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Jurf

At the foot of the highest wall in the valley, where the light stays on the rock after it has left everything else.

An earth-plaster villa at the foot of a rose sandstone cliff with a long plunge pool at dusk
2bedrooms
240m² inside
4guests
20 mcliff-side pool
4,800SAR a night, from

i The villa

The cliff is the fourth wall.

Jurf stands a few steps from a sandstone wall that rises some eighty metres. Three walls are earth; the fourth is the cliff itself. From the living room you watch the rock change every quarter of an hour, from copper to rose to violet.

The two bedrooms sit at either end, each with its own bathroom and door to the terrace, so the villa works for a small family as well as for two couples travelling together. Between them is a wide living room under a palm-frond ceiling, and a small kitchen where your host makes coffee and breakfast.

And before all of it, the pool: twenty metres of dark water running along the cliff. At sunset it becomes a mirror for the rock; at night, a mirror for the stars.

Inside Jurf

The living room opening onto the long pool and the cliff at sunset
The living room, doors open to the cliff.
The long lap pool at sunset, with the cliff mirrored in the still water and two loungers on the terrace
Twenty metres of dark water at the foot of the wall.
A warm stone pool in a sandstone grotto lit by one shaft of light
The wellness grotto, five minutes’ walk away.
A long candlelit table set on the sand at the foot of a cliff at dusk
Dinner can be laid at the foot of your own cliff.

The plan

Two wings, water between.

Two sleeping wings around an open living room, all facing south onto the terrace and pool, with their backs to the cliff that shelters them from the north wind.

Plan not to scale.

Plan of the Jurf villa: two bedrooms at either end, a living room between, and a twenty-metre pool before the cliff The cliff Bedroom 1 Bedroom 2 Bath Bath Kitchen Living Pool · 20 m Terrace and loungers
Jurf · 240 m² inside · 160 m² terraceNorth is up

In Jurf

Room for more than two.

  • A 20-metre poolWarmed November to March
  • Two bedrooms, two bathsDouble or twin beds
  • A small kitchenFor late breakfasts and mid-morning coffee
  • Good for familiesA cot and a pool fence on request
  • Dinner at the cliffOnce each stay, with our compliments
  • Games and books for childrenIn Arabic and English

Rates

A night, fromSAR 4,800

Up to four guests, with breakfast, dinner, a daily heritage walk and transfers from and to the regional airport.

Book Jurf
Indicative rates, per night
WinterDecember – FebruarySAR 6,200
SpringMarch – AprilSAR 5,400
AutumnOctober – NovemberSAR 5,200
SummerMay – September · evenings onlySAR 4,800

Jurf nights open