Résidence Hôtelière du Phare — Hotel in Estuaire Province

I stayed here for a week and a half while on a business trip. The staff is very friendly, and the food is good. As is everything in Libreville, it's French, and European at heart. ||||The beds are the hotel are huge and most of the rooms overlook the water. There is a restaurant on the patio overlooking the beach - make sure to try it. The rates are reasonable. The local beers from the restaurant are Regab and Bueafort, and the wine is generally French.||||I would recommend this hotel to anyone. The hotel is good for families and business trips. The internet is ok. I am comparing to my home internet in the US. I traveled for business so connectivity is important. The patio is well connected but the range does not extend to the rooms. Not a big deal, but a pain sometimes. ||||Regarding the ease of arriving at the hotel...the proximity to the airport is great. The hotel is less than 5 minutes from the airport. Negotiate with the cab drivers before you get in the car. The exchange rate is around 500 to 1. This ride should cost no more than 5000 CFA ~ 10 USD Maximum. If you do not haggle before you get in - you are out of luck. Your best case then is to get a person from the hotel to talk to the cab driver. ||||Make sure you ask for local recommendations for sight seeing opportunities. Gabon is a...

DO NOT STAY HERE!! The morning I was to leave, while eating breakfast, I watched an employee (housekeeper) go into my room. A couple of hours later as I was traveling down the coast I discovered she had stolen $600 usd from my day pack. We called the manager immediately. His initial response was to blame me for not using the room safe (THERE IS NOT A SAFE IN ROOM #4). When I returned to Libreville a week later I went straight to the hotel and suggested we call the police. Again he blamed me for not using the imaginary safe and said he would report it to the police. That proved to be a dead end in spite of promises made. I could have stopped payment on my credit card, but opted to honor my bill. Lesson learned. I could also go on about the dinginess of the hotel as a whole, the sliding glass door to the room that has a one inch gap to the outdoors, the cigarette butts in the water buckets for washing the beach sand off your feet, the shower head that shoots water up rather than down, and used ear swabs/buds in my garbage can. But, to put it more simply ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK! You have...

This hotel near the airport (just a 5 minutes drive) is set on a quiet three mile long sandy beach - (while walking it we twice saw baby turtles heading being rescued by volunteers). All the hotel's rooms face the sea and have good aircon, hot water showers, kettle, fridge and TV with European channels. The hotel could use a new paint job but most stuff works and the staff are friendly and helpful when things don't.||The breakfast are good - fruit juice, a basket of pastries and bread, jams and butter and fresh tea or coffee; eggs and more on request and extra. Dinner in the restaurant - roofed but open sided, right on the beach - is not cheap but is excellent; we can recommend the ‘sergeant fish’. Service is, unfortunately, African-speed but you have the beach and the waves to watch while you wait.||If you need to arrive or leave the hotel late at night or very early in the morning make sure they know so that they can unlock the front doors for you.||There is a useful bakery and coffee shop 5 minutes walk away, La Citronelle, opposite which is a good...