Sunday, September 7, 2008

Decreasing hotel prices

The room rates in Mombasa's hotels have been decreasing constantly since February. Offers for 3-star and 4-star hotels starting around 30€/person (all inclusive, double room)!
Source: german booking site http://www.ab-in-den-urlaub.de/

You can download a pdf-file with hotels in the surrounding of the fishing base on my homepage:
http://www.kenya-fishing.com/Hotels_near_Walter_Brun.pdf

The reason for the decreasing room rates was Kenya's bad press concerning the presidential elections in February. The fanatic supporters of the two competing parties ran a few riots in Nairobi which is 560km away from our fishing base in Mombasa. Overall we didn't feel any consequences of the riots at the coast. In Nairobi itself, only party supporters were harmed and no tourists or foreigners.
All of my regular customers confirm that they don't feel any change in comparison to their previous holidays.