Amidst Port Louis tourist hotels, business hotels, boutique hotels, small hotels and alternative tourist accommodation, the comfortable and peaceful Mon Choix ecolodge hotel in the countryside emerges as the best Port Louis accommodation near the business, shopping and leisure centre and the main seaside tourist village of Grand Bay

PORT LOUIS

(Where one can easily walk in history, imagine, feel, smell and taste what it was like from 1735)

At 5-10 minutes by car from Mon Choix Ecolodge is the City of Port Louis (named in honour of King Louis XV), the Capital of Mauritius and founded in 1735 by the first French governor, Count Bertrand François Mahé de Labourdonnais. It is situated on the North-West coast of the island and protected from the South-East trade winds by a most beautiful mountain range. It has a population of about 140,000 and it is the commercial hub of the nation.

As mentioned in our "Sightseeing" page, Mon Choix would like to recommend the following places of interest in Port Louis to its guests: The old streets and the few old buildings and private homes, Le Caudan Waterfront (shopping & Leisure complex), the market, the textile shops and spice shops in La Corderie Street, the Champ de Mars racecourse (1816), St Louis Cathedral, St James Cathedral, Government House, Jummah mosque, the Chinese quarter, Aapravasi Ghat, the Mauritius Institute, the Natural History Museum (with the famous Dodo), the Museum of Photography, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Memorial Centre, the Chinese Pagodas, Fort Adelaide ("La Citadelle" built by the British in 1835), Place d'Armes (infront of Government house with the statue of Queen Victoria, Mahé de Labourdonnais, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Soukdeo Bissoondoyal and various prominent personalities), Signal Hill ("La Montagne des Signaux") and the Mauritius Stamp Museum, the Blue Penny Museum (at Le Caudan).

You may also be interested to know that Mon Choix Ecolodge in Vallée des Prêtres is situated relatively close to all the main hotels, at about 5-10 minutes by car of Port Louis centre, the Caudan Waterfront, Labourdonnais Waterfront Hotel, Le Suffren Hotel & Marina; 15 mins to the North-West coast, Oberoi Hotel, Maritim Hotel, Intercontinental Mauritius Resort, La Plantation Resort & Spa, The Grand Mauritian A Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Le Meridien Ile Maurice; 30 mins to Grand Baie, Hotel 20° Sud, Le Beach Club, Casuarina Resort & Spa, Tarisa Resort Hotel, Le sakoa Hotel, Ocean Villas, Club Med, Beachcomber Hotels, Le Canonnier Hotel, Le Victoria Hotel, Trou aux Biches Hotel, Le Mauricia Hotel, Royal Palm Hotel, Veranda Resorts, Veranda Grand Baie Hotel & Spa,  Attitude Resorts, Naïade Resorts, Legends Hotel, Hotel Melville Beach, Kuxville Hotel, Marina Village Hotel, Paradise Cove Hotel & Spa; 30 mins to the main residential towns of Beau Bassin, Rose Hill, Ebene, Ciber City, Quatre Bornes, Vacoas, Floréal, Curepipe; and about 60 minutes from the Airport in the South and the main hotels in the East, Le Prince Maurice Hotel, One & Only Le Saint Géran, Belle Mare Plage The Resort, Le Coco Beach Hotel, Le Touessrok Hotel; in the South ( Paradis Hotel & Golf Club, Les Pavillons, Dinarobin Hotel Golf & Spa, Le Shandrani Hotel, Telfair Golf & Spa Resort, Voile d’Or Resort & Spa, Indian Resort, and in the West, The Sands Resort & Spa, Maradiva Hotel & Spa, Hilton Mauritius, Sugar Beach Resort, La Pirogue Hotel. 

To experience the comfort and peace of Mon Choix, discover the real, authentic island and fully enjoy your Mauritius Holiday and Water-Sports at a most competitive rate, contact: dodoisland@intnet.mu

Mon Choix is Mauritius Island's (Ile Maurice) first internationally graded ecolodge at Vallée des Prêtres near Port Louis business, shopping & leisure centre and the sea. COPYRIGHT: A.R.Jean-Michel de Senneville. Underwater pictures are by courtesy and Copyright to: Mr Eugène Vitry.