Prices, practical tips

Price lists:

• Hotels
• Getting around
• Entrance fees
• Other expenses

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Thanks

We wish to thank all Jordanians for the friendliness and hospitality we experienced. I hope that they will experience the same when they come to Germany. We are especially grateful for the warm welcome Muna and her family gave us - we hope to see you again. And we wish to thank the men and women at the Red Sea hotel in Aqaba for their help.

We will always remind Jordan as a country where we felt welcomed. Thank you for the nice holiday.

Prices

The whole holiday including everything (visa, insurance, flight etc. and all souvenirs) was about DM 2.000 each - and that's with a high US$ exchange rate. So you maybe will be able to travel even cheaper, especially if you avoid the rather expensive trip to Jerusalem.

Most of the hotels were clean, with the possible (but rare) exception of the toilets. Some of the rooms had an "own" shower, otherwise you could use "public" showers in the hotel. If not mentioned otherwise the prices are for both of us.

	City	Hotel	Address	Price	Remarks
	Amman	Cairo	King Faisal Street	JD 5	very small single room, two persons with fan and shower not very clean
		Lord's	King Hussein Street	JD 10	double room with fan, with or without shower clean
	Aqaba	Red Sea	near centre	JD 8	double room with fan and shower clean very friendly and helpful people
	Wadi Rum	Rest house	you won't miss it	JD 2 each	on the roof with fresh air and full moon shower, toilets very clean
	Petra (Wadi Mousa)	Petra garden	?	JD 4	double room without fan and shower clean
	Jerusalem	Al-Arab	Khan el-Zeit Street (in the Old city)	NIS 12 each	on the roof clean
	Istanbul	Özlem Pansiyon	Divanyolu, Ticarethane Sk.	TL 3 million	no fan and shower clean

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That's pretty cheap in Jordan, especially if you use the minibus. Be aware of taxi drivers, you will find a few drivers who use the taximeter, but most driver's don't. So you have to bargain. As a general rule 100 Fils per kilometer would be a fair price but you seldom get it.
From 'Abdali to the bus station in Imam Talib street we paid less than JD 1 (after we had sent away two drivers who wanted to have JD 2 finally one with a taximeter came). You can go by shared taxi too, the problem is that if you can't read Arabic very fast you simply won't know in which direction they go. You will have the same problem with the big busses in Amman - they can be quite useful but you have to ask before where they go.
Hitchhiking in Jordan is said to be easy, but you'll probably have to check if some money is expected before you enter. We only hitchhiked once and only a short distance. Two more times somebody would just stop and give us a ride although we didn't try to stop them.

Prices for bus, minibus and shared taxis are per person.

	From	To	By	Price	Remarks
	Airport	Amman	Bus	JD 1.5	JD 1 per person + JD 0.5 for the luggage
	Within Amman		City Bus	50 Fils
			Shared Taxi	150 Fils
	Amman	Wadi As-Seer	Minibus	100 Fils	from Imam Talib street
	Wadi As-Seer	'Iraq Al-Amir	Minibus	100 Fils
	Amman	Ajloun	Minibus	500 Fils	from 'Abdali
	Ajloun	Jerash	Minibus	200 Fils
	Jerash	Amman	Minibus	350 Fils
	Amman	Shuna Al-Janubiya	Minibus	350 Fils	from Imam Talib street
	Shuna Al-Janubiya	Dead Sea	Minibus	250 Fils
	Dead Sea	Amman	Minibus	JD 1
	Amman	Madaba	Minibus	350 Fils	from Imam Talib street
	Madaba	Mt. Nebo	Minibus	250 Fils
	Amman	Aqaba	JETT bus	JD 4	from near 'Abdali book in advance
	Aqaba center	Aquarium	Taxi	JD 1.5	taximeter
	Aqaba center	Royal Diving Center	Taxi Minibus	JD 2 free	taximeter goes in the morning from one of the hotels and back in the evening
	Aqaba	Wadi Rum	Minibus	JD 1.5	from the minibus station leaves at 7 a.m.
	Wadi Rum	Petra	Minibus	JD 3	from the rest house leaves at 8.30 a.m.
	Petra	Amman	Minibus	JD 2.5	JD 1.5 per person and JD 1 for the luggage from the roundabout in the city center leaves at 6 a.m. arrives at Wahadat station
	Amman	King Hussein bridge	Bus	JD 1	from 'Abdali
	King Hussein bridge	Allenby bridge	Bus	JD 1.5
	Allenby bridge	Jerusalem	Shared taxi	NIS 26	arrives at Damascus gate
	Jerusalem	Allenby bridge	Shared taxi	NIS 35	leaves at Damascus gate (usually it's NIS 30 each but there were not enough passengers)
	Amman	Airport	Hitchhiking	JD 4.5	instead of the JD 10 expected
	Istanbul Airport	city center	bus and tram	bus: TL 800.000 tram: TL 90.000
	city center	Istanbul Airport	shared taxi	TL 1 million

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If not mentioned otherwise, the fees are per person. All prices are the tourist's prices, at some places the entrance for Jordanians will be cheaper.

	City	Place	Price	Remarks
	Amman	Citadel: Guide Citadel: Archaeological museum	JD 2 JD 2
	'Iraq Al-Amir	Castle	free	tip for the caretaker expected
	Ajloun	Castle	JD 1
	Jerash	Roman site	JD 5
	Dead Sea	Beach	JD 2.5
	Madaba	Greek Orthodox church Mosaic museum & Apostolic church & Archaeological park	JD 1 JD 3
		Mt. Nebo	500 Fils	both of us together
	Desert Castles	All	free	the caretakers expect a tip
	Aqaba	Aquarium	JD 1
		Aquamarina I hotel beach Royal Diving Center	free JD 2 JD 7	deck chair JD 1 entrance only entrance and snorkeling gear
	Wadi Rum	Entrance Jeep tour	JD 1 JD 40	a free tea is included fee for jeep and driver, not per person (5 hour trip with sunset)
	Petra	Nabatean city	JD 20 JD 25 JD 30	one day entrance two days entrance three days entrance
	Jerusalem	Dome of the Rock & Al-Aqsa-mosque & Islamic museum	NIS 35
	Istanbul	Hagia Sophia Topkapi palace Harem (in Topkapi palace)	TL 1 million TL 1 million TL 500.000
		Mosques	free	a donation is expected at the exit

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	Expense for	Price
	Rent a car (1 day)	JD 25 + 60 Fils each kilometer over 120 km (about JD 7 for the desert castle loop) + about JD 5 for benzine
	Medicine, hospital	JD 25 (all together)
	Exit fee from Jordan at King Hussein bridge	JD 4 each
	Penalty for not lengthening the visa	JD 1 per person and day
	Exit fee from Israel at Allenby bridge	NIS 110 each
	Exit fee from Jordan at Queen Alia airport	JD 10 each

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Places we missed

Due to our sickness and to the trip to Jerusalem we were not able to go to several other worthy places. We were highly recommended to visit the hot springs of Hammamat Ma'in and Kerak - you should go there.

Numbers

It's better to know them but sometimes it will not help you anyway. In Petra we went to have breakfast in a small restaurant and were told that the Falafel were 300 Fils. After I pointed at the board showing that Falafel were only 100 Fils the guy said that the rest was for service! He didn't look as if he could give us a 200% service so we left and paid a similar special price somewhere else.

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Phrases

Just a few of the most important phrases:

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The Jordan National Information System
Jordan at arab.net
Die Länderinformationen des Auswärtigen Amtes
Welcome to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
A Jordan Travel guide
Travelling in the Middle East: A diary by Troels Arvin
lonely planet: Destination Jordan
lonely planet: Traveller's reports on Jordan
More links at Yahoo!

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