For business purposes, this hotel is a "no go" if there are rooms available at ITSandra Beach Hotel which is 10 mins driving distance. I have visited both hotels and Hotel Moroni is out of class. Neither rooms, nor food are good value for money. You dont even feel safe in this hotel. The whole complex needs a rebuild.

The Comoros do not have much in terms of tourist infrastructure. As of August 2008, the Hotel Le Moroni was the only functioning hotel on Grande Comore. The Itsandra and Galowe (?) are both closed with the Itsandra due to open later this year.

That said, the Hotel Le Moroni has some nice qualities: clean rooms, A/C (very important), nice people. But the hotel is bare bones -- the bathrooms are pretty basic and need some work to make them look cleaner (dirty grout, broken tiles), but they work. A surprise was finding wireless throughout the hotel but at a price -- $8/hr. The exchange rate is 250 CF to US $1.

The restaurant is outside with lovely views of the ocean and you can sit in a number of different spots -- in the dining room (open air, no A/C), by the pool, or in a little bar area by the pool. But it is the same food all over, and the same menu at lunch and dinner. The menu has a good variety, but nothing really "lunch-y" for those of us who would like something smaller. The only option is to get a bowl of soup as I am not sure the salads and raw vegetables are to be trusted. Service in the restaurant is clueless. The waiters and waitresses rush back and forth with one glass in their hands or one plate and make 10 trips to one table when they could have made 2. They are invariably nice, but things just seem to go wrong routinely. Orders are wrong or incomplete and completed only after you have finished eating (a friend's french fries were brought after he had finished his dinner -- and it took 2 hrs for us to get served to begin with).

The hotel is run down, shabby, and not a place worth the price (about $150/night) but there is no competition and the owner, who does not live in the Comoros, apparently doesn't care and is not interested in updating anything until he has to.

All this said, however, the hotel is decent despite this because of the people and their efforts to serve you -- even if it isn't always right, they are trying. The maid service is lovely and they keep the rooms very clean -- nice clean sheets on very hard beds. And they replace the mosquito things for the electrical anti-mosquito thing regularly.

Bring insect repellant and sun screen.



There are frequent electrical outages and the TVs in the rooms are not always connected to the hotel's cable which adds BBC and a French news channel -- so you have to ask -- sometimes y you have to remind them every day to push the button to connect you.