Honeymoons and Weddings

There is only one way to describe this hotel - Superb!

We have just come back from two glorious weeks on the beautiful island of Mauritius. We were lucky that Stephen of Medway Travel had helped us to choose to go there for our honeymoon and to stay at The Residence.

From the moment we arrived, to the time of our reluctant departure, nothing was too much trouble for the staff at The Residence. You are greeted on the front steps with hot flannels to refresh you after the journey and in reception, iced tea is served before you are escorted to your room where check-in is completed.

You are then introduced to your personal butler! The butler will do your unpacking and sets everything out beautifully, shows you how everything works in the room and will answer any questions you have about the hotel. Our butler also prepared the most spectacular and delicious hot baths imaginable, topped with a foot of bubbles and strewn with rose petals. He will also do all the packing when you leave! Now that's what you call service, especially when it is all delivered with a genuine friendly smile.

You can take your breakfast on your balcony (at no extra charge); just leave your order hanging outside your door the previous evening, or in the dining room where an excellent breakfast buffet awaits you. There are either snacks by the pool or on the beach during the day, or a more formal lunch on the terrace.

There are two wonderful restaurants to go to in the evening - one in the hotel and one five minutes walk away called 'The Plantation', which is open on three sides to the beach and the ocean, and is simply a perfect location. Both restaurants offer an excellent 'menu de jour' and full 'a la carte' dining. In the dining room, which overlooks the pool, where the cuisine is a tantalising mix of Asian, Oriental and European, the food is expertly cooked, wonderfully presented. The flavours are superb, incorporating subtle levels of spicing with more European style cooking. Dinner at The Plantation is also a superb dining experience, where the cuisine is a little more locally inspired with plenty of fresh seafood and many of the dishes have an Indian style. Your challenge is choice and they are not always easy. However, the staff in both the hotel dining room and The Plantation, as everywhere at The Residence, are very friendly, very attentive and very helpful. They are keen to help you with your journey through the menu and the wine list, to make your evening as enjoyable and relaxing as possible. In our experience, they succeeded!

As a break from the rigours of lazing in the sun and going for a swim in the pool or the crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean, you may want to take the opportunity to be thoroughly pampered in The Residence's own spa, The Sanctuary. Of course, on the other hand, if you want something more energetic they also have their own sailing club, gym and floodlit tennis courts.

Mauritius is thoroughly recommended and The Residence is THE hotel. Thank you Stephen - we certainly cannot wait to have the opportunity to return there!

Christine Alderson

We had an amazing honeymoon, everything ran so smoothly and was just as you promised! All the drivers were on time and we didn't have to think about what time to leave the hotel or how to get anywhere like we normally do, perfect!

The traders hotel in KL was just amazing, such a fantastic location and I think we had the best view in the entire city. The first night we were there we sat in our window and had room service partly due to jetlag and partly as the view was just so good. The first day we were there the hotel left us a chocolate fondue in the room with a congratulations, such a nice touch, and not the only one!

We had a lovely relaxing 7 days at the Nexus. Plenty of restaurants to choose from and a good price range. Other than wine nothing was particularly expensive. The staff were really helpful and friendly, and we felt that nothing was too much trouble. We had some lovely evenings at the beachfront restaurant, and a lovely evening where we had an individual BBQ and LOTS of food to cook! Although we had this as a completely relaxed 7 days due to doing things at the beginning and the end of the holiday we saw a few excursions etc if people wanted to do more than we did! 

We would highly recommend the "Wonders of nature" tour to anyone, it was such an amazing tour to do, I will never forget those baby turtles running into the sea. Sepilok is an amazing place and seeing the orang-utans in their 'natural' environment was fantastic. All of the accommodation on the tour was much nicer than we expected, very basic obviously, but all clean and we obviously weren't in the room that often over those 3 days anyway! All of the guides were fab, very knowledgeable and friendly.

The Rasa-Ria on the last night looked lovely but we didn't get there until 10pm and had to leave at 3am. Looking back we should probably have stayed at a hotel close to the airport as there was no point in staying at a resort for that night. It is a shame we didn't get longer there though as it really did look a lovely place!

Thankyou so much for all of your help arranging such a fantastic honeymoon, we had an amazing time. I would definately book with you again, maybe when we have saved some money we can go away for an anniversary.....I'll let you know!!

Heather Beecham