Where To Buy Petra Tickets
Although a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and tourist attractions moved their ticketing systems online during the pandemic, it is still not possible to buy your individual Petra tickets online via an official website.
You are therefore limited to three options:
The Petra Visitor Centre
You can buy your Petra ticket on the day at the Visitor Centre in Wadi Musa (find it here on Google Maps). Everyone has to pass through this complex in order to access Petra, and it’s therefore not an inconvenience.
There are three kiosks (not all open or staffed at the same time) and queues are common, but they do tend to go down quite swiftly.
If you’re planning on an early entry to Petra, note that you can arrive here before 6am to queue, but the ticket office will not open until scheduled at 6am.
You can pay in cash or card here, but card payments incur a 2% fee. We recommend carrying enough cash to cover your entry and spending for the day, just in case there’s an issue with the machines, and sourcing this the day before you arrive. Worst comes to worst, there’s an ATM directly outside the Visitor Centre entrance, but it charges for withdrawals.
When we visited, there was a single self-service ticket machine opposite the ticket office kiosks, but this was out of commission (let us know in the comments if that changes).
Top Tip // The girl ahead of us in the queue had to pay an additional 10 JD in order to buy her ticket because she didn’t have her passport. Due to the difference in fees between ‘accommodated’ visitors and ‘one day’ visitors, there is a rationale to this (and she didn’t have a Jordan Pass). However, we hadn’t read anything about this before visiting, and the numbers didn’t seem to add up.
We wanted to double-check if this was a ploy or not.
Andrew returned the next morning to ask if he could buy a ticket in person and if he needed his passport, and he was told in no uncertain terms that he didn’t need to show a passport, visa, or entry / exit stamp. Based on this, we recommend those of you buying in person to either 1. carry your passport or 2. take photos of your passport ID page and entry visa to show (may not be accepted, but stand your ground).
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