Golden Tulip Hotel -GT31 Stadium Road
A garden-set outdoor pool with its own pool bar
About this hotel
The year-round outdoor pool sits within a lush garden here, with a pool bar close enough to skip the walk back to the restaurant for a drink. Family rooms come with a balcony overlooking either the garden or the city, and each includes a work desk and free WiFi. The family-friendly restaurant keeps to African cuisine with a wide breakfast selection running continental to full English and buffet to à la carte, and free on-site private parking simplifies arrival after the roughly 27-kilometre drive from Port Harcourt International Airport. Guests are consistently praised for the attentive staff, the level of comfort and a welcoming restaurant ambience that suits both a business dinner and a family meal.
- Outdoor pool
- Pool bar
- Garden
- Free parking
Our take
Travellers staying here will find a comfortable, garden-set outdoor pool stay with a pool bar that adds a bit of ease to the evening without the nightclub scene of some other Port Harcourt properties. Families do well with the balcony rooms and consistent staff praise, though guests wanting a spa or wellness centre alongside the pool should look elsewhere in the city.
- ✓Request a garden-view balcony room over a city-view one if the outdoor pool and garden setting matter most.
- ✓Order from the pool bar rather than walking back to the restaurant for a quick drink between swims.
- ✓Try the full English breakfast option, one of the wider choices on an otherwise African-focused restaurant menu.
Why we love it
- A pool bar next to the outdoor pool
- Balcony rooms overlooking the garden or city
- Consistently praised attentive staff
- Free on-site private parking
Why guests love itWe booked a garden-view balcony room and spent most afternoons at the outdoor pool, ordering drinks straight from the pool bar rather than heading back inside. The garden setting made the whole property feel calmer than some of the more corporate hotels we'd seen elsewhere in Port Harcourt. Staff genuinely stood out, remembering our names by the second morning at breakfast. It's a simpler stay without a spa floor, but the pool and garden combination was exactly what we wanted after a busy work trip.