Oriana Vitale

Oriana was amazing as we had to plan and reschedule this trip three separate times! She was able to keep us with our preferred tours and hotels and our driver Haytham was fantastic, stopping at great places and making sound recommendations. Loved it and will go with KimKim again for sure.

Oriana was great helping plan our trip. The trip was also amazing. We had a great time.

Hotel Reviews

The St. Regis Amman

Amman

Truly a 5-star hotel.

Movenpick Petra Resort

Wadi Musa

The hotel was ok. Not great, but apparently the best place to stay when going to Petra. The Petra entrance is right across the street, making it a great location. But, it is not a 5-star hotel.

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Kempinski Ishtar Dead Sea Resort

Dead Sea

Everything was great about this except the front desk staff, some of which were downright rude. We did have one dinner at the fine dining restaurant that wasn't great (lamb so overcooked it was inedible), but we went back the next night, and they were overly attentive and took super great care of us.

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Palmera Camp

Wadi Rum

This place exceeded our expectations, and the staff was overly attentive and super amazing.

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Activity Reviews

Petra/ Beida/ Wadi Rum (120 KM)

Jordan

I'd prob skip Little Petra. It is underwhelming after you've seen Petra.

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Petra visit

Petra

Petra is simply amazing. The guide was great. Not too much, but the right amount of information. Starting early in the day (7am) was key.

All places we visited were wonderful. Our highlight was the dessert stay and visiting Petra as well as floating in the Dead Sea.

Hotel Reviews

Toledo Hotel

Amman

The first room I was offered had a small double bed and we changed the room to a twin bed. Hotel was nice but bathroom looked a bit tired and need of modernisation.

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Clean fridge and bath room. Some mould on bathroom tiles and hairs in fridge. However the room was nice.

Marina Plaza Tala Bay

Aqaba

The first room we were offered was very dirty and we changed to another room. Hotel looks very tired especially the rooms and bathroom and need of refurbishment. The restaurant, food and pool area are very nice. Also the location of the hotel.

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Clean rooms and bathroom

Holiday Inn Dead Sea Resort

Sweimah

Excellent hotel lovely clean room and excellent buffet and pool area.

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Petra Corner Hotel

Wadi Musa

Bathroom looked tired. Room was nice

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Aladdin Camp

Wadi Rum, Aqaba

Excellent stay. Lovely tent and great location. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Delicious dinner and nicely prepared breakfast. Highly recommend a stay here.

Authenticity & Character

The campsite with the fire place and traditional cooked dinner was very nice

Location

While setting of the camp was very nice as well as our tent with nice views of the dessert

Staff

Excellent customer service, very friendly staff

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Activity Review

Amman/ Madaba/ Mount Nebo/ Little Petra/ Petra (269 KM)

Jordan

Quality of Experience

Excellent holiday

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Our tour guides was really good. Ahmed was an excellent driver/tour guide. Very knowledgeable, professional, friendly, helpful, caring, always polite and he made our trip an memorable experience. I would highly recommend him as a driver. Ahmed looked after us well. Also Refreshment drinks were filled up every day and he is very knowledgeable about Jordan culture. It was a real pleasure traveling with him and made it a special experience. He also bought us a present and birthday cake which was very kind of him and touching.

Transport

Nice car and we had such a wonderful driver called Ahmed who looked after us well. I would highly recommend him again. He is a very kind and professional person, helpful, caring, friendly and looked after us during the whole trip. Refreshment drinks were filled up every day and he is very knowledgeable about Jordan culture. It was a real pleasure traveling with him and made it a special experience.

We had an amazing time in Jordan! Oriana was incredibly helpful during the planning stages and created a seamless plan for us. She was always prompt with replies to my many questions. Mohamed was a fantastic driver and host for us and we enjoyed every minute with him in the car. He was always perfectly on time to pick us up so we had no delays. We loved going to Petra, staying in Wadi Rum, and swimming in the Dead Sea. We will definitely use KimKim again when planning future trips!

Hotel Review

Wadi Rum UFO Luxotel - Campsite

Wadi Rum, Petra

We loved staying at the UFO Luxotel - even though we were there during a cold spell we enjoyed our stay very much. It was so fun staying out in the desert and looking at the night sky. The food was yummy and the staff was friendly and helpful.

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Activity Review

Petra by night

Petra

We had read about this experience on Trip Advisor being a disappointment but we did not feel this way at all. We ended up leaving toward the later side and were able to have a fairly quite walk through the Siq with little other tourists. We enjoyed seeing Petra with the candles and listening to the music.

Quality of Experience

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Transport

Oriana did a really good job. She promptly implemented our inputs/comments and was also easily reachable throughout the vacation. All in all there was just one minor misunderstanding, which was solvable on site and thus it was a really good experience.

It was the first time, that my boyfriend and I booked a tour in another country through a company instead of just going and the experience was great! Oriana planned everything according to our wishes and made adaptions that we wanted. In Jordan itself everything worked out perfectly except for one situation which was also handled directly on site by our driver Mahmoun and in the end worked out as planned. So we would definitely recommend you to book through Jordan Select Tours and Oriana, and we can also recommend Mahmoun as a driver, he was always on time and very friendly.

We are a family travelling with two adult daughters and from day one our interaction with Oriana was positive . She is prompt in her replies and experienced with meticulous planning of our trip . Good communication always and made good suggestions for places to visit and hotels.
Our driver Khaled was excellent with good communication skills and he went the extra mile for us . He was always on time and sometimes treated us on extras like coffee and sweet treats . He had good suggestions on local eateries .
Basil , our local guide in Petra was also very knowledgeable and exceptionable .
The other local guides in Jerash and Salt were adequate

From the time of my first contact with Oriana to the end everything was perfect and our trip was a memorable one. Oriana was very patient and meticulous in helping us plan a perfect trip for us. Esam was absolutely wonderful, he was friendly, full of excellent suggestions and very flexible . Esam went above and beyond at every juncture and we as a family appreciated all that he did for us in making our Jordan holiday a memorable one. I would highly recommend Esam.
All the tour guides were wonderful too and very knowledgeable… Ebrahim at Jarash, Ashraf at Petra were really good., so was the tour guide in Wadi Rum jeep safari. Amman city tour, Jarash, Salt, Mount Nebo, Madaba, Dead Sea, Petra, Wadi Rum and Aqaba were all part of our tour of Jordan, each place was unique and special in its own way. Esam made it easy as well through his suggestions and recommendations. It’s hard for us to choose the most memorable place as every place was stunning and unique so I would say the whole trip was absolutely fantastic. Thank you Oriana and Esam and all the tour guides for mdd as long it special for us.,