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Tana Hotel


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78, Bahir Dar | Lake Tana, Bahar Dar, Ethiopia
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2 of 5 stars
JJChambers 2 contributions
Moscow
Jun 22, 2009 | Trip type: Solo travel

While I agree with the need to provide a heavy bit of slack for hotels outside Addis Abeba, the fact that several nice places have sprung up in the Ethiopian provinces over the last few years indicate that the landscape is changing. And that's a good thing. The Tana Hotel is a poorly run at best, a shambles at worst.... more

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2 of 5 stars
alastaira1 6 contributions
London
Apr 16, 2009 | Trip type: Friends getaway

What travellers to Ethiopia desperately need is competition to the Ghion hotel chain. The Ghion hotel in Bahir Dar is bizarrely the only one on the lake shore, and while the location and grounds are great, the place is in need of a complete refurbishment. The staff are disinterested, bordering on rude.The food is like that of the rest of... more

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2 of 5 stars
carlotortora 9 contributions
Ethiopia
Mar 4, 2009 | Trip type: Couples

This is a gorvernment run hotel, where the shabbiness of the communist era is well preserved. Staff are rude; ineffective. Food is terrible, and the bathrooms are filthy. The hotel is however set in a beautiful spot with a garden full of tropical birds. more

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2 of 5 stars
BaronBaron 20 contributions
Beirut, Lebanon
Jan 3, 2008 | Trip type: Friends getaway
5/5 found this review helpful

Considered as the premier location in Bahar Dar, the Tana is part of the government owned Ghion chain. As it often happens in this kind of institutions, guests can feel some “laisser aller” in the running of the hotel. We were brought from the airport by a so called attendant who happened to be a guy that works on his... more

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2 of 5 stars
Robveezed 4 contributions
London
Dec 4, 2007 | Trip type: Solo travel
4/5 found this review helpful

This hotel is very dated, but this is not unusual for the Ghion Hotels chain. The hotel is clean yet inconveniently located. The big down side is that the staff are pretty much useless. They seem to go out of their way to have zero enthusiasm or personality. We stayed at this hotel for one night and transferred to the... more

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3 of 5 stars
givemesunshine 36 contributions
Menlo Park, California
Aug 25, 2007 | Trip type: Family
4/4 found this review helpful

This hotel is located by the LakeTana near the Bahir Dar University. It is not convenient to the town. We arranged for a taxi at the front desk and they quoted us a price. Once we came back to the hotel the taxi demanded triple fare. The hotel was built probably in the 60's or 70's. The style is quite... more

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4 of 5 stars
GaryT770 28 contributions
Washington DC, District of Columbia
Feb 15, 2007
8/8 found this review helpful

Let me start by saying the Tana was a pleasant place to stay. It certainly was not luxurious, and probably would look pretty sad next to a Motel 6 or any standard American chain motel. BUT, it's not in America, so the scale changes. It was reasonably clean, the food was OK, the staff was friendly enough, but the greatest... more

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5 of 5 stars
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Rancho Cucamonga, California
Jun 16, 2006
2/16 found this review helpful

While I was dining with my group from Los Angeles, California, at the Tana Hotel, an awesome bird flew overhead above us. This bird was medium size with a tail of three feet of black and white feather bows that swayed up and down while it flew across the dining room to the other side up high in the rafters.... more

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2 of 5 stars
plus_ultra_77 113 contributions
Kufstein, Austria
Apr 21, 2009

Das zur staatlichen Ghion-Gruppe gehörende Tana Hotel liegt etwas außerhalb des Stadtzentrums von Bahar Dar direkt am Ufer des Tana... more

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4 of 5 stars
noet 162 contributions
catalunya
Oct 19, 2008

nos gusto mucho el hotel tana en bahar dar las habitaciones son sencillas pero limpias , el comedor bien ,la... more

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