2-day Petra tours from Amman build one night in Wadi Rum into the trip, and that night is what moves your Petra ticket from 90 JD down to 50 JD. Five hours at the site, a desert jeep run, and the Dead Sea on the way back to Amman.
Five hours at Petra, then south to a Wadi Rum camp for dinner, a sunset jeep run and breakfast, with the Dead Sea on the way home. Rated 5.0 from 1,344 reviews. The night in Jordan is what moves your gate ticket from 90 JD down to 50 JD.
From $249 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A Bedouin camp, a Bedouin dinner and breakfast, and a two-hour Wadi Rum jeep tour all sit inside this fare. Pickup from an Amman city hotel. The park gates are yours to pay, and the Dead Sea resort adds forty dollars a head, in cash.
From $205 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Sleep in a private deluxe or Martian tent with its own bathroom and air conditioning, not a shared camp, and take the jeep run at sunset with a guide. Day two ends at a four-star Dead Sea resort where the pools and showers are already covered.
From $220 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner all sit inside this fare, which is rare across the two-day run and worth the arithmetic if you would rather stop thinking about food. Five hours at Petra; the camp, the jeep and the entry fees arrive with the grade you pick.
From $293 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Each of these puts a night in Wadi Rum between two days on the road. Check what each covers, then choose your date.
Check AvailabilityTwo days built around one night away from your Amman hotel. Day one runs the Desert Highway south, gives you three to five hours at Petra, then continues to a camp in Wadi Rum for the night. Day two brings a jeep run through the desert, then the drive home, usually by way of the Dead Sea.
That one night is the whole point of booking two days instead of one. Spend it anywhere in Jordan and your Petra ticket drops from 90 JD to 50 JD — a 40 JD saving that has nothing to do with the park and everything to do with where you sleep. None of these fares includes the ticket itself, but the night they all build in is what earns you the cheaper one.
The camps differ more than the itineraries do. One sleeps you in a private deluxe or Martian tent with its own bathroom and air conditioning; the rest use a shared Bedouin camp. Meals differ too: one bundles breakfast, lunch and dinner across both days, where the others cover only the camp's own dinner and breakfast.
The night in Wadi Rum moves your gate price from 90 JD to 50 JD. A longer trip costing you less at the entrance is the one argument a day tour cannot make.
Five hours is standard here, against three to four on most single-day departures. You are not trading time at the site for the extra day; you are gaining both.
A private deluxe or Martian tent, with its own bathroom and air conditioning, is on offer here if a shared camp is not what you want after a long day.
Every route here passes the Dead Sea on the way home, and one bundles a four-star resort's pools and showers directly into its fare.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner sit inside a single fare here, rather than leaving you to find lunch twice across two days.
The comparison that matters is not among these, it is against staying in Amman for a single day. Here is the arithmetic.
| A 2-day Petra tour | A Petra day tour | |
|---|---|---|
| Nights away from Amman | 1, in Wadi Rum | 0 |
| Petra ticket at the gate | 50 JD | 90 JD |
| Hours at Petra | 5 hours | 3 to 7 hours |
| Also covers | A Wadi Rum camp, jeep run, the Dead Sea | Petra only |
| Fare | $205 to $293 per person | $85 to $125 per person |
| Best for | You have a spare night and want the cheaper gate | You must be back in Amman that night |
A day tour's fare looks lower on the card. Add the ticket each one actually costs you at the gate, and the two-day trip's 50 JD closes a large part of the difference, before you count the camp, the jeep run and the Dead Sea it also gives you.
In the fare, on all of these: hotel pickup in Amman, an air-conditioned vehicle with an English-speaking driver, one night in a Wadi Rum camp, and a two-hour jeep tour of the valley. Water and Wi-Fi ride along on most of them.
Not in the fare, on any of them: entrance fees to the sites you visit, unless your chosen grade names them specifically. A local guide is excluded everywhere here as well.
Differs by listing: the camp tier (a shared Bedouin camp on most, a private deluxe or Martian tent on one), which meals are covered (dinner and breakfast on most, all three on one), and whether the Dead Sea resort's beach and pools are included or charged separately at forty dollars a head, in cash.
Price band: $205 to $293 a person. Length: two days, one night away. Booking window: two to five days ahead; the private-camp option is the one to book earliest, since it has fewer tents to sell.
The arithmetic to remember: your Petra ticket costs 50 JD across this whole trip, because every one of these keeps you in Jordan overnight. Compare that against 90 JD on a same-day trip before you decide the extra day costs you more.
Wadi Rum by dusk, the Dead Sea on the way home, and a Petra ticket 40 JD less than a day tripper pays.
Check AvailabilityIf you truly have only one day and cannot add a night anywhere in Jordan, a Petra day tour is the honest fit, even at the higher gate price. Two days is not two days if you have to fly out that evening.
If you want the King's Highway stops as well — Mount Nebo, Madaba, Dana, Shobak Castle — none of these reach them; that route needs a third day. A 3-day Petra tour is built around it instead.
If Wadi Rum does not interest you, every one of these builds a desert night into the itinerary whether you want it or not. Book a plain overnight in Wadi Musa and a separate day tour instead if Petra alone is the goal.
That is every way to buy the cheaper gate ticket on a spare night. Every way south from Amman is compared, fare beside fare, on Petra Amman Tours. Petra Amman ticket prices covers what every one of them charges at the gate.