Shangri-La Le Touessrok

What sets it apart

First, Îlot Mangénie: a private island the hotel serves by boat every day, from 9 am to 5 pm, with a restaurant and beach bar serving salads, artisan pizzas and rum cocktails, and an à la carte lunch from 12.30 pm to 3 pm. Then the range of accommodation: from the Coral room of 56 square metres to the three-bedroom Shangri-La villa on the beach, by way of the two-bedroom Frangipani suite of 196 square metres. Villas come with a butler and a private chef from 7 am to 11 pm, a chauffeured golf buggy from door to door, and complimentary laundry. Suites are entitled to in-room check-in and à la carte breakfast at Coco’s.

The mood

Five tables, each with its own idea. TSK, the heart of the estate, follows the plan of a Mauritian house, with an open kitchen, a dining room, a glazed veranda and a library: one hundred and thirteen seats, breakfast from 7 am to 10.30 am and dinner from 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm, for a cuisine that blends Mauritian flavours and international cooking, with live cooking stations. Safran is the Indian table, forty-two seats, at dinner from 7 pm to 10.30 pm, built around its tandoor ovens. Kushi is the Japanese table, fifty-six seats, at dinner from 7 pm to 10.30 pm, with a sake alcove and a teppanyaki room. Coco’s is the Mauritian beach house, ninety-six seats, set where the story of Le Touessrok began: breakfast from 7 am to 10.30 am, lunch from 12.30 pm to 3 pm, small plates from 3 pm to 6 pm, dinner from 7 pm to 10.30 pm. The Sega bar serves local rum cocktails and tapas from 6 pm to 1 am, with live Mauritian music.

Highlights

• Ilot Mangénie, a private island served by boat from 9 am to 5 pm, with a beach restaurant and bar
• Six secluded white sand beaches, spread over four kilometres
• Thirty-four hectares in a turquoise lagoon, on the east coast
• Five tables: Mauritian and international, Indian, Japanese, a beach house, and the islet restaurant
• Kids club for ages 4 to 12, open from 9 am to 10 pm
• Two eighteen-hole championship golf courses, at Ile aux Cerfs and Anahita
• One floodlit padel court and three floodlit tennis courts, archery
• Villas with a butler, a private chef from 7 am to 11 pm and a chauffeur-driven buggy

Good to know

• Restaurant and bar hours may change: have them confirmed on arrival.
• The kids club separates 4 to 5 year olds from 6 to 12 year olds, and 13 to 17 year olds have their own recreation area, with padel, a console and archery.
• Baby-sitting costs extra, beyond the club.
• The three evening tables, Safran, Kushi and Coco’s, hold between forty-two and ninety-six seats: book on arrival.
• Ilot Mangénie is reachable only between 9 am and 5 pm: the day runs on the boat timetable.
• The Sega bar closes at 1 am: it is the only place in the hotel open that late.
• The event room, the Orchid Room, is one hundred and twenty-three square metres and takes eighty people theatre style: this is not a conference hotel.
• Three resident tortoises and a beekeeper are the occasion for activities.

Getting there

The address is Coastal Road, Trou d’Eau Douce 42212. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport is forty-eight kilometres and an hour away by road. A helicopter service links the airport, and the hotel offers taxi, limousine, car hire, a travel desk, currency exchange and a doctor on call. The two eighteen-hole championship courses of Île aux Cerfs and Anahita are accessible by partnership.