Are you still swiping through hundreds of camp offers online to find the right luxury camp to book for your Wadi Rum trip? Don’t worry, we got you.
In this article, we will explain to you what you can expect from a Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camp, what the best camps are and what to do in Wadi Rum after you have finally booked your camp stay in Wadi Rum. This is our Wadi Rum Luxury Camp Guide.
Key Takeaways
- Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camps offer spacious, comfortable tents with modern amenities in Jordan’s desert.
- Guests enjoy private bathrooms, clear ceilings for stargazing, and private terraces with stunning views.
- Activities include camel rides, jeep tours, hiking, and watching beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
- Book your desert adventure with Wadi Tribe for a genuine and unforgettable Wadi Rum experience.
- Key Takeaways
- What is a Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camp?
- 5 Features You Can Expect from a Luxury Camp in Wadi Rum
- The Best Luxury Camps in Wadi Rum (2026)
- Alternatives to the Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camps
- 5 Things to Do While You Are in Wadi Rum
- The Bottom Line
- Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camp?
Life in the Wadi Rum desert reaches back several thousand years. More recently, the inhospitable desert landscape in Southern Jordan became the home of several nomadic tribes that are collectively referred to as the Bedouin.
While moving with their livestock, the Bedouin lived in black goat-hair tents that became characteristic for their unique culture. These tents were durable, resisting the desert hot and cold climate, but also simple enough to be assembled and disassembled as the Bedouin moved on to a new location.
These very tents later became the focal point of touristic Wadi Rum experiences when their restricted freedom of movement forced the Bedouin to become less nomadic and to capitalise more on tourism to make a living. While many tourists opted for traditional Bedouin tents, camp hosts also started to create more elevated versions of their tents that catered to the needs of Western tourists. With this the Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camp was born.
Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camps are Bedouin-style desert camps in the Wadi Rum Protected Area, that appeal to visitors with comfortable, spacious accommodations, modern amenities and often panoramic windows and porches that allow visitors to enjoy panoramic views of the red sand desert landscape and the star-lit night sky.
5 Features You Can Expect from a Luxury Camp in Wadi Rum
To understand the appeal of luxury tents in Wadi Rum, it is important to understand that the Wadi Rum desert is effectively off-grid. In the Wadi Rum Protected Area, electricity is generated by solar panels and water delivered by trucks. Basic amenities are scarce and a premium experience all the more valuable.
Keeping this in mind, this is what you can expect from a Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camp:
Comfortable Accommodations
While the standard Bedouin tent is small, just big enough to comfortably fit a bed and your luggage, a luxury tent is much more spacious, providing ample space to spread out. The accommodations often feature tiled flooring, comfortable king size beds decked out with the finest bed linens and often times clear ceilings that allow you to observe the night sky from the comfort of your bed sheets.
Private Bathrooms
Instead of shared bathrooms in a public bathhouse, visitors of a luxury camp enjoy their very own en-suite bathrooms equipped with Western-style toilets, shower and sometimes even bathtubs. Along with that, some luxury camps even offer their own amenities such as hand soaps, shower gels and shampoos.
Modern Amenities
Outside of the en-suite bathroom, the luxury tent continues to impress with a selection of amenities you wouldn’t exactly expect to see in an off-grid desert location, such as fans, air conditioning and mini bars as well as heaters for the occasional cold winter night – yes, it gets cold at night in Wadi Rum.
Private Terraces
If not equipped with a clear ceiling, a luxury tent in Wadi Rum at the very least comes with its very own private terrace equipped with chairs and a table. The private terrace is not only a great place for a private meals or an afternoon coffee, but also a prime location for watching the stars at night while recovering from a recent trip to the desert.
Buffet-Style Meals
Apart from high-end accommodations, luxury camps in Wadi Rum offer plenty of food options in the communal dining tents. In a dining tent, breakfast and dinner are served in buffet-style including Jordanian and Bedouin staples such Zarb, Kebseh, Fattoush salad, sides of rice and potatoes along with dips such as yoghurt sauce and hummus and soft drinks. While lunch is usually served during desert tours, resting visitors can also forward special requests to the kitchen for a personal lunch to be prepared for them.
The Best Luxury Camps in Wadi Rum (2026)
When researching your stay in Wadi Rum, you will be flooded with hundreds and hundreds of camp offers online. The last time I checked, there was more than 700 accommodations listed on Booking.com alone, many of them claiming they provide a luxury experience. To help you battle through the flood of offers, we selected three luxury camps that truly deserve their label.
These are three of the best luxury camps in the Wadi Rum desert:
Rum Luxury Camp
Rum Luxury Camp is a luxury camp in the Wadi Rum desert that has really started true to the visual nature of a Bedouin tent, while still offering an elevated glamping experience in the desert. The luxury tents in this desert camp are carefully decorated with modern furniture, feature their very own private bathrooms and breathtaking views of the nearby mountains. Unsurprisingly, this Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camp is rated an outstanding 9.8 out of 10 on Booking.com.
Memories Aicha Luxury Camp
Memories Aicha Luxury Camp is somewhat of a crowd favourite in the Wadi Rum dessert, having attracted swarm of influencers in the past years. But while many came for their iconic bubble tents, their luxury tents are also well-worth a visit.
The luxury tents at Memories Aicha Luxury Camp come in the shape of small, beige huts, that from the inside very much resemble what you would imagine Aladdin’s palace to look like. Along with private bathrooms and air conditioning, it is not hard to understand why they are rated a 9.4 out of 10 on Booking.com.
Desert Guide Camp
One danger with luxury tents is that they make you feel removed from your surroundings – the very desert and culture you came to explore. Our last contender, Desert Guide Camp found a way to align the two. This Bedouin camp deep in the heart of the Wadi Rum desert provides three luxury tents on their intimate campgrounds under the shade of a massive mountain.
There, you not only experience all the luxuries of a high-end Bedouin tent, but also some of the clearest night skies of the desert. With a rating of 9.5 out of 10 on Booking.com it is without a doubt one of the best places to stay in Wadi Rum.
Alternatives to the Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camps
Are you looking for something else? Luxury tents are not the only accommodation option in the Wadi Rum desert. In fact, most visitors don’t even choose to stay in a luxury tent when visiting Wadi Rum. Instead they opt for traditional Bedouin tents, while others go for the Martian bubble tents.
These are the best alternatives to staying in a luxury tent in Wadi Rum:
Martian Bubble Tents: Travel to Mars
Bubble tents, sometimes also referred to as bubble rooms, are exactly what their name aludes to. They are accommodations in the shape of a bubble. These bubble rooms can be found all around the world, but are especially popular in the Wadi Rum desert, as they allow for star gazing from bed and resembles a structure that one would see on Mars in a science-fiction movie.
Considering that many sci-fi movies such as The Martian were filmed in Wadi Rum, it is not hard to understand, why someone would want to stay in a bubble room in Wadi Rum.
Traditional Bedouin Tents: Sleep like a Bedouin
True to the original look of a black goat-hair tent, the traditional Bedouin tent is the closest you will get to an authentic Bedouin experience without waking up with back pain. Traditional Bedouin tents are small, functional, but still very comfortable.
The average Bedouin-style tent features a comfortable bed with extra sheets for cold nights, space to put down your luggage, hooks for your clothing and electricity for light and charging your mobile devices. Built for functionality, these tents renounce the lavishness of the luxury tents as they know full well: the memorable experience is the Wadi Rum desert itself, not the place you stay in.
5 Things to Do While You Are in Wadi Rum
Once you have made your way past the Wadi Rum Visitors Center, you are only a few minutes away from your very own desert adventures. Before you even get a minute of sleep in your luxury tent, you will be well underway to explore your first Wad Rum sites. So make you have you day mapped out.
These are five things you should absolutely do while in Wadi Rum:
Catch the Sunrise on a Camel Ride
Camels have accompanied the Bedouin people through the Wadi Rum desert for centuries, so it’s only right to start the day on the back of one. In the Wadi Rum desert, you can book camel rides ranging from one to two hours up to full day camel safaris. We recommending scheduling a camel ride for the early morning to witness the sunrise of the mountains of Southern Jordan and return just in time for breakfast.
Explore the Desert Landscape on a Jeep Tour
Once you have filled your tummy with a delicious Bedouin breakfast, the only right thing to do is starting your Jeep Tour of the Wadi Rum desert. The Wadi Rum desert is full of sites of natural, historical and cultural interest, but they are scattered all throughout the desert. A Jeep Tour allows you to explore a good dozen of them from Lawrence Spring to Umm Frouth Bridge within a day – plus, it’s fun!
Hike the Highest Mountain of Jordan
If you are planning to stay in Wadi Rum for two nights or more, we recommend getting active on the second day to complete one of the desert’s many day hikes. Between Burdah Rock Bridge, Jebel Al-Hash and Jebel Umm Ad Dami, the latter is our favourite for a challenging yet rewarding day hike. This hike leads you all the way to the summit of Jordan’s highest mountain, standing tall at 1,854 meters (6,083 feet) allowing you to see all the way to Saudi Arabia and Palestine.
Watch the Sunset in the White Desert
To wrap up a full day of exploring it is only right to head to the White Desert to watch the fiery sun dip into the sands of the Western Wadi Rum desert. As the sun sets, your Bedouin guides will gather fire wood, heat some water and prepare one of the Bedouin’s most beloved specialties, sweet Bedouin tea. Sip on your sweet tea and enjoy the tranquility just before you head back to camp you enjoy your dinner buffet.
Marvel at the Night Sky from Your Terrace
A day in Wadi Rum doesn’t end before you have seen the stars. So, as you make your way back from the dinner tent, we highly recommend you to head on to your private terrace and watch the night sky from there. With minimal levels of light pollution, the Wadi Rum desert is one of the best places in the world to watch the stars, the Milky Way and – if you’re lucky – shooting stars at night.
The Bottom Line
As we wrap up this article, we hope you have gained clarity on which accommodations to stay in. More than anything, though, we would like to emphasise that staying in Wadi Rum is much more than a comfy king bed and a clear ceiling. It is a chance to interact with an ancient desert and its people that have found a way to not only survive in it, but call it home. So wether you choose to stay in a luxury tent or a small traditional tent, be assured that you will have an unforgettable experience in Wadi Rum.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cost of staying at a Wadi Rum Luxury Camp?
Staying at a Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camp can be as cheap as $40 (35€) per night with prices soaring all the way up to $230 (200€) per night, with prices fluctuating a lot between camps and tent amenities as well as low and peak seasons.
Where is the best place to stay in Wadi Rum?
If you are looking for a luxury camp for your stay in Wadi Rum, we recommend you to stay at Rum Luxury Camp, Aicha Memories Luxury Camp or Desert Guide Camp, all of which boast excellent reviews.
What makes Wadi Rum Luxury Camps unique?
Wadi Rum Night Luxury Camps stand out with their elevated accommodations featuring private, en-suite bathrooms, modern amenities and private terraces for stargazing, while still emulating the look of a traditional Bedouin tent.
What activities are offered at a Wadi Rum Luxury Camp?
Luxury camps in Wad Rum offer a number of fun activities with some of them being camel rides, jeep tours, hikes, rock climbing and hot air balloon rides. Many camps also take special requests from guests, allowing them to craft their own itineraries.
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