La Maison Hotel Petra — Hotel in Maan

Lots of positive things to say about La Maison Hotel Petra, but there were a couple of things that let the hotel down - hence why I only gave four stars overall.

Firstly the hotel is in a fantastic location - just a couple of minutes walk away from the visitors entrance into Petra, and just around the back of various restaurants and convenience stores on the Main Street.

The hotel and rooms are very modern, well appointed and clean. My room was quite spacious and very comfortable. One tiny niggle was that the shower was far too hot for my personal liking - but I know that plenty of people appreciate a boiling hot shower!

Breakfast was superb: with an impressive array of options to choose from. You can have an omelette cooked to order, and pancakes are also freshly made.

Laundry service was also fantastic - I put in a couple of items first thing in the morning, and they were back in my room before 3pm clean and pressed. Prices were really reasonable too.

They have a rooftop restaurant which my travel companions went to for dinner, but everything they ordered was unavailable so they went elsewhere. I went up there one afternoon for a cappuccino and was told they didn’t have any, so I asked for a milky coffee instead. After 15 minutes or so a black coffee arrived - so I asked for some milk and was told there was milk in it, which there definitely was not! After waiting for another 10 minutes a little jug of milk eventually arrived. At this point I was not particularly happy, but there was no apology and I still had to pay for a now cold coffee.

Despite the abysmal service from the top floor restaurant, I would certainly recommend staying at this lovely hotel. But maybe give the rooftop...

Unfortunately we cannot recommend this hotel at all. Although the location was perfect (250 meters of the entrance of Petra), and the rooms at first glance seemed to be okay, after three nights it turned out that we should have stayed somewhere else.

First of all: even though I had turned on the "don't disturb" sign, it turned out that my room had been cleaned. I missed a tube of expensive body lotion afterwards, but at first I thought i put it somewhere else. The next morning after cleaning, my mother suddenly missed a silver bracelet in her room that was on the desk. She reported this to the front desk, and the two cleaning ladies reacted with a striking laugh. They then went into the room with my mother and at first there was nothing behind the desk, but when my mother looked the other way, one shouted that the bracelet had been found! It was supposedly on the floor behind the desk. A very dubious state of affairs.

But, unfortunately this was not all. Fresh towels were provided after being in my room. I took a shower and without looking at it, grabbed one of these towels to dry myself. Shortly afterwards, to my horror, I saw that this towel was filthy and thus had been laid out as "clean" (see picture). I felt very dirty. At the reception I quickly got a new set of new, clean towels, but the damage was already done.

In summary, if you'd like to keep your belongings and not let your vacation be ruined, then look for another hotel. The two stars are because of the location and the coffee lady who prepares delicious capuchino on the...

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