Dana Biosphere Reserve · Jordan
Feynan Ecolodge is a lodge in Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan. This page records what the property publishes about its building, across the eight pathways this index reviews.
Photography: Feynan Ecolodge's published media
Listing details from EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Twenty six rooms in the Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan, run by EcoHotels under a partnership with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature.
Twenty six rooms in the Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan, run by EcoHotels under a partnership with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature. The lodge was designed by Ammar Khammash on a caravanserai plan, with rooms arranged around internal courtyards, and a magazine visit describes it as built from local gravel and mud. It is solar powered, and after dark every guest room is lit by candles set in alcoves, with no electric light in the sleeping area. There are no electrical outlets in the rooms and Wi-Fi reaches the lobby only. Sound and Sensory Ecology is the one pathway with nothing published.
Stone slabs set into the front wall are published as an ancient Yemeni technique for temperature control, shading the building from the high summer sun and letting the low winter sun heat it. Deluxe rooms carry private balconies onto the landscape. Nothing is published on mattress or linen composition, paints, adhesives or cleaning chemistry.
All eight areas, for every record. Each row opens to what was published, where we read it and when.
Publishing something is not the same as it being good. Every line below was read and placed by a person, not scored by a machine. What each rung means
Named means the property published something you can look up: a brand, a product or a number. Stated means it says so with nothing behind it. Not published means we looked and found nothing, which is a gap in our reading and not an answer about the building.
The air in a closed room is what you breathe for eight hours. What decides it is the filter grade, the fresh air rate, and whether damp has ever been looked for.
The lodge reproduces a press line on its own sustainability page stating that the building is naturally ventilated, with no ventilation rate, filter grade or air measurement published alongside it.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Sustainability: Green credentials, Feynan EcolodgeFeynan is arguably the most eco-friendly of the RSCN lodges, entirely solar-powered, with natural ventilation, and all water coming from a local spring
You drink it, cook with it and stand under it. What is in it depends on the source and on what, if anything, filters it, and both are things a property can name.
The lodge publishes that its water is drawn from local spring water near Wadi Dana, with no treatment train, filtration specification or test panel published.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Sustainability: Green credentials, Feynan EcolodgeThe lodge sources its water from local spring water near Wadi Dana.
Drinking water is published as reaching the guest in locally produced clay jars in place of disposable plastic bottles, with reusable bottles and a complimentary refill station at the lodge.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Sustainability: Green credentials, Feynan EcolodgeWe offer water to our guests in locally produced clay jars to eliminate disposable plastic water bottles. Reusable water bottles are also available for our guests to take on hikes and excursions. We also have a complimentary filling station for guests to re-fill bottles at the lodge.
Light is what tells a body the time of day. The part a building controls is what its fittings emit and when, which a named product or a colour temperature makes checkable.
The property publishes that all 26 guest rooms are lit by candlelight after dark, with candles set in alcoves around the room and no electric light fitted in the sleeping area.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: The Lodge, Feynan EcolodgeFeynan has 26 unique guest rooms, all with ensuite and lit by candlelight at night.
Electric lighting is published as confined to the kitchen, washrooms and office and described only as low energy CFL and LED lamps, with no colour temperature, dimming or flicker specification published.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Sustainability: Green credentials, Feynan EcolodgeThe kitchen, washrooms and office are the only areas electrically lighted with low energy CFL and LED bulbs.
Wiring, routers and devices put electromagnetic fields in a room. What a building decides is where they sit relative to the bed, and whether anyone has measured it.
The property publishes that guest rooms have no electrical outlets and that electrical supply is limited to guest bathrooms, kitchen, phone system and other functions, with device charging provided at the front desk.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Frequently Asked Questions, Feynan EcolodgeThere is limited electricity to light the guest bathrooms, kitchen, phone system, and other crucial functions. There are no electrical outlets in guest rooms.
Wireless internet is published as provided in the lobby area only, with no wireless coverage stated for guest rooms and no access point locations, wired alternative or field measurement published.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Frequently Asked Questions, Feynan EcolodgeComplimentary limited WiFi internet is available in the lobby area.
The things you sleep on and touch: the mattress, the sheets, the pillows, and the paints, glues and finishes around them. A named fabric, a fibre content or a certification can be looked up. A structural palette tells you about the building, not about the bed.
A magazine report written from a visit describes the building as constructed from local gravel and mud, with no finish, adhesive, textile or cleaning chemistry named.
Published by Sierra, Sierra Club, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Feynan Ecolodge, JordanThe 26-room, off-the-grid lodge is constructed from local gravel and mud, powered by solar, and lit with candles made on-site.
What a kitchen cooks with and where it buys are the parts of a stay you take inside you. A named oil, a named supplier or a published share is checkable; “healthy” is not.
The lodge states, without publishing a method, audit or certifier, that over 80 percent of food and other supplies are bought within a 40 kilometre radius of the lodge. The figure is the property's own and no verification is published.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Sustainability: The local community, Feynan EcolodgeOver 80% of food and other supplies are purchased from within a 40 km radius of the lodge
The lodge names its bread supplier, a local Bedouin baker, and the method used, flat bread baked fresh daily on a traditional saj oven.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Dining, Feynan EcolodgeThe bread served at the lodge is supplied by Um Khalid, a Bedouin mother of five from the local community who bakes the flat bread (known as shraak in Arabic) fresh each day on a traditional half moon shaped oven or saj.
Daylight, planting, outlook and the way a room meets the outside are what make a place feel the way it does. Named design decisions can be checked; atmosphere cannot.
The property publishes the design intent of the lodge, a caravanserai plan, and names Ammar Khammash as the architect.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: About Feynan: History of the LodgeHe called on renowned architect Ammar Khammash to reflect the dream.
The property publishes a named passive technique in the fabric, stone slabs set into the front wall for temperature control, shading the building from high summer sun and admitting low winter sun.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: About Feynan: History of the LodgeThe stone slabs inserted in the front wall of the lodge are an ancient Yemeni technique for temperature control, providing shading from the high sun during summer and allowing the winter lower sun to heat the building and emit warmth into the brisk desert nights.
Guest rooms are published as arranged around a series of internal courtyards, with deluxe rooms carrying private balconies onto the landscape.
Published by EcoHotels, read 6 Aug 2026.
Read it: Rooms, Feynan EcolodgeEach of the 26 guestrooms at Feynan is unique, designed around a series of internal courtyards reminiscent of the ancient caravanseri or inns on the silk routes through the desert.
What you can hear at three in the morning decides whether you slept. Insulation, plant and machinery, and what sits next door are what decide it.
We found nothing published on this. That is a gap in what we could read, not a finding about the building.
Not everything is published, and an empty row is a gap in what we could read rather than a fault in the building. If one of these matters to you, ask the property before you book. Send us something that updates this record
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Published corrections Full assessment recordDana Biosphere Reserve, JordanMiddle East30.6396, 35.5092
Directions and arrival, on the property’s siteRegional data is context about the location. It does not establish conditions inside a room.
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