Hotel Aljazira

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The staff did not seem happy to see me. No one was rude, per-se… but no one smiled either, and shuffled if I had any questions. It wasn’t bad, and I would stay here again… but i did get this unwelcome feeling, even though I tried to smile and be super polite.

had a problem with booking. I booked this hotel, and then used the booking map to find it. I could not find the hotel at all! I considered that this was probably a scam, and so I cancelled my booking (the listing stated free cancellation). Anyway, I kept riding my bicycle around, looking for another hotel… and i “discovered” this one… over a mile away from where Booking has it located. Booking should fix the map. This is not a problem with the hotel, but a problem with booking. Here are the correct coordinates: +20.924380, -17.040769

There was quite a number of maintenance issues and everything seemed pretty tired

Many things. It was WAY overpriced for what you get. The hotel is very run down, but would have been nice when it was built. It’s difficult to walk from here to anywhere (but that might be general for all of Nouadhibou). I’m sure there are better options in Nouadhibou. Shop around

My feeling was that the young man in reception was working under duress judging by the sheer look of misery etched upon his face while the security man at the front door must have been stuffed as he hardly moved from his seat all evening.
The shower facility was broken but it wasn't an issue as the water pressure was so weak that it took an hour to fill the bath.
The bedroom was full of mosquitos - I can hardly blame them as they were probably trying to take shelter from the constant wind.
Credit card payment machine didn't work.
One of the bedside light fittings didn't work - being half ripped out of the wall socket might have been an explanation.
Once again with Mauritania (not the fault of the hotel) the location of the hotel on the booking.com website was incorrect !

The guy at the reception first tried to scam me with the money change. They wanted to change me 200€ in local value at the price of 150€. Then with the price of cigarettes. Really bad experience. Last but not least they wanted to charge me more making me pay with an exaggerated amount of the local money (the price was in euro). Obviously it was not possible to pay with credit card. When I refuse they wanted to keep my passport. Then I just payed in euro because I was lucky I had the right amount, but if not they surely would have charged me more with giving me the rest in the local value.

What a dump. Breakfast was a joke.
Or maybe this is high-class in Mauritania

BED BUGS in the room. I asked to change and they gave a new room. They seemed unsurprised, so I presume this is a regular occirrnce. They were not apologetic at all.
We asked for help finding and booking the bus for Nouakchott - staff were very unhelpful and vague. We asked for help changing money, and the staff were also very unhelpful and vague. Considering the room is relatively expensive by Mauritania standards, I expected much better.

On booking they only offer there deluxe room but they also have much cheaper rooms without AC for 13$ less than on booking that's a big difference and the only difference between the 35$ room and the 17$ room is the AC and a mini fridge definitely not worth 13 $ more my advice just walk in without reservation it's much cheaper

The staff was ok not very helpful because English is a big problem only 1 guy could speak English Alle the others next to none

Nothing wrong with the Hotel. The town itself has little to interest visitors and is not clean, It is a working port with a lot of fish processing plants so there is a smell of fish in the air.
Bewary of cars at night that drive with no linghts and many of the side streets do not have any lighting. That said I felt perfectly safe where ever I went.

Bed bugs!