Ladonia Hotels Adakule

Hotel is very run down and extremely dirty. No house keeping at all. Have to keep asking for fresh towels but sometimes they were not dropped up. No line to reception as the phone are disconnected in the room. Food is not good either. We had to eat out every night. Lobby is nice but after that the hotel is dirty. Definitely not a nice place to stay.

This is, without a doubt, the worst hotel I have ever stayed at.

I’m not a spoiled traveler, and I have plenty of experience staying in hotels. I’m not comparing this place to a 4- or 5-star resort. I’m comparing it to budget 2- and 3-star hotels, and this hotel still manages to be worse in every possible way. Things that normally work perfectly fine all over the world simply don’t work here.

Let’s start with the hotel itself. The building is literally falling apart. Plaster is crumbling off the walls, the rooms are dirty, the shower is covered in mold, the doors are swollen from water damage and covered in dents, and the walls are filthy.

The bed linen was gray, torn, and covered with brown stains. The pillows themselves had large yellow stains. Housekeeping is practically nonexistent. During our 5-night stay, our room was cleaned only once, and only because we specifically requested it. “Cleaning” meant making the bed and replacing the toilet paper—nothing more. The floor wasn’t vacuumed, and the towels were never changed.

I stayed with my mother and my brother. We had a room for three people with two beds. We were given only one small, torn children’s blanket with no duvet cover, plus two tiny towels that we were apparently expected to use as blankets. The room had almost no amenities whatsoever—just two wall-mounted soap dispensers. That’s it. The safe was locked by default and couldn’t be used without asking. The beds shook violently with every tiny movement, making it almost impossible to sleep.

Honestly, I don’t need luxury to enjoy my vacation. I can overlook an old, worn-out room—but only if you’re not disgusted by dirt and poor hygiene.

The elevators deserve a separate mention. There are only two of them, both very small, and you’ll spend forever waiting. They randomly skip floors and sometimes take people down even when they’ve pressed the button to go up. Be prepared to use the stairs most of the time.

The dining hall was one of the worst parts of the hotel. It smelled like garbage to the point of making me gag. The plates, glasses, and cutlery were sticky and dirty. Tables weren’t cleaned—they simply brushed the crumbs away with a filthy rag. The floors were sticky as well. There were never enough seats, so you had to wait for someone to leave and then sit at a dirty table until at least the dishes were removed.

The queues were unbelievable. Some dishes would run out before everyone could get them. I waited 30 minutes for pancakes more than once, only to watch people take entire plates full and leave nothing for everyone else.

You probably won’t starve if you’re not picky, but don’t expect to enjoy the food.

The beach wasn’t much better. If you didn’t reserve a sunbed early in the morning, you wouldn’t find one later. Every single day there were different rules for getting beach towels. One day they started giving them out at 10:00, another day at 10:30, while local guests somehow always received theirs earlier and without any restrictions. The towels were, unsurprisingly, stained and torn, just like most of the sunbed mattresses.

On two out of our five days, there were simply no towels left at all. On another day we actually had to argue with the staff because they suddenly decided that three adults were only entitled to two towels.

The sea was full of foam and floating trash. It was also freezing cold in early August, although that’s more of a regional characteristic than the hotel’s fault. Everyone had to use the same staircase to enter the water, and it often became completely blocked because people would stop and stand on it. There were also countless biting insects that made relaxing almost impossible. The swimming pool, unsurprisingly, appeared to have a stomach virus going around.

There were no water dispensers anywhere in the hotel, and bottled water wasn’t provided in the rooms—not even on the day of arrival. Ironically, the hotel’s own information sheet states that guests should receive water. Just like many other things, it’s simply something they write on paper but don’t actually do.

The reception staff didn’t seem to care about complaints or requests. We arrived around 9:00 p.m. on our first day and hadn’t eaten. Reception told us dinner was served until 10:00 p.m., but in reality it had already finished at 9:00 p.m. Even the reception staff didn’t know the hotel’s own schedule. They didn’t offer any help whatsoever—not even assistance with ordering food. Local food delivery apps require registration that doesn’t work for foreign visitors, so ordering food wasn’t even possible.

The surrounding nature is beautiful—that is the hotel’s only real advantage. But the hotel itself looks abandoned. The grounds are dirty and poorly maintained. The stunning scenery cannot make up for how awful the hotel is.

To sum it up: everything was even worse than the negative reviews suggested. This is the worst hotel I’ve ever stayed in, and I cannot recommend it under any circumstances. Your health, comfort, and peace of mind are worth far more than saving a little money. Don’t be fooled by the beautiful photos of the surrounding nature. If you absolutely have to stay here, make it no more than a couple of nights. I’m sure there are much better hotels in this beautiful city.

I’m genuinely shocked that a hotel with this level of service and complete disregard for its guests is still operating.

This vacation was ruined completely.