The Clarion suites was a very nice hotel, it’s located in the business district of the city. About a five-minute drive to the airport and about a 10-minute drive to the US embassy.
Our room was a two-room suite on the 16th floor, with great views of the city and mountains. The room was very clean and was equipped with air conditioning, (the common areas of the hotel are not air conditioned), a TV in each room, a phone in each room including the bathroom and a high speed internet connection, which was invaluable to us sense the phones keep going out, (the country wide phone system was being changed from 7 digits to 8 while we where there).
The hotel has a shuttle that goes back and forth from the airport about once an hour, a five-minute nerve raking ride, they drive like crazy people down there. The shuttle driver was very nice, an even offered to drop us off at the local mall on his way to the airport, then gave us his cell phone number to call him when we wanted to come back.
All of the staff at the Clarion where great, most of the staff knows English so language is not a problem. One of the staff members even translated for about an hour for us when our adoption agency contact was unable to make it due her flight being canceled. I cannot begin to tell you how much help this was at a very stressful time for us.
The hotel has 24-hour room service and a restaurant; the restaurant serves a really nice breakfast buffet in the morning that is free to guests staying at the hotel.
The hotel also had a happy hour each night for all the adopting families to get together, it was really nice to be able to meet other people that where also adopting, there where about five adopting families staying in the hotel when we where there.