Eating and taxis in Jordan - prices?

Thanks for the additional advice, Mesha
If you have a car - why not stay in Madaba its only 30 minutes drive away
Because we HAVE TO stay a few days in a spa resort. Yeah I've seen the prices of the massages etc of the Marriot. Over 60 dollars to get covered by mud from the Dead Sea when you can walk out and do it yourself, it's crazy. Those prices are even higher than the prices of er... special massages. But it's a honeymoon after all. And in exchange for spending this fortune on spa, I will get some fun in Aqaba: snorkeling, windsurfing, and maybe boating with a mini sailboat, this kind of thing.
Please tell me that I won't have to cut an arm to pay for the rent of a windsurf in Aqaba. I need both arms to windsurf.

edit: we'll certainly go to the Amman Beach. And if we have a car we'll have a look at Sweimeh. From the resort it's on the way to Amman anyway, right?

Edited by: frantsuz_2

frantsuz_2 just so you know you can't actually cover yourself in mud from the dead sea. At least at the place I swam the area near the shore is extremely rocky, and I would recommend shoes to wear in the water to get out past the rocks. And once you get past the rocky area you can't reach down the get the mud as you can't put your head in the water, however they were selling the mud on the shore for about 3JD to cover you from head to toe which is much cheaper than 60!

Although I don't think I was in one of the hotel areas I don't remember seeing any hotel rooms but I can't remember what it was called. It had a pool and then a fenced of part of the beach and next door it looked like it was the free beach as a lot of locals appeared to be there. Does anyone else know where I was???

so you know you can't actually cover yourself in mud from the dead sea...
Oh yeah, makes sense. I'm really looking forward to try going under the water. Still, this 3 JOD bucket of mud sounds like a good idea. Then we can use the money saved for a Thai massage or something. Of course it would be 5 times cheaper in Thailand (not much futher from Moscow), but they have to stop fighting if they want to see honeymooners.

Btw I suppose 3JOD for a bucket of mud must be a good deal for the locals too. After all to collect it you just need lots of weight around the waist and a hose to breathe from (disclaimer: don't try this yourself!), and you can collect 50 buckets in less than an hour. [dreaming aloud] 100 per day, 2500 per month in the peak season, 24000 per year, 2000 buckets=6000 JOD per month average. starting investment 50 JOD (weights, buckets, hose). I'll think about that as reconversion.[/dreaming aloud]

No the reason you can't go underwater isn't due to the bouancy so much as that it's so salty it's to dangerous to go underwater. You will see signs when you arrive telling you not to put your head underwater due to the high salt content, don't even rub your eyes with your hand. I managed to get a tiny drop go into my eye and it was one of the most painful feelings ever, I couldn't see out of the eye for about 20mins.

However it is pretty fun bobbing up and down in the water and a very weird feeling.

Ah OK. Then I guess people with long hair have to bring some swimming pool hat to avoid ruining their hair.
Note for the future: I'll also need very good goggles to start my Dead Sea mud business :).