The 235-room Hotel Solamar is part of the popular Kimpton chain, offering free wi-fi to members of its InTouch loyalty program (sign up at check in if you are not a member), a complimentary wine hour each evening to mingle with hotel staff and guests, and of course, the requisite rooftop Solamar Terrace, with a heated swimming pool and bar.

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Shrouded by dense greenery and palm trees, the hotel wraps around a garden with a cosy swimming pool and popular bar.

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It was a party venue, really, with a swimming pool, a bar, cabanas.

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Back then the swimming pool was also a remarkable sight -- built in the shape of the African continent, with a sunken liquor bar all the way from Somalia to Rwanda, with a lifeguard station high above Liberia, of course.

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