Itsandra Beach Hotel & Resort

An ok hotel that could use some renovation Itsandra Beach Hotel & Resort is an OK hotel on the road between Moroni and the airport. The hotel is getting quite old and it is in need of some renovation. The hotel has a small private beach that is really nice. There is a pool, but the pool had no water in it when I was there. The restaurant is OK, nothing more, nothing less. The staff is very nice and friendly.

Considering where you are, Itsandra Hotel and Resort provided us with the luxury we needed: a full-service restaurant, a clean room with air conditioning, and a beautiful beach. The staff were friendly and courteous. An unexpected encounter with the onsite old tortoise was a pleasant surprise. One thing we didn’t like was that they allowed smoking in the restaurant area.

Relaxing, accomodating, very friendly and helpful staff. This was a wonderful place for a small family vacation away from normal life.

Good hotel. Literally on the sea. Nice private beach and pool. Well-kept. Breakfast and dinner are very good. Perhaps the rooms could be kept better. there are frequent power outage but presumably that is in the whole island. Service is excellent.

Le Golden Tulip, ancien Itsandra est vraiment super. J’y ai séjourné une dizaine de jours moitié travail moitié loisirs. Alors oui c’est vrai que si on est plutôt 4 étoiles classique on ne peut pas comparer mais tout le confort y est, on y mange très bien, et surtout l’emplacement est nickel comme point de départ pour explorer l’île. Le point le plus marquant est la gentillesse du personnel qui s’est vraiment donné du mal pour que toutes les conférences se passent au mieux et qui s’est coupé en 4 pour le reste du séjour. A recommander!

Trip Advisor won't allow me to date it beyond 1 year ago. I lived at Hotel Itsandra from Nov 2009 to April 2010. Staff is great, food was better than anywhere in Comoros, and the view is great. Every evening, I would swim from the Itsandra beach, past the .6 meter clam 20 meters from the beach in the carved out rock channel, drop a rock into it causing it to slam shut like a vault. Dont get your finger stuck or you will drown in kess than 10 feet if water. Swim to the left until I got to a 2 meter round coral surrounded by 6 lion fish. Sometimes, you can see a yellow and black sea snake, they stay at the bottom in the sand. They are poisonous, but scared of people (i had a colleague who liked to pull their tails to my astonishment) Then I would swim to the end of the reef where the depth would drop off (dont wear any shiny objects if you do this) and swim north (to the right) parallel to the drop off line. You can barely see the outline of sharks and barracuda in the deep areas (they have better eyesight and can lurk a little farther than human view). As you swim north, past Itsandra by a 500 meters, I would cut right and swim to the rock cliff by Ali Kazma's house. There is a carved stairway from the ocean. From there, swim back to sandy channel (it literally looks like a ship plowed a channel through it to the hotel) and look for fun snakes, octopus, and lobster (with 8 foot antennae) along the way. The channel will lead you back to the large clam and the the hotel. The swim is .7 to 1.1 miles depending on how far North you swim. I loved the hotel staff and the manager then (Patrick Helou). They helped us get scuba gear and took us to shipwrecks. The beach huts are fun to live in too, but if you have lots of meetings, the main hotel is best to stay in.