Belle Mare Public Beach

What sets it apart

Belle Mare is one of the four major public beaches whose leisure amenities are being gradually upgraded, along with Mont Choisy, Flic en Flac and La Prairie. It is also one of the four beaches, with Mont Choisy, Flic en Flac and Saint-Félix, where sea access for people with reduced mobility is being prepared, and one of the four that house a public beach service office.

The mood

The beach service office stands on the sand itself, and the floating beach wheelchair days are held beside it. On busy public holidays a duty ambulance attached to SAJ Hospital is stationed here and also covers Palmar and Trou d’Eau Douce.

Highlights

• Four sections, for 29 hectares and 2,420 metres of shoreline
• The section beside the Residence hotel public since 1964, the other three since 1991
• One of the four major beaches whose leisure amenities are being gradually upgraded
• Public beach service office on site
• Duty ambulance on public holidays, attached to SAJ Hospital, also covering Palmar and Trou d’Eau Douce
• Floating beach wheelchair days

Good to know

• This is the east coast emergency point on public holidays: the duty ambulance is stationed here and also covers Palmar and Trou d’Eau Douce.
• Sea access for people with reduced mobility is being prepared: it is not yet in service.
• The floating beach wheelchair days are held near the beach service office, with associations and by registration: this is not a walk-up service.
• The beach is very large and split into four sections: to find one another, agree on a landmark, the beach service office or one of the two Residence hotels.

Getting there

The beach lies on the east coast, in the Flacq district, between Palmar to the south and Quatre Cocos to the north. The beach service office, on the beach itself, is its most reliable landmark.