Jordan Pass 2-Night Private Luxury Escape to Petra and the Dead Sea from Amman

LE Tour Disappointment

My husband and I booked our trip of a lifetime with LE to Egypt and Jordan and were disappointed on several aspects of the tour. First the itinerary was changed around and what we were supposed to do at the end we did at the beginning of the tour. We landed in Cairo and were supposed to stay for 3 days and then do the River Nile cruise but had to fly out the next day to Luxor to start our river cruise. The cruise was great and could not fault the tour guide Amen he was fantastic. Flew down to Abu Simbel then back to Aswan for our flight back to Cairo but had originally a 4 hour wait even though there was a flight to Cairo at 2.30 pm our wait turned into 6 hrs. due to the flight arriving late at Aswan, so we did not get back to Cairo until 10 o'clock that night not LE fault but disappointed that the tour company did not arrange something for us to do In Aswan after the Abu Simbel tour rather than sitting in an airport. The next 3 days in Cairo were nonstop and we actually left the tour on one day just to get a rest back at our hotel. The tour operators did not have any rest days at all scheduled and I was also annoyed that they continually took us to see products being made i.e. papyrus,rugs,mosaics and then there just happened to be a shop on the premises and all of these little stops were not part of the itinerary. Tipping was voluntary but, on the cruise, we were advised that we had to pay $150 US per person to be distributed between all of the people involved in the Cairo part of the tour NOT impressed to say the least. Our next stop was Amman arrived and straight onto the bus to drive to our hotel at the Dead Sea, this stop at least gave us time for a rest but our dinner in the Jordan hotel was Italian why didn't they give us some local food to try! Our stay at a Wadi Rum camp was disappointing definitely not 4/5 star maybe a 2 star, left to travel back to Amman 4.5 hr. trip with more touring in Amman all day, they were going to visit other places then go out to dinner this would have gotten us back to the 5 star Sheraton hotel at around 9.00 pm after travelling all day NOT impressed at all, I requested to go back to the hotel before dinner so we finally got there at 6.00 pm. All in all, it was a great trip but LE and the tour company need to look into arranging rest days in between the touring and not try to visit everything all in one day. You need to really check what the tour involves in regard if they have scheduled any rest days, and at this time, I would not recommend LE