Name: Poseidon Padi Resort
Address: Bp420 Tulear Ii, Ifaty, Ifaty, Ifaty, 601, Madagascar
Rating: 7

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Poseidon Padi Resort

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Stayed at the hotel about 3 weeks ago. There is a strange, not good  feeling you get as soon as you step in at  the lobby area.   Guess for a reason and you will soon find out.   Owner's standing in the middle of the restaurant, impersonal, unfriendly with a solemn face,  lost in his paperwork..  He won't   make any eye contact till the time rest is about to   close and will make the effort  to wave (!!) At you   to get lost.. prob does not  realising you're paying him expensive rates for the (bad) service you receive   and he's not doing you any favour..   much better places to stay in close proximity..

Better stay elsewhere

Stayed at this place 2 days ago. We were charged for a double room  50euro room only, when you can find better hotels much closer to Ifaty around 17 euro BB. Owner was unfriendly and arrogant, some of the staff were nice but still under his influence. No basic things like directions to the bangalows (you will find yourself wandering  in the night trying to get your way around), electricity went off at 11pm.  ee were then  in absolute dark banging from wall to wall. No wi-fi in the room.  We found  ourselves  quite  distressed in the morning trying to get out as soon as possible. Had to  keep our strength though as we  still had to find our way to the lobby area and deal with the same unfrienfly people. All in all we nail down our  trip to the island as  a wonderful experience with a lot  of highlights except of this one..

Not recommended

Stayed by myself for 3 nights. The new owner (owns this place less than a year) is an older french gentleman Daniel - not very friendly, did not even greet my guide, not really involved with guest experiences. The price quoted by booking.com did not match the total price in local currency as the owner set such a rediculous exchange rate and no cards are accepted. Bungalos are old, look better from outside, no simple things like hand towels or shampoo, very dark inside, no real glass windows or mosquito net on the windows, so you either sleep with open windows and attract morning light and multiple mosquitos all night long or with windows shut and wake up in complete darkness. Diving (takes place at a different location 15 mins by car)  was a disaster - a partner of Daniel’s - also 60+ year old guy Tiery, a dive instructor, abandoned me at 20 meters depth for 5 minutes while went on exploring himself, barely ascended slowly, i smelled alcohol from him when we finally got to the shore. Very unpleasant and unsafe experience. The beach is pretty but the ocean is not swimable -tide off during the day and lots of sea weeds and stones in the water so you can go into the water up to mid-thigh most of the time and no way you can ever swim there. Finally there is no vibe to the place - 80’s music at dinner, the owner is always in the common area watching something on tv by himself. No one speaks english excepr for owner’s wife but she makes no decisions and runs everything by her husband. This place has a great potential location- and view-wise  but unfriendly and stiff management ruined its charm. Would not recommend staying here. 

Great potential ruined by poor unfriendly management

We couldn’t fault it here! Such a wonderful place to visit and the staff made sure we had everything we could want! The beaches are amazing and the activities that the staff helped with were incredible! Would highly recommend it!!!

Amazing Place!

This place is an absolute dream! There's no other way to describe it! The beach is pristine! The bungalows are huge, modern, have hot water and extremely comfy bed! Management and staff will do everything they can to make your time with them perfect! And sky and benji the dogs will bring the biggest smile to your face if you want to play with them on the beach! Great food and WiFi in the restaurant! Range of drinks in the bar with drinks you'd only really find at home! The place also has so many opportunities to go out on a pirogue, diving, snorkeling, to the spiny forest reserve, kite surfing and quad biking! What more could you want? Thanks so much for having us!

Paradise!! No other word! 🏖 🐠☀

We spent 5 days in this resort and it was really great place. Great service and owners are really helpful. We got all help needed, wifi was really good and all evening.
This place is much better comparing to Mangily hotels, because seaside is very calm and only several locals pass it. Nobody begs for gifts or money.
About 1 km from this place is fisherman village and it is great place not only to see village, but also to buy fresh fruits.
Owners are very passionate about diving.
In Poseidon we had all our dinners during stay. Fish or seafood is purchased from locals so food was really fresh.
We stayed in the bungalow with a seaview and it was really amazing. Everything was very clean and nice.
We haven't noticed any locals' discrimination and it is very understandable, that hired people should work. They get opportunity to earn money for families.
We got all help needed and I would really advise to choose this place if you need to rest, relax and enjoy ocean.

Great place and fresh seafood

I spent there 3 days and the owners were always complaining about malagasy people and treating them with discrimination... I was just looking for relax and peace, but I only found bad conversations with the owners...When I had to pay the bill, I was really disgusted about giving money to that horrible man. 
On the other hand, the location is great and the bungalows are really nice. The only inconvenience with the facilities is that Wifi is only available at the reception and that if you want to charge your mobile phone or camera you can only do it at reception (electricity savings for the owners?!!) 
I was surprised about the comments here, but I am very pleased to find similar comments in booking.com from other people that had the same feeling about the owners.

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