Casa Mia Lodge & Restaurant

The hotel is well organised with spacious and sunny rooms, clean and well equipped with all the first hand amenities. Staff is kind, smiling and truly helpful to any claim made and the breakfast is exceptional (chowing from a rich menu). The facility owns a great restaurant (one of the best in the city) with dishes of high quality (I loved the lasagna alla bolognese) and offers money exchange service. Lastly, there is a power generator to tackle with power cuts, which is so important. The location seems as the hotel is out of town (which is not) due to the bad condition of the road (not paved) and the lack of night lights.

Pros:Quiet location (no traffic noise)A short (daytime) walk to a busy part of Blantyre. Good size room.Cons:The safety deposit box was not working - I was told 'it's an old one and so can't be fixed, you can keep things in the reception safe'. Leaking water in bathroom.Very expensive drinks at the bar - 14,000 kwacha / $10 + tourism tax for a bottle of Castle beer (imported from SA). The other, local, beers are 6000 kwacha plus tourism tax so also expensive - Malawi has seen some huge inflation but I paid less than 3000 for the same beers at a lodge in Mulanje.The bill on check out added a 'tourism levy' (tax) to everything I ordered in the restaurant - I was not told about this when ordering and was not charged a tourism levy in any of the other 3 hotels/lodges I stayed in during my time in Malawi. This could have been in the T&Cs however and I just missed it.Breakfast is not particularly great (a la carte) - i had to return undercooked sausages. Overall, the lodge itself is in a good location and i would return again. I would skip the restaurant and go to the Crossroads hotel restaurant which has reasonable prices and good quality food (but no alcohol). Casa Mia definitely had the most expensive beers I found in Malawi, although the very friendly and interesting owner was kind enough to buy me a few so I guess it balanced out.

Comfortable and clean room, friendly staff, good breakfast. The place is situated at the end of a green and quiet street, off the bustling centre. Accomodation is excellent value. But the restaurant, and in particular the drinks, are expensive - separate review on that.

Rooms are comfortable. A/C, nice bathroom. very nice restaurant. It has wifi. It's on a more private access so it's quiet. Service by very nice staff. They're here to help and everyone treats the guests with respect. Arriving they're is always someone ready to carry your luggage. Definitely worth the money.

Casa Mia is my go to place to stay in Blantyre. I have tried other hotels, but I always come back to this place. So should you! The staff is great! Tawonga at the reception always takes so good care of me. Peter, the owner, is such a wonderful man. I have stayed at Casa Mia many (MANY) nights going back to 2011. This is truly my home away from home in Malawi. Centrally located and so peaceful at the same time. Good food, great rooms (they always renovate and keep the rooms updated). If you're in Blantyre and look for a great place to stay - look no further: This is the place! Look forward to come back

Excellent location, atmosphere and fantastic service. I didn't see the rooms so I can't comment on that but the menu is definitely worth ordering from. Delicious.

This place is fantastic, the location is good, not far from Blantyre city center, a bit of a rough road to get there but short enough to not matter. Rooms are clean, food is fresh, service is good but a bit slow. I would recommend the place.

We were not at the hotel but we visited the restaurant. The chef needs to cut down on the amount of Amarula he puts on the Pinna Cota. The main meal was good but the service was poor for a mere Sobo it takes about 20 minutes to get it and no one comes to check on the table if we need anything when we had to pay we had to look for the waiter she disappeared for sometime .