Tkny456
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Hotu is located on a beautiful beach and has so much potential. Ben, the employee, played the host, cook, guide, cleaner. Such a wonderful man with so much potential Also. Mael brought us on our tour of the lagoon (manta rays, bird island, picnic on a motu). If we just had to see these two men, hotu would have received a 5star review!||Unfortunately, we met the manager, Herve, and we wondered why he decided to go into the tourism business. Not a very welcoming host I would say. He never once sat with us, or asked us how our stay was, or how we were. ||Also, the “pension” wasn’t managed with a Polynesian flare: besides the welcoming and goodbye leis and some fish in some of the meals, no local goodies. No coconut water available despite the trees being full of coconuts (so full that we thought it was a bit dangerous as we would hear many fall here and there), no local bake goods made with coconut, no evening entertainment. The staff also didn’t know much about the history of the island. They seemed to not have been briefed by the management. Also, none of them is from tikehau, which is weird. ||As for the bungalows, they were quite rustic. It was clean and not high luxurious, which is fine. The billions of mosquitoes were a bit more problematic for us. ||We did enjoy the beach in front and the little sharks swimming around every day.||So overall, we would have loved our stay but were very disappointed with the poor management. If we were to go back to tikehau, we would chose another place to stay unfortunately.