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Reviews of The Blowfish Hotel

4 out of 5
The Blowfish Hotel
17 Oju Olobun Street, Off Bishop, Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos

Reviews

7.2

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 40 out of 181 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 73 out of 181 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 35 out of 181 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 16 out of 181 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 17 out of 181 reviews" "

7.6/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

6.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Mary

Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2024

4/10 Poor

christina

Business traveler
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Check in was a nightmare! I booked through Expedia and the hotel staff said they always have trouble with reservations from Expedia. I had to sit and wait for an hour to be checked into a hotel that I prepaid for. This created a bad customer experience. There is a club next to the property that is extremely loud at night.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Tomilayo

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
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Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Arin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stay at the Blowfish
Hotel is very lovely, good food, friendly staff, beautiful and safe location. I can't find a single fault. I highly recommend the Blowfish when staying in Lagos.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

henry

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Good wifi signal, hot water for shower, complimentary water daily, restaurants onsite, good location. Issue with booked room being double-booked by hotel so was given another room.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2022

8/10 Good

Willem

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
They operate their own generator. So, if public power is cut the generator kicks in. A/C is working great restaurants and bar are good.
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2022

10/10 Excellent

Deborah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful hotel
Every time i’m in Lagos I stay at the Blowfish. It is the very best ti me. The room is beautiful and the mood is exciting. I will stay here every time I go.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022
Response from Martina on Jan 31, 2022
Dear Mrs. Deborah, It is always a great pleasure to welcome you ! Appreciate your feedback and looking forward to new visit !

8/10 Good

Abhishek

Stayed 2 nights in May 2021

6/10 Okay

Ajit

Business traveler
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
It’s
The normal standard room for which they over charge are not good to stay. There is lot of noise and disturbance that gets into the room from restaurants below and kids play area. The hotel management did understand the complaint and I was moved to other room which had little to noise from outside. Thanks to them for that. The staff is also attentive and attends quickly to any requests made but overall tot seems overly charged as the property is bit congested. They have nice restaurants with good vibes.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2021
Response from sales manager on Oct 7, 2021
thank you for your feedback .sorry we may have not gotten everything right but we are working hard to improve or services and property.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Had fun and was well looked after
Stayed 8 nights in Jul 2021
Response from sales manager on Aug 12, 2021
thank you for an awesome feedback we are glad you had fun. see you again soon

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
A lot of construction and banging throughout the day. However there is no notification. Requested a new room as the closet door fell off and bathroom was disgusting. Staff were very accommodating. Not all rooms are updated. Owners appear to always be watching, but not friendly at all. Told by staff whom they were. They are also quite rude to staff, which was hard to watch.
Stayed 15 nights in Jul 2021
Response from sales manager on Aug 12, 2021
thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re sorry your experience didn’t match your expectations. It was an uncommon instance and we’ll do better in the future. Please feel free to reach out to Sales Manager on 07080070295with any further comments, concerns, or suggestions you wish to share. We would love to make things right if you give us another chance.

10/10 Excellent

Deborah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing hotel
I have stayed at the blowfish hotel several times. It’s amazing. The rooms were very nice. The poolside entertainment is wonderful. I won’t stay anywhere else when i’m in lagos
Pool view from balcony
La veranda restaurant
Onion with dip. Delicious
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021
Response from sales manager on Jul 29, 2021
Thank you so very much for an awesome review

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Stayed 18 nights in Jun 2021
Response from sales manager on Jul 27, 2021
please accept our sinsere apologies.

8/10 Good

Pamela

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021
Response from sales manager on Jul 6, 2021
thank you

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The only good thing about this hotel was the pool (it was beautiful) and the selected dj. Outside of that THIS PLACE IS TRASH! The room was way below standard. I only got 3 channels on my tv the entire time I was there. I was served old food which made me sick. I was to at the least be refunded for the cost of that poison, but I have yet to see any refund. I spoke to two different managers on different occasions and still nothing was done. Even after returning home I still can't hear anything or see any refund. The Blowfish certainly BLOWS! The room was bad, everything was extremely over priced, there were certainly no Covid practices in place, the food was awful, and the cleaning staff steals things from your room if you're not there to watch them (we caught the guy redhanded). Do yourself a favor and AVOID THE BLOWFISH!!!!!
Stayed 14 nights in May 2021
Response from sales manager on Jun 22, 2021
Thank you for posting a review and we’re sorry to hear that your experience was not up to standards. We would like the opportunity to talk and investigate your feedback further.coud you please call or whatsup me on my number 07080070295 or send me your email address? my email is salesmanager@theblowfishhotel.com thank you

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness
The vicinity of the hotel is great but the hotel looks old and not well maintained.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2021
Response from sales manager on May 14, 2021
good afternoon thank you for yur feedback . you are right we are renovating the hotel bit by bit and hopefully it will be completed by the 3rd quater. Hope you will stop by and see our nre improved property. Thank you

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Excellent use of limited space and a top choice social melting point. Staff are generally friendly, professional and observe anti Covid masks always.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2021
Response from sales manager on Apr 26, 2021
Thank you for staying with us. Thank you for an awesome review. Have a good day

8/10 Good

Rawlings

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2021
Response from sales manager on Apr 19, 2021
Thank you

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with group, Business traveler, Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very good
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2021
Response from sales manager on Apr 19, 2021
Thank you

2/10 Terrible

Uche

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It was
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2021
Response from sales manager on Apr 8, 2021
please accept our apologies.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excelent
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2021
Response from sales manager on Feb 11, 2021
thank you for taking the time to send us a feedback. please come back and stay with us soon

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
They should be embarrassed if I am honest. If the standard of rooms I stayed in were a reflection of the entire hotel then this is a mess. DO BETTER!
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2021
Response from sales manager on Jan 12, 2021
good day thank you for your feedback please accept our apologies for the state of our rooms. we are starting renovations this week . we will invite you to come back and see our new standard rooms. once again accept our apologies. thank you

8/10 Good

Kazeem

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It was nice and cool
Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2020
Response from sales manager on Jan 4, 2021
thank you

8/10 Good

Omosefe

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The facilities are the basic standard; because of all the restaurants inside it can be quite noisy at nights; however, their service (staff) are all very courteous and helpful.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2020
Response from sales manager on Dec 29, 2020
thank you for taking the time to write a feedback. we hope to host you again soon happy holidays

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Whew where do I start??? The room was in shambles, I had to switch and the 2nd room wasn't much better. Barely any functional lights, freezing cold water, broken shower head, water damage you name it. Don't get me started on the renovation noises going on from 2pm when i checked in to 10am when they eventually agreed to change my room! I had to go to the front desk multiple times, even at 4am because I couldn't get any sleep! Complete waste of my money. You couldn't pay me to stay here ever again.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2020
Response from sales manager on Dec 31, 2020
thank you

10/10 Excellent

Deborah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent hotel
I stayed here for my first visit to Nigeria. Was very pleased. The bed was comfortable. The rom was clean. The pool and entertainment was excellent. I will definitely stay again next time I come.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2020
Response from sales manager on Dec 7, 2020
thank you for an awesome review. we hope to see you soon. safe travels

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Blowfish - a blow to my expectations
First night was horrendous. My room was right above a party that went on till 12:30am. The room itself had a badly stained bath tub. I requested for a room change which was effected the next day. The new room was better but the music from the pool club downstairs was still a disturbance. There were old water marks on the shower unit and shower walls that you could tell had not been cleaned for ages (probably not even occurred to anyone that they were supposed to be cleaned). The shower unit was rusty and rickety, I was hesitant to use it but with no choice, I had to. The gap under the room door was so big I had to stuff a towel down there to prevent creepy crawlies from entering the room, especially at night. I found a bedbug on the bed which made me an insomniac for the remaining 2 nights of my stay. I couldn’t draw the curtains open during the daytime because the windows were badly stained with dirt, horrible to look at. The magazine placed in the room was dated November 2019. Why even bother having it there? The telephone in the room did not work. I couldn’t call housekeeping or reception when I needed assistance. I looked forward to working out in the gym but it was just some dusty equipment in a corridor, no Health & Safety considerations, definitely not fit for purpose. The staff were good. Everyone I encountered were helpful with a pleasant attitude. But the condition of the rooms leave a lot to be desired. PLENTY of room for improvement!
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2020
Response from sales manager on Dec 29, 2020
we sincerely apologize for the bad service you received while staying with us. could you please call me on 07080070295. thank you

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Experience
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2020
Response from sales manager on Nov 16, 2020
thank you for a wonderful feed back.we hope to see you back soon

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Neat Hotel, Unfriendly Front Desk
Good and neat hotel, and very accessible to the business district. The two front desk ladies were sour and unfriendly. Porter and security were great. For 7k naira a plate, the caesar salad needs to be much better. Every thing else was fine.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020
Response from sales manager on Nov 3, 2020
thank you for taking the time to write a feedback. thank you for raising the issues with our front desk. we apologies for the poor service you received. we will address the issue with them. Please stop by and see our improvements.

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent Experience
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020
Response from sales manager on Nov 2, 2020
thank you so very much for an awesome feedback

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020
Response from sales manager on Oct 19, 2020
thank you for an awesome review please stop by soon

10/10 Excellent

Femi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2020
Response from sales manager on Oct 19, 2020
thank you for an awesome review.

10/10 Excellent

Halima

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Absolutely comfortable
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020
Response from sales manager on Aug 27, 2020
thank you for staying with us. thank you for a fantastic review we hope to see you back soon

8/10 Good

Hendrikus

Traveled with group
Short stay Blowfish
It was the first days very noisy. grinding metal frames under my window. the work was not to be done in front of hotel with gaust but this was work what need to bedone in a workshop. (Welding and grinding). Asked the first day to change to other room if avilble but erceiption person never reply back to me. and did not even make note for collage. Receiption is not on a client friendly services. PLACE like pool and pool side are realy inproving. At bar out side on top of the upper resturant you have nice vieuwe over the pool side. Nice to have a drink with bar men william cool person. Its a pitty of the lake of reply from receiption. that did not improve my stay during the 5 days stay. O check AC air filters they was complte blocked i clean my self. BUt i will go back next time i come in this hotel more then 10 years because rooms are nice. alsmost forget. credite card payment is at the last day always problems !!!
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2020
Response from sales manager on Mar 20, 2020
First, I want to thank you for your feedback. While I wish, you had a better experience, it is feedback like this that we learn from and use to improve. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience, and it’s apparent in this case, we fell short. we are saddened to hear the comments. we are looking into it and make sure it does not occur again.we are truly sorry and would like to apologise to you. We hope you can give us another chance and return back to the hotel to see our new renovated rooms thank you

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel and pool area relaxing
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020
Response from sales manager on Mar 16, 2020
thank you for a lovely feedback.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
staff was good, felt very secure. didnt like that the safe did not work in most of the rooms.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020
Response from sales manager on Mar 2, 2020
First, I want to thank you for your feedback. While I wish, you had a better experience, it is feedback like this that we learn from and use to improve. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience, and it’s apparent in this case, we fell short. we are saddened to hear the comments. we are looking into it and make sure it does not occur again.we are truly sorry and would like to apologise to you. We hope you can give us another chance and return back to the hotel to see our new renovations. thank you

4/10 Poor

Dee, Saskatoon

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I was not impressed, the bathroom stayed dirty the entire 4 nights I spent there. They refused to clean, and the rooms are very basic and miniature for the price
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2020
Response from sales manager on Feb 27, 2020
First, I want to thank you for your feedback. While I wish, you had a better experience, it is feedback like this that we learn from and use to improve. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience, and it’s apparent in this case, we fell short. we are saddened to hear the comments. we are looking into it and make sure it does not occur again.we are truly sorry and would like to apologise to you. We hope you can give us another chance and return back to the hotel to see our new renovations. thank you

8/10 Good

Becky, Charlotte NC

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The food there is excellent. Most of the staff is nice. Love Femi!
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2020
Response from sales manager on Feb 24, 2020
thank you for an awesome feedback. please stop by again ....soon

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2020
Response from sales manager on Feb 10, 2020
thank you for a good rating

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great experience
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020
Response from sales manager on Jan 8, 2020
Thank you for an awesome review

8/10 Good

Ezra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2020
Response from sales manager on Jan 8, 2020
thank you

6/10 Okay

Breannne

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Meh- okay for price
Okay hotel for an okay price in a nice area. Some overlooked details like no shower curtain so the bathroom easily flooded and spilled over into the room. There was construction happening so the pool was completely drained which we were informed of after booking the hotel. The “La Veranda” rooftop bar is a nice place to relax in the evening. The hotel arranged transportation for us to the airport which was reliable and convenient.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019
Response from sales manager on Dec 24, 2019
thank you for your feedback. our apologies about the construction going on. we will done by the end of they year. we ask that you please stop by and see our new improved hotel. Thank you

10/10 Excellent

Femi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2019
Response from sales manager on Dec 3, 2019
thank you for an awesome review

6/10 Okay

Kunal, Dubai

Business traveler
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Please don't call it 4 Star property! Staff needs training, without checking the system they argue....Pool is under renovation. Internet is poor. TV is having very limited channels. Breakfast is ok.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2019
Response from sales manager on Nov 29, 2019
First, I want to thank you for your feedback. While I wish, you had a better experience, it is feedback like this that we learn from and use to improve. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience, and it’s apparent in this case, we fell short. we are saddened to hear the comments about our staff. we are currently renovating all aspects of the hotel and we hope to have it fixed soon.. we are truly sorry and would like to apologise. we hope you can give us another chance and return back to the hotel to see our renovations. thank you

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very disapointing. The pool was shut and some fairly noisy renovations are ongoing. No warning about this until check in. The whole place has gone down hill since i stayed last year. It took mulftiple attempts to get a second set of towels, a cup, coffee etfc. Also, who stocks a room with a cup, a sachett of coffee and no kettle? My favourite inconvenience was the late night telephone "one ringers", fun at 3am... Trying to order food from one of the groups restaraunts was intresting. Turned out to be shut for renovation so recepttion confirming we had the correct number to use without informing us of that really added to the impression that either nobody cares or is properly trained. This is a great hotel being let down by greedy owners who want to keep it open as a building site.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2019
Response from sales manager on Nov 15, 2019
please accept our sincere apologies for your bad experience at our hotel.how can we make it up to you?

8/10 Good

Marion

Business traveler, Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
In overall it was a good deal in terms of prices, the personal is very nice, and the food and service is excellent. some room are ok but the first one we had was not clean enough, the wall and the carpet was very dirty, but they swapped for a better room I appreciated. ( this hotel need to be refresh as in the room wall and some équipement are nit good ) A lot of restaurant, shop around very good position. But my big disappointment was the swimming pool, I took an hotel just because I would like to enjoy the pool but after few day it was in maintenance for the rest of my holidays... i will appreciated to the hotel to let Us know about it in advance....
Stayed 10 nights in Oct 2019
Response from sales manager on Oct 14, 2019
we are truly sorry about the swimmimg pool we are renovating the hotel and intend to renovate the swimming pool area. thank you for letting us know how you feel . see you back soon

8/10 Good

Jayna, B.C., Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The hotel is located in a good area. I had issues with water leaking in my room the entire stay and the tap water being a yellowish color. The room was comfortable, the hotel staff friendly, a selection of restaurants to choose from. Overall I enjoyed my stay and would return.
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2019
Response from sales manager on Oct 7, 2019
Thank you for taking the time to write a review. please accept our apologies for the issues you raised. we look forward to hosting you again. Thank you

10/10 Excellent

Jan

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
My stay
It was great!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019
Response from sales manager on Sep 30, 2019
thank you for an awesome feedback. see you back soon!!!!!

8/10 Good

Omolola

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 25 nights in Aug 2019