This hotel did survive the civil war but just by a wee bit.

The rooms are run down and the furnishings old, wornout, and dirty. The double bed is two singles with a mattress thrown over them but no springs. You sink into a heads up, feet up position with a ridegeline down the middle. Pillows are smelly and dirty.

The roof leaks into the 7th floor - don't accept a room on that floor. The pipes leak into the 3rd floor. The elevators are an E ticket and sometimes fail to go up or down. Much pounding on the doors and jumping up and down will usually get them moving or the doors to open.

The food served in the restaurant is expensive and of very poor quality (there are good restaurants in Brazzaville). Room service does a good job of spaghetti with meat sauce and the pool restaurant is ok.

For the business traveler - no internet in the room unless you have Windows 2000 (XP does not work) and even then internet works only once in a while.

I've been traveling with my wife for over 30 years and this is one of the poorest run and most uncomfortable hotels i've seen.



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