Djibouti Palace, A Chance to Renounce African Royalty

Djibouti is all that you can want outside the fast-paced urban life. No hustle-bustle, traffic woes, environmental degradation; just small towns on a flat land with coastal turf to explore. But all this is the stereotype for the outskirts of Djibouti city, the hub around which the entire country is centred. And in this city, the place for the ultimate stay is none other than the Djibouti Palace Kempinski, unimaginable yet legendary.

It’s rightfully titled as the Djibouti Palace because it’s one of those hotels who chiefly play a backbone function at the national level facilitation and administration. It would be no surprise getting to know that most of the diplomatic and foreign delegations are hosted here by the government and dignitaries. Perhaps this is the reason why it gets the centre of attention for an executive stay after taking Djibouti flights.

Living royal means you would be provided with the best of what you can want, and frankly, a palace cannot be hypothetically approved a Palace if it doesn’t spark royalty. The Djibouti Palace leaves no attempt in making mealtimes lavish. The hotel integrates on a lot more to stimulate the appetite of its guests. When it comes to dining, you’d come across this wide variety of bars, restaurants and private enclosures for eateries and your first question would be that why so many options are there.

There’s an interesting theory to it, as you’ll come to realize that each of them has its own theme, its own category not confined to international cuisines only, but also to the mealtime and the location of surroundings. Cafés include Arta European, Grand Barra, Vitamin Bar, sky lounge and the safari casino. Same goes for the restaurants, one Italian, the other continental, and another being the only tropical beach restaurant in the country.

The traces of Islamic heritage in Africa have been replicated in every opening and entrance, with wooden carvings and mosque-shaped patterns bordering windows and doorways. Otherwise, the splendour of luxury and interior designing would easily make you fall for the place being an intercontinental haven.

Skin lovers beware; you’re in for flair of some of the best cosmetic treatments envisioned at any places you’ve stayed so far. Here at the Djibouti Palace, ornate majestic shelves and basins are specially crafted inside the walls to place an assortment of complimentary ointments and creams. This service is made executive for the terrace rooms and Jacuzzi attachments in some of the Suite categories.

Relaxation is attended with thorough professionalism, credit to an entire Spa treatment ‘enclosure’ in the palace. The Spa houses chambers with each of them designed to provide internationally renowned therapies, starting from Ayurvedic, soft-touch, even hammam, and the branded St Barth experience.

The garden view rooms are on the ground floor, and so are the sea view rooms named after giving a panoramic view of the Red Sea falling in the Indian Ocean. All room categories are housing the same category of furniture with size variations, so the garden view rooms may prove congested. The terrace rooms would prove to be splendid with the intimacy of having meals in the open breeze of the ocean, and the stretched view of the surrounding landscape. Suites are even more varied.

The junior suite is smartly designed, the super suite seems like it’s just brought out depicting the classical 80’s, while the Deluxe and Executive Suites are modelled in regal sophistication under rustic and light colour tones signature to African soil. Apartments are made available in one bedroom and two bedroom categories.