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African Village Hotel

3.0 star property
your current months are December, 2024 and January, 2025.
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January 2025

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Bar (on property)
Property grounds
Cots/infant beds
View from property
Outdoor pool

Reviews

7.6 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Pool
  • Bar
  • Breakfast included
  • Room service
  • Housekeeping
  • 24/7 front desk

Explore the area

Map
98 Atlantic Road, PO Box 4227, Bakau
  • Bakau Beach
    5 min walk
  • Kachikally Crocodile Pool
    10 min walk
  • Cape Point Beach
    6 min drive
  • Banjul (BJL-Banjul Intl.)
    46 min drive

Room options

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Cots/infant beds

Room (Round Hut)

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed

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Cots/infant beds

Family Room, Sea View

  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed

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Cots/infant beds

Standard Room (Family)

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed

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Cots/infant beds

Standard Room, Sea View

  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed

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About the area

Bakau

A stay at African Village Hotel places you in the heart of Bakau, within a 15-minute walk of Bakau Beach and Botanic Gardens. .This hotel is 1.1 mi (1.7 km) from Independence Stadium and 1.1 mi (1.8 km) from Cape Point Beach.

What's nearby

  • Bakau Beach - 5 min walk
  • Kachikally Crocodile Pool - 10 min walk
  • Senegambia Craft Market - 6 min drive
  • Cape Point Beach - 6 min drive
  • Kololi Beach - 20 min drive

Getting around

  • Banjul (BJL-Banjul Intl.) - 46 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪La Parisienne - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪El Sol - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪kadie kadie restaurant - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪The Vineyard, Gambia - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪The Sailor - ‬8 min drive

About this property

African Village Hotel

Hotel in Bakau with free breakfast and a 24-hour front desk
African Village Hotel offers 73 accommodations with complimentary toiletries. Satellite television is provided. Bathrooms include showers. Cribs/infant beds (surcharge) are also available. Housekeeping is provided daily.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool.
Make yourself at home in one of the 73 guestrooms. Satellite television is provided for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include phones, housekeeping is provided daily, and you can request cribs/infant beds (surcharge).
Pamper yourself with onsite massages or enjoy recreation amenities such as an outdoor pool. This hotel also features complimentary wireless internet access, babysitting (surcharge), and gift shops/newsstands.
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's 24-hour room service. Relax with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge or the poolside bar. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily from 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage. Free self parking is available onsite.
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM.
African Village Hotel has a restaurant on site.
24-hour room service is available.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site

Food and drink

  • Free buffet breakfast available daily 7:30 AM–10:00 AM
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 poolside bar and 1 bar
  • 24-hour room service

Things to do

  • Outdoor pool

Family friendly

  • Babysitting (surcharge)
  • Cots/infant beds (surcharge)
  • Corner/local shop
  • Laundry facilities
  • Outdoor pool

Conveniences

  • Gift shop/newsstand
  • Corner/local shop

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Multilingual staff

Business services

  • A meeting room

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Terrace

Spa

  • Massages

Accessibility

  • This property does not have any lifts

More

  • Designated smoking areas
  • TV in lobby

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Cots/infant beds (surcharge)

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • Satellite channels
  • TV

More

  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 AM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Cribs are available on request at the property

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Cribs (infant beds) are available for an additional fee

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

African Village Hotel Bakau
African Village Hotel
African Village Bakau
Hotel African Village
African Village Hotel Gambia/Bakau, Africa
African Village Hotel Gambia/Bakau Africa
African Village Hotel Hotel
African Village Hotel Bakau
African Village Hotel Hotel Bakau

African Village Hotel Reviews

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 7 out of 38 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 20 out of 38 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 6 out of 38 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 38 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 38 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

5.8/10

Amenities

6.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Ottavio

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good budget
Good location staff super friendly and helpful, good value for money. Internet ok but just outside the restaurant , no credit cards so you pay with cash ( they change money and atm just outside hotel ) restaurants/ bar/ shops /taxi just minute outside. Rooms cleaned everyday , breakfast ok , restaurant inside really nice food I would back again . Thanks
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

6/10 Okay

Ben

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness
It was a good place to stay, but there was no internet signal in the rooms. Also,they should look into accepting credit cards.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

4/10 Poor

Moonis

Business traveller
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hotel was in bad state and in dire need of repair, its in a good location but hasn't been kept up to date and things are falling apart. It rained one night and the ceiling of my room started to leak onto my bed, bathrooms were terrible, no toiletries provided. Really bad experience!
Stayed 7 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Jennifer

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location and family friendly
Lovely family-friendly place to stay. Basic. It isn’t super luxurious but it is comfortable and the staff are super friendly and helpful. The location is excellent. Right on the ocean and within a short walk to the market and local town.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

alex

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great stay
Great view of the Atlantic, wonderful staffs , cordial and ready to assist.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disappointed that the beach was not like ive seen of ocean bay hotel,palm beach hotel. Room too hot only had a wall fan. No fridge in room. Breakfast was the same every day. Most staff very friendly
Stayed 14 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Matthew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent place to book
Conveniently located, hassle free and staff are super friendly and professional
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

JEREMY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
March trip to smiling coast
Great Gambian experience
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Xesh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Comfortable enough
I loved this place, I didn’t expect it to be amazing, and it wasn’t. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The breakfast was terrible, they might need to review their options for this. The best on offer is omelette which is twice a week and fruits. The menu had a lot of options. I quite enjoyed everything I had off that menu. The WiFi is almost non existent. It rarely works, very frustrating but when it decides to work, it’s decent enough. The room was comfortable enough for what I paid. I booked the round hut which was small but was upgraded to a sea view room which was more spacious. Rooms are cleaned everyday though they are stingy with towels. There’s 2basic single beds in each room some drawers, storage space and a mosquito net. The bathroom again very basic, shower toilet sink. Hotel is next to the beach and there’s a nice deck outside the restaurant. It’s also on the main road for taxis to anywhere else. For the price I paid I had a pleasant stay.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Threatened not supported by security staff
Aggression racism physical abuse experienced from security staff when attempting to park our car. Further compounded by blocking of support by reception staff on duty. We felt abused , attacked and blocked. And then we're woken at 1.30 am to move our car because the member of staff using the parking space had left then. We also needed to move rooms because it was ridiculously noisy. There was no mosquito net, both lights o the Bathroom not working making it impossible To shower, and pillows like stone . On the 3 occasions on the 1st day I needed To go to reception on the 1st day the staff meMber on duty was polite and did his best to help . Those isdues by comparison are nowhere nrar as serious as the agression, racism and blo king of support.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Everything would have been fine if they had hot water. Also it's much cheaper to book direct rather than through Expedia.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
No hot water for 6 days breakfast was just eggs each day, omelette,fried, boiled. And no smoke alarms
Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Adam

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
All good.
Was all ok, once we got over the issues of hotels.com not sending vouchers immediately. Otherwise all was good.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Gareth, Toulouse, france

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel away from the main tourist area. Conveniently located to base yourselves to see other areas
Stayed 8 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A really nice hotel. Rooms are quite basic but adequate for a comfortable stay and cleaned daily. Staff are very nice and the resort is nicely situated with stunning views across the sea. We had a lovely very restful holiday. Would go back.
Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Steven

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Very good mid price hotel.
Make sure you get a sea view with balcony to get a wonderful vista and a cooling sea breeze...A/C isn't needed as the fan will do. The hotel is basic but clean and comfortable, the staff are on the whole very kind and helpful. The only issue we had was the lack of a fridge in the room which can be hired but the cost is around 25 quid a week! We didn't use the pool but it seemed very popular with sunspots and shade available. Wi-fi coverage was not reliable but ok for holiday purposes.The nightly entertainment was varied and excellent should you wish to stay in also the restaurant offers enough options to satisfy. Its location in Bakau is good with bars and restaurants nearby with the beach at Cape Point a short walk away. Avoid conversations with the local so called "guides" who hang around the entrance of the hotel...be polite and friendly just tell them you've been before and need no assistance and you'll be fine.
Stayed 9 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Trevor

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Mixed feelings
I thought slavery had been abolished! ! Trainee staff don't get paid in the first three months some are not even allowed to keep tips from guests. After training the wage is 12.5 pence yes that's right 12.5 pence per hour for a 72 hour week. Shameful On the plus side great swimming pool and beach area.
Stayed 14 nights in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Erling

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

4/10 Poor

Tove

Disliked: Staff & service
Prøvde å tjene penger på meg å si at jeg måtte betale for besøk. Kastet ut gjester fra rommet mitt som allerede var betalt for . Ikke tv på rommet som det stod besktevet i fasiliteter og heller ikke toalettsaker . .
Stayed 28 nights in Nov 2019

6/10 Okay

Sandra

Disliked: Room comfort
Ok men ikte mer
Ett ok hotell men inte mer. Personalen i receptionen lite tråkig attityd och städningen sådär. Nästan inget varmvatten och inget tryck i duschen.
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
vrij groot zwembad - paar restaurantjes in de buurt - hotel heeft op zich heel wat potentieel, maar wordt niet verzorgd - omgeving zwembad vuil, geen enkele dag warm water gehad - is dringend aan renovatie toe; Weinig vriendelijk, behoudens de onderhoudsman die naar het waterprobleem kwam kijken en Oussein aan het onthaal. beperkt basis ontbijt met weinig empathisch personeel.
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Yngve

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bra och prisvärt mitt emellan två bra stränder.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2019