Hôtel Beausejour Mirabel — Hotel in Communauté urbaine de Douala

This property was built in the 1960s and nothing has changed in it since then. The front lobby is dingy and is the seating disgraceful.||The photographs show a lovely aquarium but the reality is the same is covered in algea, and one has to feel sorry for the fish in it.||The restaurant just off the lobby and if at all possible avoid it. When I first went into it it looked presentable. It chairs were covered with the type of full-length cloth covering that one often sees at weddings and the like. The problem is that these coverings in the fact coverings in the fact that the chairs were the cheapest possible plastic chairs and the one I was sitting on the second night I was here collapsed. It was only four or five days later that real chairs were installed. As often as not when you ask for something on the menu you are told that it's not available. Even when something is available it usually takes more than a half-hour, even for the simplest item to come from the kitchen and when it does it is often called.||There are frequent power failures and at night when it is dark hallway from the lobby to the elevator is in total darkness and one is lucky to find an electric floor lantern placed to at least offer some direction to guests. One positive note,, the hotel does have a generator, and the same usually kicks in within a couple of minutes of the main power failing. However, if you have a room overlooking the parking lot – and half of the hotel rooms do – the noise of the generator which can go on for hours is well past the point of being either a distraction or disconcerting. One has to be careful using the elevator. The sensor in the elevator door is not functional and if more than two or three people are trying to get into the elevator the elevator doors will without warning close because there is no sensor functioning in the door.||The guestrooms have not changed since the time the building was originally constructed. Some of the rooms are replete with mold. The walls in many of pockmarked and the same have not been repaired for an extended period of time. In the air-conditioners that went directly to outside their often gaps around same witchery provide an open invitation to mosquitoes and other flying insects. There are no mosquito nets in the rooms. In the morning, particularly on the upper floors it is common to find a lack of hot water for a shower or bath. The hotel advertises Internet but at times stringing two tin cans talked with a piece of wire between them would probably be faster mode of communication.||||The staff do try their best. However, it does not take a rocket scientist who appreciate the fact that by and large most of the staff are poorly paid and not at...

This property was built in the 1960s and nothing has changed in it since then. The front lobby is dingy and is the seating disgraceful. The photographs show a lovely aquarium but the reality is the same is covered in algea, and one has to feel sorry for the fish in it. The restaurant just off the lobby and if at all possible avoid it. When I first went into it it looked presentable. It chairs were covered with the type of full-length cloth covering that one often sees at weddings and the like. The problem is that these coverings in the fact coverings in the fact that the chairs were the cheapest possible plastic chairs and the one I was sitting on the second night I was here collapsed. It was only four or five days later that real chairs were installed. As often as not when you ask for something on the menu you are told that it's not available. Even when something is available it usually takes more than a half-hour, even for the simplest item to come from the kitchen and when it does it is often called. There are frequent power failures and at night when it is dark hallway from the lobby to the elevator is in total darkness and one is lucky to find an electric floor lantern placed to at least offer some direction to guests. One positive note,, the hotel does have a generator, and the same usually kicks in within a couple of minutes of the main power failing. However, if you have a room overlooking the parking lot – and half of the hotel rooms do – the noise of the generator which can go on for hours is well past the point of being either a distraction or disconcerting. One has to be careful using the elevator. The sensor in the elevator door is not functional and if more than two or three people are trying to get into the elevator the elevator doors will without warning close because there is no sensor functioning in the door. The guestrooms have not changed since the time the building was originally constructed. Some of the rooms are replete with mold. The walls in many of pockmarked and the same have not been repaired for an extended period of time. In the air-conditioners that went directly to outside their often gaps around same witchery provide an open invitation to mosquitoes and other flying insects. There are no mosquito nets in the rooms. In the morning, particularly on the upper floors it is common to find a lack of hot water for a shower or bath. The hotel advertises Internet but at times stringing two tin cans talked with a piece of wire between them would probably be faster mode of communication.

The staff do try their best. However, it does not take a rocket scientist who appreciate the fact that by and large most of the staff are poorly paid and not at...

Since my last visit the hotel improved. Rooms are still the same (old but decent and clean) but with new airco's. The new roof terrace is really great. It offers a great view of the city, has a nice bar and lot of places to sit. They even serve some decent food (only bbq). But, it stays Africa: 'Can I also have one beef skewer?' 'No, only two.' 'But I had two already, I just want one extra.' 'No, only two,' 'But please, I want to give you my money. I just want one skewer...' 'No, only two.'.||||In general the hotel offers an ok price/quality ratio. But for the best price/quality you still have to go to Foyer du Marin, just two...