LA PIROGUE – MAURITIUS
LA PIROGUE
This totally informal yet stylishly appointed beachfront resort is ideal for water sports enthusiasts and families alike:
Sister-hotel of the adjacent Sugar Beach Resort, this totally informal and extremely popular beachfront resort is ideal for families and water sports enthusiasts alike. One of the island’s most established resorts with distinctive Mauritian charm and unique design incorporating the ‘pirogue’ sail-shaped stone-and-thatched bungalows which are all arranged in a relaxed, village-style layout. La Pirogue lies amid 35 acres of exotic tropical gardens fringed by a long reef-protected white-sand beach and boasts superb land and water sports – many complimentary; the resort is renowned for the fantastic dives off the west coast and big game fishing excursions available. Families are well catered for with Kids and Teen Clubs and a varied day and night-time entertainment programme. Enhance your dining and leisure choices with the superb all-inclusive meal plan available – enjoy great à la carte dine-around options and access to many additional services in the hotel. Guests staying at the resort will also benefit from the restaurants and leisure facilities at the Sugar Beach.
La Pirogue Aerial View
Bathed in light and warmth, with fragrant frangipani flowers ……
Bathed in light and warmth, with fragrant frangipani flowers delicately disposed here and there and ceiling fans with large blades of marine wood, the guest rooms and their terraces are an invitation to lazing about and day dreaming. Standard guest rooms, some communicating, are ideal for families. Superior guest rooms are grouped in small villages immediately fronting the Indian Ocean. Each can accommodate a family of four, thanks to a sofa bed or two convertible armchairs.
Delightful dining options:
Completely redesigned and now more spacious and tropical, the main restaurant, Thatches, provides a great energy-and-vitamin start to the day with its copious and appetising breakfast buffets in its dining-room opening onto the garden or overlooking its decorative pool. In the evening, from 7:30 pm. to 10:00 pm., Thatches showcases a totally new dining experience, with six themed live-cooking stations: a stir-fry and fresh-noodle station; an Indian station with its tandoor oven for traditional local cuisine; a huge salad station; a fresh-pasta and pizza station; a grill-and-teppanyaki station; and a multitude of desserts as well as an Ice-Cream Bar to complete the array. For the more romantic, the restaurant also features cosy wood-and-thatch dining-islets overhanging the decorative pool.
Immediately fronting the Indian Ocean, the renovated Paul & Virginie Restaurant has enhanced its romantic appeal yet further with the cosiness of small thatch-roofed dining pavilions overhanging the new infinity pool. At lunchtime, from 12:30 pm. to 2:30 pm. everyday, it offers delicious authentic local cuisine as well as a whole range of exotic preparations of Mauritian Creole dishes, smoked marlin with heart of palm, sea-bream in lime sauce, tandoori lamb, grilled crayfish, and traditional ‘kulfi’ ice-cream, to name but a few. In the evening as from 7.30 pm., its offering is more sophisticated with a focus on seafood and healthy stir-fries, grills and smoked dishes: smoked marlin with heart of palm, tandoori fresh-water prawns, grilled crayfish, prawn-and-chicken curry and excellent desserts. The wine list includes a variety of South African and New World wines.
La Pirogue Mauritius Outdoor Dining
Facing the sea, between La Pirogue and Sugar Beach Resort, guests can savour the delights of the Mediterranean’s sunny cuisine in the cordial warmth of Citronella’s dining-room, with its fine wrought-iron tables, or in the shade of the café’s teak terrace. The mouth-watering offering ranges from tasty light snacks to traditional dishes worthy of the best Italian restaurant, including giant prawns in Espeletta chilly pastry, crayfish-bisque lasagne, grilled crayfish with Mediterranean sauce, braised knuckle of lamb, and the sinful tiramisu.
Refreshment options:
Located at the heart of the resort, next to Thatches, the main restaurant, the Blue Bar, with its blue-granite décor, electric-blue lighting, and tropical, contemporary blue cocktails, is the privileged core of the resort’s nightlife and entertainment. The Blue Bar is a must for savouring known cocktail recipes or the barman’s latest creations and for getting the best view of the evening’s show. An impressive selection of drinks, spirits and liqueurs of international brands is on offer everyday as from 10:00 am.
La Pirogue Pool
Overlooking the beach, the wood-and-thatch Beach Bar offers the best panorama in the resort: the sea’s superb palette of blues with the mountain scenery of Black River Gorges and Le Morne in the background. It is a great meeting-place for enjoying excellent health and well-being cocktails, vitamin-packed with 100% fruit or vegetable juices. Also on offer: a selection of excellent rums, punches and other alcoholic drinks, as well as a light menu including Mauritian dishes, sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, and exotic ice-cream.
La Pirogue Water Sports
The Spa & Gym:
Pamper yourself with a host of beauty and body treatments provided by a team of professional spa therapists. The Spa comprises both single and couples treatment rooms and also has a dedicated Shiatsu treatment area. For the ultimate therapy try the deluxe Hammam treatments including an exotic black soap massage. Visitors to the spa may relax around a plunge pool and enjoy refreshments from the Organic Spa Bar. A fully equipped hairdressing salon for men and women is also located in the spa area.
La Pirogue Gym
Comprising 300 sq m. of air-conditioned space, The Gym offers a full range of Multimedia Cardio equipment, air-controlled strength machines, body building and free weights. The Martial Arts area caters for fans of taobo, kick boxing, judo and karate. Group interactive spinning classes are provided with virtual landscape rides through some of the most exciting bike rides of the world. Personal training for Vibro Gym and Pilates is also available. Daily yoga, stretching and aerobics are also offered both indoor and outdoor.
To Book Call Now 02087747298 (Ref:GuideToMauritius)
