Sea View Lodge

Excellent place directly on the beach. Great facilities easy to walk and take the bus. Great staff and restaurant. Highly recommend for a group or multiple people. We had 3 bedrooms each with its own bathroom. I only wish that the seaweed was raked and moved every morning as the beach was not really usable.

we stayed in the Banana Villa, the room was very nice and large with kitchen and patio with deck chairs and there was a stunning view of Anse Possession. The staff was super friendly and helpful and arranged for us an enjoyable excursion to Curieuse island to see the turtles. In addition, there is a free parking in front of it.

The stay at Sea View Lodge was a big dissapointment in all senses. The accomodation is old, worn out, dark, half broken, kitchen full of insects and ants. Our vila was right down next to the road, right in the curve where everybody was speeding to go up and hitting the brakes to go down. It felt like sleeping on the road... With 3 kids having a room right next to a road is crazy! Beside the road , the beach in front is a just a terrible beach, probably the only terrible one on paradise Praslin. There is a plastic table and plastic sun beds next to it where you do not want to sit down. At night they put a dodgy blue light on it. You really do not want to spend your time in this place. We were leaving early morning and returning late night as we didn't want to spend any time here. We even tried to change accommodation but at this time of year there was barely availability on the island anymore. You do not want to use the pool, nor you want to eat here. The managers/owners are not superhosts. They do not care about their guests. In 4 days they never passed by to ask if we need anything, never offered anything, not even fruit from the garden. The only question was if we are going to do the snorkel trip to Curiouse island (we did it with another company) and that we should have breakfast or dinners here because there are no restaurants nearby... Not true, 5min drive is Anse Volbert with the best options on the island. We literally lived during the days at Cafe des Arts and their beach. I should have listened to my intuition from the beginning.... Communication was difficult and extremely brief from the beginning on and prior to our trip. I had to resend the same questions many times. It is not a nice place. I cannot not recommend it. It partly ruined our stay at the incredible island of Praslin. I am sure there must be many better options on the island.