The Top 21 Hotels Near InterContinental Mauritius Resort Balaclava Fort
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Every one of the 210 rooms and suites faces Balaclava Bay, which is either a logistical miracle or just very good planning. This is a full-scale luxury resort on Mauritius's northwest coast, spread across low-rise buildings in gardens that slope toward the Indian Ocean. Rooms run from generous deluxe standards to honeymoon suites with jetted tubs on the terrace. Outside, the options cover spa, scuba, golf, tennis, and a kids' club, with restaurants spanning Mediterranean to Indian to Asian.
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Coconut wood and sugarcane thatch frame a Forbes Five Star resort where thatched villas, many with private pools, sit scattered across 20 acres above a turquoise lagoon on Turtle Bay's white sand. The Oberoi keeps things casually elegant, the kind of place where eco-conscious details like art printed on handmade recycled paper feel considered rather than performative. Port Louis is only 20 minutes away, not that anyone seems in a hurry to go.
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Thatched villas scattered through palm groves, a dock ending in a gazebo with the Indian Ocean lapping around it on three sides, and a lagoon so blue it looks like a filter someone forgot to turn off. This beachfront resort on the northwest coast of Mauritius has private pools, open-air spa cabanas, six restaurants, and a butler situation for those who feel strongly about that. The Beachcomber group has been running luxury hotels on the island forever, and the ease shows.
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Thatched roofs, 69 suites facing turquoise Indian Ocean water, a private helipad, and three pools each styled differently from the others: the Royal Palm Beachcomber Luxury in Grand Baie is the Platonic ideal of a tropical resort, which is either thrilling or exhausting depending on your disposition. A Forbes Five Star property, it also runs an 18-treatment-room spa and a boathouse stocked for water sports when lying still stops feeling productive.
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Kelly Hoppen and a leading Mauritian architect designed this boutique resort together, which shows in the way neutral palettes and natural textures somehow feel tropical rather than sterile. LUX* Grand Baie sits on a crescent of white sand at Mauritius's northern tip, holding 116 suites, villas, and penthouses across four pools and a rooftop bar with an infinity pool overlooking the bay. It holds a Forbes Five Star.
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A peninsula resort on Mauritius where more than a mile of powder-white sand wraps around 60 acres of tropical gardens, One&Only Le Saint Géran holds a Forbes Five Star. Colonial architecture meets plantation-house detail in the redesigned rooms, and the water sports list runs long enough to exhaust anyone serious about the ocean. A kids' club and teen center mean parents can actually use the spa.
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A carriage door in an old coconut grove is the first signal that this beachfront boutique resort near Grand Baie operates at its own pace. Thatched roofs, wood shutters, and wide terraces face the ocean, and the spa sits tucked inside what they call a secret garden. A vintage boat runs dinner cruises when you tire of the hammock, though most guests take a while to get there.
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Overwater villas on stilts sit directly above a lagoon on Mauritius' quiet northeastern coast, which sets the tone for this large luxury resort spread across manicured gardens, mangroves, and private beach. Colonial-style interiors lean into warm wood and local stone, and the floating seafood restaurant is a genuine novelty. A Forbes Four Star resort with a spa offering open-air treatments and the full roster of watersports and golf.
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A Forbes Five Star resort on Mauritius's east coast, where a protected turquoise lagoon sits just past a stretch of white sand and coconut palms. After a fire prompted a full rebuild, the 174 suites and 12 villas emerged with interiors by Mauritian designers, pale sand-toned walls offset by pastel accents and wallpaper drawn from Indian Ocean coral patterns. Nine restaurants and bars, a spa, and a pool large enough to get genuinely lost in complete the picture.
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A red British phone booth on a Mauritian peninsula, plastered with an E.T. "Phone Home" sign and wired for free international calls, tells you this resort has a sense of humor about itself. LUX Grand Gaube sits on a secluded north-coast peninsula beside a fishing village, with two white-sand beaches, three pools, a spa, and interiors by Kelly Hoppen. Forbes Four Star. The vibe is retro-tropical, the lagoon is genuinely topaz.
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Each of the 64 villas comes with its own plunge pool and open-air garden, so there's little pressure to leave them. This all-villa resort on Mauritius's quieter west coast holds a Forbes Four Star rating, and the design mixes traditional Mauritian architecture with something more contemporary. A sea-inspired spa, three pools, and a Wine & Cigar Cellar stocked with over 1,200 cigars fill any gaps left by the hammock.
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A cliff-top infinity pool overlooking a sheltered Mauritian cove sets the mood before you've even unpacked. This adults-only boutique hotel is built for couples who want to do very little, and very slowly: thatched bungalows, four-poster beds draped in muslin, sea-facing balconies, and an all-day rum bar that removes any remaining ambition. Four restaurants, live music every night, and lantern-lit garden walks fill the gaps.
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Arrive and someone hands you a mocktail before you've found a chair, which sets the tone for what this Four Seasons resort on the island's east coast is doing. The 136 villas spread across 64 acres of endemic gardens, best navigated by bicycle. Three restaurants cover the range from French fine dining to bare-feet Mauritian. The spa sits on wooden pillars above the Indian Ocean, which is either the most relaxing setting imaginable or the most distracting.
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The suites on Frangipani Island, reached by a wooden footbridge, come with freestanding bathtubs positioned in the middle of the room like a design-forward dare. This is a big-ticket Indian Ocean resort with obsessive butler service, contemporary minimal rooms, every balcony facing the sea, and a Givenchy spa for when you've exhausted the water sports. The kind of place where you might recognize a face from a magazine and decide not to mention it.
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Tucked into forested hills above Chamarel village, this owner-run lodge skips TVs entirely in favor of winding garden paths, bird calls, and yoga under an open marquee. Suites and villas come scattered through tropical gardens, many with private pools and open-air showers framed by frangipani. Meals lean into Mauritian tradition, and afternoons dissolve into hammocks or a massage behind bamboo walls. Small, personal, and shaped more by nature than by amenity lists.
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Motorized water sports are banned at this southern-coast Mauritius resort, which means the beach stays quiet enough that you can actually hear the tide pools forming when the water pulls back over the black volcanic rock. The smallest suites run close to nine hundred square feet before the private terrace enters the picture, and thirty-six acres of mango orchards and palm-fringed gardens separate you from the idea of the outside world entirely.
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A white-sand beach resort on Mauritius's southern coast, designed by a Thai architect with interiors by Kenzo Takada, which somehow captures the island's own effortless cosmopolitan mix of French, English, and Creole. The eighty-four suites are enormous and open-plan, each with a private garden and outdoor shower. Beach Villas add sea views and a plunge pool; the Villa Beaulieu's pool is larger than a Manhattan hotel room, for some perspective.
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