A charming lodge, allying luxury and wild nature in a typically tropical environment, the Princesse Bora Lodge & Spa is a warm and human sized hotel. It is located on Sainte-Marie Island, at the East of Madagascar.
Graduate of The Architecture school of Paris La Villette in April 1996, Sophie Démichilis specializes in Ecological Habitat. With international experience, especially in Senegal where she contributed to the design of a hospital, she built Princesse Bora and created this beautiful place in 1999. Princesse Bora Lodge & Spa is an Eco touristic destination.
JUNGLE SPA
Inspired by African traditions, the Jungle Spa is an impluvium round house inside the lodge. Its circular central roof collects rainwater whose benefits are useful for our treatments. The term “Jungle” refers to Sainte-Marie’s lush nature, known for its endemic plants.
A unique experience awaits you in this serene and intimate place. Start with a revitalizing citrus bath in a traditional pirogue. Continue with a wild honey body scrub which softens skin. Complete with a relaxing massage with ivahona oils. All our products are home made with plants to give you tonus and health.
VILLAS AT A GLANCE
The 20 villas are integrated into a green setting and built in natural materials: cut stone, rosewood, traditional rooftop made with dried leaves, the “ravimpotsy”.
CHARM VILLA
You will enjoy this villa’s warm atmosphere and its value for money too. Benefit from a double bed or a twin bed, a safe and a fan, a shower room with separated toilets. Enjoy its terrace with a hammock under the centenarian trees’ shadow. A charm villa is the ideal accommodation in Sainte-Marie, Madagascar for two adults.
LUXURY VILLA
Ideal for families, these 55 m² luxury villas have a queen size bed and a large mezzanine with two cots. Their bathrooms have a double vanity with open shower and separated toilets each. For your comfort, they have a safe and air conditioner, and a terrace with hammock. A luxury villa is the ideal accommodation in Sainte-Marie, Madagascar for two adults and two children (under age 12).
EXECUTIVE BEACH VILLA
These spacious beach villas of 90 m² is a perfect mix of luxury and simplicity, each beach villa offers a king size bed with an impressive view on lagoon, and a single bed for one child. A large stone bathtub stands out in the middle of the beach villa, completed with a double shower and separated toilets.
Enjoy the terrace and a private garden leading to the sea. For a maximum of comfort, a mini bar, a safe and air conditioner are at your disposal. An Executive Beach Villa is the ideal accommodation in Sainte-Marie, Madagascar for two adults and one child (up to 12).
BEACH GRILL RESTAURANT
The Beach Grill Restaurant in Sainte-Marie is a renowned establishment. Our organic vegetable garden, combined with the island’s small producers’ offer, allow us to offer you diversified dishes, mixing Malagasy and Creole influences. Fish is always the star, whether grilled, in tartar, Carpaccio or curry.
Enjoy the show of your food grilling in front of your eyes. Among the must-see, you will also find grilled lobster, zebu steak, wood oven pizza, homemade ice-creams, exotic fruit desserts and an irresistible fondant au chocolat.
HOTEL BEACH BARS
Princesse Bora’s bar is the ideal place to sip a cocktail and enjoying the view of the lagoon. Many cocktails, homemade flavored rums and minute maid juices. Very fresh draft beer, a puckish … At any time, feet in the sand, very convivial place around an authentic canoe transformed into a bar. Bar “on” water! The floats of the grandfather’s first seaplane serve as a bar counter in “zinc”. The “place to be” for a sunset.
THE WINE CELLAR
You cannot miss a visit to our Princesse Bora wine cellar in Sainte-Marie, Madagascar. Discover a selection of South African, Malagasy, French, or South American bottles. An unexpected place on a tropical island where you will learn how the European grapes travelled to Indian Ocean.
THE RUM DISTILLERY
Produced from our organic vegetable garden and our Ankarena plantation, we make our own arranged rums. Vanilla from Madagascar, wild pepper or litchis, you will find all flavors at the rummy. To taste or to offer, come and try our passion for taste at our very own Princesse Bora Rum Distillery in Sainte-Marie, Madagascar!!
DISCOVER SAINTE-MARIE IN MADAGASCAR
Discover Sainte-Marie by quad, 4×4 or motorbike. Explore the most beautiful landscapes of Sainte-Marie during a day of adventure. With a guide, you will across small villages, forests, wild beaches, mangroves, rice fields and so much more. You will learn everything about vanilla, cinnamon, clove and orchids, and the Malagasy way of life…
HIKING & BIKING
Get off the beaten track and explore Sainte-Marie Island with our mountain bikes. Between breathtaking scenery and turquoise lagoons, you will find beautiful places in a lush nature.
CLIMBING
In a paradisiacal setting and in the middle of nature, Cocobay in the North of the island has been arranged to welcome the climbers. Accessible to all, six channels have been created, ranging from 5A level to 6A+ level.
BORA DIVE & RESEARCH CENTER
Experience diving in Sainte-Marie, Madagascar at the Bora Dive & Research. The diving and oceanic research center of Princesse Bora Lodge and Spa, that is located right next to the lagoon.
Everything has been thought off in order to make your first dive(s) unique and fun. The center has quality equipment and qualified PADI instructors. Diving programs are adapted for all levels of divers, starting with initiations in the swimming-pool for children from 8 old and above.
WHALE WATCHING
The humpback whales are listed in several places around the world. In the southern hemisphere, they migrate during winter from Antarctica to warmer water for reproduction and for giving birth. That takes place when they are coming in Sainte-Marie channel in Madagascar.
The humpback whales can reach up to 16 meters long and can weigh up to 30 tons!
Every year, from July 1st to the end of September, Princesse Bora Lodge & Spa, with CétaMada NGO, organizes daily whale watching experiences. It is the opportunity to discover this marine mammal with an eco-guide who will answer all your questions.
Departure is every morning from the Princesse Bora Lodge and Spa’s beach, with our boat, for three hours of whale watching. You will contribute, by this way, to the CétaMada data scientific collection.
Rooms: 20
Price: from 139 EUR per night
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