The 4 Best Luxury Hotels in Aqaba
From the Al Manara Hotel Saraya to the The Westin Saraya: the finest luxury addresses in Aqaba, hand-picked by our travel experts. Every suitespot booking comes with free breakfast for 2, a room upgrade subject to availability, hotel credit and VIP service – benefits worth over €500.
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The top hotels in Aqaba at a glance
From legendary grand hotels to intimate design addresses: these properties lead our ranking for Aqaba. See at a glance where each hotel is located, which loyalty program earns you points and where nightly rates begin. "From" prices are current entry rates and may include limited-time promotional rates.
| Hotel | Location | Hotel program | suitespot score | Price from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Manara Hotel Saraya Aqaba | – | Marriott Bonvoy | – | 190 € |
| The Westin Saraya Aqaba | Saraya Aqaba Beach | Marriott Bonvoy | – | 160 € |
| Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla | – | World of Hyatt | – | 270 € |
| Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea | Al Shamiyah | GHA Discovery | – | 160 € |
Current offers & deals for luxury hotels in Aqaba
Many of our partner hotels in Aqaba offer special conditions bookable via suitespot – from free nights to discounts on longer stays. Your suitespot benefits (breakfast, upgrade chance, hotel credit) apply on top.
| Hotel | Offer | Bookable until |
|---|---|---|
| Al Manara Hotel Saraya Aqaba | Up to 30% discount for stays of three nights or more | December 31, 2029 |
Your guide to the best luxury hotel suites in Aqaba
Al Manara Hotel Saraya AqabaMore people arrive on this page looking for a suite than for anything else, and that instinct fits the destination: between them these four houses list 70 room categories, including beachfront villas, plunge-pool villas and rooms of up to 402 square metres. Below we set out which house holds which.With every booking through suitespot you receive a comprehensive package of suitespot benefits:
- Complimentary breakfast for two
- Room upgrade subject to availability
- Up to 100 USD hotel credit per stay
- Early check-in and late check-out subject to availability
- Standard points and status benefits in the hotel programmes
The Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla (from around 280 €) sits at the Ayla marina and holds the largest rooms in the city, up to 402 square metres, with Prince and Royal suites. Al Manara, Saraya Aqaba (195 €) has by far the deepest inventory — 36 room categories, including beachfront and plunge-pool penthouse villas.
The Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea (170 €) is the King Hussein Street address, with four sea-view categories and rooms to 240 square metres. The Westin Saraya Aqaba (165 €) is our entry price — and, as we explain below, the one house here that does not sell a sea view at all.
Suites and villas in Aqaba: which house holds what
Suites are the single most common thing searched for on this page, so it is worth being precise rather than general. The four properties differ enormously in how much choice they actually offer.
The Westin Saraya Aqaba · Saraya Aqaba BeachAl Manara, Saraya Aqaba has the deepest range in the city by a wide margin: 36 room categories. At the top of that list sit two villa types that no other house here offers — a Penthouse Villa Beachfront and a Penthouse Villa with plunge pool — alongside a Presidential Suite with terrace, a Grand Suite with terrace, and Premium and Prestige Executive suites. If you want a specific combination of suite grade, terrace and outlook, this is the only address in Aqaba where that is a real choice rather than a request.Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comThe Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla takes the opposite approach: thirteen categories, but the largest rooms in the city at up to 402 square metres, with a Prince Suite and a Royal Suite at the top and Regency Executive rooms and suites below. Fewer options, more space.
The Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea lists nine categories reaching 240 square metres, including a Royal Suite. The Westin Saraya Aqaba spans 35 to 145 square metres across twelve categories, with Executive, Premium, Prestige and Presidential suites, nearly all of them with a balcony.
Because suite categories in a four-hotel destination are the first to sell out, our travel advisors check the specific category for your dates rather than the room type — the difference between a beachfront villa and a plunge-pool villa is not something a booking engine will resolve for you.
Where to stay in Aqaba: three developments, not four addresses
Aqaba's luxury hotels are not spread along the coast individually — they cluster in purpose-built marina developments, and two of our four stand in the same one. That is worth knowing before you choose.
Hyatt Regency Aqaba AylaThese three locations cover our whole selection.
Saraya Aqaba
Both Al Manara, Saraya Aqaba (195 €) and the Westin Saraya Aqaba (165 €) give Al-Hashemi Street in the Saraya development as their address. Saraya is built around an artificial lagoon, which is why Al Manara lists nine Lagoon View categories alongside thirteen sea-view ones. Two very different houses at the same address, thirty euros apart.
Ayla Oasis and the Marina Village
The Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla (from 280 €), our most expensive address, in the separate Ayla marina development. Thirteen categories with two classified Marina View, and rooms to 402 square metres.
King Hussein Street
The Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea (170 €), on the coastal road rather than inside a marina development. Nine categories, of which four are Sea View and two Bay View — proportionally the most sea-facing inventory of the four.
Which hotels in Aqaba actually have a sea view
This is the question where the room lists are worth more than any description, and in Aqaba they produce a genuinely surprising answer.
Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea · Al ShamiyahAl Manara, Saraya Aqaba holds the most sea-facing rooms in absolute terms: thirteen Sea View categories out of thirty-six, plus nine Lagoon View looking onto the Saraya lagoon rather than the Red Sea, and two Pool View. Worth reading carefully — lagoon and sea are different outlooks at the same hotel, and the category name is what distinguishes them.
The Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea is the most sea-facing in proportion: four Sea View and two Bay View categories out of nine, with three more carrying a general view classification.
The Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla faces its marina rather than the open sea, with two Marina View categories out of thirteen.
And then the finding that changes how this page should be read: the Westin Saraya Aqaba lists no sea-view category at all. Its twelve categories break down as seven Pool View, three Mountain View and one Garden View. That is not a criticism of the hotel — the mountain outlook over the Wadi Rum side is a genuine feature, and the property sits in the same lagoon development as Al Manara. But if you are booking Aqaba specifically for a room facing the Red Sea, the Westin is not the address for it, and no amount of requesting at check-in will change what the hotel does not sell. Tell our travel advisors that the sea matters and we will book the category itself at one of the other three.
What a 5-star hotel in Aqaba costs
Entry rates run from about 165 € at the Westin Saraya Aqaba and 170 € at the Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea through 195 € at Al Manara to 280 € at the Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla. The median sits around 180 €.
That is a spread of well under double across the whole city — flat by the standards of this region, where Marrakech runs to eight times its entry rate and Jeddah to nearly four. Three of the four houses sit within just over thirty euros of each other, which means the practical decision in Aqaba is almost never about money. It is about which development you want to be in, and whether your room faces the sea, the lagoon, the marina or the mountains.
Aqaba is also the cheaper half of a Jordan itinerary. Our selection in the country runs to 13 properties, seven of them in Amman, and most guests who book Aqaba through us are combining it with the capital, with Petra or with Wadi Rum rather than staying put.
None of the four is all-inclusive. We check that against each hotel's own benefit list rather than against the brand — a distinction that matters at Red Sea resorts, where the assumption is common and often wrong. Breakfast for two is included in every suitespot booking regardless.
Beach days, the Red Sea and the rest of Jordan
A steady share of the searches reaching this page ask specifically for a beach hotel in Aqaba. All four properties are coastal, but they reach the water differently: Al Manara lists a beachfront penthouse villa and sits on the Saraya lagoon, the Kempinski stands directly on the King Hussein Street shoreline, and the Hyatt Regency faces the Ayla marina. If a private stretch of sand is the point of the trip, that is a question worth asking us before booking rather than after.
Aqaba is Jordan's only coastline, and the Red Sea here is the reason most guests come: the reefs are close inshore and diving is a short boat ride rather than a day trip. Our travel advisors most often arrange the diving and snorkelling side of a stay, transfers to Wadi Rum, which is roughly an hour inland, and the drive north to Petra.
Our Jordanian selection runs to 13 properties. Amman is the largest group with seven; these four make Aqaba the second. Itineraries that combine the capital, Petra and a few days on the Red Sea are the most frequent request we receive for Jordan, and we book them as a single file.
As a suitespot guest you travel with VIP status: we pass your preferences to the hotel before you arrive — here, most often a specific outlook or a villa category. Every booking includes breakfast for two, an upgrade subject to availability and up to 100 USD hotel credit. All four properties collect points, across Marriott Bonvoy, World of Hyatt and GHA Discovery.
Earn points & use your status in Aqaba
suitespot rates are genuine direct rates: you keep earning regular points and elite nights in the hotel's loyalty program and retain your status benefits – on top of your suitespot benefits. These programs are represented in Aqaba:
| Program | Hotels | Examples in Aqaba |
|---|---|---|
| Marriott Bonvoy | 2 hotels | Al Manara Hotel Saraya Aqaba, The Westin Saraya Aqaba |
| GHA Discovery | 1 hotel | Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea |
| World of Hyatt | 1 hotel | Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla |
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Frequently asked questions about luxury hotels in Aqaba
Which luxury hotel in Aqaba has the best suites?
Al Manara, Saraya Aqaba has the deepest range by a wide margin — 36 room categories, topped by a Penthouse Villa Beachfront and a Penthouse Villa with plunge pool, neither of which any other house here offers, plus Presidential and Grand suites with terraces.
If space matters more than choice, the Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla has the largest rooms in the city at up to 402 square metres, with Prince and Royal suites. The Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea reaches 240 square metres and the Westin Saraya Aqaba 145. Suite categories go early in a four-hotel destination, so we check your exact dates against the specific category rather than the room type.
Which hotels in Aqaba have a sea view?
Three of our four, and the exception is the one worth knowing about. Al Manara, Saraya Aqaba lists thirteen Sea View categories plus nine Lagoon View — those look onto the Saraya lagoon, not the Red Sea, so the category name matters. The Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea has four Sea View and two Bay View categories out of nine, the highest proportion here. The Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla faces its marina, with two Marina View categories.
The Westin Saraya Aqaba lists no sea-view category at all: seven Pool View, three Mountain View and one Garden View. If a room facing the sea is the reason for the trip, book one of the other three — and let us secure the category itself rather than noting it as a preference.
How much does a 5-star hotel in Aqaba cost?
Entry rates run from about 165 € per night at the Westin Saraya Aqaba and 170 € at the Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea through 195 € at Al Manara, Saraya Aqaba to 280 € at the Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla. The median is around 180 €.
That is a spread of well under double — flat for this region, where Marrakech runs to eight times its entry rate. Three of the four sit within just over thirty euros of each other, so the decision here is rarely about money. With suitespot you always book at direct rates, and the benefits worth more than 500 € come on top.
Where should I stay in Aqaba?
Our four houses stand in three developments, not four separate spots. Al Manara and the Westin share the Saraya Aqaba development on Al-Hashemi Street, built around an artificial lagoon — two quite different hotels at the same address, thirty euros apart.
The Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla stands in the separate Ayla marina development, and the Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea on King Hussein Street, on the coastal road rather than inside a marina. If you want to walk out to the shoreline itself, the Kempinski is the most direct; if you want the marina and restaurant scene around you, Ayla or Saraya.
Is there a beach hotel in Aqaba?
All four of our properties are coastal, but they meet the water differently. Al Manara, Saraya Aqaba lists a Penthouse Villa Beachfront among its 36 categories and sits on the Saraya lagoon. The Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea stands directly on the King Hussein Street shoreline. The Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla faces the Ayla marina, and the Westin Saraya Aqaba shares the lagoon development with Al Manara.
Because the arrangements differ property by property, a private stretch of sand is worth confirming with us before you book rather than after. Aqaba is Jordan's only coastline, and the reefs sit close inshore — diving here is a short boat ride rather than a day trip.
Do I earn points and status in Aqaba?
Yes, at all four — across three different programmes. Al Manara, Saraya Aqaba and the Westin Saraya Aqaba collect in Marriott Bonvoy, the Hyatt Regency Aqaba Ayla in World of Hyatt, and the Kempinski Aqaba Red Sea in GHA Discovery.
Booking through suitespot costs you nothing in points: you receive the standard points and status benefits of the programme, and the suitespot benefits — breakfast for two, an upgrade subject to availability, up to 100 USD hotel credit — come on top. If you are collecting in Bonvoy in particular, the two Saraya houses let you compare within the same programme at the same address.
Is there an all-inclusive hotel in Aqaba?
No. We check this against each hotel's own benefit list rather than against the brand, and none of our four Aqaba properties carries an all-inclusive rate.
That distinction matters more on the Red Sea than elsewhere, because the assumption travels with the destination rather than with the individual hotel — and it is often wrong. What every suitespot booking does include is breakfast for two, a room upgrade subject to availability, up to 100 USD hotel credit per stay and early check-in and late check-out subject to availability. If full board is a firm requirement, tell us and we will say plainly whether anything in Jordan meets it.
What other luxury hotels are there in Jordan?
Our Jordanian selection runs to 13 properties. Amman is the largest group with seven; these four make Aqaba the second, and the remainder sit elsewhere in the country.
Most guests who book Aqaba through us are combining it with the capital, with Petra or with Wadi Rum, which is about an hour inland — the Red Sea is usually the last few days of a longer trip rather than the whole of it. Our travel advisors book those itineraries as a single file, including the drives between them, which are the part travellers most often underestimate.
