One of the best hotel

We stayed for a couple of days. The location is very close to airport and for the city center. The room is the best on our list.

Very friendly hotel with excellent staff & breakfast

I stayed here from 24th December 2025 to 9th January 2026. I really enjoyed my stay in Hotel Lobelia & time in Addis Ababa meeting family and friends for all festivities. The hotel is home from home and all the staff are very friendly and helpful and customer focused. It is difficult to single one person out because the whole hotel team are exceptional but Shetaye at the bar and Rekik who works on reception was great in collaborating with me in teasing my family who visited me. The breakfasts and restaurant food are very good and I especially enjoyed their special tea and St George beer from the bar. I would return again and recommend to others being very good value for money and in a good location.

The steam service should have its own shower and changing room, but understandably space is an issue like most hotels of the city.

Washrooms is so dirty

All around great friendly service.

Friendly, efficient service. Very helpful staff. Comfy bed and decent bathroom. A little noisy due to poorly fitting windows. But good value and would stay again.

Loved the staff, the 24-hour room service and our room.

Lobelia and your operator to have a nice trip in Ethiopia

My husband and I spent nearly 15 days in Ethiopia. Every time we cane back to Addis we stayed at Lobelia before taking the next flight around the country. The place is nice, the workers are very kind and help you with everithing you need. The restaurant inside prepares the best shiro I ate in the whole trip (in my opinion of course). But the best thisng that happened to us was to meeting Abay. He is a tourism operator that works with other people at every place in the northern Ethiopia. At first we were planning to do the trip on our own, but quickly understood that because of the political conditions of the country nowadays, it wasnt a good idea. We were afraid of giving money to an unknown person, but we trusted, and to do so is my best advice for anybody. Abay is kind, he takes care of every detail. He works hard to give you a safe trip and to make you happy. He arranged the best allocations and the best guides at Gondar, Bahir Dar, Lalibela, Semera, Axum... He waits for you at the airport every time you have to return to Addis, and makes a call every day just to check that everything is going good and you dont need something. We had great time and unforgettable experiences, feeling safe at any time, and that was mainly due to Abay. Thank you, friend.

I don't like

We stayed for a week and were generally disappointed by the suite as the photos did not match reality, especially the bathroom. Shuttle service was almost 2 hours late for our airport pick up even though we were confirmed and on schedule at least a week prior. It only arrived after we'd made several phone calls to the hotel asking about the shuttle driver's whereabouts (they kept lying to us by saying it'll arrive in 5 mins). Once we made it to the hotel frustrated and exhausted, we complained to the lady at reception only to be met with an apology and a sad explanation that they had to prioritize picking up other passengers that were supposed to arrive the previous night - which was an insulting explanation for us. Furthermore, the floor our room was on was extremely noisy due to rowdy and disrespectfully loud guests - I was personally awoken between 2-5am for several nights in a row. Staff wasn't helpful in managing their guests. Manager was hard to reach as he hadn't shown up to the reception desk or the hotel during our entire stay. We've made several complaints to the reception staff and they ended up giving us false hope in a potential room change. As part of VIP Access perks, we did not enjoy all the benefits. Facilities are a joke - spa is just a steam room, no massage, unsanitary and tiny gym.