Onze consultant bij Jordan Select (mevrouw Suha) regelde een uitstekende tour van 2 weken voor ons eerste bezoek aan Jordanië met een privéauto en chauffeur. We maken zelden gebruik van bureaus en geven er de voorkeur aan onze reizen naar eigen inzicht te plannen. Maar - na zulke geweldige Tripadvisor-beoordelingen vonden we dat we het bureau eens moesten proberen! Momenteel in Aqaba hebben we de meeste belangrijke Jordaanse sites gezien en zullen we de laatste paar nachten terugkeren naar Amman. Hotels die ze kozen werkten goed, de meeste waren gericht op grote busreizen die geen invloed hadden op ons verblijf. W waren heerlijke ‘kampen’ - glamping op zijn best! De chauffeur (Halil) was veilig, beleefd, altijd op tijd en we konden hem niets verwijten! Wie alle ongemarkeerde verkeersdrempels aankan zonder het welzijn van zijn passagiers in gevaar te brengen, verdient een medaille! De auto was schoon, modern en groot genoeg voor 2 koffers in de kofferbak. Zijn verkeersveiligheidsbewustzijn was uitstekend.
Safely back home and by now well back into our daily routines, I would like to take the opportunity to express our warmest gratitude, appreciation and respect, in the aftermath of our tour/trip to Amman & Petra.
A great 'thank you' is in order to all of the people of 'Jordan select tours' whose team work has rendered our holiday trip unforgettable and a special mention to Ms Suha, for being so good and explanatory through the prodedure (prior to our arrival), but especially for choosing for us that amazing gem of theirs, working as a driver, part guide, part assistant, part friend/brother/host/ - you name it and he became it...
We have had our quite big share of travelling around the world, and have had to charter touring agents' driving services, across the continents, but Mr Ibrahim Fakhoury is by far the top of the top [safest - most positive thinking - calmest - well informed/updated, most helpful and anticipating to each and every minor need/detail that might come up (with the list going on and on...)]. Trust Mr Ibrahim to be there on time, to humbly say he is not a guide but only a driver when - in fact- we have had professional guides that knew less or were not as updated as he was, trust him to respond professionally to unexpected occurrences [perfectly informative when the police had blocked/cordoned off his way into our usual meeting point and had to change our point, remaining absolutely effectively calm and with a problem solving disposition, when our tour car door was violently opened by a roaming retarded kid demanding charity, are only a few off-the-top-of-our-head examples]. We were so blessed to have him...!
In an effort, however, to remove any possible doubt from my so positive feedback, as to its objectivity standards, and if I have to find fault with their services, I would only mention that, prior to our arrival in Jordan, we had not been told that it was absolutely necessary to be carrying with us a printed form of our covid health certification, as we wouldn't be let into the aircraft, for there was an Amman representative at our airport, just before the airport gate, not permitting anyone to board the plane, without the printed paper. Luckily, we had been tipped off about it online and we were carrying one...