Reviews of Rainbow beach resort

Peaceful tranquil cool breeze on beach front.

Staying only 3 nights should have stayed longer

Quiet and clean

Distance From main town...

Rainbow has everything that you need. Great location at the beach front, restaurant, bar and craft Market on site Friendly and helpful staff. Great value for money. The busiest spot on Paradise beach.

The rooms could do with some redecoration and the hot water was hit and miss.

Excellent location. Bar and restaurant facing the beach. Friendly staff. Secure. Excellent value for money.

The location right on a rather quiet beach and the presence of deckchairs on the beach that were free of charge was the best part of the stay. Fewer annoying beach vendors on this beach than in most beaches in The Gambia and Senegal.

There was quite a lot of rubbish on the beach and the sea water was a bit muddy/dirty. There were ants in the sand. The wifi was very unstable and a bit slow when available. Many staff members spoke English quite poorly. The water pressure in the shower in the room was very low. There was no AC included in the price in the budget double room, just a fan. The mosquito nets in the windows of the room were not intact, although there was an intact mosquito net around the double bed.

All of the staff, save for one, were welcoming and helpful and wonderful. The rooms were tucked away and quiet, especially on the weekdays (there were fun, loud parties happening until late at neighboring properties on the weekend). They were clean and equipped with mosquito nets, soap, and hot water in the evenings. Also, watching the fishermen and watching the wrestling on Sunday were amazing experiences. The food was delicious and affordable, and the beach view and many available beach lounging chairs made it a very relaxing place to be.

The rooms didn't have any lockable safes and the windows looked like they'd be easy to break in to. There was no running water in our rooms some of the mornings, but I don't know if I had any accommodation anywhere in Gambia that didn't have plumbing problems. Also, while most of the staff was excellent, the daytime security guy (Jawal?) was trying too hard to be too friendly. As a young woman, I was already dealing with a lot of unwanted male attention, and you'd think the security guards would help keep me safe, but the security guard kept trying to pressure me repeatedly to take gifts from him, even after I made it clear I was not interested. Who's supposed to keep me safe from creeps when the security guy is being a creep? I hope they can hire someone better for the job, because otherwise it was a great place to stay.

I guess the beach was ok - if you like endless long ones, which we don’t, preferring small intimate coves. But the surrounding structures and huts were quite run down and decrepit. Also, guys came up to hassle us for business or make advances to my wife.

The staff were joking about my name Udo, which to them sounds like “You do” or “don’t”, ha ha, not very professional. The room was very small, furniture basic and partly broken. Swarms of moscitos - to fight them there was a noisy fan with very high speed that gave a chill, so it stayed off. Luckily there was a moscito net. In the morning the water stopped running. The food in the evening was bland and overcooked (noodles). So we didn’t trust the breakfast, but left as early as we could at dawn.

I have to admit that I booked this place mainly because of the price (18€, as of January 2025) and location - beachfront. But my expectations were exceeded. The food was great, the staff - very friendly, facilities - simple but really comfortable. Loved it!

I didn't like that on the second day my breakfast got clearly smaller, even though I chose the exact same option.

Very relaxing, value for money

We missed the breakfast as we weren’t sure of times etc

Calm and relaxing place close to the beach

Liked everything and will definitely return

We were staying 2 nights for weekend getaway. Very nice place, staff was very helpful. Food was good and quite reasonable priced. Enjoyed our weekend and surely will come back

Ac in the room wasnt working. Asked about it and were told that you need to pay extra for ac. We manage without with the standing fan, but bit dissapointed that matter.

Nice position

Atmosphere

Great

central location, somewhat private beach, friendly staff, a few wifis around the property, some of the rooms quite big and roomy

the ac was extra which is not mentioned well on their booking site, the restaurant wasn’t the best and meal portions were quite small knowing what they usually are like in the gambia (would 1000% recommend salim’s cafe for food!!), hope the staff would clean out the beach out of the plastic at least every now and then, breakfast deal for 300D was ridiculously small portion (again knowing what the portions are in the gambia)

One of the best locations in Sanyang City Gambia. Direct access to beach areas and many local restaurants available. Very good for budget travel