Travel reviews by Mr & Mrs W from Berks

"Mchanga beach lodge is a very quiet place, on a very quiet beach. It's an excellent place to unwind for a few days, but depending on your personality you may get itchy feet after this, as there really isn't much to do. The rooms are clean and well maintained, although at night some kind of insect can be heard crunching through the wood above you, which kept me a awake a bit. This, however, does enable you to hear the haunting cackle of the bush babies outside. There are two downsides I would mention:

1. The service. This is best described as erratic, varying between friendly and outgoing to sullen and resentful. Also, what you actually get varies hugely; the breakfast dish "muffins with butter and jam" varied between three muffins with butter and jam to a single muffin with nothing else. Similarly bottled water wasn't reliably replaced in our room.

2. There is something just a bit slap-dash about the place. This is fine, and quite probably intended, but I just had the feeling that the whole place could do with a bit of straightening out.

Overall very much as we had expected and a lovely place to go."

"This is an absolutely exceptional place to go. Superb service, great game, magical location, excellent staff.

Cannot recommend highly enough."

"These guys really got off on the wrong foot. The 'welcome' at reception consisted only of pushing an arrival card for us to fill in, having glanced in our direction only long enough to tell where to push the card.

They then put us in a twin room (on our honeymoon). We complained and were offered a 'double', in which only a pair of children could possibly have slept comfortably, it was so small. Their solution to this was to push the beds together in the twin, leaving a 3 inch height difference between the mattresses. Besides the beds the rooms are ill furnished, with non-functional lights, holey mosquito nets, sparking plug sockets and broken fridges. Overall they didn't really seem to care very much.

We were very much not alone in complaining at the front desk, having to take our place in a queue of disgruntled guests. Avoid."