HOTEL CHBAT

15/01/2026

Winter view from hotel chbat

15/01/2026

Winter view from hotel chbat.

20/07/2025

16/12/2024

13/06/2021

Le Montagnard, summer version

18/12/2020

Year Chbat

10/08/2020

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/i-am-still-in-shock-in-beirut-residents-try-to-make-sense-of-explosions-aftermath

The pair of explosions that ripped through Lebanon’s capital city early Tuesday evening left at least 154 people dead and more than 5,000 were injured. An estimated 300,000 Beirutis were left homeless overnight and around 500 remain missing.

10/08/2020

Wajih Chbat opened up his hotel for those without shelter following the explosions.

Wajih Chbat, 43
The hotelier

Wajih Chbat is the owner of Hotel Chbat, a 48-bedroom ski hotel an hour drive from Beirut that overlooks the picturesque Qadisha valley. The night of the explosion, Chbat sent a Whatsapp message to a group chat with friends offering the empty rooms in his hotel for free to anyone they knew who did not have a place to stay (nearly one in ten residents are estimated to be homeless as a result of the explosion). “Somebody forwarded this message and it reached the world. I spent six hours straight answering my phone,” he said in a call on Thursday.

The first two people to take him up on his offer were injured; they’d just been discharged from a hospital in Beirut. “They had glass cuts all over their bodies, their faces, their hands, their chest,” he said. Chbat gave away six rooms Tuesday night, but he saw a much larger influx on Wednesday. “I got much more because people the first day were really shocked. Most of them did not know what to do.” As of Thursday, Chbat says he has 60 people staying at his hotel. “All of them, their homes are lost. Some of them have no windows and some don’t have a house anymore.”

For now, Chbat said some of the people who escaped to his hotel are relaxing by the pool to decompress, but he can already see the mental toll. “Some of them really need a psychologist, especially the children. Many of the children here were at the window looking at the smoke from the fire, ‘like oh wow look at this fire’ and then, the explosion came and knocked them over with glass exploding around them. They are in shock.”

09/08/2020

Hi Wajih, here's the story:

Darine Tarraf was on the other side of Beirut when the blast hit. She was able to reunite with her family, but their home was destroyed. People across Lebanon have opened their doors to the thousands left homeless.