Five groups and their way of receiving guests

In Mauritius, many hotels are chosen by their family name as much as by their beach. Five groups in particular, Beachcomber, Constance, LUX*, Attitude and Heritage, bring together more than twenty hotels on the island, each with a recognisable way of receiving guests. Knowing these signatures makes it possible to guess, before arriving, what a hotel will offer and what it will not.

Beachcomber Resorts & Hotels, a brand of the company New Mauritius Hotels, has eight addresses on the island: the Royal Palm in Grand Baie, the Mauricia and the Canonnier in the north, the Trou aux Biches and the Victoria on the north-west coast, the Shandrani at Blue Bay, and two neighbouring resorts on the Le Morne peninsula, one of them the Dinarobin.

Its strength lies in the network. Dinners are interchangeable between several of the group’s hotels, and the all-inclusive package, offered as an option in five of them, is shared at no extra cost between the Shandrani, the Victoria, the Canonnier and the Mauricia. Golf is the other common thread: four of the group’s hotels present themselves as golf resorts, built around the eighteen-hole course within the grounds of one of the two Le Morne resorts and around Mont Choisy Le Golf, a preferred partner in the north. For couples, the For 2 concept reserves a wing or spaces for adults in several properties: forty rooms at the Victoria, Zen suites at the Dinarobin. For families, the kids’ club is free from three to eleven.

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Constance, from boutique hotel to grand resort

The Mauritian group Constance, headquartered in Centre de Flacq, runs addresses on the island that differ widely from one another. The Constance Belle Mare Plage unfurls two kilometres of beach and two championship courses. The Constance Prince Maurice, at Poste de Flacq, occupies sixty hectares sheltered from the prevailing winds, with villas on stilts above a fish reserve and a cellar of more than twenty-five thousand bottles. C Mauritius, at Palmar, runs on an all-inclusive basis, with a cellar of organic and biodynamic wines. At Trou aux Biches, the group runs a hotel of sixteen units, the Constance Sakoa Boutik. And since 5 February 2026, south of Mahébourg, it has run the former Anantara Iko, now Constance Le Chaland, ten minutes from the airport.

LUX* has four hotels in Mauritius, at Grand Baie, Belle Mare, Le Morne and Grand Gaube, and others from Réunion to the Maldives and from Zanzibar to China. Its hotels share in-house brands that recur from one address to the next: the ICI ice-cream bar by the pool, the PLAY kids’ club, Studio 17 for teenagers, the LUX* ME spa. Each property adds its own singular touch: a food truck housed in a Rolls Royce at Belle Mare, an adults-only area beneath a banyan tree and a helipad at Grand Gaube, a kitesurfing lagoon at Le Morne, residences and villas with pools at Grand Baie.

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Attitude, the island told from within

Attitude presents itself as a Mauritian hotel group, B Corp certified, and it is the only one on the island to hold the Made in Moris label. Its seven hotels fall into two families: four for families (The Ravenala at Balaclava, Zilwa at Calodyne, Friday at Trou d’Eau Douce and Coin de Mire in the north) and three for adults only (Tropical at Trou d’Eau Douce, Lagoon at Anse la Raie and Sunrise at Belle Mare). Single-use plastic has been gone from them since 2020. The group has made Mauritian culture its signature: the Kot Nou restaurant and the Taba-J food cart in several hotels, dinners in local homes, invited Mauritian artists, and the Marine Discovery Centre at the Lagoon Attitude. It also has one address beyond the island, Matemwe Attitude, in Zanzibar, with its villas opening onto a lagoon.

Heritage Resorts & Golf thinks not on the scale of a hotel but of a territory: the Domaine de Bel Ombre, on the south coast, which grew sugar cane for more than two centuries and still has the remains of its sugar mill. There it brings together the Heritage Le Telfair, built in the style of a plantation house, where every suite has its own butler; the Heritage Awali, run on an all-inclusive basis; and Heritage The Villas, spread over two hundred hectares. The estate has two championship courses, the Château and La Réserve Golf Links, a beach club, the C Beach Club, and the Bel Ombre Nature Reserve, 1,300 hectares of endemic fauna and flora. A new address is due to join them: Botanica, forty-five rooms in former homes of the sugar estate’s managers and in new buildings, scheduled to open on 1 October 2027.

Choosing a group means choosing a way of doing things. At Beachcomber, moving freely from one hotel to another; at Constance, range, from boutique hotel to grand resort; at LUX*, house rituals that recur from one hotel to the next; at Attitude, local roots and commitment; at Heritage, an entire estate to explore without leaving the house. The beach, for its part, is best judged on the spot.