Name: Lodge des Terres Blanches
Address: Avenue Georges 5, Mahajanga, Mahajanga, Mahajanga, 100, Madagascar
Rating: 10

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No elevators

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Library

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Free parking nearby

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Lodge des Terres Blanches

Mahajanga

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A superb place to relax, forget about work or recharge after touring Madagascar. We opted to be lazy, but there is lots to do, lemurs, birds, walks, and boat trips.
Ěric and Fleur make their place very special and create a welcoming, friendly ambience for all guests. We met repeat guests, and hopefully,  we might join that special club.
The food was excellent and beautifully presented. Sitting overlooking the sea for all our meals was lovely. 
I loved being metres from the beach, it was so easy to go for a swim and then relax on beach sunbed or own terrace.


Perfect Remote Getaway 

Discovering the north west coast of Madagascar from a different perspective: one hour scenic flight to get there from Mahajanga, 2.5 hour amazing ride by boat to get back. Total isolation, crystal water, lemurs, beautiful sunsets, delicious food, comfortable accommodation in a super quiet environment. Enjoying the sound of the ocean and wind. Warm welcome from Eric and Fleur.

Exceptional experience

2 hours of boat ride along the malagasy coast and a refreshing welcome on the beach was the start of an amazing week filled with experience and discovery.

Erick, Fleur and their team made us feel at home, not wanting to leave. Thank you very much for an awesome week. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and will definitely come back :) 
Hats of to the Chef, great food resulting in an extra 3 kilos to be carried around :))

What an amazing experience!!

Eric and Fleur are wonderful, welcoming hosts. They and the whole team did everything to make this stay relaxing and perfect. There are great excursions on offer or you can just enjoy the beautiful beach, the food and the charming hotel. We really felt cut off from the world here (you almost literally are after a 2hr boat ride!). The perfect place to unwind, leave the world behind and experience the beauty of a stunning natural site.

Relax in paradise, cut off from the world

Room 
 Positive -  upgraded 

 Negative - The room was full of insects: flying ants, beetles , mosquitoes & cockroaches .  We killed 40 cockroaches in 4 nights!  
 If you like sauna - 40c  at night!

  AC
 Positive - there is AC in the room
 Negative - The AC  doesn’t work

 Welcome
 Positive - Free first drink
 Negative - .Taste like medicine 

 Food
 Positive - the food is  served in a unique  way . My husband and kids liked it. 

 Negative – I didn’t like the food at all !
  breakfast – I had to ask for eggs that had a taste of smoky food.
chocolate  milk - even it tastes like smoked meat.
Had to ask for butter.
 Four days I lived on bread and butter.

 Afternoon
 Positive - afternoon tea
 Negative - just hot water 

 The owners 
 Positive - The owners are nice. Tried to accommodate my diet;  took us on two trips around the hotel, without requiring extra money.  Thank you Flore! 
 
 Negative - my claim that the room is full of insects, was answered : "You are in nature, there are insects in nature”

 Value /  Money
 Positive - None.  Only for the owners 
 Negative - 120 euros per night  plus 15 Euro per meal per person 
 I was asked to pay in advance
 When I asked to leave early, I was asked to pay for the entire week I booked.
 I refused, than I was told that the only  boat that can  take us back to Mahajanga  is being  repaired and we have to stay

Location 
 Positive - isolated 
 Negative - Isolated- to get there you have to take a boat and pay 630 euros.  if you want to leave earlier “ the boat is just being repaire”

"Bugcation" (bugs + vacation)

We spent 11 days at the lodge in July. The location is remote and required a short trip with a small plane from Mahajanga. The view from the plane was incredible, with endless white beaches, bush and almost no human presence. Owners, Sebastien and Jessica, were wonderful hosts. Gourmet food would was certainly unexpected and a pleasant surprise. We had almost daily excursions to see the nearby villages, baobabs in the bay of Morambe, an interesting "cirque rouge", etc. There are 2 troups of sifakas that live nearby and come visiting daily. They are very curious and spend long periods of time observing the guests. Because the trees are relatively low, we could watch the lemurs just a couple of meters away. It was our best lemur viewing in Mada, much more accessible than in the national parks.   It was the winter in Madagascar, so the water was a bit cold (24C). The endless (7 km) perfect white beach did make up for it though.

Beach and lemurs

This was the perfect escape for us but we knew before we went that it is a bush lodge in a really isolated area on the Madagascar coast. Access is by small plane and once you are there the facilities are nice but basic and limited. The bungalows are very open which keeps the air fresh but also means that animals can and do come in at night (we had nightly visits from a mouse who would eat our toiletries. Electricity is by generator from 6 – 9:30 at night and outside of that there are solar lights by the bed that give plenty of light to read from.

Included in the price is your lodging and all of your meals – breakfast, lunch & dinner and bottled water. We were a bit surprised about the number of extra charges; all soft drinks including sparkling water, eggs, yogurt, juice and the like at breakfast and of course alcoholic drinks. The bar is well stocked and the house cocktails are good and reasonably priced. There is also a kind of “cocktail hour” prior to the evening meal and you are requested to come up before the meal to have an apero with the owners, even this drink is not included. The prices of the extras were fair but when they charge you the equivalent of $1 for an egg at breakfast it felt a bit silly that it just wasn’t included anyway. This isn’t the place to come if you are on a really limited budget but I think that is clear once you have to charter the plane to get there.

Also keep in mind that any excursions you want to do are additional (more than 100 euro per person for a morning trip). The price is justified in that they have to buy fuel for the boat at 2 euros a litre but even use of the kayaks is charged by the 1 hour rental. Additionally there are no phones or messenger pigeons so if you need something outside of meal times you need to walk up to the main house to order it – good exercise, yes!

All that to say we had a fabulous time here – charges for the extras aside, it was exactly what we were looking for to wrap up our two week holiday in Madagascar.  The owners are extremely interesting and their children (2) are fantastic! You will never be alone here as there are animals everywhere – if not the Sifakas by the bungalows, the cats, dogs & birds at the main house and then a variety of wild animals. There weren’t many other people there while we were so I am sure it is a completely different experience when the lodge is full but we loved it!

Paradise!

This July we stayed at the Lodge with our sons (24, 21) and we all had a truly great time. The bungalows are beautiful.Basic (sunheated hot water only in the afternoon, electricity only during limited hours, but the reading light above your bed functions all night) but very comfortable. All have an incredible oceanview, and you really are in the midst of nature.The first day, a group of 5 sifaka's came jumping down the trees next to our bungalow. Very friendly owners and staff. Lovely food and drinks. They organise all kinds of interesting trips (snorkeling in the mangroves etc.). You can only get there by boat or plane, both trips equally interesting. When you travel by boat, they make a stop at the tsingy, where you definitely are the only visitors. Great experience.

wonderful place, wonderful people

Beautiful, as close to nature as it can be, excellent high standard food: groupers, lobsters, zebu, great desserts all included in the stay, fantastic for marine life: great fishing ( tuna, yellow fin tuna, grouper, carangue, red carp, barracuda....), snorkeling, bush visiting, boat and sea excursions.
The lodge is owned by a young polyglot couple from Belgium who will do everything to make you have a wonderful stay.

Very good for families and both activities lover and farniente! 

Tbh, very close to be my best holiday ever! Enjoy too.

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