Savana Dakar Hotel

The pool is old, from the 1970s or before. Because of the old pool design, the water is choppy when only a few people swim at the same time. It has also been poorly maintained at times (due to a lack of chemicals and other technical problems) so I stopped swimming there about a year ago. I swam there twice in the last two weeks and it has gotten better. When weather cools, however, they apparently shut off the pool filtering system to save electricity, so it affects water quality.

On the shore, so you can also swim in the sea. It's a beautiful pool in a marvelous garden setting. It does get a bit crowded at weekends, but has only a handful of swimmers before 9 A.M. and after 6 P.M. Don't stay anywhere else in Dakar!