Beirut Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I am so full. One thing the Lebanese know how to do is EAT. And of course you can't turn any of it down and it's all so good. Breakfast - It was not communicated well that we'd have time to stop for breakfast, so I ate a handfull of trail mix and a granola bar. Then we did stop at Sea Sweet for knefeh. It was a large roll with sesame seeds cut i...

2 hours on the plane (not flying) to evict the drunk and his luggage from the flight to Beirut; 2 immigration officials scamming the visa system ("No, no, just tuck the USD 20.00 inside your passport"); 2 taxi drivers haggling over the fare because they "have many problems" which can only be solved by us paying inflated cab fares; 2 hours of wai...

As we were not far from Lebanon, we were offered a quick trip there. We had chicken cacciatore rolls for breakfast, but no Heineken to wash them down. Into a mini bus a five in the morning and we were off for another fun day of border crossing, sight seeing, border crossing. First border crossing, into Lebanon, stuck for thirty minutes, and then...