Velaa Private Island
A small Noonu Atoll island of villas, houses and four-bedroom residences that can be taken over entirely for a family milestone.
Places to stay we know well
76 hotels, camps, villas and ships, each described by the specialist who recommends it, including who it does not suit.
35 places to stay match your filters.
Constance Prince Maurice
A calm, low-rise resort on a sheltered lagoon, with suites on stilts over the mangroves and a floating seafood restaurant.
Royal Palm Beachcomber Luxury
The grand old name of Mauritian hotels: 69 sea-facing suites on a sheltered beach at the edge of Grand Baie.
Shangri-La Le Touessrok
The east coast family favourite, with the island's largest kids club, a guests-only islet and two championship golf courses.
The Oberoi Beach Resort, Mauritius
Thatched pavilions and pool villas in 20 acres of gardens on Turtle Bay, a protected marine park on the sunset side of the island.
North Island
Eleven handbuilt villas on a granite island that has been rewilded, with helicopter access from Mahé and the whole island available to book.
Ellerman House
A 1906 Edwardian house above Bantry Bay, full of South African art, with a wine gallery, sea-view pool and two villas cut into the granite.
Royal Malewane
Four lodges of different moods in unfenced Thornybush, from a classic thatched lodge to a tented camp, with guiding at the centre of everything.
Singita Boulders Lodge
Stone, glass and river light on the Sand River, with some of the most reliable leopard viewing in southern Africa on the doorstep.
Tswalu Motse
Nine suites in 118,000 hectares of red dunes and grassland, with a private vehicle, guide and tracker for every booking.
Singita Sasakwa Lodge
An Edwardian-style manor on Sasakwa Hill above a 350,000-acre private reserve, with cottages that each have their own plunge pool.