{"id":1502,"date":"2013-03-20T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2013-04-01T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T14:17:36","slug":"zanzibar-day-1-the-hotel-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Zanzibar Day 1: The Hotel Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

I promise I will get around to posting pics and experiences later. For now I just wanted to write about my hotel experience.<\/p>\n

So after 6 nights on Mt Kilimanjaro living in tents, I have to confess that it is nice to finally stay in a hotel in Zanzibar. The hotel I chose to stay at is the Zanzibar Palace Hotel<\/a> in Stone Town. Granted it is far away from the popular beaches, but from a historical and architecture perspective, it is cool to stay around Stone Town.<\/p>\n

So far so good in the hotel. I am staying in a suite call the Dunia Suite and I have to confess it is pretty nice! The only thing off-putting is that it is on the top floor and there is no lift, but after climbing to 5900 meters this should be a cake-walk, right? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The coolest thing about my room besides the furniture is that the bathroom is essentially outside (yet tastefully concealed) and I have my own private sundeck. The AC works and the power is on 99,5% of the time. And the wifi is fast. And I got a great rate due to the fact that as of this week I am the last guest before they close for the low season, so I feel like I have the run of the place.<\/p>\n

So this is what heaven feels like after putting myself through the trial-by-fire that was climbing Kili \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And now for the pics! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The entrance to my hotel room. Something cool is behind the door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The bed is really high up! Has an Arabian feel to it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The TV and the artwork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The relaxing chairs in my room. A good chunk of the downtime will be spent here!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"These<\/a><\/p>\n

These stairs lead to the second level of my hotel room<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The sitting table on the second level…perfect for reading newspapers downloaded to my iPad in the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The sundeck. Won’t spend that much time there, but since the hotel will deliver martinis straight to my sunbed if I request it, I will have to take them up on that offer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
My shower and sink, with a view to the sea. It’s open air but I have complete privacy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The sink with a view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A huge bathtub. I used it the first night and plan to use it again before I check out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"These<\/a>
These bathrobes make me feel like Liberace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The view of the bathroom and additional sitting area once you get to the top of the stairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the rest of the week, I have a lot of things I want to do, but not a lot of things planned (if you know what I mean). I am taking it pole pole all the way this week. I need the recovery to restore my sanity and get prepared for the craziness that will be my return to my normal life..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I promise I will get around to posting pics and experiences later. For now I just wanted to write about my hotel experience. So after 6 nights on Mt Kilimanjaro living in tents, I have to confess that it is nice to finally stay in a hotel in Zanzibar. The hotel I chose to stay … Continue reading Zanzibar Day 1: The Hotel Experience<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,30,56],"tags":[15,12,41,20,4,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}