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Location: 
Batokunku, near Tujering.
15 mins. to the beach |
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| Rooms: 5 huts |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| This is a rustic eco-lodge 15 minutes
walking distance to the beach. It has shared shower facilities
&
toilet;
electrical power is from a wind turbine. |
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Location:
Kartong
seafront |
| Rooms: 15 |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Review:
A basic, tidy lodge on a near deserted beach, far away
from the regular tourist trails. Shared
bathing
facilities and WC; they only use organic vegetables and
fruits, and locally caught fish. |
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Location:
Near
Janjanbureh, Baboon Island, 270km upriver |
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| Rooms: 4 safari tents |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| 'Badi Mayo' camp has 4 safari tents with
2 single beds each, on raised platforms. Private outside
shower area and shared composting toilets. The place is
closed to tourists 3 days a week. |
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Location:
Tujereng,
south west coast, 2km to beach |
| Rooms: 4 modern huts |
Plunge Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Review:
The lodge is off-the-beaten-track and 2km to the beach.
It has 4 en-suite room huts with double bed and ceiling
fan. The accommodation uses solar power and has bicycles
for hire. |
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Location:
Gunjur,
south west coast, 39km from Banjul capital |
| Rooms: 9 |
Swimming Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Review:
Footsteps is an escape in the countryside in a large tropical
garden setting and is 10 minutes drive to the beach. 9
modern Africanized huts with private shower,
toilet
and double or twin beds. It recycles all its water, uses
natural water for the swimming pool, uses windpower and
solar, employs permaculture landscaping and grey water
filtration. *Airport trasnfers is provided. Backpackers
are welcome. |
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Location:
Kartong
beach, 60km from Banjul capital |
| Rooms: - |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ |
Campsite ✔ |
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| The Halahin has simple African style round
huts with private shower,
toilet,
1 double bed and sitting area. It's located on a near
deserted section of beach. It uses wind and solar for
lighting and has a camping area under the rhun palm trees. |
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Location:
Brufut
village, 15 minutes drive to beach |
| Rooms: 7 |
Swimming Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
| Wi-Fi Zone ✔ |
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| Review:
This is a really stylish boutique hotel with 7 distinctly
designed bedrooms, each with en-suite shower / WC, double
bed and lounge area. All food waste from the accommodation
is composted. The hotel was built using the local workforce
and materials. It also uses solar powered water heaters,
energy efficient light bulbs and all water is drawn from
a well within the complex grounds. They offer a free airport
transfers service from Banjul International Airport. |
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Location:
Jinack
Island beach, north west bank of river |
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| Rooms: 4 huts |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Each seafront hut has a private shower and
flushing
toilet.
The lodge uses solar electricity for the basics such as
lights. Fruits and vegetables consumed here are grown
organically by local villagers. |
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Location:
Gunjur
village, near the beach |
| Rooms: 4 |
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| En-suite ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Kuba has 4 African styled round huts with
private shower, hand basin and
composting toilet,
and uses solar energy for electricity. |
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Location:
Brufut
Heights beach |
| Rooms: 6 apts. |
Swimming Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ *A/C ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
| Wi-Fi Zone ✔ |
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| Review:
A stylishly designed boutique hotel with Atlantic Ocean
sea views, a swimming pool, 5 double bedrooms and 1 suite
with 2 bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms. Leo's uses
solar panels for electricity and hot water, and has extensively
fitted energy saving fittings and appliances. They provide
airport transfers which is payable locally. |
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Location:
Mandina
River, Makasutu Culture Forest, 15 minites drive from
Banjul Airport. |
| Rooms: 8 |
Swimming Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Review:
Live a life of indulgence in a forest next to a mangrove
lined tributary. Mandina is an award winning, 5 star eco-lodge
set in amongst the hardwood-forest and mangrove creeks.
The 1,000 acres of pristine forest is owned and protected
by the owners of the lodge and its 8 en-suite rooms use
composting toilets
and solar for hot water. |
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Location:
Gunjur
/ Kartong beachfront |
| Rooms: 8 huts / palapas |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ |
Self-catering ✔ |
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| Review:
Nemasu is made up of 8 unique, stylish oceanfront huts
on the sand, (some with own bathing facility and
toilet)
built with mostly local, natural materials. 1 to 4 beds
per room, mosquito nets over beds. There is also has a
large beach bar and diner. |
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Location:
Fajara,
residential, 10 minutes drive to the beach |
| Rooms: 18 |
Swimming Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ A/C ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| A small hotel with 18 bedrooms with twin
beds, private bathroom,
toilet,
private porch. They use solar for hot water, source as
much of their produce from local sources, compost all
organic waste, use natural mosquito repellents and don't
use pesticides or fertilisers in their garden. |
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Location:
100 metres to Kartong
beach, 60km from Banjul |
| Rooms: 14 |
Swimming Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Review:
Sandele is a 4 star deluxe beach lodge in south west Gambia,
far from the tourist hotspots. Bedrooms and suites have
their own shower, a
composting toilet
and private patio. The lodge uses solar for hot water
and electricity. Sandele was built using ecological construction
methods and is operated as a model of sustainability and
responsible tourism. Airport pick-up and drop-off at extra
charge. |
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Location:
North bank of Gambia River, Dog
Island, |
| Rooms: 5 |
Dip Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ Fan ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| Review:
This is a deluxe accommodation with 5 bedrooms, all with
very nice private shower, wash-hand basin, WC and ceiling
fan. Electricity is from PV panels and there is no air-conditioning,
but hot nights should not be too much of a problem during
the winter season, next to the waterside. |
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Location:
Kartong,
Allahein River bank, SW Gambia |
| Rooms: - |
Barbecue areas ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| A group of Gambian style huts with single
beds for 2 or 4, with private shower, basin and WC. The
riverside camp is equipped with solar panels and a waste-water-disposal
system that is not released into the nearby mangroves.
*They provide airport transfers. |
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Location:
Kartong
beachfront |
| Rooms: 6 |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ 2 bedrooms |
Campsite ✔ |
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| Stay a few nights or more on a virtually
empty, sandy shoreline in south west Gambia. 4 huts with
double or single beds sleeping 2 each, shared bathing
and
toilet
facilities. A room in the round house containing two bedrooms
for two persons each with private bathroom. Aka 'Tamba
Kuruba', the place is open all year round. There is a
designated camping area within the lodge grounds. |
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Location:
Gunjur,
within a short walking distance to beach |
| Rooms: 8 |
Swimming Pool ✔ |
| En-suite ✔ |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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| 8 rooms with 2 beds each, private shower,
wash-hand basin and flushing
toilet;
all in a large tropical garden with drinks bar. This is
a wheelchair accessible accommodation that uses a combination
of solar power, batteries and a backup generator. |
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Location:
3 km from Kafuta
river |
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| Rooms: - |
Bar & Restaurant ✔ |
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Situated 2.5 km from the main road, the
camp is comprised of a group of round huts, each with
electrical lights, shower and flush
toilet
behind huts in separate building. There are lots of activities
and workshops such as tree planting, cow cart safaris
and cooking.
Money made from the camp is used to help the local villagers,
child education and community development programs. |
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yet no clear standard has been set giving a definition of what
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facilities & services maybe optional extras or limited in
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