The Moevenpick Resort Tala Bay is now operating in the Tala Bay residential community on the Red Sea, near to the port of Aqaba in southwest Jordan.

The fifth Moevenpick currently has 306 rooms and an additional 150 rooms are expected to open by the beginning of 2010, as part of the second phase of the resort.

Although Jordan already has a set of Moevenpick , Ibises have yet to set foot on its shores, but this will soon change in September when the capital Amman will herald the arrival of the Ibis Amman.

Not a new breed of long-legged wading birds but a 158-room hotel! This is the latest opening of a portfolio of Ibis hotels being developed across the Middle East by Accor Hospitality Middle East and Kuwaiti hotel development company Action Hotels.

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