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Sam's Giardino**  Our Success Concept & The Giardino Team

Hey, wanna meet my friends?

Loide / Edla
Tileni / Secilia
Lukas / Lydia
Josefine / Tilensia / Constancia /
Sybille / Sam / Einstein / Ornella

Should you wish to send a message to any of our staff members, please use the following
E-mail link:

Send an E-mail to the Giardino Team!

The people contributing to the success of Sam's Giardino
belong to different African tribes and other ethnic groups
who represent Namibia's cultures and their diversity.

Sam's Giardino is an equal opportunity employer,  committed to ensuring professional and personal advancement of its staff. This includes educating our employees in everything there is to know about the different work areas in a hotel as much as about guest relations, health and hygiene. Our employment conditions count amongst the most favourable in the hospitality industry and we were already proud supporters of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BBEE) in Namibia long before the definition of Government policies. We also actively support nature conservation and community development efforts through sound practices applied around our hotel and in the management of our human resources. We proudly serve our home country Namibia and our hotel guests from all corners of the world.

Working conditions applicable to the entire staff compliment:

- 5 working days per week

- 8.5 working hours per day (one shift only)

- 4 weeks paid annual leave

- Pension fund membership (introduced in 2001)

- weekly rotation of shift AND work area

  (job rotation between laundry, rooms, kitchen and service)

- annual salary increase of +/- 8% (inflation-related)

- qualification bonus adjusted every other year,
based on an annual performance appraisal

- annual company excursion in Namibia

Please meet our employees
follow the name links on the left side of this page or scroll down for an overview.

The Giardino Team - Overview

The people contributing to the success of our hotel represent various African tribes and other ethnic groups who make up Namibia's cultures:

Loide, Tileni and Edla
all helped to prepare for the hotel opening in 1999;  they were unskilled but are now holding certificates in Housekeeping, Food & Beverage and First Aid. Loide also obtained a diploma in Hotel Administration.

Lukas and Secilia

joint our team in 2001 and 2002 respectively, Lukas as gardener/ handyman and Secilia in guest services;  both successfully passed in-house training courses within a year of their employment date.

Lydia, Josefine, Tilensia and Constancia

came on board between the middle of 2004 and early 2005 as juniors in guest services; after ongoing in-house training they did well in our annual performance appraisals in November 2005.




Sybille takes care of reception and personnel since 1998 and also stands in for the boss,


Sam, who holds a Swiss diploma in hotel management and has got more than 20 years of experiences in his profession. Both are German speaking, Sam also speaks French.

Last but not least ...
our latest team addition, Ornella, ...

and Einstein,
our successful four-legged PR Manager and Sam's faithful companion

All our staff is fluent in English and other local languages ... Einstein and Ornella however speak the global language "Wuff-Wuff", and Einstein is also fluent in at least one Swiss dialect while Ornella recognises the word "food" in every language.