Ghion Hotel

Ghion Hotel

I guess we all wanted to stay at this hotel because of the location by the lake. The room in the hotel is nothing special at all. The hot water didn't work in our bathroom. We paid 100 Birr per night for 2 persons. There is a mosquito net in the room. The food is quite alright.

Unique Quality: I thought I would mention my experience with the hotel manager. Someone told me that you can find a Land Cruiser that goes from Bahir Dar to Lalibela if you get the words out. So as soon as I got to the hotel, I was asking around. The hotel manager told us he would arrange a minibus for us and we thought that would work too. He told me to get ready at 6am on the day I wanted to leave. We were standing freezing cold from 5.45am. We waited til 7am and then we thought we would call him and ask. He said he would come out in 5 minutes....50 minutes passed by so we called again and he said he would come out in one minute. He came out and accused us of not being there at 6am. Every other staff could confirm that we were there. He called someone...maybe the minibus and then he told us that other passengers cancelled so the minibus decided not to leave at all. Shouldn't we know this like last night so we could just take a bus? He then wrote us a route that involves like 4-5 changes of bus and insisted that we would definitely get to Lalibela that day. I saw the route and thought it shouldn't work so I asked him to call Ethiopian Airlines, I thought I would just fly instead. He called and then told me that there was no flight in the afternoon and that I should go on that route he gave me. We went to the bus station to try that and as soon as we talked to one guy on the bus, he told us that it was impossible to do that route. So we asked him to call Ethiopian Airlines and he said there was actually a flight that afternoon. We immediately got out of that bus and walked to the airlines office. We got our tickets in no time. While we were waiting for the flight, we talked with a bunch of locals and they told us that the hotel manager is such a liar. He always says that he can do this and that when he can't in reality. I don't wanna accuse him of anything but I just wanna inform you guys about this so you double check everything that he has to say!

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Related to: Backpacking

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