Magnolia Hotel & Conference Center | Bole Atlas | ማግኖሊያ ሆቴል | ቦሌ አትላስ — Hotel in Addis Ababa

Stayed here for nearly three weeks. A new hotel, the rooms are of the highest standard with comfortable beds, high-definition televisions, and impressive rainfall showers. Housekeeping was prompt and did a thorough job keeping the room tidy. Indeed, all the staff were never anything but extremely helpful and accomodating. I stayed in a standard room, but would note that in the larger rooms there is apparently a tub that opens to the bedroom rather than the bathroom, which struck me as extremely odd.

The breakfast buffet had a wide selection, although the omelettes (made at a station) were sometimes undercooked and the selection of juices sour. However, the pastries were excellent, particularly when fresh. As for lunch and dinner, be sure to try the fish goulash, pizza, and any of the steak, but avoid the chicken cream soup and don't bother going out of your way to eat the burgers. The bar also has a good selection of beers, wines, and spirits, although on one occasion a beer was served to me so cold it poured out as a slush!

The gym has a good variety of machines and a rotation of helpful trainers. As is usual in Ethiopia, the pool is rather strongly chlorinated but otherwise clean and at a good temperature. The shower temperature can be a bit finicky, but otherwise everything works as expected, including the steam bath and sauna. I hear the masseuse is exceptional but did not book an appointment myself. Some of the fixtures-- in the spa and elsewhere appear to be showing premature wear-and-tear, but this is a consistent problematic feature of construction work in Ethiopia whose redress probably entails a systemic solution and thus can't helped insofar as this hotel-- or any other-- is concerned.

My sole complaint is that the hotel could be improved by the addition of a business centre-- the lack of one was a little surprising, and it made printing documents a hassle; the staff was no less accommodating to this request, but it required me to send my documents to the IT office and then go back to the front desk to pick the printed copies up. Had I been dealing with sensitive documents. However, the wi-fi was always reliable, so that was less of a problem than it could have been.

Overall, I strongly recommend the Magnolia Hotel to all sorts of travellers-- business, tourist, expat, diaspora-- and will undoubtedly return here when I next travel to Addis Abeba, which hopefully...

I stayed in this hotel for free with the Ethiopian Airlines stopover program. They picked me up and dropped me off at the airport which was a short 10-minute ride. Everyone who worked at the hotel was very nice and helpful. The food was okay.

The hallway lights flickered and sometimes the lights in my room turned off. The wifi also turned off and stopped working occasionally. The shower drain was partially clogged, water was lukewarm, and the trash can was broken but overall it was okay for resting between flights. I was traveling solo and the area was safe for me to walk around.

My biggest complaint is that I asked the front desk how to get a taxi and they called someone who took me to the wrong restaurant, asked for 30 USD or 2,000 Birr, took me to an ATM that kept my debit card, and still demanded money after he got my card stolen. I ended up giving him 500 Birr (9 USD) for a 5 minute ride so he would leave me alone. Then I walked back to the hotel at 8:30 pm but the streets are mostly well lit so it didn’t feel too dangerous. I asked the taxi driver how much the ride was before I got in but he wouldn’t tell me and I figured it couldn’t be that much for a short ride. This happened the evening of May 4, 2024. I would recommend that the hotel avoid calling this person next time someone...

This hotel has friendly and helpful staff. Food is local, and good. ||Location is unpleasant, dark alley. In the morning homeless people woke up along the alley and packs of homeless dogs are roaming the neighborhood.||They have a luggage scanner and metal detector but nothing was checked even though it beeped. Also there was an open door next to the main entrance (frequently used) so I feel security is just a facade. ||We had two rooms, but had to switch because one key wasn’t working. First room was really dirty in the bathroom sink, and soaps etc was knocked over, like someone had been there. Also the safety lock on the door was completely broken.|The two next rooms seemed okay, but in one room the internet and the shower was not working.|In the bathroom they had conditioner and body lotion, no shampoo. |In the two rooms there was altogether three sliding doors for windows. None had handles or locks. Absolutely not safe for kids.||The elevator had a sign saying the door sensors wasn’t working. Sometimes the elevator couldn’t be operated properly or it wasn’t working at all. ||Worst thing, we are all covered in flee og bedbug...