Reviews of Badala Park Hotel

Facilities are dusty, run-down and old. Cracks on wall and dust on furnitures. Toilet flush button was not working so I had to remove the tank cover to flush. Hot water is OK. Room wifi was broken for all 3 days I stayed so I have to go to poolside to use Internet. Wifi not fixed promptly after breakdown. Breakfast is basic (egg, bread,baked bean,canned mushroom, oak, orange juice, coffee/tea, banana , papaya…)and supposed to be available from 7am but only ready from around 7:45-8am.

No hot water, weak aircon, no toilet paper or bidet.

The hotel is normal not luxury enough, but the location is in the center. The room is too large can live 4 people, recommend to stay

You have to flee this hotel. The room and the bathroom are not worthy of a hotel. The room is not cleaned between two nights and you are given one towel for two. It is dirty and no convenience as in the description. The breakfast is disgusting with no choice, no juice, no fruit. The chairs by the pool are traps to twist your neck.

Good comfortable and clean

10 day stay 9th March Having gone to the Gambia for the last 20 years we thought we had seen everything and read everything there is to know about Gambia. We have stayed at the Kombo for the last six visits until the renovations so this time we went to the Badala Hotel. We looked at the reviews which wasn’t the best to say the least. First impression Rooms defiantly in need of renovation settled for 3rd room shown. Beds were clean which was a must for us. Rooms were cleaned every day, clean towels every day. Grounds. Again, in need of a tidy. Staff. I have to say the staff was very helpful, breakfast staff was very good and tried their best. Pool The pool wasn’t the best but did the job. Food. Can only comment on food we had. Reviews about only 1 egg for breakfast was wrong, we had, scrambled egg or fried egg with mushroom, baked beans and sausage with toast. Which was very good. Evening meal was steak with pepper sauce and chips again very good. The hotel was quiet and relaxing and the result was we had a lovely stay and would have no hesitation in booking again. A big thank you to abdoulie and his team, Rose &Paul.

Nice place friendly staff not for the faint hearted monkeys roaming around on the grounds But we loved it food decent for what we paid

Jan 2024 Worst hotel...very bad The clue is the first 3 letters of its name BAD Rooms dated almost slum like. Spoke with owner, he was over from Canada and agreed it was bad and was hoping to improve things...nice Gambian chap but not a hope this will improve. Shower not fixed to wall, charged £20 to use room safe. Breakfast rarely available at stated times....disgusting again more like soup kitchen.

Enjoyed our stay at Badala, rooms cleaned daily, always hot water for showers , breakfast was fine, pool clean , a few resident cats which I can’t wait to see again on my return in November. Kotu is my fave place. Have stayed in kololi a few times and had stuff taken from my room. Never at Badala has this happened to me. So yes I will be returning to this hotel.

I stay at this hotel for 2 weeks This hotel should not be on any travel agent list for people to visit on holiday The breakfast was horrendous fit for pigs The rooms were not very nice the furniture was dated the bathrooms Smelled like a sewer I had to be moved 4 times because of this the tv did not work for the whole time I was there The pool was dirty there cats running around in the corridor the electric kept cutting out every day the shower also cut out with electric it was a horrendous stay at this hotel avoid it like the plague

Just returned back this Weds from a 2 week stay. Worse place i have ever stayed in. On our first night changed rooms 3 times. First room was told it was a De Luxe room, mould on the walls, tv didn't work, after complaining, was moved to a room a few doors down.(2nd room). Went to get showered at around 11.30pm, streams of dirty water came up from the bathroom drain and covered the entire bathroom floor and came gushing into the bedroom. Had to quickly stop the flow by putting the hotel towels down to stem the flow. I immediately complained and was moved to our 3rd room. The tv didn't work as were the tv's in the 2 previous rooms. The mirror on the dresser had a deep crack across it. It was a complete disaster, electric constantly going of, sometimes there was no water from the shower or hand wash basin, the breakfast was abysmal, half a banana, hard bread, sausages cut up in small pieces. Certainly no choices of breakfast menu. After discovering this, I never touched the breakfast, bees in the hallway entrances, cats everywhere. We never unpacked our clothes from the suitcase. The wardrobe had mould in it, my partners coat had white fur (mould) on the sleeves. The fridge which of course came with a cost was so dirty, I had to ask a staff member to clean it. By the way I had made up my mind from the offset that I wouldn't be paying for it. There were always people wondering around, mainly young men, so difficult to decipher who were workers and who weren't. Countless excuses of why the tv's weren't working, from the tv operating from a different system, to calling out the technician and waiting for him to come, to waiting for a part to arrive from England. This place is nothing short of a knocking shop. Enter at your peril.

This Hotel is the worst hotel i have stayed in, the TV wasn't working, i was promised on several occasions it would be fixed, we was told we was in a delux room which was a joke, the floor tiles in the bathroom were very slippy, i asked on many occasions for a shower mat i never got one. This Hotel needs a good revamp. If your someone who likes the swimming pool, there is a chance it maybe full with children, they tend to use it at a cost. The only good thing about this Hotel is the staff are friendly and the bar was cheap compared to other places.

This hotel should be avoided I do not know how UK Tour operators are offering this hotel, they clearly haven’t inspected it, the rooms terrible not been updated for years mine was dangerous with glass shower screen totally unsafe, no management, no information apart from saying breakfast 7 till 10 & on going down for breakfast st 7.20 breakfast no breakfast setup, this happened on 3 days despite being promised by owner would sorted! Having to go out for day with no breakfast! You have no idea who anyone is, no uniforms or badges just young Gambian men, who are they, what are their jobs, do they work there? On leaving hotel one morning we were accosted by one of these men saying we owed money for food we had following us down the road & shouting & demanding we came back to pay, totally embarrassing & wrong as we never had any food! We did have a brilliant holiday in Gambia photographing the birds, just don’t stay in this hotel

I stayed at badala park hotel on 8th december untill 23rd the staff are very good fooms cleaned every day only thing i found bad was the breakfast same thing everyday water melom and banana if you are a vegee....then main breakfast bread mushrooms or beans chop up sasage ...porage...........i have stayed at Badala patk hotel many times since 2003 .....since new people took it over the hotel has gpne dowm hill.........i woll not be booking Badala park hotel anymore.......its a shame i used to love that hotel.....David Green