I've stayed at the Planet Hotel, in downtown Akwa, several times now since April 2007.

The cleaners are meticulous, the hotel is well presented and fronted by a caring Englishman, always keen to assist with your well-being and stay. His sister is a famous TV presenter in the UK. The staff are bi-lingual (French/English) and work well as a team.

The hotel itself is very clean and all the rooms are adequately sized and in perfect condition. All the rooms come with bath, shower, toilet and washbasin. There are TV's with 10 or so French channels, plus CNN in English. Each room has an ethernet connection and reception will supply you with a network cable for plugging into your laptop, with free access to the internet. I managed speeds of upto 100kbs for downloading stuff and Skype and MSN video chats were without problems.

The rooms don't come with mini-bar or any free water/coffee etc.

There is a bar in the hotel which closes at 11pm along with the... more