Fist visit to Benin City three weeks ago. Tried different hotels: The Radheki, Excalibur, Saïdi Hotel and Bibi Motel. The Excalibur is new, modern and slick, and the prices are really quite expensive when you consider where in fact you are !! But if money is not your main preoccupation ( 110€..... The Radheki is not much cheaper but so much more tatty and is ageing badly; the bathrooms are completely unacceptable for this price range; the food is very mediocre for a european palate ( 80 to 90 € ). Saïdi Hotel is run by a colourful and often joking lebanese ex-pat; this hotel has been around for over twenty years, and they haven't got round to re-painting anything yet, nor have they finished repair work which must have begun maybe fifteen years ago, and I guess all the cleaners have been on strike for the last decade ! Food is OK if not cheap ( 50€ ). Bibi Motel is by far the cheapest, and probably gives best value for money if you can take soggy mattresses, awful plumbing, and the most nonchalent room service in the world. Generally, if you're not African, you will not find much to eat you will like anywhere in Benin City.
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on Jul 10, 2006
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