Le Cardinal Exclusive Resort

Le Cardinal exceeded our expectations! If you’re looking for a resort which offers lots of restaurants & bars, music around the pool, live music and nightly entertainment, this is NOT the place for you. With only 13 suites, a small lobby area, an intimate restaurant and a beach bar area, Le Cardinal is a place of clam and tranquility. A place to relax and unwind. The staff are amazing! Nothing is too much trouble. Massive thank you to the whole team and a special thank you to Daniel, Rawa, Axcel, Simi and Tauckoor for their amazing service and friendly conversations. We stayed on all-inclusive which was breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks from 11am. All food is a la carte, waiter service (no buffet) so is very relaxing. Each day there are specials to choose from in the evening or choose from a menu. some supplements apply) And if something is not quite to your taste, they will do what they can to accommodate your needs. The small beachfront is beautiful, mostly sandy but can be pebbly and rocky (maybe bring sea shoes). Most nights you can enjoy watching the sun set. The beach has a good balance of local life. You can use the gym and spa facilities of the sister hotel across the road. Thank you again Le Cardinal, we hope to return soon.

Just spent a week at this wonderful hotel in a beautiful location overlooking the ocean. Where to start, words cannot express the professionalism and kindness of all the team. The highlight was the incredible food and service. Their ethos is that everyone who works at the hotel is a small family and they certainly make you feel part of that family. Also a mention to the spa team. The treatments and spa facilities were excellent and very good value. A massive thank you to everyone, hope to the you all again one day.

We stayed at Le Cardinal for 6 nights, I did a lot of research to find the right hotel on a great beach and it exceeded my expectations. Everything about the hotel is amazing. The rooms were large with wifi, streaming services on the TV, a massive bathroom with walk in shower and plenty of storage. The beach is postcard perfect and has decent sunbeds for use by hotel guests. We mostly spent the days on the beach then late afternoon in the pool which was lovely and warm. The best thing about this hotel was the service. Every breakfast and dinner was an experience. Breakfast felt like a 3 course meal and dinner was fine dining. The food was of a high standard and Shiva and the whole team were very attentive and friendly. We felt very well looked after. With it being a small hotel all the staff knew us by name, what we liked to drink, we haven’t stayed at a place with that personal touch in a long time and that really made the time special for us. I will be recommending this hotel to everyone I know and hope to return.

The soft spot of the resort is definitely the cuttering. By the way, special thanks to Tauckoor, Daniel, Rawa, Axel, Simi, Ijaaz. Nevertheless, the room cares wasn’t on the top!

Another fantastic stay in this hotel. A quiet and exclusive resort hotel with a great beachfront location. The hotel being small has a very close knit staff who are very good at their jobs and have a great attitude. We were All Inclusive so some of the food and drink options will be different depending on your own option. Rooms are spacious and always clean. We had no issues for the three weeks we stayed there and had a turn down service every night. Mini bar is chargeable, but you can take the occasional drink to your room. All the rooms are beach facing. The food is Al La Carte. No buffet at all, but the menu is varied with a “Specials menu” each day for 14 days, before the choice returns. The standard menu has a nice choice and there are chargeable items on all of the menus, but we had no charges and were happy with all the choice at Breakfast, Lunch and Evening meal. All of which were well cooked and eaten in a relaxed atmosphere. Dress code was refreshingly good with men having to wear long trousers and a shirt/sleeved polo shirt/sleeved T shirt. And it was enforced with no complaints. If you are all inclusive the Casuarina directly across the road allows AI guests to enjoy the facilities including meals and drinks. The Casuarina is an entirely different vibe with night time activities so if you do feel the need for entertainment it’s somewhere else to go. The only criticism I had about food and drink is the Tiki bar at Le Cardinal was not always manned and you either had a wait or go and find someone to deal with your order. The beach was clean and tidy, very quiet and directly in front of the hotel the sunbeds/Palapas were for guests only. Security dealt with any issues promptly. Also there is a decent sized safe swimming area with an area that has some interest for snorkellers. A lot of watercraft traffic is outside the area so if you are snorkelling outside the area a personal buoy is a very good idea. A few beach sellers, but there are quite happy with a no Thank you and not pushy at all. In fact we ended up chatting to them without actually being asked to buy anything towards the end of the holiday There is a small pool, but this was also a nice place to retire to to cool down towards the end of the afternoon and set in the gardens which are well cultivated gives it a good quiet vibe as well. It would be unfair to single out any staff, but Danny and Vikash were my top two, but everyone else was also helpful and attentive. All in all a great holiday with very little to fault.

For a day package it is not worth it at all and we expected something quality but it was poor. We didn’t even got a welcome drink upon our arrival and the food was bland. The only good thing was they upgraded our room from suite to penthouse and it was cozy.