Jordan Tours with Flights from €900

Most 8-day Jordan tours follow the same spine, simply because it works. You land in Amman and spend a day on the citadel, the Roman theatre and the downtown souk, then drive 45 minutes north to Jerash for a half-day at one of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities anywhere. Night two is usually back in Amman or down at the Dead Sea.

Day three is a Dead Sea float, plus Mount Nebo and the mosaic map at Madaba on the way south along the King's Highway. Days four and five are the main event: two full days at Petra. One day covers the Siq, the Treasury and the main trail up to the Monastery; the second is for the High Place of Sacrifice, the Royal Tombs at golden hour, and the quieter back routes the day-trippers never find.

Day six is Wadi Rum: a 4x4 afternoon through the red dunes, sunset on a canyon ridge, then dinner and a night in a Bedouin desert camp. Domes with private bathrooms run €30-€60 over the traditional goat-hair tents. Day seven is usually a Red Sea stop in Aqaba for snorkelling before flying home from AQJ, or the drive back to Amman for a final night.

Prices on Multiday.tours for this itinerary sit at €900 to €1,500 before flights, depending on hotel grade and operator.

Jordan and Egypt pair naturally, and most major operators sell a combined itinerary. The standard combo runs 14 to 17 days: roughly 7 days in Egypt for Cairo, Luxor, Aswan and a Nile cruise, then 6 to 8 days in Jordan for Amman, Petra, Wadi Rum and often the Dead Sea.

The border crossing tends to happen one of two ways. Either you fly Cairo to Amman on a short hop (roughly €120-€180 one way, 1h40m) that most operators fold into the tour price, or you cross overland at the Wadi Araba/Yitzhak Rabin border south of Aqaba with a brief transit through Israel's Eilat. Fewer tours use that route in 2026, and it comes with extra paperwork.

Plan on €2,200 to €3,400 per person for 14 days small-group, plus €350 to €550 for return flights from Europe into Cairo and out of Amman (open-jaw tickets are easy to price on Multiday.tours). That covers guide, Nile cruise, internal flight, all hotels, most breakfasts and some dinners. Add roughly €80 for an Egypt e-visa and the Jordan entry (free if you buy the Jordan Pass, more on which below).

This is the trip to do if you've got three weeks and want two genuine bucket-list destinations without paying twice over for long-haul flights.

Small-group Jordan tours (10-16 people) are the default and the easiest way to cover the country. Intrepid, G Adventures, Exodus and On The Go all run reliable 7 to 9 day itineraries in the €900-€1,600 range before flights, with a full-time local guide and a mix of three and four-star hotels. Intrepid and G Adventures skew younger and more active, while Exodus and On The Go draw a slightly older crowd into comfier hotels.

Private driver tours are surprisingly affordable in Jordan. Two people can often hire a car, driver and English-speaking guide for €150-€220 a day all in, which splits to €75-€110 each. Over 8 days that's €600-€900 per person on top of hotels (another €400-€700), so €1,000-€1,600 for a fully bespoke trip at your own pace. Well worth it for families or groups of four.

The Jordan Pass is the best-value thing in the country, bar none. It costs around €70 (JOD 70-80), waives the JOD 40 tourist visa, and covers unlimited entries to Petra plus 40 other sites including Jerash, Wadi Rum and the Amman Citadel. You do have to stay at least three nights in Jordan to qualify. Most tours leave the pass out of the headline price but will pick it up for you on arrival, so check your inclusions.

Jordan has a genuinely short ideal window. March to May and September to November are the sweet spots, with daytime highs of 22-28°C and cool evenings. Petra is comfortable to walk all day, Wadi Rum nights are crisp but not freezing, and the Dead Sea is swimmable. These are the months to book.

June to August is brutally hot. Petra and Wadi Rum regularly hit 38-42°C, there's no shade on most of the trails, and the stone throws the heat straight back at you. Tour prices drop 20-30% in summer, but the experience suffers badly for it. This is the one major destination where we'll actively tell you to skip peak summer.

December to February brings the opposite problem. Days in Petra are mild and pleasant at 12-18°C, but desert nights in Wadi Rum routinely drop to -2 to 4°C, and the camps are warmed by little more than a stove and extra blankets. Some travellers love the quiet and the snow-dusted mornings; others find the night cold a deal-breaker. Pack a proper sleeping-bag liner and thermal layers if you're going in winter.

April and October are the peak booking months, with tours selling out 3-4 months ahead and flight prices from Europe creeping from €220 to €400 return. February and early November are the quieter bargains within the good-weather window.

Queen Alia International in Amman (AMM) is the main gateway and handles most of the long-haul traffic, with King Hussein in Aqaba (AQJ) a useful second door if your trip leans on Wadi Rum and the south.

From the US, the standout is Royal Jordanian's nonstop from New York JFK to Amman (around 11 hours); Chicago gets a seasonal nonstop too. From everywhere else you connect once through a European or Gulf hub (London, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Doha, Dubai) — the Gulf carriers (Qatar, Emirates, Etihad) usually price best from the middle of the country and the West Coast. Expect roughly US$800-$1,300 return from the East Coast, US$1,000-$1,600 from the West, and 14-18 hours door to door via the layover.

From Australia, Sydney and Melbourne route through a single Gulf hub — Doha on Qatar, Dubai on Emirates, Abu Dhabi on Etihad — for a total of 20-23 hours flying. Reckon on roughly A$1,800-$2,700 return.

From Canada, Toronto and Montreal connect through a European or Gulf hub (Royal Jordanian's Montreal-Amman service runs at times, otherwise Air Canada or a partner). Budget roughly C$1,200-$1,900 return and 14-17 hours via the stop.

From the UK and Europe, you've the easiest run. Royal Jordanian flies direct from London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid and Rome in 4h30m-5h15m; budget routes go via Istanbul on Turkish or Athens on Aegean, saving €60-€120 at the cost of 3-5 extra hours. Return fares from most capitals sit at €220-€380 in the March-May and September-November sweet spot, jumping to €400-€600 around Easter, Christmas and the October Petra peak. Aqaba (AQJ) also takes Ryanair's seasonal direct routes from Athens, Milan, Vienna and Warsaw at €80-€180 return — a genuine steal if you're starting at Petra.

Aqaba is an hour from Wadi Rum and two from Petra, against four and three from Amman, so an open-jaw (into AMM, out of AQJ, or the reverse) saves a long drive whatever your origin and adds little over a simple return. The Multiday.tours bundle prices the flight live from your own home airport in your own currency, beside the tour, so you can weigh up both airports before booking.