Esmeralda Butik Hotel

Staff is amazing

The staff were amazingly friendly and helpful!! Very welcoming! And even opened up the restaurant when we arrived on a later evening so we could eat!

I picked a location closer to the lion park which was good however getting the mall or bus station was quite expensive for us as it was very far out! We also seemed to have a lot of mosquitoes which given we were surrounded by the forest was inevitable but it was quite uncomfortable having been bitten numerous times!

Great location, delicious food and nice people

Breakfast time was short , only one hour from 9-10, if any item of breakfast finish its content is not added again, so if you arrive 10 minutes after 9 , you find very few things to eat. Drinking water wasn’t on the table , when ask for water you ‘re told to pay for it .

Communication with the staff ( they are family members ) was difficult because their English language was very very poor. There was no internet ( Wifi was very very weak ) , and even there was none in my sisters room. Iwould have liked to have a fridge in the room to keep the water bottles I bought cold , esp the weather was very hot . The beach that appears in the photo on the site is a ten-minute walk from the hotel along rough path & steep stairs . But there are other beautiful beaches nearby along the highway that you can reach by car when you go down from the hotel to the main street . Cleaning the room was only if you ask for it & leave your key .