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Description
We are a guest house.
Our guest house is located in the middle of Lebanon.
We have 13 master rooms and 3 studio apartments.
Also a section of hostel. 3 bedrooms including 30 beds
The family running the guest house is parents and 3 children
We are seeking to add happiness to the house by adding arts to it. We are willing to make a permanent art exposition in the first level of the guest house, we need help on this project. All kinds of arts are welcome, we are ready to host with love the guests that will help us in our project.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The guests will be part of our lebanese family, we will make sure they will live a traditional lebanese experience.
If they want they can practice arabic/french with us.
We organize tours to all over Lebanon, we can offer discounts on tours for volunteers
Very important please :
We do not accept alcoholic or drogue addicted persons
We are a family business welcoming respectful guests with whom we aim to spend nice experiences
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We need Workawayers who can do one or more of these tasks :
1) Arts: weaving on loom, ceramic, sculpture...Music: Piano, violon, oud, kanoun...Salon dance: Salsa,tango...Singing..
The idea is to keep good ambiance in the guest house, the master pieces of paintings or sculptures or weaving (we have a weaving loom in house)....will be exposed in the permanent exposition situated in the first floor of the house.
2) Help in the house: cleaning, housekeeping, ironing.
3) Sewers / Tailors are urgently welcome !
*️Of course it is not 1 person who shall do all these tasks, each workaway guest can perfom in his domain.
Languages spoken
Arabic: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Italian: Beginner
Accommodation
In our guest house / hostel , in a beautiful room, shared (each gender in different room) with inside bathroom.
The workawayers should bring their own shampoos, soaps, laundry detergent for their clothes and tissues* on their own expenses, we do not offer these products*
*No meals are offered
Volunteers should do their stuff, and do their rooms and their own personal works out of the agreed 30 hours*
What else ...
We will help our guests on how to discover Lebanon : hiking/tours/food
We are located in the middle of Lebanon, a very good starting point for visiting the whole country.
Next to the guest house many touristic sites (jeita grotto, harrissa, old souk..)..also university school shops malls banks and restaurants.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
yes we can provide free parking with what needed
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 6 days a week
Feedback (16)
Thank you dear Mads for being one of us
Our house will be always open for you!
I was fortunate… read more
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Thank you dear Mads for being one of us
Our house will be always open for you!
I was fortunate… read more
The works were not much hard , because of the protest , not much guest;(. Any way staffs were nice, room was beautiful. Thanks hicham.
Thank you Amina 👍
- Great food – cooked in the kitchen of the guesthouse. Typical Lebanese meals
- Fair working times
- Easy access to Beirut – around 2$ per ride. You need to take a shared taxi from the guesthouse and then a bus to Beirut
- Good accommodation if you get well with the… read more
Thank you dear Elisabeth, good luck!
Good luck dear Floor!
Thank you dear Nassim
It's a good place to learn Arabic with Hicham and his staff on a long stay and to learn about Lebanese culture. He's a very calm and friendly man with a big heart.
She is an always smiling person who knows how to find happiness in work and in discovering the country by her own.
Thank you Leatitia for everything
مع السلامة
Thank you so much for the warm welcome you offered me. Thanks also to Nida, Sabah, Houssam, Rina… read more
Works in silent !
Thank you Mike
I spent one month there, and time moved (too) quickly.
The place itself is beautiful, and the people working there are kind, warm and caring.
Hicham is an amazing person and entrepreneur and I wish him all the success in the world.
Thank you for being my beautiful home for some time!
Good luck Felicia, thank you :thumbsup:
Hicham is a very, very generous man with… read more
Thank you dear Brian for making our Christmas and New Year eve special!
A man who works with love, who plays/performs generously, a honest workawayer that enterred our guest house and added happiness to it.
He loves kids and kids love him, Brian is a great artist and became a dear friend to all of… read more
Good luck :pray:
Thank you so much for having me in this short but nice time!
Hope to see you again some day,
Ana
They are all super nice and kind. He offer us traditional Lebanon food every day. And good room.
Thanks for taken me to visit Lebanon.
I’m enjoy it. :D
Thanks again for the everything and welcome to China one day.
Best regards
Lina
She became our friend, she also was nice with guests, speaking to them in lobby and making friends
We miss you Lina
Good luck dear traveller :)
:rose: The Guest House
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Sokratis is a hard working man, he works in silent and with love.
He is a calm person, and a funny man :), he quickly became a friend of the family.
We will keep a nice memory of our experience with you Sokratis,… read more
