Panorama Hotel & Spa فندق واسباه بانوراما - الجفير - البحرين — Hotel in Bahrain Island

The hotel has a good welcome, the staff is very polite and helpful. Very nice with a large lobby and the view from my room was a bit mediocre. The elevator needs you to put your room key in the display to take you to your room floor. I really liked it, when I went out in the morning the view I had from my sixth floor up to the lobby, it looked like a miniature of a large Mall and a lot of natural light came in from the ceiling. The room is very large and beautiful. The huge bed, the dark and slightly dated furniture but overall I really liked it. I arrived in Bahrain in the middle of Ramadan and the atmosphere was very calm and very beautiful for me. The location of the hotel is in Juffair, very close (about 5 minutes walk) to the small Lulu mall where you can find everything you need and changing money there has a better rate than changing money at the airport. 2 minutes away, right outside the reception there is a good Lebanese restaurant and other fast food outlets. You find food everywhere but don't expect to eat anything traditional there because Juffair is a tourist area and you find food (although good) for tourists. An 8/10 minute walk away is the Oasis Mall, much larger than Lulù where you can find excellent abayas. Nearby you will find the "Al Jazeera" supermarket where you can find local food, I bought wholemeal Lebanese bread, excellent olives, labneh and zaatar, makdous, salad and fruit for my sohoor in the morning at 3 (of course you have to eat in your room 'hotel). A 15 minute walk away is the Grand Mosque Al-Fateh and in the evening it is so well lit it is beautiful. Only the bathroom sink which didn't drain perfectly. Excellent...

Please do not stay at this hotel unless you are 18 and want to be up all night and basically get a hostel treatment. I stayed here 2 nights, had a 4am flight to catch but their music in their lounge was going non-stop till 2m both nights (Monday and Tuesday of all days). It was very loud and obnoxious. Additionally the hotel itself is very old and the service is very crappy. The staff doesn’t return common curtesy in a timely manner. I ordered room service and it took me calling 3 times and almost cancelling it for them to figure finally providing the service I asked for because they had no clue what they were hired to do. The rooms are very old, furnitures are dirty and disgusting, not sure why they were cheap on the towels either because I had only 1 towel and there was half a roll of toilet paper. If you are on a cheap budget and trying to get a hostel treatment then by all means stay at this hotel. I stayed here because the hotel I like to stay in down the street called K hotel was fully booked and I was in a hurry. Horrible hotel, horrible customer service and horrible environment. The taxi driver who drove me here from the airport was asking me why I was staying at this hotel when there were a lot of others right across the street. He told me this hotel was almost shut down a couple of years ago but somehow reopened back. Pay the extra 20 bucks and go stay...

I stayed at this hotel some time ago, but I’ve only now had the chance to write about what happened. When I checked in, the room I was given was extremely dirty, the bedding was clearly used, and there were blood stains on the floor and even on the pillowcase (on the underside).There were suspicious people hanging around the property,possibly drug users and the overall environment felt very unsafe, especially for a solo female traveler.What made things worse was that the hotel staff confiscated my passport, saying I needed to go exchange money and pay before they’d return it. When I said I would not stay in such conditions, they still refused to return my passport unless I paid.A woman there,maybe the manager, I’m not sure, she insisted that if I didn’t like the room, she could take me to a “better hotel” around the corner. She was extremely pushy about it. I refused to go anywhere else with her.Luckily, I had a contact in Bahrain. I called him, and he immediately came over. He walked in and simply demanded my passport and they gave it to him without a word. One of the staff quietly told me as I was leaving “It’s good you’re leaving.”I genuinely feared for my safety. I’m grateful nothing worse happened, but this experience was disturbing and unacceptable. If you are a solo traveler, especially a woman,do not...