Barefoot Breaks

Google Reviews

Unlike a faceless booking engine, we’re real people who are able to give you straight unbiased advice to find the perfect island and lodge to match your needs and budget.

Why clients come back

So what do our clients think of Barefoot Breaks?

We can tell you we are good at this, but the people who actually travel with us are the ones worth listening to. Their words are below exactly as they wrote them, with nothing tidied up by us.

The same things come up again and again: straight talking advice, quick replies, honest pros and cons, and consultants who have walked the beach and slept in the room before they recommend it to you.

70Island lodges and hotels we book
5Indian Ocean destinations we cover
3Travel brands in the family, alongside Bushscapes and Just Mauritius
Dimoina Theron Client review, February 2026

I have used Barefoot Breaks 3 times and cannot recommend Rosie enough!

If you enjoy stays that are a little less generic and way less mainstream, do yourself a favor and look at her website. I have stayed at Pongwe Beach Hotel, Butiama Beach, Next Paradise and now more recently Sambatra Beach Lodge. Rosie’s local knowledge of travel in Africa ensures a seamless transition, her ground handlers are exceptional. Never a hiccup. Barefoot Breaks is my nr1 travel agency. Try them, you won’t regret it!

What travellers mention

Honest advice, quick replies, holidays that fit.

The same themes keep coming through: consultants who know the islands first hand, fast answers when it matters, and trips matched to the people travelling rather than to a brochure.

Real people, real advice.

Unlike a faceless booking engine, we’re real people who are able to give you straight unbiased advice to find the perfect island and lodge to match your needs and budget.

Let’s face it, making a travel booking these days can be a potential minefield. Take for example the big automated booking engines: sure, they’ll indicate a price for a lodge, but will they be able to give you the useful advice you need to ensure that you choose the island and lodge that’s right for your specific needs, things like visa requirements, climate or medical requirements? The short answer to that is “no”.

Or if you go through to the lodge directly, well of course they’re always going to talk up their property as being the perfect choice for you. But the reality is that there are often other lodges that would be far better suited to your specific needs and wants, which is where we come in.

One of our major tasks is to try to guide our clients towards the specific island destinations and lodges that we believe will give YOU the best possible experience. Our consultants will give you their impartial forthright advice and opinions as to what they believe are the places best suited to your needs!

That is the part the reviews above keep picking up on, and it is the part we are least willing to compromise on.

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