The Wellness in Hospitality Podcast · 2026-06-14 · 35 min
What if the thing holding your hotel back isn't a lack of strategy, funding, or capability? What if it's a vision that isn't bold enough? In this episode, I share a story from my childhood about a hotel owner in Kenya who insisted on building what everyone said was impossible: a hanging swimming pool suspended over the hotel entrance with no visible support beams. Every single person of the design team deemed that hanging swimming pool as imposible. One person said yes. And the ripple from that decision is still being felt nearly four decades later. That one person who said yes was my father. My father was a structural engineer who specialised in hotel projects back home in Kenya. One of his clients wanted something what back then was considered “crazy”: a swimming pool that appeared to hang in mid-air over the hotel's driveway. The international hotel chain rejected the idea immediately because that wasn’t how things were done according to their brand standards. But my father accepted the challenge. What followed was months of obsession, experimentation, late nights, failed attempts, and relentless problem-solving. Eventually, the team found a way.
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