The staff, location, and community involvement make this an essential experience when visiting the Umm Qais region. We were able to visit the archaeological site, have a cooking class, and go on a hike all during a two night stay. A very unique experience.

Bedrooms are pretty basic with shared bathrooms. Staff is not on site except during check-in, breakfast, and check-out.

friendly staff a lot of activities incredible breakfast

We had a brilliant time here at Beit Al-Baraka House. The hosts were very helpful and welcoming. It is a beautifully decorated house and the rooms are set on 2 different floors each with a kitchen. There are beautiful photographs of local sites and traditions hung on the walls. The house is perfectly situated within 5 mins walking distance of the Umm Qais ruins of the ancient Gadara and we could walk back to the house easily at night after dinner which we had at the Romero restaurant at the ruins. It was also fabulous to walk back to the ruins in the morning to watch the sunrise over the town. Beit Al-Baraka house has a beautiful garden full of fruit trees and we enjoyed relaxing there. It has also a wonderful terrace over looking the town, and we highly recommend having tea up there to watch the sunrise. We then had a most generous and hearty breakfast full of locally produced traditional food including home-made jams and butter and freshly baked bread. We had a chance to buy some of the jams and take them back home with us too! This guest house is a special place in Jordan and we highly recommend it. We will visit here again.

Although finding the place appeared difficult on the map (it wasn't really but we missed the first road), we were able to call the host Shawkie on the phone and he was very helpful to direct us to the house, and he called us afterwards to check that we had arrived. Thank you!

When we arrived in al-Baraka around 4pm, we were told that there was a double booking and we had to stay at another place as they were fully booked. This is spite of an email exchange before we arrived. This was our second day in Jordan and we were tired from the trip so this did not go down well. They put us up at Beit Philodemus, which was indeed a lovely place with charming owners. To compensate for the mishap, they offered to buy us a sim card for Jordan, which was very welcome as we had just arrived and planned to stay for a fortnight. We had breakfast at Beit al-Baraka, which was indeed the best we had in Jordan. As we didn't stay there, all we can say is that the Beit al-Baraka looks cosy, the rooms we saw had a nice view and it has a nice garden. It was also easy to find and we appreciated being given instructions on how to get there.

Staff is so welcoming. Worth having dinner just to meet Umm Qusay! We're repeat visitors and will be back again.

Delightful as ever. Comfortable, welcoming, superb breakfast from Rufaida and Rania, garden full of the scent of orange blossom, views to snow-capped Mount Hermon.

People in charge of Beit Al Baraka are really friendly and welcoming. Diner and breakfast are perfect. On this big apartment, 3 rooms you share with other people and a big confortable and nice living room. Beit at baraka is 5 minuts walking from archeological site. Definitely a real good place to stay. Thanks again to the team

amazing location! women who provided breakfast and dinner were exceptional. food was really delicious. view from our corner room was incredible! comfortable common room to meet with other travellers.

price seemed a bit high but there are not many other options in the area. the response time from the office was very slow when we were there. wifi is off and on but is possibly more about the area and likely not so much the property.