We discuss the facial weak order, a poset structure that extends the poset of regions on a central hyperplane arrangement to the set of all faces of the arrangement which was first introduced on the braid arrangements by Krob, Latapy, Novelli, Phan and Schwer.  We provide various characterizations of this poset including a global one, a local one, one using covectors and a geometric one using the associated zonotope.  We then show that the facial weak order is in fact a lattice for simplicial hyperplane arrangements, generalizing a result by Björner, Edelman and Zieglar showing the poset of regions is a lattice for simplicial arrangements.  We end by stating some properties on the facial weak order.