We stayed at this hotel for two weeks in February 2024 as part of a TUI trip. We really loved the hotel, in particular the traditional African look of the rooms, the beautiful garden grounds of the hotel leading straight to the beach, well stocked in beach chairs and umbrellas. The room was beautiful with a little terrace, built to stay cool in the heat. The AC was one of the quietest I have experienced. The pool, whilst not the largest, was more than sufficient and also surrounded by the lovely gardens and a very pleasant place to stay. It could do with a bit of renovation with tiles missing and a bit more thorough cleaning, and was very heavily chlorinated which was a put-off for swimming any length of time. I loved the food at the hotel with an extensive breakfast buffet, as well as generally fantastic dinners. Some days there were buffets and some days it was a set 3 course menu with 3 choices of starters, mains and desserts. I much preferred the buffets which were real events, particularly the seafood buffet (buffet de la mer) and the grand buffet. No drinks are provided at all with dinner so most people ordered payable bottles of water every day. There was a lot of choice of seafood including oysters, sea urchins, which I was quite impressed with. Dinner was generally accompanied by live music. During the set menu days it was sometimes hard to get served and very very slow at times, particularly on days when there were tables of large groups of (important?) people, and if you came a bit later than the 7.30 start of dinner. For us it was particularly slow on the first day when we arrived, a Monday, when I was also really hungry after the flight! Unfortunately after the second week's buffet on Wednesday I also suffered very severe food poisoning and was in bed the whole of Thursday with vomiting and diarrhea, I could not really eat for a few days, it was terrible. I do understand that these are things that happen in such hot weather despite all the precautions being taken by the hotel. There is a lovely beach bar by the hotel beach with a Saturday happy hour. I think it would have been lovely to have a daily happy hour. While the beach looks pleasant enough with palm trees and lovely chairs, several showers, the water feels absolutely freezing at about 22c when the air temperature reaches 39c some afternoons. The sea is the fridge! Basically the sea is too cold and the air. too hot. And it is not white sand nor turquoise, so kind of ok but that's it for the beach. The hotel has security guards at the beach so that guests do not get hassled by beach vendors, which really helps. Unfortunately they do not stop the people approaching you when you actually go in the water, which can still be a bit of an annoyance. Overall for the trip, the hotel was the best part, as we did not much enjoy the country of Senegal which had nothing to offer in the way of attractive sights. Prices for restaurants, trips and everything are sky high and completely ridi
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