Roof of Africa Hotel

What a lovely experience! The rooms were large and very clean with nice balconies and seating areas. Good wifi, good water pressure, good breakfast, good service and very comfy beds. Not to mention the excellent restaurant and bar downstairs. I seriously recommend the owambo chicken - delicious.

For: Great inhouse Beer & Food and a hop skip & a jump to Joes if you want a change of scenery. Lovely small beer garden. Sport (rugby & football) on big screen. Against: This appears chiefly to be a conference centre. The out-of-town attendants of which noisily partied-up to well after midnight in the pool area right by our room on the two separate occasions we stayed there. Rather annoying and inconsiderate.

First of all I want to state that the staff and especially our waitress were very friendly and competent. Also the locally brewed beer holds up to it's promise. Unfortunately the rest of our experience was disappointing. We had to wait for 1,5hours for our food. The food came with large amount of time apart. The potatoes and even the fries (!!!) were undercooked. There was generally no seasoning of anything. The dishes were arranged without any love. I made the terrible mistake to order the lobster with high expectations. I am definitly not going to make this mistake in the near future again.

Roof of Africa used to be known to serve amazing buffets, which included a great selection of Namibian meats, as well as salads and desserts, perfect to take down with a cold beer from their on-site brewery. Unfortunately this is definitely not the case anymore. We went there for our year-end function in December 2021, and more recently for a private dinner, and both times we were highly disappointed in the downgrade of standard, not only when it comes to the selection of food, but also the availability and the long wait to be served (there was one person to serve a queue of about 20-30 HUNGRY people). The quality of the food is not what it used to be, the meat was dry and overcooked and the options very limited, which makes the buffet highly overpriced. Will not be going back there. Can't say much about the hotel itself, except that it's housed in a very nice building, with intricate woodwork – the roof is especially worth looking at (even more so because the food isn't worth looking at at all).