Where to Stay, available to all visitors at the Colourgem Kiosk at Hosea Kutako Airport, is now a 460-page informative, full-colour, concise yet extensive travel guide, providing much more than just a very thorough and systematic listing of all accommodation establishments that matter.
It also has sections on lodgings in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, particularly those on the routes for travellers from Namibia.
The book cannot be called small any more. Although the format is still a convenient pocket-book, it is now so thick it will tear most pockets and the uninformed traveller will be excused for thinking one can kill a lion with it. After 12 years of continuous publication and improvement, the 2008 edition has established a reputation as a comprehensive and authoritative guidebook on all aspects of visiting Namibia.
Perhaps it has now become time for Colourgem to split Where to Stay into several publications, one for each country. Where to Stay has done for Namibian tourism what John Platter's wineguide has done for wine in South Africa.a