Sustainable Travel

Our Eco-lodge

Eco-lodge Sustainability

Swell Lodge’s 2 eco-chalets are privileged to exist inside a National Park, beside a RAMSAR protected wetland. Our eco-lodge is governed by strict environmental regulations and so we use the latest technology to ensure your stay in the wilderness has minimal impact on the pristine environment.

Each of our 100% solar-powered eco-chalets have a 1.4KW solar array which saves over 750kgs of CO2/yr entering the atmosphere and our efficient, high-output ceiling fans remove the need for air conditioning. We’re proud of our solar hot water, modern odourless composting toilet, greywater filter treatment system, ph-neutral bio-degradable soaps, shower gels and bin liners, and even have crab-safe vehicle attachments and a carbon neutral program realised through ‘Greenfeet’, planting native trees to offset our vehicle emissions – so you can enjoy your stay at Swell Lodge guilt-free. Sweet Dreams!

 

What is an Eco-lodge?

Wondering what makes up an eco-lodge? Eco-lodges aim to preserve the surrounding environment by reducing their carbon footprint, investing in sustainable technology like solar, consuming resources wisely and using environemtnally freindly products where possible. Here’s a few things that guests love about our eco-system at Swell Lodge.

Swell Lodge Eco app

Swell Lodge App

We’ve our own Swell Lodge eco-lodge app on your room’s iPad, detailing island info and status of your solar-powered house batteries!

Red Crab on Christmas Island

Crab-Safe Vehicle

During red crab migration, we equip our eco-lodge vehicle with special crab-savers in front of the wheels that nudge the crabs aside!

Solar Pannels at sunset

1.4kW Solar Panels

The sunshine soaked up from each eco-lodge roof is then stored in a 10kWh bank of super high-tech lithium-ion batteries.

Eco-lodge environmentally friendly soaps in Swell Lodge on Christmas Island

Bio-degradable Soaps

Our eco-lodge is stocked with luxury Australian-made, bio-degradable, refillable shower gels, hand soaps, hair products & detergent.
Waterless toilet in Swell Lodge

Waterless Loo

Each of our eco-lodges have an Italian-tiled ensuite bathroom with a 100% waterless, odourless and eco-friendly composting toilet you will love!
Solar hot water system on eco-lodge Swell Lodge Christmas Island

Solar Hot Water

The eco-lodges use evacuated glass tube technology to transfer the sun’s heat into our over-size tank to ensure you have plenty of hot water and we don’t produce any greenhouse gas emissions.
Love Tea Teabags at Swell Lodge Christmas Island Eco-lodge

Compostable Tea Bags

We provide our eco-lodge guests with a beautiful selection of tea bags from ‘Love Tea‘. They provide organic & fair trade tea, which are not only tasty but totally compostable.
Greywater eco-lodge filter at Swell Lodge Christmas Island

Greywater Filter

Water from the shower, sink and vanity pass through a grease trap then this 450L sand, gravel and coconut-husk filter to ensure that our eco-lodge doesn’t impact the surrounding environment.
Greenfeet carbon offset program swell lodge christmas island

Carbon Offset Program

Reducing our carbon footprint is important to us as well! To offset the CO2 emissions from our eco-lodge vehicles, we invest in planting native trees with Green Feet.
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