霍尼亞拉Holy Cross Cathedral附近酒店

這個地方真的真的很好。我訂的是因爲一個超級便宜,也許是霍尼亞拉最便宜的,第二是在中心位置。超市,telekom和餐館都在步行距離之內。工作人員非常樂於助人,特別是爲我辦理登機手續的女士,Turkena和她的同事。他們幫我用我的sim卡。我把鑰匙放錯了地方,我的住宿日期改變了,他們對一切都非常同情,並幫助了我。我很容易住在這裏,我的意思是在中心位置每晚90美元,這是便宜的!

我們入住的時候,我們用SBD(當地貨幣)支付了房間的現金,雖然我們的Booking.com發票報了USD和AUD,只是當我到房間的時候才意識到他們多收了我錢。我之前在Booking.com上預訂了,取消了,後來以較低的價格重新預訂了。他們向我收取了先前的預訂金額,差價約490SBD。我到前台去整理了一下,花了將近一個小時才弄好,等我們弄好之後,他們說他們再也不能到現金抽屜了,第二天需要再過來我讓他們給我一張應付退款金額的收據。第二天早上,我不得不三次到前台,一切都必須重新計算,儘管多付的金額在前一天晚上已經解決了。由於他們的錯誤,我幾乎浪費了兩個小時的假期。房間本身很乾淨,雖然牀很小,但看起來比標準全尺寸牀墊還要小。這家餐廳價格驚人,接近我們在西雅圖爲類似食品支付的價格。位於城鎮西側,因此您必須步行前往霍尼亞拉市中心(餐廳、博物館、購物等)更多位置的任何東西。

Stayed for two weeks in May-June 2023. Positive: -- extremely central location, walking distance to almost everything (Honiara is not very big) -- super friendly and helpful staff -- the bento box in the Japanese restaurant is surprisingly good -- powerful air conditioning, which you will appreciate after a day in Honiara -- has a generator for when the power goes off (which happens) Neutral: -- has all the basics: refrigerator, aircon, TV all worked fine -- no issues with cleanliness, maid service every day -- no issues with water pressure or heat -- swimming pool is small but clean, I did laps there most nights with no problems -- laundry service is pricey but otoh is lightning fast: my laundry came back ironed in well under 24 hours -- make sure your door is firmly closed or you'll get mosquitos Negative: -- wi-fi is bad: slow, sometimes drops, and charges you extra for use beyond 100 MB /day. If you can, get a local SIM card and hotspot off that. It's cheaper and faster. -- breakfast is not free and is pretty miserable. It's 100 SBD (about US $13) for corn flakes, stale bread, coffee, and fruit. The fruit is fresh and local but that's about all I can say for it. After a few days I just started going next door to the Breakwater Cafe, which gives a much nicer array of breakfast offerings for about the same price. -- there's a club next door, which can be loud on weekends. It didn't bother me but if you're sensitive to that sort of thing, be aware. -- there's a small beach right behind the hotel... which is covered with trash. You probably wouldn't want to swim there anyway (the Mendana is in the middle of town and very near the port) but it's nasty to look out your window at a garbage-strewn beach. Surely this could be fixed? -- no exercise room Basically this is the medium-price hotel in Honiara. The Heritage and Coral Sea are nicer but more expensive (usually -- prices in Honiara can fluctuate a lot). I found the Mendana perfectly okay. The only major negative was the wifi. Fix that and I'd give back half a star.

Beautiful hotel, friendly and helpful staff. The rooms were clean and well kept. Good location, ocean facing. Pool looked welcoming but being near the Splash bar meant you were sometimes swimming with people around. Beautiful green gardens all around. Food at the restaurant was okay, preferred to go to other places to eat, and the gym felt quite ”enclosed”. But all in all I would recommend for their cleanliness, hospitality and being well-maintained.