Hi everybody
Given the current situation, I have plenty of time at hand and have decided to write this trip report about our trip to Jordan in October 2019.
Back in 2019, there was a great fare on Royal Jordanian in Business Class from Madrid to Tel Aviv which we booked via Priceline for 738USD per person. We really have been wanting to visit Jordan for a while and therefore booked the fare with a stopover in Amman after the Tel Aviv “shuffle”. The routing was as follows:
04.10.2019 GVA-MAD 1215-1415 IB A20N J (EC-NFZ)
04.10.2019 MAD-LHR 1815-1940 BA B772 J (G-VIIS)
05.10.2019 LHR-AMM 1705-0010+1 RJ B788 J (JY-BAC)
06.10.2019 AMM-TLV 1725-1810 RJ E90 J (JY-EMB)
07.10.2019 TLV-AMM 0830-0915 RJ A321 J (JY-AYV)
13.10.2019 AMM-LHR 1200-1525 RJ B788 J (JY-BAB)
13.10.2019 LHR-MAD 1845-2205 IB A346 J (EC-JCZ)
14.10.2019 MAD-GVA 0945-1135 IB A20N J (EC-NFZ)
We booked the positioning flights to Madrid using Avios. Note that we were on exactly the same aircraft on both the outbound and inbound leg 10 days later. Given that both British Airways and Iberia operate widebody aircraft between Madrid and London, we opted to try both BA’s 777 and Iberia’s A340-600 out for the ~2h flights.
We had booked the following accommodation:
04.10.2019: Hilton Garden Inn Heathrow Terminal 2/3 for £133
05.10.2019: Landmark Amman for JOD145 (~191€)
06.10.2019: Joseph Hotel TLV for ILS433 (~110€)
07.10.2019: Hilton Dead Sea resort for JOD543 (~716€)
11.10.2019: Petra Bubble Luxotel for JOD229 (~300€)
12.10.2019: Fairmont Amman for JOD204 (~270€)
13.10.2019: Hilton Madrid Airport for 148€
A full review of the Hilton Dead Sea Resort can be found here:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/31611926-post33.html
This report will have 5 instalments:
Instalment 1: Getting there
Instalment 2: Amman and Tel Aviv “shuffle”
Instalment 3: Relaxing by the Dead Sea
Instalment 4: Petra and back to Amman
Instalment 5: Flying back
I hope you’ll enjoy this report and that you like the pictures.