Golden Tulip Essential Lagos Airport Hotel

The staff at this hotel are wonderful. I had a stressful journey and was greeted by the most helpful Gladys on reception. Chinedu, explained all the facilities and made sure I had everything I needed, a really nice man. I highly recommend the buffet dinner, it has a wide range on offer including international and local dishes. I had the delicious bitter leaf soup with Eba, peppered goat meat and some fresh tropical fruits for my desert. Chineyre and Victor in the restaurant were also brilliant and very hospitable. Overall, I would definitely stay here again and again. Thank you everyone. 🥳🙌🏾🙌🏾

On entering this hotel for 2 nights at the beginning of August, I was met by the reception staff who just ignored me and continued messing about on their phone. Once one of them did decide to check me in, they were very stern and not welcoming at all. The reception area is very tired and dated and not welcoming at all. My room was very dated and dark, there were cracked tiles on the floor and the room itself was not cleaned to the standard you would expect in a 1 star hotel never mind a hotel that is supposed to be a 4 star. The swimming pool water was bright green, the swimming pool toilets had to be closed because they were in such a terrible state, with bare wires, broken tap, holes in the walls etc. Payment of the bill once you had drinks, was a bit of a task, as the bar person never had any change. The fridges at the bar do not keep the bottled items cold enough and probably need changing out. The restaurant was very dark, there were 3 TVs on the wall all on different channels, with the volume for each set quite high, so no matter where you sat, you could hear all 3 TVs at once. The food provided in the restaurant, was in my opinion, not up to the standard you would expect in a 4-star hotel and the food offered was mainly catered to African travellers, but some also complained to staff about what was on offer and the fact that most of the supposedly hot food, was room temperature at best. The restaurant staff were of no help whatsoever, as they were all constantly on their phones. A toaster was provided at breakfast, but no bread to toast, omelettes could be made to order, once you could get the chef off the phone, and they were tasteless and bland, the bacon was either burnt, or undercooked, but you could find one piece or two, that was somewhere in the middle, the scrambled eggs were a watery mess. To summarize, in my opinion, this is the worst hotel experience I have ever had and the best part of this stay, was when I checked out.

I have been waiting in the lobby of this supposed 4* Hotel for the last 45 minutes. I have checked in but they only sent cleaners to clean my room when I arrived. They have asked me to wait in their lobby for almost an hour and everytime I ask when my room will be ready they tell me just a few minutes. The hotel isn't busy in the slightest and it is 8pm in the evening. Absolutely 0 excuse why my room should take almost an hour to get ready. I may end up sat here waiting for well over an hour. In the meantime they haven't even offered me a complimentary drink. I went to the bar to order a drink while I waited. They didn't have tonic, soda water or lemonade so in the end I just gave up and returned back to the lobby to carry on waiting. Shocking service so far and far below the standard I would expect even from a 2 star hotel!!!