Not Many Paying Guests At Kabul's Five-Star Hotel | telegraph.co.uk
With its marble corridors, chandeliers and Thai restaurant, Kabul's newly-opened Serena Hotel points to what the Afghan government hopes will be an affluent future. The country's first five-star hotel has been built by the Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaeli Muslim minority, businessman and philanthropist. It has 300 staff and rooms costing up to £680 per night, equivalent to the annual income of 12 Afghans. Across town the ground-breaking ceremony for another five-star hotel, the Hyatt, took place recently.
