Mauritius West Coast and Center holiday bungalow: La Preneuse

We recently stayed at Bungalow Vanille for our honeymoon, upon our arrival to Mauritius airport we were met by our driver (included in the rental cost) who drove us straight to the villa (approx 1 hour).
We were greeted by Marcel the owner for had put water, juice in the fridge and also a french loaf and jam incase we were hungry ( a nice touch).
He then drove us down to the beach so we could get our bearings and then he took us to the supermarket, again another nice touch,
While we were out he had arranged for a bottle of sparkling wine for our return.
Marcel and his Father were perfect hosts and we spent a couple of lovely evenings with them eating and drinking until quite late!
We would recommend you hire a car so you can get to see the rest of the island and experience the true Mauritius and not what you see in the holiday brochures! A lovely drive is from Black River along the coastal road down south towards Bel Ombre.
Flic au Flac public beach is a nice place to while away a couple of hours and the outdoor catering facilities are pretty good and very reasonably priced.
We ate out at Domaine Anna (just before you get into Flic au Flac) beautiful restaurant and the food it pretty good to and again very reasonably priced. Would highly recommend a visit.
We also booked the Losterman with Marcel, initially we thought it was a little expensive (for Mauritius) but it was well worth it.The chef and his wife served us some lovely fresh local produce and made us feel very special. They dressed the table beautifully and were very professional. Our only regret was we didn't use their services for other meals as we were told they would of cooked for us.
Overall our experience was very good, the villa itself does need a little updating and is very basic but never the less we had a lovely relaxing honeymoon and if your not looking for luxury then we would recommend it.