On my scale: expensive country.

2000LL = 1€

1500LL = 1$

Visa (Fr): free

local cigarettes: 750 LL / 0.40 €. Smokable. Marlboro’s are around 2500LL

sandwich: 2000 to 4000LL / 1 to 2€

beer : 750 to 3000LL / 0.40 to 1.50€ You will need to be lucky

Internet cafe (1h): 1000 to 3000LL / 0.50 to 1.50€

If you are in Beirut, please go at Le Chef: a restaurant with reasonable prices for a very good food and a warm Welcome! (or a few hundreds of “Welcome”, you’ll see). It’s in Gemmayzeh, the modest place is well known.

Accommodation:

- Beirut:

Talal Hotel: 8$  /12000LL / 6€. Roof, without breakfast, beers, Internet (slow) access, when the power supply is working, nice personnel. Dormitories are 10$.

Alternatively, Pension al Nazih (street face to Talal) & Hotel Shahbaa (Rue Pasteur) have durmatories for a reasonnable price.

- Saida (Sidon):

Hotel d’Orient: 13$  /20000LL / 10€. Double room, without breakfast, dirty, shitty place

- Tripoli (Trablous):

Hotel Koura: 20$  /30000LL / 15€. Dormitory, with breakfast, the personnel send you to bed at 22 o’clock ??!? If you are really stucked.

Others :

Here you’ll use both US dollars and Lebanese Livres.

Notice that most of the more expensive prices refers to Beirut city, otherwise it is cheaper, especially if you can escape from touristic places.

Looking to the price level, access to touristic places is quite reasonable. Transport inter-cities also, but some bus drivers gonna try to trick you, be vigilant.

In most of bars, the local beer is 7000LL, strong alcohol is around 12000LL. Entrance to nightclubs is between  15000 to 20000LL. Very good club in Gemmayzeh is the Lakay (check on Facebook for further information). BO18 is the most well known (and impressive) disco. The Basement, and unbelievable DJ Jade is THE  Electro place.

You can stay in Lebanon for less than 20€ per day,.. Or a lot more if you want to enjoy the nightlife.

This is just a feedback from my experience. If you got some useful prices information, share it in the Comments !

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On my scale: pretty expensive country.

1JD = 1.1€

Visa (Fr): 10 JD / 11.1 €

cigarettes: 0.900 JD / 1 €. King-size only.

humus: 0.500 JD / 0.55 €

sandwich: 0.250 JD / 0.30 €

beer : 2 to 3 JD / 2.20 to 3.30 € [during Ramadan. Must be cheaper otherwise]

Internet cafe (1h) (in Amman): 3 JD / 3.30 €

Accomodation:

- Amman:

Abbasi Palace Hotel: 6 to 8 JD / 6.60 to 8.80 €. Dormitory (but most of time you are alone :) ), inc. breakfast , Internet access, lovely personnel.

Cliff Hotel: 3JD / 3.30 €. Rooftop, Internet access during half of the day, lovely personnel.

- Petra:

Valentine Inn Hotel: 4 JD / 4.4 €. Rooftop, unsane, Internet access, be careful:very cheaty people.

- Madaba:

Madaba Hotel: 7 JD / 7.7 €. Rooftop, inc. breakfast, Internet acces, helpful personnel.

- Ramtha (Jerash) :

“The very only one hotel of Ramtha”: 10 JD / 11€, maybe less. Single room, inc. breakfast, swimming pool in summer maybe?, helpful people.

Others :

Buses are quite cheap in Jordan. Everything else is expensive, especially touristic places access (Petra was 40€, and prices were about to raise; if you want to get in for free, check this link, in French). And everything is more expensive in Petra : cigarettes, sandwiches, food…

You’ll easily find an Internet connections in hotels.

A good place to eat in Amman is Hashem Restaurant, front of the Cliff Hotel. One of the best of Middle East in fact, but also cheap.

This is just a feedback from my experience. If you got some usefull tips, share it in the Comments !

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