How Much Does it Cost to Sleep with Bob Johnson?
2009-06-09
by EbonyJet.com Staff
OK, OK, that’s an unfair headline, but it was hard to resist.
But for the record, it’s about $220 per night and up. That’s the price of a Standard King room at Bob Johnson’s newly opened, RLJ Kendeja Resort & Villas in Liberia, just about 30 minutes from the capital city Monrovia. The Presidential Suite starts at $440 a night. Both are reasonable and fairly standard rates for luxury non-inclusive accommodations in the region.
Billed as a business hotel for the executives passing through Liberia to launch commerce projects under the new spirit of openness under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s leadership, the resort complex is the largest of Johnson’s venture sin Liberia, which also included a micro-investing fund that has been the foundation of already launched bus companies and other infrastructure projects.
The resort’s Grand Opening last week coincides with the start of Delta Airlines’ first flights between the U.S. and Liberia, with service from Atlanta Hartsfield to Monrovia Roberts by way of a fill up in Cape Verde.
THE RLJ Kendeja offers spa facilities, in-room dining and a full service restaurant, POSH, offering an array of globally-influenced African and American dishes from fried chicken to caufiflower peanut soup to fresh-caught local sardines in peri-peri.
On Trip Advisor, the popular travel, only one review (posted prior to the Grand Opening) of Kendeja was listed, but it was positive:
“The rooms are of a luxurious, plush Dubai style, certainly 5 stars. The restaurant and bar are also quite nicely designed, however the choice of food was still very limited. The RLJ will probably be the best place in Monrovia for people who want to have their wife and kids at the hotel, while doing business in town. It is at least a 30min drive to get downtown, however the closest hotel to the airport.”
