Tambacounda Youth Hostel and other Senegal Hotel/Accommodation Reviews

We got to this Auberge ater we went to be received by the Mayor of Tambacounda. He was the one who ponited us a few hotels and auberges to stay. This seemed to be the kind of auberge du jeunesse in town, so we decided to come here.

Unique Qualities: This was a nice place, clean bathrooms and nice rooms with fans, which are very important taking in consideration you have 50 degrees during the day and maybe 45 during the night. you have also private water coolers in each room.

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Theme: Hostel
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$20  » Currency Converter
Address: behind the train station
Directions: after the rail road and on the road to Niokolo Koba this place stays on the left side. when you see a phone teleboutique just ask for the auberge

ha, my stay here in this hotel was quite strange. We got there late at night and due to lack of time to search for accomodations and to the extrem fatigue, we decided to stay on the first affordable place we found. Auberge Rouge turn out to be this hookers place full with strange people. We found some other backpackers there also as it is a cheap place to stay in Dakar and its right on the centreville.

Unique Qualities: Tell me reception man to send someone to clean your room before you put your stuff inside. change sheets, or better, get you own sleeping bag...
Nice view to the street and very central position.
The price per double room was 10000CFA payed in advance. You have place to park your car. You can even ask for a room right up your car parking place, on the second floor is even beter.

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Theme: Motel
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Address: Rue Mousse Diop and Rue Jules Ferry
Directions: Not far from MArche Sandaga and Place Washington DC.

This house is from a very well known Senegalese artist that makes his living in Paris. Its his brother who takes care of the very nice confortable house and rents it to foreigners. Its not a legal business what he does, but I think you wouldnt mind to have such a great place. If anyone asks you anything, you're friends of his brother or somthing. Although I remebered he was in legal action about changing the house to a real Guesthouse.

Unique Qualities: This is a 2 flight house, good patio, nice and big rooms, well furnished and very good upper bath room and shower. As the house is actually on the beach you can go out and walk a couple of metres and you are on the ocean waves bathing yourselfe. You can use the kitchen hise living room for sme music and TV etc.
You can contact Mokhtar if you wish to rnt his place. The price for each person for one night i think is something between 7euros to 10euros. maybe you can get it low until 5 maybe? hehe

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Phone: 5112433
Address: Langue du Barbarie beach
Directions: On the beach on the Barbarie Langue you have a ship wreck, the house is on just maybe 300 metres away.
Website: massambamboup@yahoo.fr

This was a very nice place in the middle of the jungle. This is a huge hotel complex that has accomodations for every single peoples tastes. You can rent a big room private bathroom and AC, or you can just do like we did, rented some shacks out side into the bushes on the monkeys playground.

Unique Qualities: The hotel has full capacity to make tourist have what they want. restaurants swiming pool (smelly and out of order). This hotel have somthing very special that is the fact of being right in front of the Gambian river. You can enjoy the view of the crocodiles and many monkeys (hundreds of them) live here also.

Here at the hotel they can arrange you trips on trucks into the jngle to see other sights in the park paying +-7000CFA for a half-day trip and meals at the restaurant can get to 5000CFA per person.

A double shack costed 60000CFA. You need to bring mosquito protection net to install in your bed. In the morning dont be afraid of the monkeys jumping to the roof of your shack or trying to break or car apart as you just rented a little wood shack right in the middle of their playground.

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This "Lions campground" is located 8km away from Simenti Hotel. Here you are on thr route to see the hippos at the river Gambia. Facilities are quite nice and i think they just have been renovated as it all looked new to me.

Unique Qualities: People say this is the most relaxed place to stay in the Park.

the price should be a bit lower than Simenti hotel. I just passed here to meet some people so I cant tell you about my stay.

You can see the facilities picture above.

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Theme: Hotel
Comparison: less expensive than average
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Directions: 8km from Simenti Hotel

Free places to camp in Niokolo Koba are:
Badi, Malapa, Damantan, Badoye, Dalaba, Wouroli and Bafoulabe.

Be careful with wild animals mosquitoes monkeys snakes etc... This is the jungle.

Unique Qualities: On the picture above is the camp Badi, the first campround after Dar Salam entrance to the Park.

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