If a break from the water is what you're after, the hotel is near a golf course and within walking distance of Lagos' historic city center, where you can settle in on one of its many restaurant patios for fresh fish.

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The cheapest are the state-owned yellow and black Ladas, although these are not meant to pick up tourists within 100 meters of a hotel.

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Many of its Pakefield laboratories and offices are within a 19th Century former hotel which is said to be in a poor state of repair.

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