We have a holiday booked here for February - having read reviews on a couple of websites at the time of booking it looked a good choice.
Have just read a couple of new reviews from very recent holidays here - and it now sounds terrible! We booked a suite as we thought for the little extra they looked worth it in the pictures - has anyone else stayed at a suite in the Kombo Beach recently? I am hoping I can hear something positive, otherwise might try and change the booking with First Choice.
We have been to the Kombo 6 times,the last visit in nov 07, when we took some irish friends with us who had never been before. We all loved it and are booked back to the Kombo in feb 2009. So much so that our friends are planning to get married out there! We have always stayed in a superior room which we have always found to be basic but clean.I think the suites are similar but with alot more room. We choose the superior because we need a fridge as we do alot of beach fishing. As you have seen from reviews you either love it or hate it out there. We did stay once at the palm grove with some friends. It was their first time out there and they hated it. But we took them to Kombo for a day and they are coming back next year to stay there too.Hopefully might see you at Kombo, we will be the ones fishing on the beach during the night!!
However since then there have been more reviews which are really good, so I've stopped worrying!
Interesting that you go fishing - how do you cook what you catch?
One of the things we are looking forward to is the fish in the restaurants! Not long to go now!
yep I read all the reviews too, would be difficult to judge if your first time there!!
We have been going since 2001 and love it. We do our own thing, hiring jeeps and going fishing down the coast with our gambian friend Aladin and on the beach at night at the Kombo. We mostly give the fish to Aladin or get the Gecko bar to cook one for us.Think you have to have an open mind we have stayed at hotels in England and have moved rooms due to stained bedding and dirty rooms.You can get a bad room anywhere. I had told our Irish friends not to expect too much as it was a third world country and they were pleasantly surprised and told us that it was much better than they expected! don't be put off by the stories of the bumsters, they are friendly enough. We just say we have been before and do not need any help and they leave us alone or just chat.
We stayed there in Dec 2006 for New Years and it was great .We had a suite with adjoining room which was superior to the std rooms according to others who stayed in those.We loved it and I had been before in 1985 and it was great then too!
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