Dana Trail Hotel

The location is ideal, down the slope from the charmingly restored centuries old village. There is nothing below it to impede the spectacular view. The owner and manager is attentive and charming. He arranges hikes into the nature preserve. Do one. We took the shorter, three hour hike. Splendid, spectacular. Our guide knows the lay of the land intimately, remembering the old usage of the local resources of earlier generations, and he cooked up a lunch for us - galayyet bandora 'a tomato fry-up - in the shade of a cliff on one side of a beautiful valley. At the hotel, breakfast and dinner are home-style, prepared by locals. The rooms are functional, as might be expected from an eco-lodge type arrangement. But they need a bit of attention, for example, there had been a towel rack - only one - in the bath, but it had fallen or been removed and not replaced. Worse, for some reason, despite the screened windows, the mosquitos can get in. To be fair, this seems to be a universal feature of all the hotels and lodges of Dana Village. Aside from that, the cocks crowing right in front of the rooms, beginning right at dawn after a night of little sleep from the mosquitos almost drove my wife mad. The management should install mosquito netting over the beds. They cost 3 JD from Temu. Having those mentioned in the reviews would provide the facility a competitive advantage over the others.

The location is absolutely outstanding — truly unbeatable. The only issue was that we paid our host a generous amount to arrange a day trek, but our guide told us he received only a small fraction of that payment. It felt unfair and a bit greedy.