| The Kairaba Beach Hotel, located in Senegambia,
is a grand, full-service 4 star hotel located at the end
of the tourist promenade. It is perhaps the most urbane
of the tourist resorts in The Gambia. |
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| Hotel Room Facilities & Services: |
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 156
rooms
Standard rooms: 2 beds
twinned with spare sofa bed
Baby cot
on request
En-suite WC & shower with complimentary toiletries
Air conditioning
Minibar
Coffee & tea making facilities
Safe
Hair dryer
Satellite TV
Private balcony or terrace
2 pin socket
Writing desk and chair
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| General Facilities & Services: |
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4 Restaurants
5 bars
Large swimming pool
WiFi Internet access
Children's play area
Shopping centre
Nightly entertainment
In-house medical clinic
Wheelchair access
Sports activities
Conference centre & 6 meeting rooms
Evening entertainment
Beauty salon & massage parlour
Large tropical landscaped gardens
Local excursions arranged
Observatory
24 hour manned reception desk |
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Review:
The Kairaba Hotel is sleek and attentive but a little
self-important. It is perhaps the most urbane of The
Gambia'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 - plus previously
erratically efficient
management, never-ending 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 accommodation operations.
The Kairaba is greatly insulated from the Senegambia
promenade 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 areas to your 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 distinguished
guests 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
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
Kairaba Beach Hotel's 300 metres of beach.
A Vitalia Studio beneath the foyer 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.
There are a wide range of different accommodation
suites to cater for all tastes. All the rooms at the
Kairaba Hotel offer an acceptable standard of comfort
and offers rooms with sea views. |
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