Buffet Hotel

Album: Buffet Hotel (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Buffet Hotel" is the title track from Jimmy Buffett's 28th album. The name of the album comes from Hotel De La Gare Buffet, in the Bamako Train station at Bamako, Mali, which Buffett visited during the Festival au Désert.

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