What’s in a meal? Is it just what you eat or is it the total experience that goes with the meal?
I guess it’s difficult to say until you really sit down to think about it. But most often, a person in need of a meal hardly thinks about it. That’s because, priority at that point, is the satisfaction of the stomach.
A hungry man people say, is an angry man! All he needs, is FOOD. Just food!
But at La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, meal time is Not Just Food! Meal time are unique experiences.
Food served in a culturally relaxed manner that satisfies the appetite and energises one afterwards.
A meal that comes as a celebration of your personality and reminds you that you are on a vacation. A meal that comes to you as an art. A designer meal. A presentation of the best of chefs combined with utmost creativity.
That’s the kind of meal you get at La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos State, Nigeria. The African themed resort with nature’s best offering.
But more than that, meal time at La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort is Show time! That’s because the management believes that guests need not just to be pampered, but they are to enjoy a lifetime meal experience as TV stars do when they are on TV set show time!
Mealtimes are thus not restricted to a place. Each meal time is creatively packaged into an experience.
So this particular special morning, its breakfast show time at La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort. Come with me as we present: A Laba Breakfast Experience.
* A cross section of guests at breakfastÂ
For those who haven’t been here before, the Laba area is the space overlooking the ocean. Its a set of duplexes spaced from one another in a u shape, overlooking the ocean, with a huge sized swimming pool, right in the middle, to serve the swimming urge of the guests in the Laba area. There’s a runway around the pool which is going to be much used this morning as the breakfast for guests is going to be served at the Laba area.
* The well laid out buffet
The seats are set facing the Atlantic Ocean, with the DJ music waking guests up at 7am to remind them that breakfast is ready. It’s a buffet and this morning an array of different choice cuisines are available for the guests who sooner emerge from their different luxury holiday homes, all inside the resort.
The juice, fruits and water table is next to the long buffet table and as the guests begin to arrive, the DJ’s voice over the microphone says “let the show begin.”
Remember, its a show, not just a meal time.
*The guests frying cornerÂ
Activities inside the pool begins with notification to guests that they can swim or ride the kayak in the pool before or after the meal. Meanwhile a La Campagne Tropicana sport activity staff is right there in the pool showing guests how they can ride in the pool and at the same time, entertaining them, with different kayak manoeuvres while guests watch and eat their meal.
It’s suddenly a potpourri of events and scenes taking place simultaneously as Atunda Models are out on the pool’s runway, staging a fashion show to entertain the guests who have suddenly pulled out their different flashy mobile phones to record, snap photos of this memorable occasion of a unique Laba breakfast experience.
* Atunda Models
A little about Atunda Models. These are not just the usual models that parade or are adorned as mannequins. The Atunda Models are unique and do their things in creative styles. Their routine are creatively made and when they are on the runway, they interpret a story about real life. The Models are clothed by Atunda Fashion, another part of Atunda Entertainment.
While the fashion show is still on, a few of the guests that have been hit by the lyrics of the DJ music are swinging their bodies here and there, ready to dance and they actually do.
* Guests with phones capturing every bit of the unique breakfast showÂ
At the African kitchen corner, guests can fry their eggs by themselves to their taste, with everything they need supplied to them. Here also, guests can have their fried yam or potatoes with peppered sauce.
Also part of the unique breakfast Laba experience is the opportunity to catch your own fish right there by the Laba area fish pond. Or you could just point to a fish in the pond and it will be picked, sauced and nicely prepared for you, the exact way you want it prepared while you are enjoying the music in the background, the fashion show, the entertainment going on inside the pool, the ambience of the beach and the great company around you.
* A Laba guest, eating and watching the unique breakfast show from the balcony he lodgesÂ
Meal times are so, so unique at La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort. No wonder guests are usually out there with their phones trying to snap and record every moment of their experience for keeps, to flaunt and share with family and friends.
