I travelled to Mauritius taking honeymoon package from DPaul’s Delhi in first week of June. My contaqct point was Ranjit who was very helpful and sent me all the required information needed beforehand. I also had taken lot of reviews from friends who had taken tour package from Dpauls before- they all gave a good review. Althogh the package 5-10k overly priced - but the good reviews by my friends convinced me to choose DPauls.
Climate was good - although their winter; it was pleasant in mornings and mild cool( 17-18 C) in evenings.By the beach you would need one jacket.
Dpaul offers different range of hotels in Mauritus in different price.Although the Price of Intercontinental hotel was a little more than Le Meridien stay - and I was ready to take up Intercontinental-to make sure I spend my honeymoon in the best Hotel; the DPaul staff recommended me Le Meridien over Intercontinental - due to its better Indian feedback and indian restaurants in Le Meridien hotel. I appreciate their informed suggestion on this- which proved good when I reached mauritius and had a chance to interact with fellow passengers who stayed in intercontinental.
The dealings were professional - and yes as mentioned in one of the reviews below- they do ask in a form to sign as Tour operator - -but that is with everyone.I did not bother much for this.This should not deter you.I got my tickets within 4-5 days for mauritius.They also booked my seats on the flight on twin seats(The Air Mauritius flight had arrangements like this ->2+ 4+2 - so get the seats booked before)
DPAULS has a tie up with MyHolidays tour operators in mauritius.The moment I reached Mauritius at 8:30 AM airport I could see My Holidays people holding my name. Once they collected all people travelling to Le Meridien - theytook us in a mini van( we were 3 couples) and took us to Hotel which was around 1 hour journey.
The hotel was awesome -please see my review on Le Meridien Mauritius.We were asked to rest on the first day and meet an executive at 4:30 pm in Hotel’s Lobby. We met Christie from My holidays who explained the tour details for the next 7 days. For one day where they take us to a beach having water activities; she proposed optional paid water sporting activities package with free lunch. We also had 2 leisure days - in which she proposed few cruises / safari etc.
We took water sport activity package for 6000 MR and a dolphin cruise for 4000 MR( both prices forcouple). We chose to explore the Le Meridien Hotel for one day - as we had lot of free activities within the Hotel -free spa;water skiing;paddle boat;sailing;swimming, hammam, jacuzzi etc.
Breakfast and Dinner were free for all the days and we had to pay nothing to the Hotel- all of it was covered in the package( Rs.56000 per person)
The only places we paid money out of our pocket was - entry ticket for Botanical garden( 100 MR per person); lunch at a hotel taken by tour operators( 350 MR per person - which was expensive) and one more day lunch of your choice( which would range to about - 150 MR - 300 MR per person).Shoppingin Mauritus is usually very expensive - and I recommend - not to indulge in shopping.We just took few souvenirs and t shirts all of it were costly if you compare that with India - keep aside 2500-3000 MR for the same. Mauritius T shirts costs( 150 MR - 350 MR) - Decent and cheap Souvenirs cost( 250 - 300 MR+). If you buy more - you get discounts from shopowners.
We took a local mobile phone connection(Emtel) in mauritius for 150 MR in which we got 125 MR as talk time - call to india was 5.6 MR/min.The phone gets activated on production of your passport copy within 1 hour.
Advice - Do convert your Indian Rupee to USD from India itself. Around 800-1000 USD is sufficient from 6 N - 7 D but depends on your spending pattern. we intially converted only 500 USD to mauritian rupee at Mauritius Airport -all the banks offered the same rate in and out of airport.There is no cheating in this regard.So you can always have the option of converting your USD to mauritian rupee anywhere in Mauritius later on.Plan accordingly.
Area of improvement - They had a list of travellers and had to take all of them before we could depart from hotel. Sometimes we were taken in mini ACbus with 3 couples to share- which were better, sometimes in big AC buses with 13-15 families -which took lot of time.During transfers from one location to another - there was a little mis management - where we lost lot of our times on a few days.although the helpful guide(Sunil) kept us informed and kept us busy with other stuffs.Group transfers can be better arranged to give a much better feeling.
The tour used to end by 5 pm and we had enough time to see the sunset at the beach and enjoy dinner peacefully in the hotel.
Overall, everything was well arranged - and DPauls made our honeymoon memorable.