HotelChatter - Tag: Serena Hotels

Nairobi: Serena Williams Stays at the Serena Hotel

juliana — 2008-11-13T16:06:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/serenahotel2.jpg" class="top">Tennis superstar Serena Williams is in Kenya for a three-day charity tour and she's decided to shack up at a very fitting hotel for her, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Serena+Nairobi+Hotel/local/1385">The Serena Hotel</a> in Nairobi.<blockquote>The one half of the Williams tennis sister-act and nine grand slam singles title winner, was befittingly whisked to Nairobis Serena Hotel where she will be based during her stay in the country. </blockquote>Aside from having the same name as an athletic idol, The Serena Hotel is not a bad place to stay. The hotel has views of downtown Nairobi and the city's Central Park and has some of the modern comforts we need, like a pool, satellite TV and wireless internet hotspots. There's even an in-house salon

Swat: Hotel Without Guests a Sad Wonderland in Pakistan

JetSetCD — 2008-11-07T09:05:08-05:00

For most of us, having the entire staff of a five-star resort at our fingertips is a dream, only attainable with a huge dose of influence and cold, hard cash. But for a BBC reporter who recently ventured to the war-torn Swat Valley of Pakistan, the dream came true in the form of the Swat Serena Hotel, a top-notch resort sustaining itself on hope and hospitality as they weather nightly fighting between Pakistani forces and the Taliban. Having not had a single guest in six weeks, the Swat Serena welcomed the single reporter into their nearly long-lost oasis of calm.

Nairobi: In Africa, Depend on Hotel Business Centers for Internet

ScarlettLion — 2008-09-17T13:35:55-05:00

<![CDATA[HotelChatter's newest contributing editor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ScarlettLion">Scarlett Lion</a> is filing her stories from Uganda. Every now and then, she'll be sending us dispatches about the hotel scene here and around Africa. Got questions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send 'em to us</a> and we'll get them answered. Enjoy.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/bizcenter.jpg" class="imgborder">This is actually a hotel business center in San Francisco.The average internet café, dotted throughout any big city in Africa, will cost less than a dollar an hour. But, it might take about an hour to open your webmail. The average luxury hotel business center, however, will cost about $10 an hour. It will provide the user a connection speed that reminds him or her of the days of AOL and that grinding modem sound, now