Al Sahel Desert Islands Resort and Spa by Anantara

Bjørnar Nesland

Stayed three nights with my family and my parents April 2024. Positives: Extremely nice and spacious villa. Nice private pool. Cool island, and it feels like you are in Africa. Good excursions (saw a lot of giraffes!) Negatives: The service from the restaurant was not good. We ordered two times to our villa to eat dinner outside by the pool. Both times the food took almost 2 hours, and both times they had either missed parts of the order or gotten it wrong. The staff tried their best, so 5/5 for effort, but a lot of the outcomes were a bit less "professional", in lack of a better word, than expected for such a fancy place like this. Verdict: Will we come back? Definitely! The positives outweighs the negative too much, and I believe we were just a bit unlucky. Recommended!

namsoo kim

4 stars thanks to the kindness of Ms.Retno and the reception team, but lots of improvement needed. 1. Room service food is a joke for a resort bearing Anantara brand. Funny, since the room service food we had the day before in Anantara desert island was fantastic and delicious. I thank mangement for accepting my complaints on this, but seriously, the food needs improvement. However, the breakfast we had in the breakfast restaurant was very good. 2. There was loud construction noise all night long, which kept my toddler son from sleeping all night long. No one wants to go on a vacation and have construction noise waking up the whole family. If i had known that there would be construction noise all night long, i wouldnt have booked my stay. Please inform your guests on confirmation of this noise, so that people can make the right decision whether to book or delay their visit. Really, if it werent for the staff members' effort to make up for these mishaps, i would think that even 1 star is too much.

Fatima Alkhoori

This is my second time to this resort because of its amazing location - However, I have two comments that made us very disappointed this time. The boat that took us to the island was without AC and it was very old and smelly and it created severe discomfort and during summer times this should not be acceptable at all. Also, the quality and taste of food is very very very very bad.. We tried the italian restaurant olio and the room service dining and the african restuarant and all were tasteless. The staff are very friendly though and the service is usually very quick. I hope that you pay attention to the boat and food quality. I tried filling out this survey in the link shared by the resort instead of posting it here but it shows that the link is expired although we’ve checked out just now today. So I had to post here. Thanks!

Eric

The area and number of animals on this island exceeded my expectations. The hotel is also very luxurious, and the taste of Italian and African restaurants has exceeded my expectations as well. The restaurant service is also very good, and I would like to give special praise to Samra. Anyway, this was a very satisfying trip

Lebhotelier

A very unique outdoors experience in an idyllic setting. Good for families with young children to be outside in beautiful nature and enjoy the roaming animals… the villas are nice and charming however need lots of renovations. All Prices are exorbitant, rooms, food and all activities. The service although friendly is not organized and inefficient with poor communication in general. The food offering was the biggest let down, poor quality and variety across the 3 hotels. We enjoyed it overall but would not go back.