Advantages: Comfortable, international full service hotel Disadvantages: Busy front desk
I have stayed at the Safari Court twice. Both times it was very busy and appears to be one of the most popular hotels in Windhoek for international travelers and businessmen. Everything was very professionally done. The rooms were well appointed with two double beds. The AC worked well. The bathrooms were fairly spacious. The reception area got very busy at times and one might have a wait to get their key.
The lounge was comfortable with plenty of open seating areas for reading the local paper. The restaurant has excellent a la carte selections that were surprising for their quality. A buffet was available for breakfast and dinner with typical breakfast fare. The dinner buffet offered many selections including local game such as oryx and lots of different appetizers. My father liked the buffet best and I liked the a la carte ...
Advantages: Pleasant and relaxing city, gateway to wonderful Namibian attractions Disadvantages: No "essential" sights in the city.
The Namibian capital of Windhoek is a really pleasant and compact city that can easily be explored on foot. It's a very relaxed, almost European type of place packed full of colonial German architecture. Although it has no really major attractions, it is well worth spending some time strolling around the city.
A brief tour should include a walk down Independence Avenue (Windhoek's main street) noting the Kudu Memorial statue built in 1960 and should take in the Railway Station with the 'Poor Old Joe' locomotive. Then head for the centre of town and the Post Street Mall with its colourful Clock Tower. The mall is the city centre's major business and shopping district. This is a modern area of wide pavements, shopping malls and continental style cafeterias. It is here that the largest known collection of meteors in the world stands ...
Advantages: Nice rooms Disadvantages: School Parties. location.food
There was no way of knowing when booking that the hotel caters for large school parties. we had children in the rooms either side of us and it was noisy. The room themselves were spacious and a nice bathroom. The air conditioning was rather naff.We were on the 4th floor and often we had to walk up the stairs as the lifts were unreliable. The Perla Hotel is located at the back of the resort and is an 18 minute uphill walk back from the beach. Even as guests you have to pay for sunbeds around the swimming pool.The staff were really nice. The dining room was the pits completely disorganised and the food was a low standard.Buffet meals with long queues. Often dishes were not replenished so if you did not arrive early there was little choice. ...
