Lemon Creek Hotel Resort

“Highly recommend this hotel for all who love silence and lack of crowd”

Very nice hotel. No crowds. You will always find free place at the pool or on the beach. No music, no other "atractions" Just you and nature. Very tasty meals at the restaurant (huge). Extremely helpful staff and hotel manager. Rather don't use " taxis" out of the hotel gate. For sure I reccomend a… lisää

Very nice hotel. No crowds. You will always find free place at the pool or on the beach. No music, no other "atractions" Just you and nature. Very tasty meals at the restaurant (huge). Extremely helpful staff and hotel manager. Rather don't use " taxis" out of the hotel gate. For sure I reccomend as safe and reliable taxi driver Lamin +220-7265914. You may write to him on whatsup.

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“Wonderful holiday, relaxing, sunbathing, birdwatching and making friends”

We booked Lemon Creek Hotel through booking.com in June 2023 for 3 weeks room and breakfast for two in November and got a good rate on one of their cheapest rooms. We arrived at 2:00 a.m. due to a scheduled late flight and the reception was open and we were directed to our room with no fuss. T… lisää

We booked Lemon Creek Hotel through booking.com in June 2023 for 3 weeks room and breakfast for two in November and got a good rate on one of their cheapest rooms. We arrived at 2:00 a.m. due to a scheduled late flight and the reception was open and we were directed to our room with no fuss. The room was about 7m x 5m with glazed doors to a balcony of 5m x 2m. We had a bathroom with toilet, shower, (Tepid, but that's OK in the heat.), basin and vanity unit. The room had 3 tables, a suitcase stand, a settee, large four poster double bed with an excellent mosquito net, 5 speed ceiling fan, wardrobe, safe, kettle, (bring tea or coffee) cups, plates, cutlery, tv, aircon (an extra 5 euro per 12 hour session) and a fair sized fridge that has to be turned down to prevent the beer going lumpy. The balcony had a table, two chairs, a drying rail and a view over the gardens. The room was always kept spotlessly clean with pristine white Linen changed two or three times a week. Breakfast in the restaurant was a buffet choice of: fried boiled or scramble eggs, french bread, butter, cheese, ham, jam, chocolate spread, honey, pancakes, toast and marmalade, bake beans, potatoes, mushrooms, sausage, porridge, cereal, museli, fresh fruit, cakes, fruit juices, tea, instant coffee, milk and sugar. The extensive hotel lunch and dinner menus were comparable in price and quality with those of the Senegambia strip restaurants and we never had a disappointing meal there. The staff were professional, happy, friendly and attentive. The hotel grounds are a wonder. They extend at one end toward the beach via a guarded gate and at the opposite end to the road where taxis wait in the shade. There must be about 300 mature trees on the grounds mostly baobab and palm, interspersed with sloping lawns, paths, flower beds, hedges, the Lemon Creek itself and the swimming pool. This creates an excellent environment for over 50 species of birds, many butterflies , dragonflies and of course the green vervet monkeys, who, don’t worry, kept their distance. All this surrounded the 7 hotel units with 8 rooms each and the restaurant serving the breakfast, lunches and dinners. The greatest resource of the hotel were the staff who at all levels were smiling and welcoming. Nothing was too much bother for any of them. Whether it was an extra napkin at breakfast or a drop of oil for your fishing reel they would be there with a smile and no trace of any expectation of a tip or reward. Our room cleaner was so keen to ensure that our stay was as pleasant as possible. The hotel had a well informed resident Gambian bird guide who calls himself “Best Boy” who for a very reasonable price would organise trips to any of the Gambian birding locations or just walk you through the hotel grounds. Best boy is an excellent bird guide who can identify any of the Gambian species you are likely to encounter and share his knowledge with you. It is clear that for Best Boy, birding is not just a job as he can communicate to others his own excitement on seeing something beautiful or unusual. Bring with you.... Cash. Everything except the hotel itself needs folding money. Card transactions when available may incur a five percent premium. Deet 50%. Mozzies get out of bed at 16:00 but make exceptions for pink skin at any time of day. Deet works! A bite zapper. One of those that heats up the bite area. They work. Camera, binoculars, fishing rod, sun cream, cuddly toy, plug in bug killer, good book, swimmers. Oh... On hindsight, I would have booked a more expensive room, even if it were just for a better sea view. But absolutely no regrets.

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“Huge disappointment”

Lemon Creek is a beautiful hotel in a nice place. But, it is a hotel, which rests on its laurels. They give me a room with ineffective air conditioning, which floods the room with water, a room with a very complicated door opening (locks are rusty) and whith a maid, who leaves the bay window, unloc… lisää

Lemon Creek is a beautiful hotel in a nice place. But, it is a hotel, which rests on its laurels. They give me a room with ineffective air conditioning, which floods the room with water, a room with a very complicated door opening (locks are rusty) and whith a maid, who leaves the bay window, unlocked… There is no maintenance. Only the quality of the meals and the staff save the honor of this hotel...

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