DEV Hotel & Conference Centre

We weren’t expecting such an incredible experience from such an affordable hotel, but it exceeded our expectations! Our newly renovated room was beautiful, and top-notch clean. The staff was above-and-beyond friendly - even late at night and while we were getting breakfast. They serve real healthy food that tastes amazing. Beautiful gardens and surroundings. 10/10 we’ll be recommending DEV Hotel to all our family!

The front desk staff were very friendly and helpful, the rooms were comfortable with great beds and two bathrooms. Air conditioning worked well and the rooms were very quiet after 10pm. The two restaurants on site were great; one buffet style and one pub style. Good value for your dollar as compared to many restaurants these days. Unfortunately the pool was closed for weeks for some kind of maintenance. One other downside is the long winding walk through the winding narrow hallways to get to and from your room. Otherwise a great place to stay and a good experience.

Pros: Clean. Comfortable beds. Well-maintained. Felt new and fresh. Lots of airplane photos and photos of exceptional engineers on the walls. Cons: I'd asked for a ground floor room on the booking site, because of my mother's limited mobility, and got a message saying they could meet that request. We were actually put on the 3rd floor, but there were elevators, so I thought it would be okay. What I didn't realize was that it was a crazy long walk to the room. It was a long, twisting hallway with lots of sharp turns, narrow doorways and shallow ramps. We got a cart for our bags but it was awkward to maneuver around the corners. I wouldn't recommend trying to get a large suitcase to the rooms. The design of the building is weird to the point of being ridiculous. I even used a GPS tracker to map the route from the elevator to the room because it was so strange. It's shown in blue on the photo. The photo of the hallway doesn't do it justice because it's impossible to see more than 7 or 8 meters before it makes another turn. When trying to get back to reception I took a few wrong turns because I hadn't noticed that it was on level 2. Even when I got to the right floor, it was tricky to find the reception as it was nowhere near the elevators and i had to go down a strange-shaped ramp and round three corners. There were signs pointing in all directions but I guess I needed a code book to interpret all the icons, as they certainly weren't intuitive. I have an engineering degree and found this building difficult to navigate! The 'suite' was two rooms and was clean and comfortable, but was a very odd shape. The furniture was very nice but because of the layout it was difficult to get to one side of one of the beds because the desk and chair were jammed into an awkward corner. This also meant I couldn't reach the curtains either. The shower was big, had two spray heads, and felt great, but was DANGEROUSLY slippery. I'd been looking forward to using the pool after a long day driving, or before I set off again in the morning, but it's only open from 3 pm to 8 pm.