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Serena Williams Stays at the Serena Hotel

Where: Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya, 00100

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, The Serena Hotel in Nairobi.

The one half of the William’s tennis sister-act and nine grand slam singles title winner, was befittingly whisked to Nairobi’s Serena Hotel where she will be based during her stay in the country.

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 for beauty treatments in case you spend a few days on safari.

While several reviews would probably not classify this hotel as luxurious in the vein of a Mandarin Oriental or Four Seasons, we're sure Serena is getting the star treatment in the hotel's presidential suite.

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Hotel Without Guests a Sad Wonderland in Pakistan

Where: Saidu Sharif, Swat, Pakistan

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.

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In Africa, Depend on Hotel Business Centers for Internet

Where: P.O. Box 46302, Nairobi, Kenya

HotelChatter's newest contributing editor Scarlett Lion 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? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered. Enjoy.

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 oh-so-obsolete.

This will be the fastest internet you can find in Africa. And no, it's not fast enough to watch YouTube.

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