We ended up at this hotel as the one we intended to book into was fully occupied. The Blue Nile is absolutely fine. The rooms were clean, the beds were comfortable, and everything worked. Breakfast was included and was standard but decent. One tip - if you have a room facing the street, it can be very noisy as there... More

Stayed at the Blue Nile again in early December 2011. The quiet rooms are quite comfortable -- see previous review. Very important that you get the right room. The service is slow but friendly. The room was 450 Birr. Good value I think for a decent bed, hot water, and breakfast. What I like are the small traditional bars around... More

I stayed at the hotel for a few days in November 2011. The first night was hell; the noise of the traffic in the street below, yelling passer-bys passing by, and the ever energetic bajaje (3 wheel covered motos) buzzing around until 3 am, then followed by barking dogs in the street kept me awake until almost dawn. So it's... More

... apart from the lovely staff. And perhaps its central position. I stayed here for two nights because everything else was booked up. It has about 55 rooms, at about 350 Birr a night, breakfast included. The rooms and fittings could do definitely do with a makeover, and like many Ethiopian hotels, one wonders if the low wattage bulbs are... More

The blue nile is very central but not on the lake. The lake is brown anyway! I checked out rooms in a couple of hotels before settling on this choice. We had a suite as that was all they had available without reservation. This meant that there was a very small unusable room with two armchairs, to walk through to... More

Having spent our first night in Bahir Dar at the Dib Anbessa, we were determined to find somewhere clean and confortable to spend our second night. The Blue Nile Hotel offers no frills but spacious, clean and bright rooms with large windows. Although it doesn' have a lakefront location like some of the others, it's quite central, with lots happening... More