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The Kairaba Beach Hotel is in Kololi (see
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Facilities & Services: |
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156 rooms with
air-conditioning & own
private bathrooms/shower with
hair dryer. |
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Mini-bar |
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Security Safe |
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Optional extras |
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Telephone with direct dialling
& Internet connection |
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Satellite TV
channels with in-house video |
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General
Facilities & Services: |
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Restaurants |
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2 bars |
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Large swimming pool |
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Shopping centre |
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Nightly
entertainment |
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In-house medical
clinic |
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Sports
activities |
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Conference
centre & 6 committee rooms |
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Evening
entertainment |
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Beauty salon
& massage parlour |
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Large tropical
landscaped gardens |
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Local excursions
arranged. |
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Observatory |
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24 hour
reception desk |
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Review:
The
Kairaba Hotel is sleek and
attentive but a little
self-important. It is the
most
urbane of the country's
establishments. Spaciously
self-contained in 15 acres
of lawned slopes. The
suave buff complex
completed in 1990 by its
Swedish architects and
designers.
It has
the country's best known
conference facilities and
it has perforce to
cater for numerous
official functions.
This
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erratically efficient
management, never-ending
room renovations and
frequent breakdowns of
communication between the
reception and reservations
office - were the causes
of its previous
overbookings. Since 2004
however, this has
considerably changed
since it was acquired by
M.A. Kharafi and Sons who
introduced their own
management style and
upgraded room operations.
The Kairaba is greatly
insulated from the
'Senegambia Strip' outside
by uniformed
security-staff in a
guardhouse beneath a grand
portal. This was a new
fixture added in 1999 to
enclose a guarded car park
and row of shops. From a
second line of defence of
Tropical Boutique, and Casa
Fernando fish diner,
the drive and covered
walkway are lined by the
cheaper, shower-only
'Avenue Rooms' and the
colonnaded office blocks
and the 6,460 square foot
'Jaama Hall' centre.
The drive drops between
the main buildings: the
reception lounge large and
chill to the right; the
restaurants, bar and
meeting rooms left. Here
the Monsoon Bar and the
main Kingfisher
share a terrace that
bright birds appreciate
too. The Kingfisher shares
its French chef with the
á la
carte Shikra
adjoining, a plush place
where holidaymakers hobnob
with the VIPs attending.
The neatly manicured lawns
enclose 12 staggered room
blocks. Two-storeyed and
in a beige coloured wall
are occupied by the
presidential Mansa Suite,
2 executive suites also
with kitchenette, and over
100 single or double
premium, standard and
downstairs studio rooms
all with mod cons.
Outside the gardens slope
down past the croquet to
the rather shapely,
figure-of-eight pool, a
central bridge demarcating
the toddlers from the deep
end. Nearby, the Malimbe
is more casual
than the main block's, and
the circular thatched
Bolong Bar is backed by
gardens and
tamarisk-hedged lawns that
border the hotel's 300
metres of beach.
A
Vitala Studio beneath the
reception is a German-run,
the adjoining 'Health Care
Studio' a lightly equipped
gymnasium. The Observatory
is more singularly
impressive. It was
installed in 1994 and is
West Africa's largest
telescope, a computerized
10" Meade programmed for
10,000 stars.
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Contact Details
& Reservations:
Kairaba Hotel
P.O. Box 390
Serrekunda
The Gambia
West Africa
Telephone numbers:
Precede
telephone
numbers with +220
446 2940
/ 1 / 2 (Main Switchboard)
446 2944
(Reception)
446
3991
446 2941
446 3993
446 3992
446 1027
(Marketing)
446 1029 (EDP
Manager)
446 4960
(VIP
Presidential suite)
Fax: 446 2947
Email:
info@kairabahotel.com
Website:
www.kairabahotel.com |
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