Well said Liz re the annoyance of single supplements!
I didn`t know that you had been to Kenya this year! I hope you had a
lovely safari and Hakuna matata.
Pat
In message <439944654e.LizUKL@liz13.uklinux.net>, Liz Leyden
writes
>In message <1158041785.031356.228380@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
> Paul Ngeresa Tour Consultant wrote:
>
>
>> We have secure streets and good hotels but sharing a room with a
>> stranger any where in the world is not safe.
>It would be interesting to know the relative figures, raw and
>proportionate of people robbed/attacked in Nairobi compared to people
>robbed/attacked by strangers with whom they had to share on safaris.
>
>
>> A stranger is a person you dont know never spent time with, not your
>> friend which means you dont know him or her.
>True, but I know a lot of 'former friends' who fell out on holiday and
>never fell back in again.
>
>> Its not wise at all to share a room with a stranger.
>In that case, since you're in the trade, you might do something to
>persuade the lodges to stop the ridiculously high single supplements
>in high season. I was sharing this year to avoid the supplement,
>despite the fact that none of the lodges we stayed at were full. Even
>the tented camp, Siana Intrepids, might not have been totally full,
>but I didn't actually see any unused tents.
>
>In my view the only justification for single supplements is if a place
>is full, therefore they might have let the room one person is
>occupying to two people. Even then, they might prefer to have one
>person booking and paying 'up front' months in advance rather than the
>off-chance that a couple might book late. If rooms are empty, just
>think, they might have let them to a solo travellers if it weren't for
>the single supplement, so they have shot themselves in the foot.
>
>Slainte
>
>Liz
>
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