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| Submission date: 2008-07-24 - Date of Stay: N/A |
| Submitted by: Michael - From: United Kingdom |
| Type of Traveller: Mature Couple - Age Group: 60 + |
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| Four visits now and more to come |
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We first stayed at the hotel in 1995 and have loved it ever since.It may not be the most imposing of the Mombasa beach hotels, after all it is the oldest. But once you are inside it just pure colonial charm. The grounds are extremely spacious allowing guests to spread out, something
that is not possible in other more highly rated hotels that we have visited out of interest. The staff are just great, warm and friendly always ready to help and share a laugh with you. Many have worked at the hotel as long as we have been visiting. During our visits we always meet other guests many of who return to the hotel every year, sometimes several times or for prolonged stays. The food is very good and the open air buffets every other evening with music by Mombasa Roots band are a credit to all the staff who work so hard to organise it. Yes the garden wing rooms are getting a little tired but they are kept very clean and tidy. The lift to the upper floors is rather a museum piece and is prone to fits of unreliability,so best avoided if possible. The choice of restaurants should satisfy every taste and afternoon tea and pancakes by the main pool is just bliss after a hard day lying in the sun or under the palm trees. Harrys Bar is old English splendour even though we had to witness England being knocked out of the Euros. Yes we love it and so do many others who go back time and time again. Can't wait until next time. |
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| Submission date: 2008-07-23 - Date of Stay: N/A |
| Submitted by: julia - From: Slovak Republic |
| Type of Traveller: Family Traveller - Age Group: Under 18 |
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| Very Good! |
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I like staying at this hotel. We had very good placed rooms about 50 metres far away from the main restaurant Agrabah and only one minute of walking to the reception. At the reception the safe boxes are free and there are also computers with internet connection (15 min= 15 L.E., quite expensive but when you need something you have no other choice). There is also lobby bar with drinks from 9:00 a.m to 0:30 a.m. and also some bar or pub where I have never been. There is also doctor. The equipment of the rooms was OK -fridge, hair drier, telephone, TV with lots of programmes from whole the world, curtains, shower & bath, air-conditioned..U can have cold water only from the fridge ( with all inclusive it is free, everyday you have some bottles of water)because water tubes are probably underground and then water is warmed up. Rooms should be cleaned everyday but cleaner may ask you whether he should clean it or not. If you say yes, he must do it. Of course, everybody wants some tip, cleaner, waiter, man who carry your luggage..Simply everybody without exception, but it is optional. The food in the restaurant is delicious, u have lots of choices starting with rice and ending with lama meat. There is a lot of vegetable and some fruit, cakes are commonplace. The staff is usually great, but if you come when finishing, they are sometimes not very friendly. Be careful about offering drinks - fanta, sprite, tang, beer, spirits etc. are free (if all inclusive) but you have to pay for fresh juices anyway. You have clean towel everyday on the beach . The slope is gentle, you can find stones, but also sand there. One, not very pleasant situation had happen when an oil was at the sea and it smelt. On the beach you can play volleyball every day (I love it :)and there is also bar where you can have a drink until 5 p.m. and also lunch (chips with something) from 1pm to 4.30 pm. The beaches and swimming pools are closed at 6.00 pm, but you can stand there longer (Jasmina beach). All inclusive is valid in the other two hotels, Jasmina 3* and Alibaba 5*. You can also have a breakfast, a lunch and also a dinner in one of these hotels but you have to say it on the reception. Then they give you a special card for entering. In the hotels there are mainly people from Russia, then Poland, Germany, Czech rep., Switzerland, and SLOVAKIAA (me :) Almost every member of staff speaks English, the most of them speaks Russian and some of them also German ( I did not try other languages). Entertainment - very good. The animation team is great. U can play water polo, volleyball, darts... In the evening a program is near the lobby bar, at 9:45pm also in amphiteater (it's the best)- every evening some different program. At the end there are always two or three songs and everybody dance (group dancing with animation team, they are great but their boss, MOMO, is the best :) then fun continues at the Gene discotheque till 0:30 am (I think).Comparing to the program in Aibaba and Jasmina it's great because there is boring program or none. Simply said - Aladdin is very good hotel. But probably now you are asking why I gave only 9 out of 10 - the answer is that everybody wants some tip and everybody loves me :D and it is not very pleasant when you have to hear from waiters on the beach everyday :D |
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