Ajloun Forest Reserve

We wanted to have a relaxing girls weekend, but what we experienced instead was a really disappointing and expensive one. They sell the pistachio chalet as suitable to 4 people, but it is not. there was just one bedroom and 2 sofas, which could have also been fine if they were comfortable. Instead, sleeping on them was hard and the curtains did not cover all the window so that it is impossible to wake up after 6.30 am. Not very relaxing. We had a very pleasant lunch at the terrace restaurant. Then we tried the cookies experience. DON'T DO IT. You pay 6jod each to "bake cookies" (btw the "chef" was rushy and not kind) and then we couldn't take them with us. you can just have 300g box every 4 people (so it's 24jod total) and then they sell the others....they told us We could have them just if we paid.... like if we didn't pay to bake them already The fix menu dinner was the worst disaster. They brought us random food, rice and meat were not recently made but on average. they said 5 appetizers and instead there were 3 huge salads. But we did not complain, it was not the purpose of the weekend. We complained when they brought us a knafeh that was smelling bad. We informed the waiter, who literally said "no it is not true". We expected to talk with the reception, the dinner was not worth the money. From the receptionist we received the same treatment... he behaved in a very rude way, with bad temper, and we felt not to be taken seriously, just because we were 4 foreign girls (?). We argued for a very long time, even the "chef" was called, and they put in place a really bad scene in front of us where the chef paid in our place with the only purpose of making us feel guilty because we didn't want to pay more then half the usual price. We paid half and we left, again, very disappointed. The next day we had a hiking, not easy to agree on one since the different people of the staff does not give the same information. Our guide was very friendly and kind, at the beginning. Then he started to walk really quickly leaving some of us behind, not even checking on us. He used to stop every once in a while to wait for the rest. He was kind enough to agree to take us to the ajloun teleferique.. yes but he took us to the station who was closed.. and he left us there. He knew it for sure, cause he was from a nearby village, even the uber driver that we met later knew it. We tried really hard to have a nice weekend, we paid for a lot of services, but the service we received was really poor and not suitable for the price.

The view was amazing, the cottages were clean and big enough for a family of 4. The breakfast was okay, not fancy at all.The staff were so helpful and answered all our queries. The zipline experience was beautiful, children and adults can do it. There are things to work on for sure, starting from the buffet, and adding more solutions for mosquitos as there were too many.