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Best time
Oct-Feb
Family price
From £ 9,200
Ideal length
8 days
Flight time
12hrs
Currency
Mauritian rupee
Language
English, French
On this week-long family holiday in Mauritius, you’ll combine relaxing family time on the beach with splashes of adventure and culture for children with itchy feet.
Mauritius is an island that has long held a luxury appeal and we’ll make you and your family feel like VIPs from the get-go. The warm smile of your private driver will greet you at the airport and they’ll introduce your senses to Mauritius by offering you local soft drinks, traditional baked goods and a scented towel infused with flowers like bougainvillea, hibiscus and frangipani. Children will also get a gift, such a bracelet featuring a map of Mauritius or island-themed colouring book. On the way to your resort, your driver will chat to you about the island and recall interesting anecdotes about places as you pass them by.
Your base for your week-long luxury escape to Mauritius will be Shangri-La Le Touessrok, an east-coast hideaway overflowing with island exoticism. With six beaches, there’s plenty of space for families to stretch out. Its kids’ clubs are among the best on the island, with the T-Club (perfect for 4-11 year olds) a clubhouse and gardens where youngsters can let their imaginations go wild. For older children, the Teen Club is excellent, with the nearby Ile aux Cerfs a water-sports paradise. There’s plenty outside of the kids’ clubs to keep young ones busy, whether it’s going stand-up paddleboarding or kayaking from the resort’s beach or going to the nearby Domaine de l’Etoile nature reserve, where they can burn energy hiking, quad-biking or zip-lining.
We know special family meals can be a rare occurrence, which is why we’ve made sure you can all reconnect over an exclusive seafood dinner at the Beach Restaurant on the resort’s private island Ilot Mangénie. When the kids get restless of the beach, a pair of full-day guided tours will introduce the whole family to the island’s culture and adventure. You can try Mauritian snacks like dhal puri and maize pudding at the bustling food markets of Port Louis and sit down for an authentic Creole lunch with a Mauritian family.
You’ll be wowed by the island’s natural beauty and the day tours will have you exploring its emerald heart, from the pristine jungle on a Black River Gorges National Park tour to seeping waterfalls and crater lakes shrouded in mystery. You’ll cruise along Mauritius’ east coast in a speedboat for a day of snorkelling among hawksbill turtles, swimming in the millpond-calm waters off Ile aux Aigrettes and enjoying a family seafood lunch on the beach of Île aux Cerfs. Also pick between the east and west coast for a thrilling ride on a speedboat, which will have you all keeping your eyes peeled for dolphins or snorkelling among hawksbill turtles and rainbow-hued fish. Undoubtedly, the stand-out of your family holiday in Mauritius will be a thrilling helicopter ride over the entire island, where you’ll have the chance to spot on of Mauritius’ most beguiling sights, its underwater waterfall.
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Treat the family to a holiday of a lifetime with our Mauritius escape designed to pair island relaxation with extraordinary experiences for all ages. Stay at a stunning 5-star hotel, discover Creole culture and, embark on thrilling adventures unique to Mauritius.
Experience highlights
- Spend seven nights at one of Mauritius’ most family-friendly addresses, Shangri-La Le Touessrok. This five-star east-coast resort is drenched in tropical escapism and offers the ultimate in service.
- Enjoy a memorable family seafood meal at the Beach Restaurant on Shangri-La Le Touessrok’s private island, Ilot Mangénie.
- Savour plenty of authentic food experiences, including trying local delicacies during a Port Louis tour of its bustling markets and a Creole lunch with a Mauritian family.
- Don your snorkel mask and fins and paddle among a kaleidoscopic display of coral, exotic fish like damselfish and Mauritian clownfish (endemic to the island) and other marine life. If you’re fortunate, you might even brush fins with hawksbill turtles, which regularly pay visits to the waters of Blue Bay Marine Park.
- Your snorkelling adventure is just one stop on your east coast speedboat cruise. You’ll also pause for a swim in the shallows off the coast of Ile aux Aigrettes and spend your lunchtime eating seafood on the sand at Ile aux Cerfs.
- Kids will love wandering the pathways which web the thick jungle of Black River Gorges National Park, which you could easily devote an entire day to exploring (and more). You’ll all be wowed by the nearly 100m-high Chamarel Waterfall and the strange-but-beautiful Seven Coloured Earths, two natural wonders that are within a stone’s through of one another.
- Take to the skies on a once-in-a-lifetime 15-minute helicopter ride, where you’ll be glued to the windows trying to spot Mauritius’ underwater waterfall, a spectacular optical illusion that appears to defy gravity.
Experience highlights
Enjoy priceless family time on one of Shangri-La Le Touessrok's six powder-soft beaches
Try your hand at several different water sports on the azure waters of Tour d'Eau Douce Bay
You can hire e-bikes for a leisurely exploration of the surrounding area
Children of all ages will love the kids' clubs at Shangri-La Le Touessrok
Relax in the resort's main pool which overlooks Trou d'Eau Douce Bay's curving sands
You can tour Shangri-La Le Touessrok's beehives and even help head beekeeper Tony Myrtile with extracting the honey
Enjoy a memorable family meal at the Beach Restaurant on Ilot Mangénie, Shangri-La Le Touessrok's private island
Domaine de l'Etoile nature reserve is full of family fun, with everything from quad-biking to zip-lining
Try authentic Mauritian snacks like maize pudding and dhal puri at Port Louis' buzzing food market
Tuck into Creole food at a lunch hosted by a local family
Embark on a tour and tasting at Takamaka winery; children will be offered a non-alcoholic drink
Ponder over Grand Bassin, a crater lake that's sacred to Hindus
Take to one of the many jungle trails which lace Black Rivers Gorge National Park
At 95m high, Chamarel Waterfall is the same height as the Statue of Liberty
Gasp at the geological oddity Seven Coloured Earths, rainbow-coloured dunes enveloped by lush rainforest
You may come across hawksbill turtles when snorkelling in Blue Bay Marine Park
Go swimming in the gin-clear waters off the coast of Ile aux Aigrettes
Enjoy a seafood barbecue on the beach at Ile aux Cerfs
On your helicopter flight you'll have a good chance of seeing Mauritius unique underwater waterfall phenomenon (weather permitting)
Fusing Asian-style glamour with warm Mauritian hospitality, Shangri-La Le Touessrok is a heavenly exotic escape.
Overlooking the shimmering Trou d’Eau Douce Bay, it’s never difficult to seek out a secluded corner among the resort’s six velvet-smooth beaches and palm-speckled tropical gardens.
Palm-flanked paths weave through exotic foliage to the rooms, suites and villas, all of which are housed within Mediterranean-style whitewashed buildings. Total relaxation is the priority here: you can while away the hours with fruit skewers and bowls of sorbet delivered to you on the beach and be safe in the knowledge a round-the-clock butler is on hand to help with your every need from the comfort of your suite.
Based on two adults and two children, you and your family will be staying in a Junior Suite Hibiscus Ocean View on a half-board basis. They’re incredibly spacious, only a stone’s throw from the main pool and boast glorious Indian Ocean views. However, upgrade options are available and our Travel Designers would be delighted to discuss these with you in greater detail.
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