Very pleased with our choice of hotel .The staff was very nice and friendly, good food , nice spa, clean, and nice surrondings. A good choice for your stay i Aqaba. :)
Just remember warm clothes to wear in the evening. Also recomend room service, good food send to your room :)
Maybe to little to do in the evening if you are a teenager.
Enjoy from Gbratt, Fredrikstad, norway

I have just spent a week mid January 2012.
First impression was "oh hell" with being bailed out at the main gate with security. A buggy finally turned up to take me and my luggage to a further security checkpoint.
Was allocated an Exective Room which was impressive, large bathroom and very clean.
The restaurants were average and the fare not much to my liking.
The big turn off was when I decided on going to bed at 10.00pm.
My room on the 4th floor was right above the outside lounge of Martini's bar, and brother the noise belting out of there was something else. I rang the front desk and asked that the volume be turned down, eventually the noise subsided for a period, but it then increased to an annoying level. This went on for the 7 nights I was there and really took the shine off the whole experience. From the layout of the hotel, all front rooms would be subject to this barrage of noise as the Bar is centre, fronting the water.
While I certinally will return to Aqaba, I will be making another choice of hotels.

Our family with 2 teenage boys stayed in the 1st week of Jan. Hotel is very spacious and beautifully laid out with lots of open spaces and plants everywhere. The swimming pools (freshwater) span the width of the hotel with lots of umbrellas and sun loungers. The beach follows just after and also has many sun loungers, but with tents over them. Clear water but we saw lots of small pieces of broken glass and metal can ring pulls at the water's edge. Staff need to be very vigilent and clean the beach every night to prevent accidents.
We paid a little extra for the Club rooms which were on the 5th floor. Our rooms were very clean and spacious with a balcony which had a fantastic view over the pool and sea. We saw stunning sunsets every evening. Aqaba is port so we also saw a few ships. The bathroom was well designed with a huge shower and bath. Lovely Elemis toiletries. The benefits of staying on the Club floor are free soft and hot drinks all day, snacks and sandwiches for lunch and tea, happy hour and free canapes between 7-9pm. Best of all, free wi-fi in the club lounge (but not in rooms).
The staff were so friendly and helpful. Omar at the reception recommended some genuinely friendly Bedouin guides for our day out to Petra (1hr away) and Wadi Rum (enroute). Both Petra at the Concierge desk and Dana at Guest Relations helped to organise the use of facilities at their sister hotel in the Dead Sea on our last day. They were charming and gracious.
The breakfast buffet (main restaurant) was great but the pasta at the Deli was rather oily. We didn't go the the Martini lounge because it was so smokey that you could see it hanging in the air (shisha). The Lebanese restaurant served great food too but the last restaurant serving European food (more like fine dining) was closed.
There are quite a few new hotels like the Kempinski which we found very sterile - all hard lines, very minimalistic, no greenery. There is a huge development directly across the road where construction seems almost complete with interior and exterior decor left to do. Work stopped due to lack of funds but we were told that some Saudi investors have bought the project and work could be resuming later this year.
Aqaba town centre doesn't have much to offer besides the usual tourist shops. The souk (market) is made up of shops in a network of roads rather than stalls in an open market like we saw in Tunisia years ago. The Intercontinental Aqaba is a fantastic choice for everyone.

clean , great rooms , great facilities , service can be better