African Princess

beautiful hotel staff fantastic good choice for breakfast lovely pool close to beach money strange and smelly set menu in evening on site restaurant did not use, went to out side restaurant to eat cheaper hotel good for disabled but no pavements out side so used road along with cars (scary) rep and staff extremely helpful plenty of money exchanges and place to bye water.

Highly recommended over 18 hotel, great location and mostly friendly staff. Although forget the pizza. :-) right on the beach and a stones throw away from some amazing restaurants. Lovely little spa, and modern rooms... treat yourself to a swim up room, awesome

Positives are it's a beautiful hotel, breakfast was nice, the majority of the staff were friendly, rooms were clean and of a good standard, beach was lovely, views are stunning. Negatives, I emailed to ask if I could be in a room close to the ocean on the sunny side and they replied they will do the best to accommodate me. They put me in a room the furthest from the sea on the ground floor. They did move me to another room on the first floor at the back with a sea view but I personally I wasn't happy as my friend who I got to come in the hotel and booked and checked in after me was put in a room in block 1 which is the closet to the sea and on the sunny side. (Clearly there was rooms available but hadn't even bothered to take note of my email request. They should of not even bothered replying to me email or said there is nothing they can do if they weren't even going to bother looking at my request. There are lovely friendly dogs on the beach which dont bother anyone, they just want to sit under your sunbed to get a bit of shade. Its lovely how they are looked after by the gambian people as much as possible along with guests of the hotel who feed and give them water, including myself. One day I caught a waiter from the hotel throwing stones at the dogs and chasing them away. When I asked what the hell he was doing, he said they were disturbing the guests. I was sat right there watching them and they were minding there own business. I dont think people realise that throwing stones at the dogs, could make them turn nasty and put the guests at risk. This was completly uncalled for and massively upset me along with getting a note through my door saying I couldn't feed them ad it doesnt allow dogs, whilst on the trip advisor advisor site it says its pet friendly. Overall, I would certainly go back. I just hope next time the hotel has more compassion for the animals. If it did I would definitely give it 5 stars.