As far-flung islands go, Mauritius, with its white-sand beaches, glassy lagoons and volcanic drama, is a honeymooner favourite for good reason. It’s a hopeless romantic, of jungle-smothered hills and old world verandas spilling onto beaches, of bath-warm shallows and blinding blue skies. There’s also substance there – Mauritius rises well above the fly-and-flop brief. It’s steeped in rich history, as a strategic island in the Indian Ocean – see the rusting canons protruded from a tangle of tropical green – and with a patchwork of cultural influences (predominantly French) since the Arab traders discovered this uninhabited island in the 10th century. The French language endured beyond the British arrival in 1810, where Indian workers were imported for the sugar mills, and were, later, granted their independence (1968), along with a diversified economy. Alongside acres of sugar cane plantations (a legacy of this period of occupation), pineapples, tea and bananas now grow along Mauritius’ fertile volcanic slopes. This fresh island bounty informs the menus at the island’s top hotels, along with its exotic coastal plunder and local meat. Having passed languorous hours along the beaches and hotel pools, newlyweds can explore Mauritius’ lush valleys, cooling off beneath waterfalls, and observing its exotic tropical wildlife (such as the brightly breasted Mauritius fody). They can while away hours plunging into Mauritius’ calm lagoons and sun-dappled reefs with a snorkel for, or simply wallowing in the bath-warm shallows. Boat trips here are otherworldly, gliding between sandy islets for a picnic, drying salty backs in the sun as dolphins break the horizon ahead. It’s as if you’ve tipped off the edge of the earth, just with spoiling, barefoot-luxe hotels to return to. And as honeymoon formulas go, it makes a sweet pairing with African safaris – the beachy exhale following high-energy safari drives.
And why go with The Turquoise Holiday Company? Because far-flung island honeymoons are this leading luxury travel company’s bread and butter. Family-run and highly-bespoke, Turquoise have relentless on-the-ground presence in Mauritius to ensure all its insider tips, partner hotels and experiences are fresh and on-the-pulse. What’s more, their near-alchemic approach to matching travel formulas and hotels with particular personality traits and desires really makes them a cut above the rest – the ultimate honeymoon architects that smooth out travel knots with seasoned panache.
With this in mind, here are four of Turquoise Holidays’s favourite Mauritius trips, and with all the tropical trimmings that lift it into a lofty honeymooning league.
The Business Class Honeymoon: One&Only Le Saint Geran
Cream of the Crop – where luxury reaches its crescendo
Languidly spread out along its own peninsula on the north-east coast, One & Only Le Saint Géran is as famous for its impeccable service as it is for its exquisite setting. Honeymooners will have all whims and watering catered to by a designated butler, and the team are trained to the hilt on the details (a glass of Champagne as soon as your toes hit the sand, a towel rolled out with flair as your eyes fall on a particular sunbed, extending a boat trip with a dinner booking change, no problem). The beach itself is divine, a private scoop of bone-white sand and calm, turquoise waters, along which the rooms are dotted, with panoramic ocean views and fiery sunsets, courtesy of the peninsula setting. The architecture and interiors take their cue from the old world plantation aesthetic, with elegantly arched verandas, white parasols and whitewashed rooms that appear to exhale onto the sand. It may be luxe, with its Michelin-starred restaurants (Tapasake’s Japanese-Peruvian menu is sublime) and clipped service, but there’s something immediately shoulder-lowering about this hotel – a sensation that can be leant into with sunset yoga by the lagoon, a bespoke couples’ therapy in the spa or a sound bath treatment to kick the last of the wedding cortisol. An absolute must for honeymooners at One & Only Le Saint Géran is sailing off to a secluded sandbank with a picnic in tow – these buttermilk patches of beach are surrounded by endless stretches of turquoise water to illusory effect.
Business Class Honeymoon Offer – 7 nights, in a Lagoon Room, half board, from £5,479 per person, including international flights in business class and transfers. Based on travel in May 2025. 30% discount and free half board, champagne on arrival and honeymoon surprises. If travelling in economy, 7 nights in a Lagoon Room, half board, from £2,949 per person, including international flights and transfers, travelling in June.
A Honeymoon With All The Extras – LUX* Le Morne
Playful, passionate, irresistible, romantic
Occupying its own remarkably pretty peninsula at the foot of its namesake mountain, where a rush of tropical green meets the sea, LUX* Le Morne offers up breath-tugging, exotic views from every angle. Envisage sun-doused turquoise lagoons, bone-white sand, views of the greener-than green mountains – as if a picture editor ramped up the colour dial. It’s the sort of honeymoon stereotype all couples will be delighted to fully embrace, particularly with LUX* Le Morne’s tailor-made experiences (tastefully done, of course, even the scattered love notes). Couples can curl up in a beachfront private cinema under the stars, with a gourmet spin on cinema accoutrements (and rosé-on-ice), tuck into romantic dinners on empty stretches of sand or on Le Morne’s slopes, and even gallop along the peninsula on horseback. The resort’s easy-to-navigate layout encourages the ‘drift’ mode that honeymooners like to activate after all the cortisol-laced wedding build up… as does the treatment list in the LUX* Me Spa, where therapists lather on the group’s own organic products for couples massages.
Couples can look forward to floating breakfasts, al fresco candle-lit baths doused in petals and plonked a few metres from the Indian Ocean, and sunrise paddleboarding where the island is caught in that deep, yolky glow of dawn. Fresh, modern suites with Balinese-style exteriors trap the Mauritian daylight, their windows glowing like fireflies as couples meander back through the tropical gardens or along the beach after supper. And with five restaurants to hop between, curiously delicious fat-free ice cream to scoff and three lagoon-like pools to wallow in, couples would be forgiven for never leaving the resort – no judgement in paradise.
Honeymoon Offer – 7 nights, in a Deluxe Room, daily breakfast, from £1,689 per person, including international flights and transfers. Based on travel in June 2025. 5% discount plus honeymoon activities, spa credit and a romantic evening on your terrace.
Read more: https://www.turquoiseholidays.co.uk/destinations/indian-ocean/mauritius/luxstar-le-morne-resort/
Peace and escapism – The Oberoi Mauritius
Serene, Sophisticated and Utterly Private
The vast tropical gardens (20 acres) are largely responsible for The Oberoi’s singularity within the Mauritius hotel context – these and its privileged setting, overlooking the ethereal Turtle Bay, where vivid, exotic plants roll on to meet ivory sand and warm, turquoise water. There’s also a Far Eastern theme, Buddhist statues reveal themselves at various corners and thatched, eco-inclined suites scatter the grounds. It’s all a little temple-like or ‘lost kingdom’, with turrets and statues crowning the main pool, which is separated off from the parasol-studded beach by a series of weathered pillars. While fun to soak up the scene here, newly weds can always retreat to their own villa pools, for the height of privacy without forgoing the afternoon dip. Similarly, having sampled the locavore restaurants, (whose delectable dishes can include grey snapper curry and foie gras cured in rum and sugarcane), couples can slink off to their own dinner plans – a candlelit dinner in a banyan tree grove, or, perhaps, on a private jetty, hovering over the moon-lit water. One small-but-mighty detail of this divine resort is its no-music policy in several of its areas, guaranteeing couples the natural island soundtrack they came for. What’s more, the activities here feel wonderfully unique to the Oberoi, and to Mauritius itself – from sunrise meditations to therapeutic art classes (capturing the exotic beauty of this Indian Ocean stalwart), and various Eastern-influenced spa rituals. Energetic mornings can be chased on the resort’s courts, with an early game of tennis or by taking snorkels into the bay, in search of turtles and exotic fish. While newlyweds can choose to simply flop like seals onto sun loungers and drift between mealtimes and spa treatments, the beauty of the Oberoi Mauritius is in the options beyond this – and the unwritten rule that it’s all under your own steam.
Honeymoon Offer – 7 nights, in a Luxury Garden View Pavilion, from £2,299 per person, including a 10% discount and complimentary half board
A truly boutique retreat – Seapoint Mauritius
Boutique-style, incredibly private, adult-only, quiet luxury
The adults-only promise is a real boon for honeymooners eager to avoid any pool splashing, while the cast-adrift feel speaks to those who are more accustomed to smart homestays or luxurious guesthouse formats. Seapoint Mauritius is indeed boutique in character, with just a handful of rooms and charming, personal touches. Its style falls somewhere between a Caribbean island escape (with its thatched roofs and rum-shacks) and Mediterranean villa (courtesy of the abundant pine trees). Rooms and a pretty, villa-style pool overlook the mottled cobalt, turquoise shallows, and couples can fill their cups beneath the thatched parasols lining the beach (and cocktail glasses). The position of the rooms guarantees an ocean wake up call, (no particular time), but the soothing lull of the waves lapping the shore, then rolling back in frothy, sequined glee. What’s more, the hotel’s size allows for the sort of flexibility frazzled newlyweds are after – breakfast on their private terrace, or perhaps a light lunch poolside – the service of a swishy hotel with the blissful seclusion of a private villa. Activities and general rhythms here feel fully anchored into Mauritian culture, with creole cooking classes, local-tips on secret beaches and themed evenings where just-caught seafood takes centre stage. Consider it a tropical island stay with heaps of personality – a home-away-from-home, should you happen to reside in bona fide paradise.
Honeymoon Offer – 7 nights in a Deluxe Beachfront Room, half board, from £1,949 per person, including international flights and transfers. Based on travel in June 2025. 20% Discount.
Read more: https://www.turquoiseholidays.co.uk/destinations/indian-ocean/mauritius/seapoint-boutique-hotel/
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