The Vault
Ground floor, stone-vaulted · sleeps 2 · the courtyard and the olive
$120$95
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Douma · 1,050 m · twenty-five minutes from the sea
Six rooms, twelve beds, breakfast from the village.
Maria answers within the hour, nine to nine
Six rooms, both prices, and whether they are free.
Turn it, then tap a room to open it.
Ground floor, stone-vaulted · sleeps 2 · the courtyard and the olive
$120$95
Ground floor, its own door · sleeps 2 · the garden and the lane
$130$100
First floor · sleeps 2 + sofa bed · the terrace and the valley
$160$125
Under the roof · sleeps 2 · the valley, both ways
$140$110
First floor, two rooms · sleeps 4 · the valley and the courtyard
$220$180
Twelve beds · from $850 a night · the kitchen and the terrace
$850$700
Through the gate.
The house in both seasons — tap a picture.


The host
The road is fine. Come after the rain.


The host, the table
Breakfast is from the village. So is dinner, if you ask by four.


Their daughter, the WhatsApp
Send me your arrival time. I'll be at the gate.
Built in 1890 by Elias's great-grandfather; the vaults held the wine and the winter.
The olive is older than the house.
The terrace was the threshing floor.

The proof of a guesthouse is a second stay.

Two nights, every October. Same room.

I stopped taking photos here. That's the review.

My parents, my kids, the whole terrace. Three weeks in August.
Guests who came back · 41% — sample
Check-in is 15:00 to 20:00, and later by arrangement — send Maria your arrival time and she will be at the gate. Check-out is 11:00.
Yes, and it is from the village: bread at six from the bakery in the square, labneh, the garden's fig or quince depending on the month, eggs, olives, coffee. Served 07:30 to 10:00 on the terrace in summer and by the stove in winter.
Yes — all six rooms, twelve beds, the kitchen, the terrace and the long table. $850 a night in summer, $700 in winter, and cooking with Hala is included.
Open most of the winter. Chains are sometimes needed above Tannourine in January and February; we send the day's road advice on WhatsApp at eight in the morning, and if the road is closed we say so rather than let you drive up.
Douma, 1,050 m up — an hour and twenty from Beirut, twenty-five minutes from the sea.

Douma, the lane behind the church · 1,050 m
Check in 15:00–20:00 · check out 11:00