Hotels in der Nähe von Kachikally Crocodile Pool, Kanifing Municipal Council

Ok, wenn es relativ gut ist, ist es die beste Wahl, das Frühstück ist gut

Hotel lovely and staff all fabulous. Ladies - don’t worry about rushing around at home for your beauty treatments. The hotel has a spa and the beautician JJ is absolutely amazing. So gentle and kind and treatments are cheaper than UK too. It’s also a great way to unwind after the trek of getting here. I recommend the body scrub and massage on the first day as it leaves your skin feeling like new. JJ is also able to give you lots of good chat along the way about life here for the locals. I also had facial and pedicure and I best not say how many massages I indulged in 🤭 I am leaving this review because I tried to find info on spa before I came and couldn’t. On a separate note I’m a single lady traveller and pleased to say there were a fair few single lady travellers here and I do feel safe and welcomed. The staff are all super friendly and I think it rubs off on the guests. Finally I’m vegetarian and can find I struggle to eat well on some holidays. I told staff in restaurant when I arrived that I don’t eat meat or fish and have not been short of options. The only 1 day I was short on options at lunch and I asked for chickpeas and kidney beans and they bought a plate out for me straight away. I’ve not met a single disgruntled guest here and I think you’d struggle to say anything negative about this hotel 💚🦄

Stayed here for 8 nights in early November with a friend. We chose the one bedroomed apartment to keep costs down and simply moved one bed into the lounge. The location is ideal, close to the beach, restaurants surrounding the Palma Rima and the Senegambia Strip. Maroun’s supermarket next door could not be more convenient, although the apartments are well-enough equipped for self catering. A pleasant terrace, in-house restaurant and pool really do give a great atmosphere to this small complex. Given price rises in the Gambia in recent years, this option really did offer good value for money; I will use this as the default for all future trips.

The hotel is physically nice. The pool is wonderful and clean, the gym access is fantastic! The breakfast is adequate, not special. Problems encountered - no hot water. Mentioned this to the desk several times with no resolution. You are only provided with two bottles of water on check-in, nothing for subsequent days. The standard across most of Africa, frankly the whole world, is that when the tapwater is not potable, the hotels provide guests with at least two bottles of water per day per day. This is honestly a minimal expense for the hotel and relieves the hassle on guests to have to track down water on a regular basis. The Royalista Restaurant just outside the car gate, is a fantastic fusion restaurant with Indian Italian, and some Chinese food. It is incredibly reasonably priced, much more south than the restaurant just inside the gate for the hotel. The hotel was able to exchange currency at what I found to be a very reasonable rate. The beds were quite comfortable, the air conditioning worked well, and the rooms were clean and in good order. I asked for a tea kettle, which was brought right up. However, in this day and age the rooms should be pre-equipped with tea kettles and coffee or tea service for in room consumption, as is the standard in most 3-4 star hotels around the world. The Internet worked OK in the main building, and on the patio, but was virtually nonexistent and incredibly unreliable in the rooms. This poses a significant challenge if you are trying to do work. It is obvious by the shirts, that the staff is definitely being trained to up the level of customer service. By and large, I found most of the staff, especially housekeeping, to be very accommodating and helpful. The restaurant stated on several occasions that they were out of something, yet on two of those occasions, when asking a different person, items would miraculously appear. This hotel has the potential to be quite a place. The management and staff need to pay a bit more attention to detail, put the effort and money into a few of the amenities that are missing, and ensure a reliable supply of hot water.