Review – Eldorado, Havelock Island

We arrived on Havelock Island at 8:30am, and with our Lonely Planet in hand, we set off to find ourselves some 50Rps a night beach huts. Sadly, the most recent LP is already awfully out of date when it comes to room rates, with most places seemingly doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling their prices. The cheapest we found was Green Valley Resort, who offered us a hut away from the beach and without a bathroom for 250 a night. We plumped for El Dorado instead: they gave us a hut right next to the beach, with bathroom, for 350 a night (the non-en suite huts were 150, but they were full). The only place we heard of with bargain basement huts was right next to the jetty – not exactly prime real estate.

Aside from our disappointment at the price, El Dorado was a nice place to stay: so nice that we stayed 11 days. The bar was lively and not over priced, the restaurant was average (but about as good as any other hotel), and the staff were pretty sound. Across the street there was a really nice restaurant that offered a good value breakfast for just 50 Rps.