Malaika Hotel

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• inaxio75

  15 abril 2016
  Buen lugar para alojarse en viaje de trabajo

  Es un céntrico lugar muy seguro, con comodidades altas para el país. Habitaciones amplias. Aire acondicionado. Posee salas de reuniones y tabajo. Asimismo ofrece comida a cualquier hora. Te asisten con el transporte e indicaciones turísticas.

  

• Travelwizard23

  03 diciembre 2016
  Functional hotel in a dysfunctional country

  I have stayed in the Malaika hotel for the past 6 years on business trips and having stayed at the other traditional major hotels on Bissau I have to say that this is one of the best of a very poor selection. To assess anything in Guinea-Bissau it is important to suspend western norms. This country has been left behind in recent years of African development and it is in this context that one has to compare how the populace live compared to where a "wealthy Westerner" can afford stay. I hear that there are some new build hotels that opened or opening in that past / next 12 months but I do not have any experience of those so far. The "advantage" of this hotel is that it is centrally located. That would be advantageous in a pleasant city with places to go. The city of Bissau has nothing much to offer but there are shops to buy food in, to supply the lousy hotel food. After upteen wars, massive corruption, 5 governments in 2 years (at the time of writing) basicically means that you are in the middle of a sad rundown former colonial, post apocalyptic dusty, humid mess where people do their best to survive by washing cars, hussle non African tourists as a potential source of income and generally subsist. All this whilst their corrupt leaders and the narcotrafficers drive their new 4x4's around and live in obvious luxury!! There are no security guards outside and therefore the place is a magnet for every street hustler and con-artist when you set foot into the street. That said - this is not unusual in non Western countries and any travellers who venture into Guinea-Bissau will be unlikely to be first time travellers in Africa or outside their home country. The hotel is used for Guinea-Bissau round table meetings and is known as a business hotel. There is wifi. Not very reliable and really only effective in the reception area. The dining room is large and the food is sufficient. It is a popular venue for business meetings and breakfast, lunch and dinner are sufficient. The air-conditioning is good. The rooms are better the higher up the floors you go - like most hotels. When I first stayed here around 6 years ago it was better and like all things in this benighted country it has suffered over the years from little or no ongoing investment. By default I would recommend this as a business hotel to stay. Prices are high but as a place to stay for a week or so - it is sufficient.

  

• Heather B

  12 febrero 2018
  Enjoyable business stay

  I stayed for 5 nights whilst on business in Bissau and it was clean, comfy and enjoyable. I was in the smaller of the two room types you can choose from, but it was a good size with a massive bed and loads of pillows. The room had a tv, working plug sockets and good aircon. I had one of the rooms near the front of the building which meant it was close to the rooter (one on each floor), so I even had wifi in the room! The bathroom was clean and well-fitted and they provided toiletries. The food in the restaurant was tasty and they were very flexible with servicing outside of the official restaurant hours (for instance we arrived between lunch and dinner and were served). We also used the meeting room for a couple of days which was fine, butt a bit noisy as right next to the kitchen. I would definitely return if back in Bissau.

  

• vanelic

  05 julio 2018
  Right in the centre of Bissau but...

  The location could not be better. Hotel Malaika is right in the centre of Bissau and easy walk to Bissau Velho, shops and restaurants. But while the rooms are nice, clean and comfortable and the aircon is working great, the wifi is a complete rubbish. I needed wifi in order to get some work done but although the signal was there, it was so slow that you were not able to download even a simple e-mail! I had way better internet connections in some remote areas of Guinea Bissau than at this place right in the centre of its capital. Price for a double room was 45,000cfa. Not bad if you dont need working wifi. Otherwise look elsewhere.

  

• Henri M

  19 febrero 2019
  No many options in this town

  OK the simple fact is that there is not much hotels to choose from in Bissau and which ever you pick it is probably overpriced. The location of Malaika hotel is good and the room is ok (expect mosquitos) but thats it. They offer airport pick up but I have never been able to get them answer any emails. Dont even try to email in English, the whole hotel has one staff Abu, who speaks English and he is at house-keeping. At check in nobody speaks English and even hotel manager is unable to communicate in English. If you book your room through hotels.com or Expedia good luck as hotel has no contact with them. I did book and was pretty much thrown on the street. If you arrive at night be prepared to kick the door as its locked and staff sleeps at reception. If you make enough noise you able to wake up the staff or even better save the phone number and call them to wake up. Breakfast is moderate at best and if you go too late you might not find much to eat. Hotels in ground floor have no windows so they quite dark and sometimes you walk faster than the internet works. Some days it is just useless and signal is bad in some rooms. Take your mosquito repellent as you going to find mosquitos in the room. Also take your own shampoo etc as they only provide a soap. Aircon works ok and tv has CNN, however thats pretty much only English channel. Shower gives you super-hot water. You might get better rate by booking at hotel rather than online travel agent. Remember that they only accept cash, no credit cards. Would recommend to change money outside of the hotel and pay in local currency as the rates they give to EUR/USD are worse than you get next street with money changers. There is no safe, no coffee making facilities in the room and not too many power sockets. As said, there is no much options in Bissau, some other hotels are even worse.