ramadan. I would love to go back some day and spend longer. A hugethanks to Mohammed, Mahmoud, Ahmed, Sulaiman, and Mohammed the brilliant chef.

We stayed in this hotel for 5 days. I have to say that at the beginning we did not like our room. It had no window and there was some smoke and noise coming from the corridor. When we asked for another room we were moved to a triple room. It was such a difference! Spacious, light, airy, very quite. The location of the hotel is very good. There are plenty of shops and cafes around. For breakfast we used to buy lovely hot pies right from the huge stove in the small bakery downstairs and amazing coffee, delicious and very cheap! The beach is about 15 minutes walk, though it is very busy and not very clean. We used to take a taxi and go to either Japanese Gardens beach or Berenice. You have to pay for the latter. It is cheaper to buy tickets at reception, you will also get a free transportation if you do that. The people are very warm and friendly there. We really enjoyed our stay.

This hotel has best location in Aqaba. We were just arrival sunset time and there are beautiful sunset in Aqaba bay!!! We were just run to beach area to spend sunset time even we didn't check in yet, hotel workers smiled and let us do it. It was amazing time to see such a beautiful sunset. Hotel is very nice quality service and setups. We had very nice guide and car from the hotel at night for dinner and shopping. Guide took us to very local shopping area and try to find very price and quality for our request. We were looking for local clothing. Guide took us to best place to buy anything, it was lots of fun night shopping. We were in club floor, so we can have nice drink at evening and breakfast in the morning. Breakfast is very nice in lobby floor restaurant as well. Specially there is some local meal in the lobby restaurant in the morning. Club floor is more basic and western style meal only but very comfortable and quiet. Highly recommended this hotel in Aqaba.

Extraordinary experience  Bedouins are warm and welcoming people and gladly shared their life style with us. My arrival in the evening was well organised and once it gets dark you see a million stars in the sky! Awesome   The big communal tent was very social and warm. Great food - book the dinner! - and then there was even dancing and a communal walk under the stars.  The individual tents are not heated: I braved a night in December and it sure was cold! But the blankets they provide are the thickest and warmest I've ever seen and underneath them you honestly don't feel the cold. But deciding whether I really wanted to get up to go to the bathroom which is like 10 meters away was a very hard decision :)) Bathrooms are communal but water is obviously scarce - it's the desert! There was no running water for most of the time I stayed there. (I'm not sure if that was a one-off incident or not.) The next day I had a jeep tour with Salim who was the best guide! Born in Wadi Rum he knew every mountain and all the history. He was very kind, funny and friendly and we had some good chats in broken English. He took his time and the whole experience was leisurely and unhurried. I feel I made a new friend.   The desert is simply awe inspiring, the vast open space, the complete quiet, the rock formations and many colours of sand, the way the light changes over the landscape with the clouds... You feel at one with nature and very free. I highly recommend the experience.

We chose the hotel according good reviews from others and did not regret of the choice. Somebody may prefer bigger hotel but for those who are not against B&B concept with corresponding reasonable cost this place is definitely best choice in area. The hotel is located on the South Beach so you have to use either your car or taxi to get there. The nearest beach is public so it's getting crowded at weekends and it's around 1 km downhill so be prepared to climb up a little on your way back. If you'll have a car like we had then your choice of beaches is much wider. You can choose between 2 public beaches and at least 4 private beaches. The costs for private ones are differs much however. The Royal Diving Club will cost you 15 JD per person, Tala Bay will cost 20 JD per person, and North Beach is more expensive even so we did not try to go there at all. At the end we did try private beach which was recommended by our hotel general manager and were completely satisfied with it. There was not so much sealife there but coral gardens were the best I saw in the Read Sea. Hotel facilities includes car parking, quite big pool with 3m depth and some sunbeds. Our room was not so big but just enough for us to feel ourselves comfortable. The only drawback was first night which was not so good because we spent it in another room due to the full hotel booking. All the staff members were very friendly, polite and helpful. The breakfasts were quite basic which is common in Jordan but other meals which we opted for were good and worth saving time and not going to elsewhere. Also do not forget that you'll get diving center facilities as an extra option to the hotel itself. You can rent equipment and have diving courses also. We are not divers but like snorkeling and we were glad that we could rent wetsuits because water temperature was not so comfortable. We would definitely stay again next time. I would especially thank Abdullah for all the advices he gave us.

I stayed here for 2 nights alone and needed somewhere quiet as I was sick, staff were very helpful when I needed to visit the hospital and then rest. Tv had movie channels, bathroom was brand new and bed was very big and comfy. McDonalds will deliver to your hotel room :) There isn't a whole lot to see in the city and the big hotels have blocked off the beach so you need to go further down the coast for the sea and for diving. Overall a very safe hotel with a huge buffet breakfast

Jamal and his brothers were very nice and helpful. Jamal was in touch to ensure he was there to meet us on arrival to Wadi rum. Jamal waited for us at the checkpoint for over an hour and drove us to the camp. We got to stay in a nice, clean and cozy tent with a great view, and we got to enjoy a nice dinner cooked the bedouin way. The camp is in a perfect location where you can enjoy silence and a great view of the stars and the mountains. Our trip ended the best way with the best Jeep Tour with Imad (one of the brothers) who took great care of us and took us to rest stops where we were met with great hospitality from the locals .

Met with Shakel at the guest house location in the village prior to heading out into the desert. Reviewed our options and selected what we wanted to do. Good clarity in communication and no pressure. Very fun day in the Jeep. Be prepared for “cold showers” and being in nature - it’s really nice camping - consider it that way. It’s not a 5 star hotel - and that is why the experience is so great! Food was excellent. Fun time hanging out with other travelers and playing games after dinner - a wonderful part of the experience. We also did a camel ride in the desert directly from the camp in the morning. Seemless! We highly recommend.

The people who own this place are really very friendly people and the location is good as well, you can walk up to the beach in about 10 minutes. There are also several diving places in the same street. The thing which shocked us the most is that they made a new pool but not for swimming...... They plan to put dolphins in the pool later this year.... It broke our heart to hear that.... Dolphins don't belong in a small pool, they need their natural environment..... We were glad the dolphins weren't already in the pool because otherwise we would have left immediately.... Besides the cruelty of putting dolphins in a pool, we didn't get any new towels for days which would have been nice. Eventually we were able to borrow some towels for the beach tough. We stayed for 5 days and it would have been okay if they would have emptied our trashcan during our stay. The kitchen is very small and the stove was broken for 50% so it was hard to cook there. Nice views from the apartment.

I really wanted a simple experience, not glamping. I got that, but a little more staff attentiveness would have been useful. This is like a Bedouin hostel. Tents are basic and adequate...bed, light, electrical plug. Walk up a sandy hill to meals, Bedouin foods served buffet style. After dinner a campfire and music and STARS! No indoors areas except tent and bathrooms. We signed up for a 3 hour desert ride, ending at sunset. Wish we had known not to get to the office in "town" till 4 so we could have avoided sitting and waiting for 3 hours. The jeep exploration was interesting and beautiful. Got to the tents at dark and staff was nowhere to be seen. We trekked through the dark up a hill to try to find the dinner tent (they should put a flashlight in the tents...my phone battery had died). The owner/manager appeared for 5 minutes during the music. Cheery, but no opportunity to mention the lack of communication. The giant plus is the pitch black night and cool desert breeze for star gazing