Senegambia Beach Hotel

4 readers found this review helpful

I have been here every year for the past 7 years, the hotel and atmosphere are welcoming. All the excursions on offer you must do as they show you the beautiful parts of the gambia and their culture. i recommend the paradise beach excursion and they are all worth their money. The food is delicious outside the hotel, alot of people are afraid of leaving the hotel as the locals are very friendly but they mean no harm.
My only dissapointment is that they are looking to turn it into an all inclusive and this will ruin the reasons of going to the Gambia.

3 readers found this review helpful

We originally booked to go to Sarges Hotel (and after one night - with bed bugs and filthy torn sheets we upped sticks (at our cost) to the Senegambia. The hotel is amazing with beautiful grounds and plenty for my kids to do. Tennis, Volleyball, Football, Darts, Tabletennis even a mini golf set up. We had a great time there and the staff were amazing and very friendly and helpful. It was awesome to see the vultures and monkeys and monitor lizards wandering around the garden and the huge range of beautiful colourful birds (even their starling is gorgeous!). We were lucky enough to have a visit from the monkeys every day to our balcony (complete with babies - aahh). The breakfast range was vast and was as good as you will get in the Gambia (everything is gorgeous except they always burn the bacon). If you take the evening meal - 3 courses buffet style then there is always a great range for everyone even the fussy eaters and costs around £10 so well worth it. The hotel is a series of apartment buildings all set inside the tropical garden of the hotel and it has 2 pools. one for residents only - so doesnt get too busy and another right by the sea that caters for outside customers as well. They both are great with lovely staff although service is slow "They call it GMT Gambian maybe time" but as we were never in a rush it didnt matter. The roooms were basic but kept spotlessly clean and of a reasonable size. I would not hesitate to recommend this hotel to any one.

1 reader found this review helpful

We had a lovely time in Gambia. The hotel is nice and the staff are very friendly but the rooms could do with an upgrade but they are clean and the boy cleaners very good.
The pools and beach are very nice lots of loungers. The snacks at the beach bar are good but the evening meals are not worth it. If I went again I would eat out - better food and value.
It is a place worth a visit very nice climate and very friendly people, especially our rep form Thomas Cook.

3 readers found this review helpful

We stay at the Senegambia Beach Hotel in the Gambia at least twice a year. We love the friendly people, the climate and the birds and animals.
The Sene, as it is known to locals, is a 3/4 star hotel with very friendly staff. Most of the cleaners are young boys who do a very good job. They love to hear about life back in England and our weather. The waiters are extremely competent, especially Fakeba (or Faks as he is known). He is in charge of the dining room in the evening.
The reception staff always welcome us back, they call us Gambians as we go there so often. Osman and Baba are the managers there. English is widely spoken. It is their second language so there is never a language problem.
We used to use the Dolphin Bar/Restaurant run by an English lady, but she has left now and the bar has been taken over by the Kairaba Hotel. There are many bars in the "strip", Ali Baba's, Uncle Sam's, St George's Bar. They all offer good food at cheap prices, typically less than £5 for a meal. Drinks are also cheap outside of the hotels.
My husband is a fisherman. He loves to go out on the boats, either off the beach or from Denton Bridge, although he says the fishing is not as good or as plentiful as it was a few years ago.
It helps to get a Gambian friend (not too difficult as they all want to be your friend). We have a taxi driver called Denba, he's lovely. We never get any hassle because they all know we are Denba's friend.
Don't take travellers cheques, you won't get a very good rate. Bring cash from the UK and change it in one of the many exchange bureaux. Make sure you count cash in front of the money changer, they prefer you to do this.
The grounds of the Senegambia Hotel are brilliant. Monkeys roam, Monitor Lizards amble through the grass and by the swimming pool, and every day they feed the birds, vultures, egrets and many more.
There is loads to see and do.

2 readers found this review helpful

Really enjoyed our holiday and Christmas. every one very friendly would love to go back, food you couldn't fault and your right on beach. Rooms are very clean.
Anyone thinking of booking, go for it you won't be disappointed. Around the gate are men with taxis to take you to sight seeing points we went and were pleased.
Don't walk around in gold as they are very poor and one man had his pulled off. You have security on beach so you don’t get bothered by the locals.