After finishing work at the Flight Kitchen in Harare, we boarded the flight EK714 to Lusaka. It was rather a quick journey and we had the same crew whom we flew with the day before. I had a glass of bubbly on boarding, followed with cold platter in-flight. We arrived in Lusaka 40 minutes past 7 in the evening. We had our female Airport Manager meeting is on the arrival and cleared us through immigration, after visa was granted. The General Manager of the Flight Catering Company was there too to receive us and was kind to drive us to the hotel.
Hotel
We were booked at Radisson Blu Hotel, which was about 7.5 kilometres away from the Airport. Radisson Blu is a newly opened luxurious property with Standard, Business Class & Superior rooms. We were given classy Business Class rooms featured with extra amenities such as in-room Nespresso machine and free high speed wireless internet access.
Both the spacious room as well as the bathroom are very nice and clean.Rooms were fitted with King size bed, closet, safe box and work desk - all very nice. The only issue I had was, at the checking in and after obtaining the room key card, my room door did not open and after even getting the second replacement card, it did not work. In the end, the hotel maintenance staff had to come and re-programmed my room door and issued me with the 3rd replacement.
Radisson Blu Lusaka was one of the best hotel that I had stayed on my travels in Africa and the staff were nice & polite. Being the Business Class room guests, we were also entitled for free buffet breakfast the next day morning. The breakfast buffet spread offered
a wide range of both intercontinental and local dishes and was good quality.
Hotel Lobby
Business Class Room
Bathroom (Obviously!)
liked this one…
Mosi Larger - local beer