Holiday Inn Beirut

... the cases were all covered in bullet holes etc, the artefact's were all untouched and just broken out after the war. Downtown Beirut is incredible, pretty much fully restored, you can see where all the bullet holes have been filled in, but the main ...

... back were an eyesore. At a rough guess, almost 75% were in need of repair. One of the worst offenders was the Holiday Inn. When the hotel had first opened its doors in the early seventies, its designers had built it to withstand earthquakes and ...

... into my hotel I decided to take a walk around the downtown without my guidebook. The first thing I noticed is the infamous Holiday Inn Tower, a massive skyscraper that dominates the skyline. Finished at the outbreak of the civil war, the hotel never had ...

... into a publıc garden and ıs plesent to stroll. Working my way further west and towards the coast I pass the old Holiday Inn. The outside structure is there albeit ridden wıth bullet holes but the ınsıde ıs completly ...

... next to construction sites where others had presumably been hit worse still. One building that was hit particularly badly was the Holiday Inn Hotel, which I was told was only built a year or so before the fighting broke out. Standing about 30 floors ...

... first few days in beirut, pounding the pavement - ive covered a lot of distance! one of the first sites i saw was the former holiday inn, one of the most visible reminders of the the civil war which lasted for seventeen years from 1975. its amazing to see ...

... a tiny Italian restaurant, where we enjoyed some great pasta dishes. Completely satisfied, we walked back to our hotel, stopping by the old Holiday Inn that was bombed out during the civil war in the 70s. It looked rather eerie at night. As soon as we ...

... out homes; Europcar's welcoming rental office is the only sign of life in an abandoned, glassless apartment building. The Holiday Inn, opened only weeks before the civil war commenced, rises fifteen storeys in downtown, blackened and pitted with sniper ...

... what my guide book meant when it said 'Disney-eque', I looked up to see the bombed out shell of the Holiday inn towering above, a Ponent reminder of what the place was like 15 years ago. Entering the shopping districts, wonderfully restored Ottoman ...

... out homes; Europcar's welcoming rental office is the only sign of life in an abandoned, glassless apartment building. The Holiday Inn, opened only weeks before the civil war commenced, rises fifteen storeys in downtown, blackened and pitted with ...