Massabki Hotel Chtaura (45 minutes from Beirut ) is a 4 star boutique hotel built in 1920, since that date it has been a place of choice for presidents, royalties, poets from the region ,and the westerner world. (Pictures and the Golden Hotel Register can be viewed in the main lobby).It kept its historical design and standards throughout time and is considered to be one of the best historical hotels in the region. The hotel is surrounded by 16,000 m2 of forest with its own private river (the only hotel in the region ,and probably one of the very few in the world).