Lariad B&B

Recent Reviews: 123

• User:Rookshy

  Trip type: Family

  Beautiful bnb

  20 Feb 2023

  Oh wow ! ! ! Patrick the manager of this establishment deserves much more then a 5 star.Informative warm and just a beautiful introduction to Mauritius- a perfect host.Laraid bnb is spacious and super clean.Breakfast was fresh and served with a smile Definitely will come again and stay for longer Thank you Patrick it was so lovely to meet you

• User:Dave T

  Trip type:

  Not a Hotel, but a very good BnB.

  01 Mar 2020

  Stayed at the Lariad for 14 nights in late January/early February. The taxi was waiting, as arranged by the BnB at the airport to meet my flight, which showed a promising start to the holiday.The BnB rooms are basic, spacious, with adequate storage space, a small fridge, quietish aircon and a good sized comfortable double bed. More importantly they are kept very clean by the daily cleaning staff who do an excellent job - well done!!All the staff are helpful in every way and you are greeted with a "Hello" or "Bonjour" and a smile in every passing. Special mention to Marie Laure, Patrick & Roger.The outside pool is small, but perfectly adequate (considering the fabulous Flic En Flac bach is only 5 minutes walk away), and it is cleaned and maintained regularly. Like most tourist lodgings at the end of a busy season, a little TLC was needed here & there (garden areas, the indoor pool was not accesible ), however this in no way spoilt my holiday.Couple of minor observations:- - breakfast choice could be improved or rotated, especially for visitors staying for longer periods. That said, the simple breakfast food in general was fine, with excellent service. - hotel arranged excursions (especially scooter hire) did seem a little expensive so I did not book any. The public bus system is very cheap & a great experience. I had 3 "bus tours" to Quatre Bornes, Tamarin & Port Louis using the system & after your first journey it is relatively easy to understand & use.All in all, a nice BnB, great resort, good BnB location, lovely staff and I would return again, in fact I intend to, in the not too distant future!

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• User:Peter B

  Trip type: Couples

  Very friendly staff and cleanliness

  06 May 2019

  Very friendly staff, mainly Marie Laure. Sie war very friendly, helpful and cleaned our room very fast and well.The rooms and citchen were very clean, quiet location, she is closed to the Beach. The citchen is shared by 3 rooms, fully equipped.

• User:Sanjit D

  Trip type: Couples

  TOURISTS - PLEASE STAY AWAY!!!!

  01 Mar 2019

  This hotel rips his customers off. I paid extra to get a Superior room but got a standard family room instead. This is not what I paid for!!! Apparently they were fully booked so why take my booking in the first place. Was it greed? I complained several times and asked for the manager to come and see me but he/she never came. In the pictures on Booking.com, it shows you that you get a large fridge freezer and a table and chairs.....we not got neither. This is false advertising. I complained but again, nothing was done about it. There was not even a glass or teaspoon in the room. This is appauling!!! The toilet smell was horrid. You avoided going into the bathroom due to the smell. We could not pull the curtains is our room as otherwise the neighbours or guests could see into our room. There was no privacy at all. The room was so dark as they had put the cheapest and lowest wattage bulb you could find!! The room was also so noisy. There was loud music being played by the neighbours as well as the staff talking loudly whilst getting breakfast ready in the morning. Talking of breakfast, this was a cheap horrible breakfast. They added chilli cakes and samosas to our breakfast!!! This isn't definitely not a breakfast item. The pastries was tiny and dry. We had to ask how do we get tea and coffee! You just couldn't relax at this place. At one point, water started pouring out of the Air Con and soaked our clothes which was underneath! I would recommened tourists to stay away! There are much better places than this! I wrote this review on Booking.com from where I booked this terrible place and wrote exactly what I wrote above. Some individual, very likely the manager replied! Oh I laughed and laughed. I have never seen so many lies and excuses in one reply in my life. It just shows how unprofessional the staff are at this place. As the title of my review says.....STAY AWAY! LariadBnB, Gérant at Lariad BnB, responded to this review Dear Sanjit Thank you to share your opinion regarding your stay in our Guest House. It is, for us, very important to know the opinion of our guest. This will obviously help us improve our domain. On Booking.com we put forward some pictures of our rooms, but not all. As a guest house we manage to provide the best for our guests. We upgraded you to a Family room as it is a more spacious room. At the time you booked, the Superior Rooms were available for sale (referring to the above, we upgraded the rooms category). Was it greed? No, it was Marketing Strategy to get our Guest House filled during this Season. There are 3 terraces available with chairs and tables and may be used by our guests. As explained you may also invite exterior guest to enjoy the pool and the terraces during reception hours. The only restriction was not to disturb the actual guest of the establishment. Very happy to notice that during your stay your friends and yourself spent nice time around the pool. The housekeeping is done on a daily basis, unless ask not to do so. On several occasion, our housekeeper has been given instruction, by yourself, not to do the room. Maybe this has resulted to the bad smell of your toilets. Regarding the kitchen equipment, glasses and tablespoon; there were, as explained to you during check-in, in the common kitchen. The access was opened to all guest of Lariad BnB. Being engaged in the environmental protection, we try our best to contribute by using ecological light bulb, which are more expensive than the normal ones as they last longer. Of course, we would have been more than grateful if this could have been communicated to us; we would have together found a solution to satisfy your needs. Moreover, needful would have also been done immediately if you reported the air conditioning issue to us. We have close collaboration with our partners who come in less than 24h. For some, visiting a country is also tasting new food, seeing new faces and experiencing new habits and way of living. What Lariad was trying to do in including ‘Gato piment, samoussas,’ in the breakfast is the sharing of our culture, because Mauritius is not only about beaches, sun and sea; but also about culture and mixture of all the beautiness of the people living here. Mauritian yourself, you may remermber the typical breakfast here, some nice tea prepared by Grand-mother and her ‘Du pain, beurre et Gato piment’. Our breakfast include fresh fruits, juice, jam and cakes freshly prepared on a daily basis. Our ‘ Cheap horrible breakfast’ is appreciated by tourist who want to discover what Mauritius food has to offer. We are aware that we give loads of information during the check-in; about the hotel check-in check-out, breakfast, activities, facitlities etc. Maybe you were still tired of the long trip you made and forgot about the breakfast and how it worked. I personally explained to you that the breakfast would be served on the terrace - you will get a table with your room number on it. Then, stipulated that you should get eggs, bread, tea and coffee served on the table near the indoor pool. We would have been happy to explain same again if you had asked us. We are here to serve the guest and make sure he feels at ease. Very sad and surprised that we did not met your expectations and did not find what you were searching for in a Guest House’s concept. On the other hand, happy that despite all the issues raised, you enjoyed, as you said, a, ‘clean and tidy and picturesque courtyard’. We are among the best rated BnB in Flic-en-Flac, thanks to our staff services and engagement in customer care. Unfortunately, you were not. Thank you for your honesty in your comments and notes. All opinions and rates are welcome as this gives us the strength to improve. ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ Kind regards

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• User:AlejandroMrt

  Trip type: Couples

  Bad experience

  13 Oct 2018

  We saw that this hostel had great reviews on the internet, but our stay was disappointing. The hostel is unkempt, the common areas and the pool quite dirty, the bed in the room very uncomfortable, definitely needs an urgent reform! But the worst thing was not like that, it was the personal treatment, the attempt of kindness, they asked us 400 rupees to make a taxi trip 2 km away in the same city, in order to achieve it. That is about € 10! . Finally, the lack of professionalism when the keys are delivered, a blonde lady (possibly the boss) goes up to our room. You have never left me the moment of leaving a hotel room. Very bad ways and a great improvement in dealing with the client and the services they provide at expensive prices. LariadBnB, . at Lariad BnB, responded to this review Dear Alex,Greetings from Lariad BnB!Firstly, we would like to thank you for sharing your opinion regarding your stay in our BnB.We are quite surprised about your comments, especially regarding the ‘’ unkempt, the common areas and the pool quite dirty, the bed in the room very uncomfortable, definitely needs an urgent reform!’’As you stated previously, the great reviews concerning our hotel shows a kept, cleaned and comfortable place. All the building is cleaned on a daily basis by engaged staff who like their job and who are very much involved in customer care. The price proposed for your taxi, is actually the price that could be proposed in any other hotel (taxi fees + commission of the hotel). However, our prices are relatively cheap and affordable. The reviews speak for themselves.We are very sad and surprised that the

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