Review – Amina Lodge, Port Blair

Azad Lodge was closed on our second visit to Port Blair, so we walked a little further up the hill and found Amina Lodge on the second floor of a shop in Aberdeen Bazaar. At 350 rupees per night (negotiated down from the normal price of 400), it was quite a lot more expensive than we’d hoped for, but the room was clean, the attached bathroom had a western loo and we got a TV and electronic mosquito repellent for our money. The room was insanely hot, but you can’t complain about that too much when you are on a desert island.

The owners of Amina are exactly what we expected Indian guest house owners to be like – the treated us like long lost relatives, showing us family pictures and giving us tea and fruit. It was a fun, if somewhat surreal, experience.

8/10