Hotel Alexander, Dar es Salaam

This hotel is awesome. It's on the same street as Rob, our Chief of Party, and was turned into a hotel about a year and a half ago (or so the staff tells me). Downstairs there's a comfortable, well-decorated dining room with two long tables, and two wings of rooms stretch out from the back, flanking the garden/pool area. The food is AMAZING, fresh fish, huge prawns, very reasonable, and cooked perfectly. Seasoning is not skimpy, the cook knows how to use salt well, but not overpower you.

The rooms are large and there's a third story bar above the dining area that is open on the sides, with three cushiony nooks on the long side that one can settle down in with a book or a laptop or a group of friends, and a few tables for dining off to the far side. Gorden, the owner, is warm and welcoming, as are the two main staff, Felix and Mohammed.

Only drawbacks are that the wireless doesn't quite reach to my room (when I'm sitting on the bed - which makes it easier to concentrate on work!) and the a/c fans are quite loud, but these are definitely not dealbreakers. My ethernet cable setup at the desk works fine, or I can go upstairs to the bar to work wirelessly.

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