Grand Hotel Kinshasa

... otherwise, no. We put 7500 Francs (15 dollars) worth of gas in, and set out. The first stop was the Memling Hotel. The Grand Hotel Kinshasa is way overpriced, but it was the only one I could be sure of without ever having been there. This time I ...

... back to buy water. The UN presence in Kinshasa means prices are sky-high for almost everything. The Grand Hotel and the Memling, the two safe hotels in Kinshasa, charge obscenely high prices for everything. So every small thing I can do to save I try to ...

... . And lots of drinking in the streets too, apparently.   He also told me that the manager of the Grand Hotel one of the two good hotels in Kinshasa had died unexpectedly. I asked what had killed him. "Sorcery", was the answer. "He was poisoned" ...

... in Brazzaville (just across the Congo River from Kinshasa), but nothing definitive.  At 3 p.m., they took us upstairs to the Grand Hotel Restaurant and fed us fish and chips.  I saw Alex's plane arrive and then leave with him on board and me ...

... -style school bus, being used as a taxi bus. By what strange road did that get here? Finally we arrived at the Grand Hotel Kinshasa. I gave Jacob some dollars for the taxi. I tried to change a twenty at the hotel desk, but they said they didn't have ...

... Invest. There is only one hotel in Kinshasa that shows up in the Western Hotel reservation system, the overpriced Grand Hotel Kinshasa. Everything is very expensive in Kinshasa, because of the heavy UN peacekeeping presence. When the blue helmets arrive ...

... know that we have keep the same fundamental beliefs as he knew years ago, and especially to have someone come to Kinshasa representing such a church association.   He pulled out the ministerial album the church published in 1988, and found the photo ...

... how serious and difficult this situation had become. They also wished to discuss ways to improve the stability of the congregation in Kinshasa. We had a serious and helpful discussion for over an hour. This is one of the things that need to be done each ...

... assumed that was a three-star general arriving from the airport. We finally arrived at the Grand Hotel, one of two hotels sure for foreigners in Kinshasa. There has recently been an assassination attempt against the president which means things might be ...

... enjoying the luxuries of Nairobi. My time in DRC has been characterised by extremes. Accommodation has ranged from the $140 per night Grand Hotel to an un-built office building on the banks of the Ubangui river. My flights have been frequent and also ...

... brown. After a short sweaty visit, we drove back into town stopping at a hotel that I might use next time I come. The Grand Hotel is expensive, and now that the security level appears to be increasing in Kinshasa, I can start looking for less expensive ...

... zulke buidings staan omheind. Andere optie, is om een deal te maken en langere periode te overnachten in een hotel.  Hier het Grand Hotel van Kinshasa waar ook daarnaast zelfs een Casino te vinden is en in de omgeving ligt van de ambassades.  ...

... will be a youth camp in Kinshasa one day, and I hope so too. We had a final discussion about meeting halls in Kinshasa, about progress on bylaws for a local association, about future visits and their continued contact with UCG.  On behalf of ...

... pothole-filled streets and arrived at the marriage counseling and natural birth-control counseling center of the Catholic archdiocese of Kinshasa, which is where our congregation usually meets. Nine men were already waiting inside and ready. I shook hands ...

... with a pen. And that doesn't count the Congolese formalities of customs, emigration and several double checks by competing ministries. The Kinshasa airport is always an adventure all by itself. I won't breathe a complete sigh of relief until I hear the ...

... . We waited quite a while beyond that for the taxi to make it through the rain and traffic jams, before I could ride back to the hotel for the day. Tomorrow will be my last Sabbath on this trip and my next to last day. I’m getting eager to return ...

... he isn’t. He’s a rather taciturn fellow, though nice enough I tried to get some change for a 100 dollar bill, but the hotel didn’t have change, nor did the bank branch in the hotel shopping area, nor did the Vodacom shop I was told would ...

... the impenetrable jungle of the heart of Africa from east to west.  If there were a safe, direct flight from Douala to Kinshasa, it would only take about 2 hours. But Cameroon Airlines having been put mercifully out of everyone’s misery, such ...

... northern part of Zaire, so this was unknown territory, how exciting.  On the BBC World news we heard reports about refugees reaching Kinshasa and were worried that trouble was brewing in Zaire and we were not sure we would be let in at all.  We ...