King Solomon Hotel

I am going to dispute some of the previous reviews. There were no cockroaches in my room. I saw one mouse outside in the garden. The funicular was cute and worked properly most of the time. The food is pretty decent. And the hotel service was pretty good. However I did have to ask to replace my TV and air conditioning remotes. The cleaning lady cleaned the whole room. The views from the room were beautiful.||My only complaint was no air-conditioned restaurant or bar. It was very humid and so I ended up going a couple of times to the Heritage Park hotel which was 4 minutes away. The cost there is a bit higher for food and alcohol, but there is more selection too.

I was visiting the WW2 Marine Corps battlefields, and friends recommended the King Solomon - an inspired choice!||This is an older, quaint hotel. A lobby open to the elements (how South Pacific!); with a staff both friendly and professional. Great internet in the lobby, where you can chat with other guests. ||Built on a hillside, the hotel boasts a tram that takes the guests to their up-the-hill rooms. Reliable, slow, different!||The restaurant was good; a curry-heavy menu as fits the area. |l|The only minus is their Friday night disco-scene, where the music is painfully loud until 0200. Loud music? I've seen Tull, The Who, and similar; that was music, this was noise that thumped the walls. ||Would I return? Yes..but I might leave for a Fri night stay in Tulagi. But overall, King Solomon is worth your staying, if you're visiting Guadalcanal.

Stayed here for almost one month and the one extremely serious minus to this hotel is the Friday night music. You will most certainly not get any sleep until after 2 a.m., no matter even if you are at the extreme top of the little cable trolley lift. Big plus is the entire staff. All are very friendly and helpful, but keep in mind the island lifestyle is not rushed at all. Like the restaurant - excellent food but painfully slow (but friendly) service and preparation time. Internet was free in the lobby and worked fine. Extra charge for room internet and service was spotty. First room kept losing connection but second room was stable. Both high level rooms with nice views.

Well the foyer looks ok, the stairs up to the rooms look daunting until you see the little tram car. The tram car needs a little bit of persuasion from the operator to get going, eventually it decides to work. After alighting from the tram car there stairs to climb. They give a little as you struggle with your case climbing them. Even the veranda slats are flexing under foot. I'm not feeling safe here at all. The room, though spacious and clean is more like a work mans cottage. There is AC and a large ceiling fan. There is also an empty fridge that works. Coffee and tea makings but not milk, no drinking water supplied, no room phone at all. There is a TV and a wonderful view of the surrounding area. Breakfast is ok but only just and not included in the price. If you want drinking water it's $25SBD/$4.65AUD for a 2ltr bottle available from the bar. Would I stay here again? No is my answer. If I was a backpacker possibly. ||The staff are its redeeming factor. They are friendly and helpful. This place would have been awesome in its hay day but now it's a very pale shadow of its former self.

All things considered, especially with most centrally located hotels twice the price, I'd stay there again. Pros: 2nd room had great AC once I changed, fridge, teapot, and microwave worked well and bed was comfortable. No breakfast is included, but dinner was great (wood fired pizza one night and fish and chips 2 nights and all three delicious). iumitoursolomons@gmail.com will pick you up for safe tours. The tram up to all the rooms is unique, but slow. Sometimes it was quicker to walk down but too hot to walk up. The hotel is very old and trying to do its aged best.||Cons: shower water is always cold but the Solomons are exceptionally hot so I didn't care, no airport pick up, but Keren, with the aforementioned tour company can do it, shower had a constant drip, loud band on Friday night so get a room away from restaurant bar area, no internet in rooms unless you pay extra (free in hot lobby), no bottled water in room. Again, considering all things, be tolerant and save yourself $100 a night, unless comfort is king and stay elsewhere. I was very comfortable, but I'd rather travel more, and forgive small annoyances in order to do it.

Hotel rooms are very tired and bare. Poor lighting and weak air conditioning. Room was spacious, though. ||Bathroom is a bad joke. Water pressure is so low that there is hardly any water from the shower (maybe it is because I was at the top level). To compensate that, you can't squeeze the handles tight enough to prevent water dripping constantly. Faucet is not attached to the sink and tends to move.||In the positive side the communal areas, the lobby and garden around funicular, look nice.||Food was quite good in the restaurant but they close quite early. I saw several rats running in the restaurant heading to the kitchen. Maybe one of them contributed to the picant flavor in my pizza? There is a small bar, which is frequented by locals so it can't be that bad. ||People at the reception are helpful and help to buy and activate a local aim card. You will need it as wifi works only in the lobby.

Worst ever hotel in Honiara that we ever stay, doesn't worth at all with the price as high as sbd $985 deluxe, no water, bad cable car service, no proper toilet paper holder even no pillow case when we enter the room. No phone in the room can't believe that still guest willing to stay in this worst hotel !

The King Solomon has seen better days to be sure. Original intention was to have rooms open to breezes, with louvred windows and fans but they've now got wall-mounted airconditioners. I preferred to have the aircon on, but I'm way more heat-averse than most people. Because of a puddle of water outside my door and recurring piles of borer dirt just inside my entrance, they moved me to a room with a quieter aircon and not to much rust on the taps but there may have been more black mould in the bathroom. That's the trouble with the tropics...you can't keep nature at bay. Plus the quieter aircon wasn't as good at keeping out the music and beats from the bar/cafe at night. This wasn't too bad but with the rooms set at different levels around a basin rising up from the ground floor, the sound echoes up the hill and I could hear it quite clearly, even with earplugs in and aircon on. The staff were friendly and obliging, even if they couldn't always help. The safe didn't work, the phone didn't work (although when I asked for a number to call reception she gave it out to me!) and I needed help with getting TV going,