Lopesan Baobab Resort

We stayed for a week in May with a 2 year old. It's a beautiful hotel with an impressive night time exterior entrance. During the day our daughter enjoyed seeing the animals dotted around and the real turtles. The reception area always smelled fresh and I cannot fault the cleaning. Service around the pool was good, friendly and fast. The children's play area and club were lovely and had good shade. Panchi the dolphin was a favourite, with the mini disco dominating our dinner slot (anything to please our 2 year old) The room was a little bit strange, I think it was down to having little natural light. It felt dark and eeery! There are no tea and coffee making facilities in the room (NOT very 5 star) Nice little shopping area with designer boutiques and also a supermarket. Nice beach with sand dunes not far away (although there were people meeting in the dunes to do things that I hadn't considered!) Nice parade of restaurants by the beach. The gym was ok, but no Olympic bars and lots of weights missing. This is an area for improvement. Lots of people were using the gym, it's an important part of some people's lives! Our daughters birthday was celebrated at the hotel. We had a surprise card and delivery from Panchi (made her day) and a sing song at breakfast with a cake. When we arrived nobody showed us to the room, despite having 2 cases, 2 big bags and a buggy. It was also 1am and we had to find our room on the opposite end of the resort. There were 4 members of staff on reception, nobody showed us the way. We also paid €45 to have our room for the last day as we had a late flight. After the last day at the pool we hoped to have a nice shower before getting our transfer to the airport. The room had been left! We had dirty towels on the floor from the previous day and had to use them. This was incredibly disappointing. Food was nice. I cannot expand on this because it didn't go beyond being nice. I can't report any horrible food, simply cannot praise that the food was above average. We went out for dinner a couple of nights as we were bored of the options. Overall we had a good experience and actually would recommend this hotel for anyone with kids, or not.

Prior to going here, as always, scoured through trip advisor to get a feel for what was in store for us and I have to say our trip advisor contributors are spot on with the following Massive hotel but loads of loungers in great little areas Food was ok but got very boring even after a few days Staff were very busy due to the enormity of the hotel Rooms were very dark as is the whole hotel. They say it is for the Africa feel but that’s a cop out so they don’t have to tidy it up Not 5 star no matter what your expectations are a struggling 4 star at best Restaurants are buffet style and cook to order meats take so long I couldn’t be bothered waiting after the 2nd time as it was basic and quite bland This is full of small kids crying all day so quiet times are a bit hard to find Stupid pricing to upgrade to better food, service and bathing areas. Only there a week and wanted €1200 for 5 days to upgrade (eh no thanks) Forget the daft map they give you as it is pants and pointless Will we go back? Possibly but it would need to be the deal of the century. Loved the area it is in and that was the biggest plus for us. Gave a 4 star rating but was very nearly a 3 due to the food, noise, darkness, difficulties in finding your way around due to size and table service