Can you recommend a good travel/tour agency for the Eid holiday?

How long is the drive from Amman to Dead Sea? Petra? Wadi Rum?

Hi there,

I have a lovely package booked through Mannai Tours for 5 days in Jordan, and I think you would be very tired from driving back to Amman every night from each location :-)

You Try Aamal Travels located in the City centre which is offering a lot of of packages

I'm planning to tour Jordan for 6 days in December. I admire everybody booking the trip online themselves (Novita77, Oryx, scorpio79). But my parents are coming and I'm going with my 3-year-old daughter so I'm intimidated to book something online for 4 adults and a child. If you book the flight & hotel yourself, how do you book the other stuff yourself (transportation, tour guides, local fees, etc.)? How do you find your way around the country? Also, are the prices for everything much higher now than if I had booked a few months in advance?

I've looked at Trans Orient Travel & Tourism's tour package. This sounds like what we want. Is the Day's Inn (4-star, Amman) OK? Is it noisy with night-clubs?

Day 1: Arrival in Jordan

Day 2: Jerash visit (full day)

Day 3: Dead Sea visit (full day)

Q1...Would sleeping in Amman and doing day trip to Dead Sea be advisable? How long is the road trip?

Q2...If a itiniray doesn't mention specifics of Dead Sea visit, where might I end up? What are the options at the Dead Sea?

Day 4: Petra visit (full day)

Q1...Would sleeping in Amman and doing day trip to Petra be advisable? How long is the road trip?

Q2...Would the 800m horse-ride be suitable for a 3-year-old in one's lap?

Day 5: Wadi Rum visit (Bedouin 4X4 ride)

Q1...Would sleeping in Amman and doing day trip to Wadi Rum be advisable? How long is the road trip?

Q2...How long might this be? How long is enough? Is the worth going? Is it that different from the desert scenery in Qatar?

Day 6: Depart

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Like everyone else, I also planned the trip through the internet. It's a much easier and flexible way to go. I've found the following websites very helpful in booking hotel and flights:

www.booking.com

www.tripadvisor.com

www.lonelyplanet.com

www.travel.yahoo.com

I used booking.com for all the hotel and flight bookings and it was great, and all the sites give reviews about the hotels so u'll get a feel of where ur going. As for the sites to visit I used travel.yahoo, it gave me really good places to see.

...Mauritius also seems to be a nice destination.

DIY

try

www.precisionreservations.com

www.hoteltravel.com

good rates

also think of mauritius - haven't been meant to be beautiful

for the seychelles www.expolore.com offer a 14 day tour on a boat...

I'm planning to go there for my honey-moon by the end of the year.Should I go through a travel agency or simply arrange the trip on the net?

I have been told that the hotels there are quite expensive and that I will be charged more with an agency....

Ooops ... do you think he mind with my post, i think i should alter it :-(

I DO hope dweller sees your post - hysterical!!!!

Made my day, sweetheart lol

I think you want to be 'bugging' Dweller. Buggering is something different entirely.

We're going to Dubai for half-term. Regency were woeful. All my colleagues use Gulf Tourism (opp Jaguar), but when I asked for a package, he told me he 'only did bookings'. We used the Qatar Airways site - pretty good...

I agree with you ... we did most of our travelling through the net. This time i will 'buggering' Dweller for our travel to Turkey, next time might b your turn lol x

Regency travel are pretty woeful

my advice: get yourselves to Villagio

Go to Virgin Megastore

Buy a guide book

Use weblinks for local tour agencies recommended by Lonely Planet etc

www.lonelyplanet.com

The agencies here are totally ignorant and take too much money.

I have had screw ups trying to get to Cape Town

one agency thought it was in Australia and tried to route me thru sydney

If you want a job doing properly... do it yourself

any advice please pm as i have been to most places - solo

The trip to Jordan ... Regency Travel only provide the flight and the room, the rest we are on our own.

WHat i did before we went to Jordan ... i did some reserach on the net. I look for a blog user who live in Jordan. I found this lady ... and i introduce myself. I was lucky enough she was so helpful. I corresponding a lot through e-mail with her before we left Doha. Asking places to go here and there and what she recommend.

When we arrived in our hotel ... she and her hubby and her daughter came to see us. She took us to that Car National Museum and one night for Pizza Dinner.

For going to Petra and staying in Movenpick Dead Sea, we hire a car from local car hire next door to our hotel. Then we combine the trip with visiting mount Nebo, Ma'ine Spring and Baptism Site.

This time we plan to do something similar with Turkey. We did not used any tour site in particular. We booked the flight and the hotel separate, and i am going to ask alot of thing to Dweller (another QL member) since he living there.

Regency travel nearly ripped us off ... they asked wether we want to book the transfer to the hotel from Amman airport, which is cost nearly 400 riyal one way. When i asked the Jordanian lady i met throught my blog site ... she told me that i can just book a limousine from the airport that cost 20 JD (about 100 QR). I guess comparing and researching paid off your trip in the end.

We been to Hongkong twice ... both our trips are booked from the net too. The Cathay Pacific agent here can't cope with our request ... at that time we did a big loop to Asia (Hongkong - Bangkok - Malaysia - Singapore and Jakarta). While in Bangkok we want to go to Phuket and Phi Phi Island, and while in Malaysia we want to go to Penang, Cameron Highland and Kuala Lumpur). The trip took 6 weeks ..., check in and check out 14 times in various different hotels. And we did them all through the net. The flight we booked online, and took the booking to Cathay Pacific agent in Doha. The rest hotel, car hire and others we did it online. Hard work and alot of planning ... but it worked out well in the end.

I guess i cant recommend any perticular site ... you just need times to do searching and reading. What we normally do before we start hols, both me and hubby decided how many days and where we want to go. And we start looking for the flight, then hotel. In the mean time ... you need to ask ing around people who lives there or who been there. Nowadays those can be done very easy through google and various internet forum. :D

still waiting for novita to reply on this thread. i had used al-shamel for my trip to dubai, jordan and it was pretty good. In Jordan, my itinerary was pretty much the same as Novita's. Now, I have been hearing that there are some good offers if we book it online. Though, have no clue where to start from..

And, I haven't decided on a place as well till now.. Expect to combine it with the eid holidays during mid-october (less than 2 weeks). Turkey could be an option or egypt, china..)

Regency has always been a "sales shop" and service levels are not up to the mark.

I believe space travel is part of the Mannai group they're located here http://www.mannaitravel.com/

What I'd like to know is the standard of service & facilities available online.

What's the scenario like for guided tours & stuff like that, do the agencies here provide those?

which sites do you use to book through the net? Are they better than the packages by the travel agencies?

Located in Al Emadi centre ... same building with Starbucks Ramada ... next to Hummer Showroom.

airsign ... we normally use space travel for anything to do with our hols/travel.

Jordan would be nice ... we did that last year. Bought a package from Regency Travel. Not impressed with their service but we still enjoyed the trip. I would advice that you can skip Amman all together ... i found it the place rather boring and not much to see apart of Roman amphitheatre. If you like automobile do visit Royal Automobile museum belongs to Kings Of Jordan.

We did not manage to see Wadi Rum and Aqaba ... but we did Dead Sea (stayed in Movenpick Resort Dead Sea), Mount Nebo, Baptism Site and Petra.

This coming Eid ... we planning to go to Turkey. We did not go with any agency ... book everything through the net. I found it alot more convenient and efficient :D