Aqaba is a port town on the Red Sea, and the Movenpick Aqaba is a sizeable hotel with a private beach and four swimming pools. The bed was only a queen but they’d upgraded us for free to a suite. It was therefore a little churlish of me to be[…]
Memories Aicha Luxury Camp is an accommodation provider within the Wadi Rum Protected Area. They provide a free pickup service from the Wadi Rum Village, and breakfast and dinner are included. We stayed in one of the Luxury Tents – a geodesic dome on the edge of the complex meaning[…]
We pulled up at the UFO Luxotel in a sandstorm, our driver pretty much driving by intuition as visibility approached zero. The hotel advertises that you should arrange to be dropped off at their welcome centre and that they would come and pick you up from there, but our driver[…]
A fifteen minute drive from the Petra Visitor Centre and a four minute drive from Little Petra (or a 30min walk if you’re keen!), Seven Wonders Luxury Camp is a collection of tented accommodation nestled beside a butte in the desert. They have a sister camp next door the Seven[…]
While it’s certainly possible to stay cheaper in Wadi Musa, it’s not really possible to stay closer to the entrance to Petra than Mövenpick Petra. It was my second time staying here and not much had changed. Well, maybe. Last time I had stayed in July, rather than December, so[…]
I’d previously visited the Israeli side of the Dead Sea as part of my trip to the Holy Land, so I was very interested in how the Jordanian side differed. My (admittedly limited) experience of that side was that the shoreline wasn’t exactly well developed and so I was a[…]
Starting our trip in Jordan, the last thing I wanted was the hassle of negotiating a taxi ride at 10pm after five hours in the air. So I booked a transfer through the Marriott Amman and they had one of their staff come and meet us at the airport. Convenient[…]
Getting there According to Google Maps, it would take 5.5 hours to drive from Edinburgh to Portree in Skye. Relying on public transport it took a little longer than that for us, taking all day to get to Kyle of Lochalsh and then a bus in the morning to finish[…]
A week on the Isle of Skye! What could be better? A week at the Cuillin Hills Hotel, that’s what. Situated on the headlands looking back over Portree Harbour with great view of the colourful buildings that Portree is famous for, the Cuillin Hills is a 4 star 19th century[…]
It was a bit tricky to find a tour company operating in Skye. Visiting their websites showed that they were all closed, or had no availability, so we assumed that they’d all shut up shop. We were therefore surprised to see a tour bus picking up passengers from the main[…]