Safari Park Hotel

Albert took us to our hotel for the night. The Safari Park Hotel was a resort located very closely to Nairobi. We were greeted by the bellman who was tall and had a red uniform. He said: Salam which meant hello in Swahili. But we later noticed that most people use Jambo to say hello instead.

We checked in the nice lobby that had a big statue of an elephant. Then we went through the garden all the way to our hotel room. Everything was beautiful and well set, except that it looked very old and needed serious renovations. The design looked to me like it was conceived in the 70s, because of the colours and choices of material. I had seen nicer hotels.

We walked around the garden for a bit. There was an outside restaurant, almost empty, with an acrobatic show. We didn’t stay out for long. We went back to the room, watched a bit of news on BBC and went to sleep.

We woke up early in the morning and decided to go for an early workout at the hotel’s fitness center. As we started lifting weights, the gym’s trainer told us that the workout would each cost us 1500 schillings (about $30)! We stayed even if we thought the price was exaggerated, but when we checked out they forgot to bill us…

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