Holiday Inn Beirut

... 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 and ...

... 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 ...

... that contains assassinated President Hariri’s tomb now rises from the Green Line. New hotels have sprung up besides the Holiday Inn, including a new Grand Hyatt. In downtown, The Place de L’Etoile square transports you to a French world of ...

... 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 a ...

... the Civil War by Rafik Hariri right off Freedom Square (also known as Martyr's Square). He showed us the shell of the old Holiday Inn hotel, bombed but still standing, a causality of the war, yet a symbol of the renaissance of Beirut, stationed as it is ...