Okijajuju1:


[b]reason I spent another 10 days at the Intercontenental Hotel in Lagos in February of the following year..


I did it cos I could.

I did it cos I was Bored..

I did it because it was Christmas..

I did it because I have that kind of spare change in my account to spend.

I did it because it was the end of the year and after all that hussle, I decided to close the year in style..

Hells, I did it because I have not just physical cash, but a healthy cashflow.



So.. Please if my lounging makes you feel like a fool, then your conscience is who you should be after for making you feel like a fool, not me.

My 'Coats' are all my size.. But I didnt expect to recieve a bill of over 400'k.

Hommie.. People dont only stay in such hotels when they are on business or if they are politicians. Some do it just to pamper themselves abit. Life is hard, the hussle is exhausting so from time to time, take out some of that money and go do something that does not involve business.. And when you have stayed in these types of hotels long and often enough, you join their clubs which gives you great discounts to super hotels around the world. [/b]

ducii: poor people complaining of the cost of hotel in Lagos, when you no get money drink beer u go say beer bitter. A beg leave am. people that have money are paying for it and Hotels are flocking into the country on a daily basis.

Onegai:
Four Points by Sheraton and Eko Hotel's rooms are not as nice or even as big as this. It's ridiculous. And the cost of the food will make you wonder if you're eating sushi made from the nectar and ambrosia of some Greek gods, mixed with juice made from the fountain of youth. At least Protea Hotel in Ikeja has nicer rooms.
so dem don carry u go all these hotels wella?

Eddy2cute:
so dem don carry u go all these hotels wella?

ihesiuloa: Let's leave infrastructure out of this! Basically Nigeria lack a good tourist developmental activities, if only Nigeria does have a good tourist developments, hotels here would leave up to the standards of what is experienced in other parts of the world! You need to visit Tanzania,Kenya etc and see how hotels are ran!! They even give you free WiFi service for a considerate fee, a hotel with all amenities for less than 5k/night with clean rooms not what we find here when rats jump about in your room, where bed sheets are not clean or regularly changed.. Mhen! I just can't understand why things are always the opposite here in Nigeria?

julibos: Hmm, am an hotelier ,I believe I can identify a little with the high room rate .in as much as I’m in the business ,I’m not trying to totally justify the high rate, it could be a little lower but then check this analysis: I’m using a case study of an international brand of 220 bedded rooms
You have a 220 room facilties,2 restaurant,gym,pool,3 guest elevators,2 staff service elevators,2 generator,3 meeting rooms, 500 seat hall. A whole lot would definitely go into the making of this place and staying presence in business for a long time, think of the standard you intend to have and the clientele you want to attract. If it’s international then you would definitely need to pour in more.
Rooms: international standard
It’s definitely not cheap to furnish 220 rooms, given you want to reproduce an international theme in these rooms. Most of the furniture are imported, now I love my country and it would be nice to patronize and buy things here but experience has taught one to make sure if you want quality (what would last and serve for years ,max 5yrs)you need to spend. The mattresses are all imported, we have bought some from the mattress makers here in Nigeria but I tell you there is no basis for comparison, the ones imported lasted for 5 years straight up, but the ones we bought here (the highest quality grade) just to change the imported ones that are now sunken did not hold up for 6months before they collapsed. Same goes with the quality of rugs and other soft furnishings in the room and bed linens. So you can imagine the amount this will gulp
Food and beverage/kitchen operations:
So much goes into this , the equipment to be used ,cooking equipments/machines, the crockery sets were all brought in, our own Nigeria brand does not match, we don’t even have ours in Nigeria, most of the cooking Bain marine, boilers, mixers e.t.c are not made here in Nigeria. They are imported; even when you go to our Nigerian Lagos market or other states, what you find is china. Don’t forget these are industrial machines meant to serve for 5years
Laundry:
You want to set up a laundry that wash and dry-clean something of high capacity, this also requires some strong industrial machines, can you mention a company in Nigeria making such machines-None except the domestic which some of us have tried at home and they dint last. Don’t want to mention names…
Aesthetics /ambience, building.
A lot would definitely go into this, to make it standard. Most times the building contractors are world class builders…
Lift, generators, power;
The hotel needs power and that we certainly lack right now in Nigeria. For most part of the day the hotel is powered by gen, you have guest from the world where everything is fast, now you want such people in your hotel, you definitely would to do all you can to keep them, the hotel needs power, we don’t want them stuck in lift, they need internet, fast connectivity, wifi… sometimes Nepa current is low, cant power much, and very unreliable able and diesel is not cheap at all. Hmmm. see where the money goes.
Waste:
We are charge heavily to dispose our waste…lawma must make money
Staff and remunerations
We have expatriate with wealth of experience and exposure to run the place. Most of them have families back at home, so they sacrifice and come stay here .the indigenes of the country Nigeria form a larger percentage of staff 80%(250 staff).they all get paid salary, medical coverage, pension ,nhf…. All does not come cheap. Nigeria really has more to do to make prices drop. If we had more professionals in the business that would run the hotel properly and not employ all their families to run down the place, we may not need 20% expat to come and be paid 1.5mil each per month, and who says hotels don’t pay well. That’s not true. Maybe very small hotels, or Lebanese and Indian run hotels. There are some good ones that pay.
But personally if I want to do mine later in life, I may not necessarily choose 100% international theme setting. Having seen what obtains in the industry. I would mix it up and still have some classy style…….so price can be low, maybe before my dreams are actualized Nepa and other issues would have been stable, who knows…… once again this is not to justify the high rate.

mapet: Call me a fool for all you want, I'm not bothered. But if the stupid lines and reasons you've laid down here are what you hold on to, then keep at it. I know you probably feel cool because you want to form Big boy, but not at the expense of sounding crudely idiotic

I'm still baffled. I do know people who feel bored and I know what they do. Bros quit the lies. People that truly can don't spend money foolishly

Okijajuju1:

[b]Again!! I didnt call you a fool, your conscience did.

That you cant fathom how a person would go stay in a hotel during christmas is actually what amuses me but I understand. Its the same way I cant understand how some folks would buy a room in a Hotel in Dubai that they are only allowed to use for a certain period in a year.

Nwokem, I no dey form big boy, Infact I no be big boy yet, but I no dey suffer. Go do something fun within the limits you can afford. My boss flew his family to Disneyland Paris for a week.. I have been to Disneyland Paris and can tell you that money no be play.

Try and have fun in your life before you die o!! The day wey you die, dem no go bury you with your cheque book of wallet..

If you want me to prove to you that I indeed stayed in Four Points by Sheraton and the Intercontenental.. Send me a PM and I will call up my account transaction history and send you a screenshot of the transaction as I paid for both with my Card. If people carry ashawos to these hotels everynight just to fhuck them, why cant i treat my wife to better.

I am not a penny-pincher.. I wasnt raised that way.[/b]

Ishilove:
Tah! I rented a room for you in Okoko and you are here forming big boy??

Okija, return my kerosene you borrowed!!

Ishilove:
Tah! I rented a room for you in Okoko and you are here forming big boy??

Okija, return my kerosene you borrowed!!

Ishi'm..

I use God name beg you, no do make dem sack me for office.. I don piss for body with laff here.

And why must you choose to embarass me before my guyses wey I dey form big boys for?!

Next thin you go tell them say the Range Rover wey I snap inside for my Facebook profile na customer own for the Car wash company wey I dey work..

Okijajuju1:


Ishi'm..

I use God name beg you, no do make dem sack me for office.. I don piss for body with laff here.

And why must you choose to embarass me before my guyses wey I dey form big boys for?!

Next thin you go tell them say the Range Rover wey I snap inside for my Facebook profile na customer own for the Car wash company wey I dey work..

mapet:



You harsh o!!!!

sulakishop: A SUIT FOR ₦248,000? IS IT ON EARTH HERE OR IN PARADISE?

sulakishop: A SUIT FOR ₦248,000? IS IT ON EARTH HERE OR IN PARADISE?

Okijajuju1:


These are the rates for some room rates at the Intercontenental hotel in V.I..

See the number of rooms available in that class..

armyofone:

Okijajuju1:

[b]Again!! I didnt call you a fool, your conscience did.

That you cant fathom how a person would go stay in a hotel during christmas is actually what amuses me but I understand. Its the same way I cant understand how some folks would buy a room in a Hotel in Dubai that they are only allowed to use for a certain period in a year.

Nwokem, I no dey form big boy, Infact I no be big boy yet, but I no dey suffer. Go do something fun within the limits you can afford. My boss flew his family to Disneyland Paris for a week.. I have been to Disneyland Paris and can tell you that money no be play.

Try and have fun in your life before you die o!! The day wey you die, dem no go bury you with your cheque book of wallet..

If you want me to prove to you that I indeed stayed in Four Points by Sheraton and the Intercontenental.. Send me a PM and I will call up my account transaction history and send you a screenshot of the transaction as I paid for both with my Card. If people carry ashawos to these hotels everynight just to fhuck them, why cant i treat my wife to better.

I am not a penny-pincher.. I wasnt raised that way.[/b]

Ishilove:
Tah! I rented a room for you in Okoko and you are here forming big boy??

Okija, return my kerosene you borrowed!!

mapet: My conscience called me a fool? you never seems to amaze me.... some of you young lads needs to be taught lessons on candor and poise

1. You still don't get it do you? You just behaving/arguing like a juvenile.

I wasnt arguing.. You were the one who chose to challenge my post. Scroll back to the start, you quoted me first hommie. I am acting like a juvenile?! Really?! Wow.. I needs to check myself now dont i?!

mapet: 2. I'm not as bothered with your decision to stay, if forever, in Four Points or any other top hotel for Christmas, it's your prerogative. The moment you come here to wine about the bills, makes me wonder if you struggled at it and if it was necessary.

mapet: 3. Of course you didn't give me the impression that you're a big boy, you gave me the opposite. You'd better quit the unnecessary self aggrandizement. How you spend your money is up to you, but don't tell me what cannot add up.

What adds up or not is a function of how much you can understand. #Simple. If you posed direct questions to me, I would offer you direct answers. And whats aggrandizement?! Is that an insulting word?!

mapet: 4. You've been to Disneyland Paris? Really, I never knew till you're telling me now...... but I'd leave that chest beating side with school kids where Disney adventures are bragging rights.

Yes sir I have indeed been there. I didnt foot that bill (thank God), but I have been there noetheless. I told you that in response to you saying you know people who are bored and what they do. My boss needed a break and took his family on a vacation to a resort that costs thousands of Euros to lodge in for a week. Its like you telling me that you had your bath this morning and I say its a lie. It still doesnt take away the fact that you had your shower this morning. And if I feel like you saying you had your shower is you bragging about having a shower, then it shouldnt be your problem but mine for thinking that 'showers' are a big deal for everyone like it is for me. Geddit!!

mapet: 5. "Try and have some fun before you die.." is one advice I'd gladly take from you. Thanks, but not at the expense of stating it on NL or complaining about some spendings that make little sense

Lol.. On a thread about cost of hotels?! Anybody who has ever stayed in one has stayed in one. And incase you missed it above, my first post was sacarstic.

mapet: 6. Save yourself the needless hassle of proving to me that you actually stayed in these hotels. This is not the thrust of my retort. If you can afford it, all well and good, but if you can hardly or "crying" about bills after on... better still......


at least you gave your lovely madam a nice time......

Thanks.. She indeed had a great time, so did i
Its my wish to be able to do such for my family even as it grows bigger.

pDude:

Nigeria's economy and services baffles the hell out of me.

The services suck, the economy is comatose, everything is jaga jaga and most products are substandard. Yet everything is so damn expensive. WHY?

A normal hotel in California with all the normal services is so cheap that ordinary people can afford to spend a night or two in them.

Yet in Nigeria where the hotels are dirty, NEPA taking light anyhow, tiny food portions which are sometimes tasteless, and hotel staff who steal your things; things are so fvcking expensive.

Biko, what type of economy is Nigeria operating in? That is the kind of economy that will sooner crumble upon itself.

The people are so poor, yet the services are so expensive. It baffles me

InvertedHammer: /
I have stayed in a lot of hotels in FCT, Lagos, Enugu, Owerri and PH.

By far, the one I enjoyed most is called D'Martel (or something like that around Govt.House) at Enugu for around N10k.

The room was very neat. Everything was very standard. And this was November last year.

But all those N15k-N30K per night rooms in Lagos and FCT are not worth crap especially considering that sometimes I pay for a week or more.

Absofucking_lutely a rip off

Plan is henceforth get into Lagos and get the hell out as soon as possible (if possible by the next day)

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ducii:

so you are saying when the president of America comes to Africa he brings his Hotel along. He doesn't stay in a hotel here in Africa. MUMU

Onegai:

Because you date "gehs" who cannot afford to pay for their own soap, cream and weave-on doesn't mean all woman are that poor or financially dependent on men. Abeg try hang out with women who started life well and are willing to work extremely hard to maintain and improve their lifestyle. I don't work on my back

adconline:
D'Matel is OK by Naija standard, there is one in Lekki as well. It's owned by OJ productions, Nollywood producer, but intl chains like Southern Sun and Protea are outrageous.

Okijajuju1:


These are the rates for some room rates at the Intercontenental hotel in V.I..

See the number of rooms available in that class..

InvertedHammer:
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Good to know.

The room was very nice, neat and comfortable. It was all that mattered to me.

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adconline:
Yes, but Golden Tulip before it changed to Golden Royale was charging close to 40K/nite=$230/nite for a 2-star hotel by intl standard.