Hotel News

One of the purpose of this blog is to bring you travel-related news about Mauritius that you may not be able to get unless you live on the island or have regular access to local sources of news. To this end Today's L'Express, a popular local newspaper on the island, reported on upgrades that are being planned on a number of hotels in Mauritius. Among the hotels that we track on MauritiusVisit.com, the Trou-Aux-Biches hotel is being planned for demolition and complete rebuilding in 2008 and it will be much larger with the number of rooms increasing from 170 to 494. In Flic-en-Flac, the Sofitel Imperial Hotel will be closed for an upgrade from May to July this year with the goal of making it into a 5-star hotel.

More information can be found by reading the L'Express article (written in French) and the Google translation of it in English (many of Hotel names are also literally translated so take note!) can be read here.

The article also contains information about hotels that are not mentioned on MauritiusVisit.com because they are currently not visible on Google maps for various reasons such as they are may be hidden by clouds, they were not built yet at the time the aerial pictures were taken or they may be found on portions of the map which are low in resolution. As Google improves the quality of the map covering Mauritius we will add information about more hotels and other interesting places. But in case we missed any interesting site that is clearly visible on the map right now do not hesitate to suggest it right here!