Grand Hotel Oloffson

Description: Rue Cadet Jeremie, PO Box 260, Port au Prince. Telephone: (011-509) 223-4000, 223-4101, 223-4102 Fax: (011-509) ... more

Grand Hotel Oloffson ... (011-509)223-0919
Email: oloffsonram@aol.com

Newest Review: ... and a verandah looking on to the garden. The room had faded charm. In the restaurant, which is on a very long verandah, I ... more

... dined on fresh fish cooked in a spicy Creole style. Most of Haiti's supermarket food and hotel food is imported from America and can be expensive. Ideally one eats local ingredients and I think my fish was local. My guest was Jean, a middle aged Haitian in smart suit and dark glasses; we had met in the hotel lobby, the ideal place to meet interesting people. "Tell me about the history of Haiti," I said to Jean. "The Spanish removed the Indians," said Jean. "The French removed the Spanish....more

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Grand Hotel Oloffson: BABYLON! (1495 words)
by - written on 16/08/01 (Very useful, 101 readings)
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"The Oloffson Hotel has always reminded me of one of the bizarre houses drawn by Addams in the New Yorker and I believe that he spent two honeymoons there." Thus wrote Graham Greene about Haiti's most famous hotel. The Oloffson was the model for Hotel Trianon in Graham Greene's novel "The Comedians." The Grand Hotel Oloffson, Rue Cadet Jeremie, PO Box 260, Port au Prince. Telephone 2234000. Book Port au Prince hotels in advance if possible as many of the best hotel rooms are taken up by UN and NGO people. Rooms at the Oloffson are from around £60 per night. I decided to avoid the cheapest hotels because they so often ... Read the complete review