Jordan is a dream destination that attracts millions of travellers each year who choose to visit this magical country and soak up its incredible past and present culture. However, it is not always easy to plan a trip to Jordan and there can be a thousand questions: Where do I start? How do I organise a travel itinerary? What are the best dates for a trip to Jordan? That’s why we’ve written this post to help you. Read on.
We are real experts in organising trips and we have the best tool to do it, Passporter. A mobile app that will guide you step by step throughout your trip, while you are planning it and even once you are at your destination so that you don’t leave anything to do and have all the information you need in the palm of your hand. In this post we give you the best tips on how to plan a trip to Jordan using Passporter, the ultimate tool for organising and sharing your travels with the world.
1. Select your dates, the first step in planning a trip to Jordan
The first step in planning a trip to Jordan, or any other destination for that matter, is to select the dates, so it is interesting to know what is the best time to travel to Jordan.
The best time to travel to Jordan is during spring, from March to May, and autumn, from September to November. During these periods, the weather is generally pleasant, with mild and pleasant temperatures for exploring the country’s various tourist sites. The days are sunny and there is less chance of rain, allowing you to enjoy outdoor activities to the fullest.
In summer, June to August, Jordan experiences hot weather, especially in the Jordan Valley and desert regions. Temperatures can be extremely high, exceeding 40°C in some areas. However, if you don’t mind the intense heat, this is the perfect time to enjoy the beaches of the Red Sea and Dead Sea.
During the winter, December to February, temperatures can be cool, especially in mountainous areas such as Petra. Occasional showers may occur and some regions, such as the Wadi Rum desert, may experience cooler temperatures at night. However, this is a good time to explore historic sites and enjoy the lower tourist crowds.
Travel Tip: To organize your trip we recommend using Passporter totally free. You can be inspired by the experiences of other travelers, choose the places that interest you most, create the travel route with a geolocated map, upload all important documents such as reservations and invite your friends so that everyone can participate in the organization of the trip.
2. Register on Passporter and log in
To use Passporter you must create an account and remember that there is no cost. You can do this manually by entering your email or password and creating a username or use one of your networks to make it even easier and faster.
To create the itinerary you can do it either from the app or from the web. That is, you can register and start creating your itinerary from our website passporterapp.com without having to download the app. But if you prefer to do it directly from the app, Passporter is available at:
- App Store if your device is iOS.
- Google Play, if Android.
3. Get your flights and accommodation
To get the best prices on flights and accommodation in Jordan, the best option is to use comparison sites and not to book directly with an airline or hotel without comparing what other options are available.
As you probably already know, the most famous comparison sites are Skyscanner and Booking. Skyscanner is a flight and travel search engine that allows you to compare prices from different airlines to find the best flight options. Booking, however, is an online accommodation booking platform that offers a wide variety of options, from hotels to flats and villas, allowing users to search, compare prices and make bookings in different destinations around the world.
As we at Passporter know how useful price comparators can be, from our mobile app you have direct access to Skyscanner to simplify your search. Once you search for the destination for which you want to plan your trip, in this case Jordan, you will find a tab to search for your transport, from Skyscanner, or to add your bookings in case you already have it and thus have all the important information at hand and on a single platform.
4. Plan your travel itinerary to Jordan with Passporter
Once you have your account you can create your itinerary from scratch by selecting the places you want to visit or create a copy of a community traveller’s itinerary and customise it to your liking. This way, you won’t have to start from scratch and you’ll have the inspiration of another traveller.
In short, when it comes to planning you will be able to:
- View locations on a map and rearrange them.
- Get inspiration from other travellers’ free itineraries with their photos and location.
- And best of all, save all the information about the places you browse in one place.
We explain how to do it step by step.
a. Find your destination: Jordan; An essential part of planning your trip
Once you have registered, you can search for your destination: Jordan, Petra, Amman… There you will find hundreds of places shared by the community of travellers. On Passporter you will find categories such as:
- The most popular spots.
- The most exclusive, like rooftops with the best views.
- The most hidden ones.
- The best neighbourhoods in each destination.
b. Name your travel itinerary
You can give it a personalised name (“My trip to Jordan”) and decide whether you want it to be private for you and your friends or public for the whole community. Remember that we are a community and you can follow other travellers and vice versa, so we recommend you to share your itineraries so that more people can discover those places you liked so much on your trip and follow your recommendations.
c. Add the selected places to your travel itinerary
The next step in planning your trip to Jordan is to add the sites to your itinerary. There are several ways to add places to your travel itinerary. One is by searching directly in our community, another way is by creating the place and adding the address so that it is placed on your route map correctly and finally by using the Passporter Chrome extension but we will explain this later. This way you will have a lot of variety and while you see amazing places in each destination and decide on the ones that inspire you the most and where you want to go, save as many as you like in your planned travel itinerary. As many as you want.
When you search for, say, “Petra” you’ll find hundreds of places you’ll want to add to your itinerary. From cultural must-sees, such as “Al Khazna” the Petra Treasury, “the Royal Tombs”, and the “Petra Roman Amphitheatre”, to interesting places in the surrounding area such as the city of “Aqaba” or “Amman”, the capital of Jordan.
5. Take advantage of Passporter to finish planning your trip to Jordan
Once you have your flights and accommodation, as well as your itinerary with all the places you want to visit organised, you can continue to make the most of Passporter to finish planning your trip to Jordan.
a. Take advantage of the notes to organise your travel itinerary
Notes are a very useful feature of our tool, allowing you to upload important files such as travel tickets, hotel bookings, organise your travel itinerary by days, save internet links and keep everything centralised in one place (your mobile!).
Add your bookings to your travel itinerary
No more lost bookings or locators in your email inbox or jotted down in notes on your mobile phone. Passporter allows you to enter the location of your accommodation (Booking, Airbnb, Hostels) as a reference point in your itinerary, so that wherever you are, you’ll always have your hotel in sight. In addition, you can add other important information, such as the location of:
- Hotel
- Flight
- Car hire
- Or whatever you need
Organise your travel itinerary by days
If you like to organise your own route, with Passporter you can edit the order of the places to organise them as you need:
- According to the number of days of your trip.
- The areas you decide to move around.
- The specific location of your accommodation.
We leave you an example of an itinerary organisation with Passporter by one of our users. On Passporter you can find many travellers’ itineraries to inspire you to organise your own.
Save website links in your itinerary
You may have read a post by your favourite blogger and want to take all their tips with you. By adding your blog links in notes, they will appear in your planned travel itinerary so you can access the article whenever you want during your trip. In other words:
- Save or import links to blogs that inspire you to travel and share them with the rest of the community.
This way, you can have everything you need in your planned travel itinerary and easily access links to important blogs or websites. Finally you can save everything you read on the internet in an orderly and useful way to use it on your trip!
b. Use the itinerary you just planned for your trip to Jordan
When you arrive in Jordan, your travel itinerary will be your best companion. Use the map you’ve organised to guide you from place to place and visit all the places you’ve saved, eat at the restaurants you’ve found on the app and be able to replicate those photos you’ve seen from other travellers that have stolen your heart.
c. How to add images from an article I’m reading online to my travel itinerary?
If you have found Passporter useful and simple so far, we present you another option on how to search for places and images to add them more easily and quickly to your itinerary. From Passporter we have developed a Chrome extension with which you can perform all of the above steps by adding content not only from our community, but also from the different sites you browse on the internet.
What is Passporter’s Chrome extension?
The Passporter Chrome extension is similar to the Pinterest Chrome extension. With it you can save your favourite and most inspiring pictures from somewhere on the internet that you are looking for useful information for your trip, such as your favourite travel blog, and save those images directly into your itinerary.
To use the extension is very easy, install the Chrome extension in your browser so that it appears active in your bookmarks bar. Once you have it installed, when you browse the internet, you will be able to do the following:
- Above the photos you will see the save button.
- By clicking on save, you can choose in which itinerary you want the photo with the location to be saved and you can also add relevant information about the place, such as whether it is free or the price of admission and its respective opening hours.
6. How do I share my travel itinerary with my friends?
As mentioned above, the travel itinerary you have created to plan your trip to Jordan can be made public for the community or private just for you. If you want to keep it private for the time being, you can also share it with the friends of your choice, so that together you can carry your planned itinerary on your mobile phone and everyone can participate.
Important: You will have to be registered in Passporter and if you are not, you can do it in one click.
7. Share your travel experience, so that others can be inspired to plan their trip to Jordan
Once your trip is over, you can upload your experience to the app as well, sharing your own photos, videos and recommendations. So when a friend asks you what to do in your destination, you can share your experience with them – and not just your friends! You can share it with thousands of travellers who are already registered on Passporter and who share their content and travel recommendations, so that thousands of people can be inspired by your own trip.
8. Overview of how to plan your trip to Jordan
Register or download the Passporter App and discover all its possibilities.
- Get inspired by other travellers’ experiences, photos and itineraries.
- Organise your trip by the categories that suit you best: dates, number of days or type of trip (beach, mountain, restaurants, etc).
- Add your friends so they can see and modify all the plans and trip information.
- Create your own itinerary of your destination with everything you want to visit each day.
- Add the stops that interest you the most, including your accommodation, restaurants, museums…
- Book your flights, accommodation, transfers and activities through a single app.
- Save all your documents in the app so you always have everything at hand: reservations, boarding passes, important documents.
- Make any changes you need to make and you’re all set for your trip.
- Share your experience with other users. Upload photos of the places you have visited on your trip to the app and inspire other travellers with your experience. You can also share your own travel tips for Jordan.
- Enjoy your trip to Jordan!
If you have any doubts about how to do it, you can check our post: How to create a travel itinerary in Passporter.
Frequently asked questions about travelling to Jordan
The Jordan Pass is an official tourist package that allows travellers to obtain a visa on arrival at the airport in Jordan. It also offers access to 43 tourist attractions in the country, including the iconic tourist destinations of Petra and Wadi Rum. However, to enjoy these benefits, visitors are required to stay a minimum of 3 nights in Jordan. The price of the Jordan Pass varies between 70 and 80 Jordanian Dinars, depending on the number of consecutive nights you wish to stay in Petra. It is important to note that the required documents must be presented at the time of entry into Jordan in order to obtain a Jordan Pass.
The most common and convenient way to get to Jordan from abroad is via international flights to Queen Alia International Airport near Amman. This airport receives direct flights from various locations in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. Some of the international airlines offering direct flights or connecting flights to Jordan include Royal Jordanian, Emirates, Turkish Airlines, Qatar Airways, Lufthansa.
There are a number of options for getting around Jordan, including hiring a car, hiring official or private taxis, using public buses or private transfer services or organised tours, especially to reach remote destinations such as the Wadi Rum desert. However, one of the most common options is car rental, as it allows you to travel independently and is a system that works very well in Jordan.
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