Planters Lodge and Spa

Lovely little hotel. We stayed in the chalets and there was plenty of room for us and our two small children. The foldout bed would have been uncomfortable for an adult, but it was fine for them. Nice to hear small fridge and coffee/tea service, can't complain about the cleanliness. All of the staff was extremely friendly and helpful. Usual beach tempo on waiting times but forward planning for meals offsets that. The food was exceptional minus one mistake that was corrected. The pool area is beautiful and very clean though the water in the large pool seems to need a treatment prior to actually swimming in it. We enjoyed the baby pool all weekend long. Great place to base your operations in the area!

Spending 3 weeks at this well located lodging place. Very colonial times place and well set up. Rooms are of a decent size and includes private bathrooms, a fridge and good lighting. TV also but unfortunately only limited to some 4 channels. Laundry is very good and usually delivers daily. All the staff are very friendly and tries their best to reply to your demands. The restaurant, its very nicely set on the side of the pool. Good food choice on the menu as well. A bit of a disappointment as the last week they seemed to ran out of Orange juice and also Lemonade. Other than that it was pleasant. The WiFi is very good and fast.

The outside is well taken care of but the rooms smell like antiquity... bathrooms are clean but it’s not worth the 120 usd spent. the staff is friendly and polite, professional. The continental dishes are good but seafood didn’t seem fresh. And don’t use the laundry service...

Stayed at Planters Lodge with my spouse and it was beautiful. The beautiful environment and quiet but very good breakfast. Everything was just great. I unfortunately could not use the pool because it was under maintenance and I wish the front office team was more confident in their knowledge of the property.||My room was spotlessly clean...need I say more? I look forward to another stay.||||P.S: They do not offer the best amends in case anything goes wrong, they'd rather shift blames

Beautiful and serene environment. Ideal spot for a weekend getaway if you do not have the time to travel out of Takoradi. The food is good and staff are amazing. I'll recommend planters to anyone looking for a cool place to chill out without going through a lot of stress. Plus, they have a good spa too!

The atmosphere is serene and clean. The staff are polite and professional. The food from mango restaurant takes a long time to be ready and the quality is below average. The power sockets in the room are far from the bed. You also need to carry along your own travelers adaptor for the power socket.

Reception: Booking and follow up is good. After 15 days of booking, they called and informed me my booking for a particular room is cancelled...i was like...what non sense is this.... After so much of hue and cry, they again confirmed the same room. When i reached the hotel, I was made to wait for 1 hour 15 minutes....my check in time was 2pm...but checked in at 2:45 as they were cleaning. Room: Booked luxury bungalow, is as expected. Rooms is good for a family of 3.... LB1 A is a nice one with small garden in the front. The room stay is scary in the night as some unknown sound from air conditioner, refrigerator, doors...automatically. (Some one should stay to experience and rectify) Hope reception line is 1 or 2. Most of the time its engaged. Restaurant: I went to order a soup for which they took 40 minutes after 2 reminders.. I'm forced to cancel the order and return to room. Room service is not satisfactory. House keeping : Its good overall. Spa: My wife had a massage and felt good. Gym: Myself and my son went to Gym No one was there...we tried on our own and returned back. But we had real fun and memorable trip. The Management has to have serious look into the overall operation, if they take all in right sense....

On Saturday 28th December we took some friends to dine at planter's as we'd always had such memorable times there whenever we visited Takoradi. We were 4 adults and two children. We arrived for an early dinner at 6:30pm. We chose to sit outside. The waiter came and recommended a cocktail which my friend accepted. Five minutes later he was back. They didn't have all the ingredients to make aforementioned cocktail. So why did he recommend it in the first place? If we'd known how things were going to proceed after that we would have left there and then.... But alas..||||We ordered some starters and main courses. We were shown a bell to ring if we needed anything. Yes the bell worked but no-one ever came. The starters arrived.. fish soup if I remember. It was good.||||Meantime a group of young people had arrived. We were the only customers in the place which also should have given us an indication that something wasn't right given it was the Saturday between Christmas and New year. This group were known to the only other staff member. They'd brought their own drinks and he was happy to bring them glasses and to sit and socialise with them.||||Back to us. Our food never came.... We rang and rang and eventually I headed inside. No one around. I knocked on the kitchen door and was told food was coming. This was now two hours after our arrival. Three hours came by.. we'd rang for more drinks but no one came. Another trip to the kitchen where we were tearfully told there was only one cook and she was struggling. Oh yes she struggled so much that we got fish that was raw in the middle, our sons' chicken was hot on the outside but stone cold in the centre... As for my steak it didn't come. After 3 and a half wasted hours we had had enough.. patience is a virtue but they were pushing it. We went again to the kitchen and the guy took another ten minutes preparing the bill... Yes, really. We said we would only pay for what we could eat. At this point both he and the young cook were literally begging us and even... Wait for this... Offered to re-cook all the food PROPERLY and pack it for us. ||||We obviously declined and retreated back to our hotel and ordered room service.||||Lord only knows how they would have dealt with more than one table. How will they cope when the extra rooms are available? ||||What was once a jewel in Takoradi's crown is sadly no more.||||We felt STUPID having told our friends it was fabulous... Luckily they saw the funny side of it.||||Only as we are in Ghana did we pay 60% of the bill. Believe me if we'd been back in the UK they wouldn't have received a penny.