Name: Savana Saly Hotel
Address: Le Petite Cote, Mbour, Senegal, Saly, Saly, Saly, 10200, Senegal
Rating: 5

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Savana Saly Hotel

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We spent three nights in this hotel. We very much enjoyed our stay! It was not in the tourist-season and the hotel was almost empty. Staff very, very  committed and friendly. Food was good, with the exception of the breakfast, which I did not like at all because it was all sugar. The rooms are a bit run-down, but if you insist with the reception, the necessary repairs (window-mosquito nets with holes) are being done quickly (but not the not-so necessary ones like the burnt light bubs). 2 tennis courts, nice swimming pool. Big disadvantage outside the tourist season: The bar closes quite early (7-8pm) if no customers are expected. In most hotels in Senegal, the beds are not equipped with mosquito nets - unfortunately the Savana is no exception.

OK hotel - We had a nice stay

The Savana Saly was a decent hotel.  The staff spoke English which was helpful, and they were friendly and accomodating (in terms of check in and check out time).  We went in the off season and hotel was near empty.  We thought it would have been nice of them to offer an upgraded room as a discounted prices or something that extent.  This would have defiantely caused us to spend more money there (via dinner, activities etc.)  The room was okay.  A bit dirty and had ants in the bathroom.  The breakfast was okay.  We did love the pool.  It was big and had lots of chairs.  The beach access was not great as the beach chair are raised up and needs stairs to enter the beach.  Overall, okay but would probably chose another hotel if was going back to Saly as there are so many to choose from.  Not a bad option though.


Good Amenities, Dirty Room

This hotel has probably been a great hotel when they build it. But now a lot of things are broken or closed. For example, only one of the 3 restaurants is still open. And the one that is open, looks more like a canteen then a restaurant.  The food they serve is quite ok, but it is always the same: chicken or fish. Since we stayed 14 nights in this hotel, we had enough fish for a whole year I guess.

The swimming-pool is nice, clean and big, but often there weren’t enough towels. Which was the same for the rooms. The towels that we got where old and often frayed. The bar at the swimming-pool should be open until 23h but was often already closed at 21h. Often they ran out of certain beverages so we needed to wait until the next day to get it.

The staff, though, did everything they could with the few resources they had. Basically, the owner of this hotel urgently need to put some money into it.

If you stay for a long time in this hotel, I recommend you take the all-inclusive formula. Otherwise it may turn in to an expansive stay. Although the all-inclusive-formula in this hotel is also not always what you expect.. For example coca cola is included but coca cola light isn’t…
The rooms are old but OK. I recommend the duplex rooms if you stay for a long time.

Overall, we had a good stay thanks to the staff who I would like to thanks a 1000 times for everything they did. If the staff hadn’t been so great, it would probably turned into a stress holiday.

Bad hotel but with fantastic staff

Based on a good experience one of its sister hotels in Dakar, we reserved 2 nights in April 2012 at this hotel in Saly Portudal, Senegal.  While it was apparently a very nice resort at one time, it really needs some help and upgrades.  The setting is beautiful:  right on the ocean with a lovely large pool.  But the rooms were quite dirty, A/C only partially working, and the staff was indifferent at best.  A shame, because with just a little investment and care, this could be a great spot.

Former nice chain hotel past its prime

Our experience at the Savana was a somewhat troublesome one. 

The rooms were correct , clean but nothing fancy, but the service was lacking. They are very friendly but do not expect them to serve you quickly or efectively as time will pass before you have to ask someone to bring you a knife/fork after sitting at your table for over 10 minutes. This happened everyday we were there, breakfast and dinner!

The food  was very poor (dry chicken / fish and pasta or rice was all we got for dinner all week) We were force to pay over 130E for the New Year's dinner, which was more than limited (we got left overs in consecutive dinners) and only included ONE drink during the entire dinner, a rip off!! Not to mention the show, which was absolutly appaling, nowhere near the rest of the hotels.

They speack several languages and are friendly enough at the front desk, they are flexible with the check out times (it's always good since most flights leave in the late afternoon) but do not expect them to solve even the simplest of problems you may have.

All in all I would say you pay very high european prices for an almost non existing service and poor amenities. Certainly the poorest entretainment in the entire strip of hotels in Saly.

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