Beirut Airport Transportation

Beirut Airport Transportation

As featured in the Article Beirut Airport Transportation published at Hotels in Lebanon website

Arrival at Beirut Airport

If you arrive to Lebanon by air, you will certainly arrive at Beirut International Airport (Rafik Hariri International Airport).

Beirut Airport Service

At your arrival, enjoy the rapid service of the Internal Security System, and watch how fast you pass the airport formalities.  It’s in the Lebanese blood to be impatient, and you feel the officers waiting to print the “arrival” stamp on your passport more impatient than you are.

 

Beirut Airport Taxis

If you have booked a taxi agency to pick you up at the airport, they will most certainly be waiting for you with your name outside.  If you have rented a car, the car rental agency personnel will be waiting for you in the same fashion.  As an alternative, if you are on your own, you can take one of the airport taxis (taxis with airport logo on the side) which are parked next to the terminal at the arrival gate. These are regulated by the airport authorities, and they have a unified official rate.  If you want to be completely on your own, and you go out of the airport, tens of taxis will be passing by at each step, waiting for a sign to ask you if you want a ride.  If you decide to take one of these, you will most probably have to convene with the taxi driver on the appropriate fare that he will charge you for the ride.

 

Beirut Airport Taxi Transfer Prices

There are no set prices for taxi transfers that you pick up out of the airport, and there are no taxi meters, so the tariff that you will be charged depends on you and on the taxi driver, thus you have to tell the taxi driver where you are going, and ask him how much he will charge you for the ride, but another alternative is to tell him where you are going and give him the price you expect to pay, and as an alternative in the middle, he can give you a price and you can bargain.  As a rough estimate, if you’re going inside Beirut, begin your bargaining with 10$ and reach 15$ as a maximum, and if you’re going within a range of 25km from the capital, begin your bargaining with 20$ and reach 30$ as a maximum.

 

Taxi Service Alternative

An alternative to taxis is what is called “service” which are shared taxi cars.  These charge 1$ per passenger for the ride, but they operate within fixed perimeters, thus if you’re going much farther from your initial departure point, you may have to take 2 or more taxi “service” rides.  Service Taxis usually do not operate directly outside of the airport, and you will have to walk a distance of 300 to 500 meters before you can find anyone, or better said, before they can find you.  If you’re travelling alone, and if you’re going anywhere inside Beirut, this could be a viable solution for your transfer since they cost much less than taxis, but they do not deposit you exactly where you’re going, and you may have to walk some distance after they deposit you.  The way to proceed with service taxis is to first make it clear for the taxi driver that you are not hiring him as a taxi, but as a service.  They usually approach you when they see you waiting on the street, and you have to tell them where you’re going, they either ask you to jump in, or they go their way without further looking at you.  Another way to make sure that you’re dealing with a service taxi is to make sure there is at least another passenger in the car when they pick you up, and pay him directly when you jump in the car, this way you will avoid unpleasant surprises and discussions at your destination.

 

Beirut Airport Public Transportation

A final alternative is to take a public transportation bus, but this alternative will be discussed in another article “Public Transportation at your arrival in Lebanon”.

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Hotels in Lebanon – Website Objectives

Hotels in Lebanon – Overview

Hotels in Lebanon Reputation

Lebanon Coast

Traditionally, Lebanese hotels enjoy good reputation and they are of the best world standards.  If you compare Lebanon hotels with any European or American hotel in the world, you won’t notice a difference as to the adhering standards or to the hotel classification.  Thus if you happen to be in a 3 stars hotel in Lebanon, the 3 star Lebanese hotel will be similar to or better than any 3 star hotel around the world.  Likewise, if you choose a 5 stars Lebanese hotel and you compare it to a 5 stars hotel in the United States or in Europe, the difference will be minimal, and will tend more to be to the advantage of the Lebanese hotel because of the additional service, treatment, and hospitality you will get in the Lebanese Hotel.

Hotels in Lebanon Reviews

Our website will soon be offering reviews about all categories of Lebanese Hotels.  These reviews will be independent ones, not intended for advertising purposes or in agreement with the establishments.  Of course, we need to take pictures, media materials, and some documentation from the establishments themselves, but the written review will be independent, and based upon our judgment and upon the judgment of previous residents in the hotel.

Hotels in Lebanon Websites

Before engaging in this endeavor, we have scanned Hotels in Lebanon sites to find the above information, and we were unable to find any suitable source of information, except the traditional hotels descriptions provided by the hotels themselves, and the traditional pictures featuring the hotels on their best days.  This is not to say that these descriptions or pictures are wrong or inappropriate, but in the end, the objective of any person looking for hotels in Lebanon is to get the real image about the hotel, about its location, advantages and disadvantages, and this information is not available.

Hotels in Lebanon International Sites

We have also scanned international travel and hotels engines, the ones people rely on to choose their hotels when they travel, and the information featured there concerning Lebanon is very poor and it covers only a limited number of Lebanese establishments.

Hotels in Lebanon Website Objective

For all the above reasons, we have decided to create our own blog, where we will be featuring Hotels in Lebanon in a unique way, the way the visitor wants to see them, and because helping the visitor to Lebanon is our main objective, we will be providing him with additional information, not only about Lebanon Hotels, but also about places of interest to visit in Lebanon, possible tracks he can undertake, where he should go, what he should eat, what he should do, etc.

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Facts about Lebanon

Facts regarding Lebanon
(Originally published at www.ehotelsinlebanon.com  under <a href=http://www.ehotelsinlebanon.com/hotels-in-lebanon-presents-facts-about-lebanon/>Facts about Lebanon</a>)

 

CAPITAL: Beirut

INHABITANTS: Close to 3. 8 million

LANGUAGES: Arabic (standard), French, English, Armenian

AREA: 10, 452 sq kms

WEATHER FACTORS: Mediterranean weather, with cool, humid winters and warm, dry summers.

ELEVATIONS: Top place - Qornet Es-Saouda (3, 090m). Minimum point - Mediterranean Sea (0m).

FLAG: The Lebanese banner is split into three broad horizontal lines, with red on the top and bottom and a broader white stripe in the middle. In the middle of the white stripe is a green cedar tree, the logo of the nation.

ECONOMY: Lebanon capitalizes on the effort of its individuals and its geographical position to make up for a deficiency of natural assets. Typically, a considerable ratio of the state's source of income derives from remittances provided by the large numbers of Lebanese located abroad. A services-structured economy, its investing, banking, and budgetary facilities, along with its cost-free money market, made Lebanon the region's professional and vacation heart just before the conflict. With calm established and renovation underway, Lebanon is once again serving as the business oriented and holidays capital in the region.

Approximately thirty sevenper cent of the state is using farming, with rice, greens, fruits, tobacco, and olives the primary harvest types. There is substantial animals farming at the same time. Industry ranges from bare cement to materials, outfits, household furniture, processed products, and light metals. Travel and leisure, one of the mainstays of the pre-war country's economy, is getting improved.
To aid tone the economy, the federal government has begun a low income taxation agenda to offer funding benefits, maximize disposable revenue, and broaden the tax base.

MONEY AND BANKING: Circulation of money towards and away from the state and all swap deals are entirely free of any type of management. Gold and silver coins can be freely exchanged, brought in, and exported. The standard money unit is the Lebanese pound released in LL50, LL100, LL250, LL500, LL1, 000, LL5, 000, LL10, 000, LL20, 000, LL50, 000, and LL100, 000 denominations.
Banking is a primary enterprise in Lebanon with rigorous banking secrecy one of its fundamental characteristics. More than 72 banking companies work in the state, and trades are executed competently and at low price.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Lebanon is democratic republic with a parliamentary procedure of administration and a cabinet lead by a prime minister. Its structure is primarily based on the splitting up of executive, legislative, and judicial power, with a president selected for a 6-yr duration. The 128 members of parliament are chosen by universal person of legal age suffrage for a 4-yr duration.

ADMINISTRATIVE PARTITIONS: The Lebanese Republic is split into 6 local administrative zones, or Mohafazaat: Beirut, Mnt Lebanon, Northern Lebanon, Békaa, Southern Lebanon, and Nabatiyé.

EDUCATION AND LEARNING: There is a countrywide system of primary and secondary public institutions, that is supplemented by a number of private academic institutions. Education is offered in a minimum of 2 languages. The typical academic soul of Lebanon looks outwards, at the same time to the East and West. Numerous Lebanese individuals follow higher certification in European countries, the usa, and Arabic states.

At present, Lebanon has 7 leading colleges and several professional universities and faculties:
· St. Joseph College, established and operated by Jesuit Fathers, has for more than a hundred years and a 1 / 4 contributed to the Lebanese and Arab intelligentsia.
· The American University of Beirut, established in 1866, delivers a liberal schooling that has coached many of the region's leaders, tutors, and researchers.
· A Lebanese state university was established in 1967, composed of faculties of law, medicine, arts and sciences, together with a instructor training faculty.
· Later, the Beirut Arab University, with faculties of arts, law, marketing, and engineering was launched.
· The venerable Lebanese American University (formerly Beirut University College) has also had a critical impact.
· In recent yrs, numerous innovative universities and colleges have sprung up across the region, particularly Haigazian University in Beirut; the Holy Spirit University and Notre Dame University, both north of Beirut; University of Balamand, south of Tripoli; the Islamic University in Khaldé; and various others.

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Ironique!

J'étais en train de penser à l'ironie des choses de la vie, du moins selon les termes des différentes religions et de la définition du bien et du mal, à travers les différentes religions et les différentes sociétés et cultures.

Le fait que les riches et les puissants du monde, qui exercent leur pouvoir, et souvent leur injustice sur les autres, sans le vouloir rapprochent les autres de Dieu et du paradis, alors qu'ils s'en éloignent eux. Ironique non! Et ça ne s'applique pas uniquement à ceux qui exercent un pouvoir, mais à toute personne qui agit mal envers une autre, ou qui pense mal, etc. C'est un peu une intervention indirecte de Dieu dans le monde, mais avec un effet qui aura lieu dans le futur.