Arusha Serena Hotel

房間乾淨整潔！

這家酒店真心不錯！房間乾淨整潔，設施完備，住着很舒適。服務方面，員工都很熱情，態度特別好，讓人感覺像是回到了家。早餐也豐富，味道可口。周邊交通也便利，整體來説，這次住宿體驗很滿意，下次還會選擇這裏！

Five star Tanzanian experience This is truly a Tanzanian great value five star experience. Service is excellent, food is excellent and course dinner very reasonably priced. Breakfast is complimentary. The rooms are very clean, there is an AC unit in some of the rooms. The room is decorated in a style that speaks to the region. The WiFi is best in the common area which is typical for hotels in this country. There is consistent hot water for the shower which I did not experience in any other hotel here. The grounds are immaculately maintained. The staff was very kind in accommodating my requests. I started the trip here and ended the trip here and I am so happy I did.

Der Preis des Hotels ist absolut über-rissen. Für jede Wasserflasche ausser eine kleine im Zimmer und auch Kaffee nach dem Essen muss man europäische Preise bezahlen. The Price of the hotel is much too high. Even with full board, you have to pay for every water bottle and coffee after lunch or dinner. This never happened to us in Tanzania.

Terrible place. First, You should have double lock in your room otherwise hotel staff could come in to the room late night. Second, Front of my room, all collected dishes from room services are there without cleaning. Third the beeping sounds have bothered us to sleep. Do not come this hotel. Not safe, dirty. I have good experience of other Serena lodge except this one.

The hotel is located a few km outside of busy downtown Arusha. Over the past 2 weeks we have stayed in 3 Serena Hotels…one in the Serengeti, one at Lake Maynara, and now here in Arusha. Overall I found this hotel to be the most disappointing of the 3. While the structure and history of the hotel are significant, the hotel lacks a pool, the buffet has limited options compared to the other 2 hotels, and the overall helpfulness of the front desk staff was less than stellar. Upon arrival, we were created with a cool towel which was appreciated but the interaction with the front desk was rather frustrating. We had 3 separate bags delivered to the hotel earlier in the week from a mountain guide (bags from Kili climb that were dropped while we were on Safari). When we mentioned this to the desk staff, they literally went back to what they were doing, seemingly not to care and it was our current Safari guide (native Tanzanian) who searched and found the appropriate staff to locate our bags. The other issue was on the back end of the stay. After checking out, I was sitting in the lobby with my two friends awaiting transfer to JRO. Our plans for lunch were undecided as we had already checked out. We had several staff stop and encourage us to eat at the buffet lunch. After the 3rd ask we decided to do so. We sat, ate and ordered some water and drinks. Near the end of the meal, the waiter alerted us that lunch was not included and we were to pay $13/e plus drinks. This would have come to roughly $63 USD. Upon following server to the front desk, the presented bill was for approx 270,000 Tanzanian shillings (approx $112 USD). I questioned to bill and the front desk stated that I was misunderstanding and to bill is what it was. I again questioned it. She said the waited would speak with the manager. While this occurred to ran and charged by credit card. Seemingly no compensation was to be made. This miscommunication on their part and overcharging and lack of righting the situation is disappointing esp considering what was told to us and it being a buffet meal. On top of this, the front desk attendant smiled and chuckled during the exchange as if it were funny. This was off-putting and as mentioned disappointing when a service industry underdelivers..