Petra private day tour from Eilat

This info page gives you detailed information about our daily private tours to Petra and should answer any questions you have. Please contact us for any additional information.
Since there is so much to see in Petra it is important we make good use of our time. The day before your tour, your passport details are sent to the border for the Visa lists, this saves us valuable time at the border crossing. You are collected around 6:50am to ensure we are amongst the first to arrive at the border. Our staff will guide you efficiently through the border procedures, as you cross to Jordan your tour guide and tour staff will meet you. Here our Jordanian representative will take care of the border procedures and once the visas are issued we are on our way to Petra

Listed below are some of our private one-day tour options. Private tours, for obvious reasons can run at a faster pace and allow more time for visiting additional places. Sometimes, when time or walking ability is limited, the opposite is required. Often clients opt for a private tour simply to have the benefit of a personal guide and a tour that suits their own pace, their personal interests and their time-schedule.

Listed here are five one-day tour variations, they include additions such as the Monastery, the High Place of sacrifice and Wadi Rum, they are our most popular one-day private tour choices. You can use the map as a visual aid.

Option 1– The Petra Base Tour: a basic tour of Petra which is shorter than the other options, suitable for people limited on time or those requiring a shorter walking route. The tour includes the Silica Quarries, Jinn Blocks, the Obelisk Tomb, the Siq Canyon, the Treasury (Khazneh), the Street of Facades and the Royal Tombs. Lunch is taken at a good local restaurant outside Petra, but you may upgrade to the dining room of the Movenpick Hotel for an additional $25. Following lunch we begin the return journey to Aqaba and to Eilat. We collect from hotels at 6:50 am for this tour.
Cost: 2 people $760 in total. 3 people $340 each. 4 people $295 each. 5 or more $285 each.

Option 2- The Petra Full Day Tour: This tour includes the Base Tour above and continues on from the Royal Tombs to the Byzantine Church and then to the Temple of the Winged Lions. We stop for lunch at the main restaurant of Petra which is included in the tour price; you may upgrade to the second restaurant for an additional $20 per person. Following lunch you retrace your steps to the entrance of Petra without a guide (very straight forward) and have additional time for photos etc. We board our minibus and commence our journey back to Aqaba and Eilat. We collect from hotels at 6:50 am for this tour.
Cost: 2 people $760 in total. 3 people $340 each. 4 people $295 each. 5 or more $285 each.

Option 3- The Petra Full Day, with the Monastery (Jabel Al Deir): This tour covers all of the previous full day tour route (option 2) and includes a hike up to the Monastery (Al-Deir). Following lunch at the main restaurant inside Petra (restaurant upgrade available at $20) we begin our walk up to the monastery. The path up to the monastery is steep and has many steps, it is not an easy walk and the whole monastery visit takes a minimum of 2.00 hours (there and back). Local donkey handlers offer their services for the ascent and charge between $12 - $15 dollars. We implore you NOT to use them for the walk back down (you'll understand why when you see them in action). This is a particularly long tour and it is not available on Fridays and Saturdays because the border crossing opens late on these days (8:00am as opposed to 6:30am). In the event of unforeseen delays, or for any other reason we are forced to cancel the monastery visit, we will provide the Full Day tour instead (option 2) and refund the difference in the cost. Should time be an issue during the tour, rather than eating at the restaurant, you will be provided with a packed lunch after visiting the monastery. Guides do not normally join clients for the walk up to the monastery*, but instead give simple instructions about the route and meet you again at the entrance to Petra (visitor's center) at around 16:30. This is a superb tour but the hardest of the tour options listed here, it covers a total of 10km (over 6 miles) on foot. For those who are up to it, it is well worth the effort. We collect from hotels at 6:15 am for this tour.
*The hike up to the monastery with the guide is available for an additional $50 (for the whole group, not per person).
Cost: 2 people $790 in total. 3 people $353 each. 4 people $305 each. 5 or more $295 each.
Additional charge for the guide to hike up to the Monastery $50 per group.

Option 4- The Petra Full day with the 'High Places': This tour covers the same sites as the Full Day Petra tour (option 2). It also includes Jabal Madbah, the High Place of Sacrifice, Qasr Al Bint, the Great Temple and Wadi Farasa. Lunch is included at Petra's main restaurant, a restaurant upgrade available for $20. Although this tour is less demanding than the Monastery tour, it also involves some difficult path walking and has lots of steps, so a reasonable level of fitness is required. This tour day is particularly long and the tour does not run on Fridays and Saturdays because the border crossing opens late (8.00am instead of 6:30am). We collect from hotels at 6:15 am for this tour.
Cost: 2 people $840 in total. 3 people $369 each. 4 people $319 each. 5 people or more $295 each.

Option 5 – Petra Base Tour and Wadi Rum: We tour Petra following the whole route of the Petra Base Tour (option 1). We leave Petra and head to a nearby restaurant for lunch, an upgrade to the dining room of the Movenpick Hotel is available for $25. Following lunch we head to Wadi Rum where we enjoy an off-road desert adventure for 1.30 hours during the sunset. In Wadi Rum we visit the Seven Pillars, Lawrence's Spring and the Khazali Canyon. Wadi Rum is where T E Lawrence fought and where the epic movie 'Lawrence of Arabia' was filmed. From here we return to our vehicle and drive back to Eilat. We collect from hotels at 6:50 am for this tour.
Cost: 2 people $915 in total. 3 people $398 each. 4 people $343 each. 5 people or more $323 each.

Not included, border taxes - $60, tips and drinks with meals.

Perhaps having read a little more about the places to see in Petra you'd like to see it all for yourself? You can do everything listed in a two day tour of Petra.