Terminal Hotel Nairobi

... ;'Jorg van Gaal' was waiting for me, showed me where I have to get the bus to Moshi the next day and dropped me at the Terminal Hotel. I went to sleep at 5 am until 10.30 am and after that go some breakfast and walked around. At 2 pm I met ...

The following entry was copied from my paper journal (as most will going forward): I just arrived in my hotel in Nairobi. I remember now why I travel. It's not about the museums, churches or towers. It's about the experience I had from the John ...

... and a necklace - about 1 pound each. On Sunday most things are closed apart from restaurants. We went up to Westlands - a suburb of Nairobi as we heard it is a lovely area where all the expats go. One thing for certain the prices were high - a beer ...

We took the 5h shuttle back to Nairobi - where we are again!!! We seemed to have lots of things to do on our first day back in kenya. Karl went and collected his fleece - which was good since it was cold in kenya and they had kept it safe for 3 months, ...

Back in Nairobi, where you get 3 pin plugs, the weather is only 25°C so it is lovely and cool, but the prices are much higher than we are used to in India - except beer which is 100Ksh/80p. After much deliberation we have decided to go on a safari in ...

Well here we are in big bad Nairobi. Can't believe how much like England it is - including the English prices and cold weather!!! There is a very small centre of the city and many security guards around. Am very happy to find huge supermarkets with ...

... empty. Now a checkpoint has been set up on the way to the side approach which gets one fairly close to the International terminal, but without entering the parking lot. Soldiers and guards were on post assuring us that it officially cost 2500 francs (six ...

... the arrivals area, where once again those of us who were in transit were instructed to follow an agent outside, and along the terminal building to the departure lounge. Transit formalities made easy. I had hoped to be able to use the Air France business ...

... and they've just raised their prices again. It's not as good a deal as it used to be, but it's still one of the better hotel deals in Nairobi. Tomorrow I'll need to be away from the hotel no later than 6:00 am to be on time for my 8:00 am flight to ...

... breach in Terminal 4, the terminal was evacuated and all flights were cancelled and/or delayed.  As a result, we had to wait in Terminal 3 with the close to full capacity of waiting passengers for 8 hours.  We met up with Erin, Mariana, and Anna ...

... shoot game on the savannah out front, even lions sometimes. Now the savannah has been covered by the University of Nairobi. The interior of this old hotel still has the woodwork and the columns of former days and it's a walk back in time to stroll around ...

... good if I had to run through a gully washer to the airport. For some reason in Kinshasa one cannot drive right up to the terminal, and it's not for fear of al-Qaeda. Taxis must drop their fares a good quarter of a mile from the airport entrance.  ...

... : a modern and clean city. The problem was that the touts booking safari's followed us from the airport to the hotel. They literally ran from the airport terminal to catch up to our taxi driver, asked him where we were heading, ran to a car already ...

... airport, catching the 7.00 am Kenya Airlines flight to Johannesburg and on to the last part of our holiday. We said goodbye at the Johannesburg domestic terminal as she was flying to Durban and we caught our flight for Cape Town. (Sorry, no ...

... smiles and we headed off to the Milimani Backpackers. Now just outside the international airport is a national park, and upon leaving the terminal the first thing I see in the plains are a herd of wild giraffes grazing in the landscape. I am in Africa.  ...

... any other white people and found ourselves nearer the city centre thankfully and Wayne got some directions and we headed to the Terminal Hotel which is where I had originally wanted to go as was recommended by my Lonely planet bible but with no email we ...

... location avoids the noise and bustle of the city, yet the charms and attractions of the city remain easily accessible. Jacaranda Hotel Nairobi (originally opened as the Agip Motel… later re-branded as Jacaranda) was inaugurated on the 4th of ...

... was going to take us to an amazing Thai restaurant and we had been looking forward to it all week. We headed to the Terminal hotel to check in, and then walked over to the Stanley hotel. The Stanely hotel is absolutely amazing and is where Thai Chi was. ...

... the Nairobi museum. So from tomorrow we will be at Karen Camp and Monday morning we leave on the truck for Tanzania. The Nairobi National museum trip was a quick trip across town and the reliable taxi I arranged through the hotel took me there and waited ...

... Good thing there was a restaurant across from our hotel that had free wifi to keep us occupied at night. Saktophe Highlights: Visiting the Nairobi Pentecostal church for their Sunday service Going to the theater and watching the Star Trek movie ...