Budget accommodation in Nigeria?

Hostels in Nigeria? Personally, when I travel, I look for trendy hostels, I could stay in. You see Hostels are great for Solo travelers, it’s a perfect place and way to meet other travelers that are like-minded to explore with. They are also more affordable than hotels. At first, I stayed in Dormitories and after a few years I started staying in single rooms in Hostels. In the years I have been coming back to Nigeria I never heard of hostels, so I choose to look for budget hotels. I budgeted maximum 20 euros per night.

My Budget - I choose a 20 euros budget because in Mexico and Brazil I was able to find good hostels with dormitory beds for 9 to 15 euro a night or a single room for 20 to 35 euros a night. The cheapest I dared to stay in Obudu and Kachia cost 5500 a night - the service level differ greatly. When you book a double room, most find it hard to give you two towels but some property owners understand that it's about HOSPITALITY

To identify hotels, I used the following:

Google search and google review: I choose options that had at least 10 reviews and pictures of the property. The Good thing about this option is that usually the pictures are from travelers and sometimes you get a glimpse of true state of the property

Checked on TripAdvisor and booking.com to see if these properties where listed and if they had any reviews

Did the booking through Airbnb, Jumia Travel (now travelstart), Hotels.ng or just walking in.

What are #hotels like in #Nigeria?

Booking process

It appears to be possible to book hotel rooms on Jumia and hotels.ng before they confirm availability with the hotels. Which means we had to argue with the reception staff to get our room as booked on the website and at the same rate.
Sometimes the hotels offer you rooms that don’t exactly match the rooms proposed on the booking site saying the price proposed was for a lower class.
For the walk ins it was a lot better because you could check out the room and pick the exact one you wanted also immediately have an overview of the security.

Services offered

Payments were mostly cash for walk-ins or transfer when I used a booking site
Some hotels had restaurants with excellent food good example is the De Castle Luxury Home
As a tea and coffee person I appreciate having a tea set in the room the only hotel that offered this was Crest Hotel Jos

My average per room/night was roughly around 7500 Naira – this price point was only possibly because of overnight stays in the smaller and less touristy locations. Here is a list of the hotels I stayed in how much they cost and my google review of each property

Crest Hotel Jos ( 16,000 - 2 nights)

Goream Hotel Lafia ( 12,000 - 1 nights)

De Castle Luxury Home ( 24,000 - 2 nights)

Atlantis Grand Suites and Hotels (19,000 – 2 nights)

Obudu Resort (25,000 – 1 night)

Wenby’s Suites Abeokuta (10,400 – 1 night)

AL-BA Royal Hotels & Suites Akure (10,400 – 1 night)

Boston Hotel Benin (16,000 – 2 nights)

Luxury City Royale Aba (20,000 - 2 nights)

Al Jazeera Hotel Kano (13,000 – 1 night)

Sabitex Hotel (14,000 – 1 night)

Integrity Hotel & Suites Lagos (19,800 – 2nights)