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The Hostelz.com Review
The dormitory section of the Harmattan Auberge/Restaurant is new, so it is not currently listed in any of the common backpacker travel books. The Harmattan is run by a French family and they have an upmarket restaurant and hotel rooms as well. Everything is new, with massive toilet and shower cubicles, a huge dorm that is cleaned daily, and little alcoves for each of the beds with curtains. The local girl that does the daily cleaning is amazing. She would even fold up the clothes and pack them back into our bags, and she did any washing lying around. We gave her a nice tip at the end.
The clientele was pretty interesting in the restaurant - wealthy, alternative expats - which made the evenings interesting. We stayed about four nights and on our last night we were joined by two American peacecorps volunteers who were having a weekend off in town. The day we left a group of French armymen were coming in to use the facility and do volunteer work in town.
We actually found the Harmattan by default, but found the location near all the major restaurants, clubs and bars really useful. There is plenty to do in St Louis and as soon as you walk out the door at the Harmattan you are in the centre of life there.
The clientele was pretty interesting in the restaurant - wealthy, alternative expats - which made the evenings interesting. We stayed about four nights and on our last night we were joined by two American peacecorps volunteers who were having a weekend off in town. The day we left a group of French armymen were coming in to use the facility and do volunteer work in town.
We actually found the Harmattan by default, but found the location near all the major restaurants, clubs and bars really useful. There is plenty to do in St Louis and as soon as you walk out the door at the Harmattan you are in the centre of life there.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
March 2005
Harmattan Auberge Details
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Location/Contact| Address | 108 Rue, Saint Louis, Senegal |
| Website | None (if you know the URL of their website, tell us and we'll add it) |
| Telephone | 221 961 8253 |
| Fax | 221 961 6253 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Good location I have stayed for 3 nights at Hotel l'Harmattan in May 2011. It was 20,000Fcfa per night for two persons for the room called "Blue." The location is very good and easy to access any places like restaurants, bars, mini-supermarket. But it is not clean and they have some cats working around. They do toilette everywhere and smelling. — Anonymous , Japanaise (2011-05-14) The dormitory (which is the communal room part of the Harmattan) is the place where Peace Corps volunteers from Senegal come to stay while in Saint Louis. It is 4000 CFA (African Financial Community currency) per night (as of 2005/06) which isn't the cheapest, but it is clean and centrally located.
The Iguana, which runs one of the better dance floors on the island, is right around the corner and, if you are prone to such things, you can go dance the night away and only have about twenty feet to stumble back to your bed.
There aren't any lockers or other such things for securing your possessions. The maid is fond of rooting through baggage, so it is a good idea to have something to lock everything up if you're staying there.
In the last couple months the French guy who owned it sold it to a Lebanese couple. How this will affect the ongoing renovations has as of yet to be seen. — Will (2005-07-22)