Melka Excelsior Hotel

This hotel exploits animals and commits cruelty to dolphins. It's the worst hotel I've ever seen. Poor dolphins, please don't support this hotel and its cruelty to dolphins.

I didn't realize this before coming here, but this hotel opened my eyes to the poor conditions for these animals. These animals should travel tens of kilometers per day in oceans, but there are several of them in a chlorinated swimming pool. In addition, they cannot hunt or make deep dives. As a result, they can't do much more than swim the same lap over and over again. The stories they tell when you ask where they get the dolphins from are often that the animals were rescued because they were lost and on their own. They often also say that these will be released later, but unfortunately this never actually happens. These are wild animals that come from nature. If you are really committed to species conservation and release the animals back into the ocean. Then you don't allow this kind of interaction with tourists. The animals are trained by food deprivation, so they learn to do unnatural things. Their children cannot go back at all, because they were not born in nature The truth is that they are part of a multi-million dollar industry. And these dolphins are simply caught and then bought by a dolphinarium like this one. Because we, as tourists, like to have our picture taken with these animals, we maintain these practices that are harmful to the animals. We want that photo or that unique experience and do not take into account what it means for such an animal. Can you get close to a wild animal as a tourist? And can you take a picture with it? Then you know it's not right! If you want to protect a wild animal, it is better not to visit these types of attractions anymore! If you want to protect wild animals, just let them be wild! @dolphin_project found on Instagram is an organization that shows how these dolphins are caught. In addition, this organization creates real shelters for dolphins without letting them swim in pools that are too small and shallow.

1st impression when we arrived : No other guests, only one person in reception and 1 person in concierge. Seen no other guest, looks like we were the only guest there. Old hotel. Has seen the better days. Many bushes, dirty, not treated at all. Book this hotel for the dolphin show, but turned out it already stopped. They say it just recently stopped, about 2 weeks ago,but looking at the pool, looks like it's already stopped for years. The room quite big. Big toilet. But soon after entering, get some feel that the room has not been occupied for a long time. No hesitation, quickly leave and book other hotels. Overall, not recommended at all. Just look at the pictures I took.