The Best Hotels Near Raffles Seychelles, by the Record
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Eighty-six villas cling to the rocks above a bay on Praslin's southwestern shore, each one equipped with plunge pools, outdoor rain showers, and a butler who arrives by golf cart to spare you the indignity of walking uphill. This is a full-scale luxury resort, and it leans into every inch of that. Anse Lazio, one of the Indian Ocean's more absurdly beautiful white-sand beaches, is close enough to feel like yours.
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Praslin holds the only 18-hole championship golf course in the Seychelles, and it happens to sit inside this sprawling luxury resort on Anse Kerlan's white sand. Constance Lemuria draws honeymooners and families in roughly equal measure, and the villas lean into natural wood and stone without fussing too much about it. Seven restaurants cover Creole cooking through to sushi, and the Constance Spa is there when the Indian Ocean stops being enough.
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Six Senses Zil Pasyon sits on Félicité, a private island in the Seychelles where the only neighbors are giant sea-smoothed granite boulders and dense jungle. This is a luxury resort at the far end of far-flung, with villas built into the rock face, each with a plunge pool and the kind of ocean views that make you question every life choice that led you to an office. Four miles of paths connect it all. Forbes Four Star.
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Thirty villas carved into a rocky hillside above Anse Louis, each one blurring into the jungle around it until you're genuinely unsure where Bill Bensley's landscaping ends and your private terrace begins. The pool reads as a lost lagoon, the cliffside views are steep enough to make you grip your cocktail, and a 24-hour butler ensures you never have to think very hard. An Asian-Mediterranean-Creole restaurant and an open-air spa cover the rest.
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The former home of Italian fashion photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri, Mango House is now a boutique resort on Mahé's southwestern shore, with 41 rooms, five restaurants and bars, and three pools, one of which floats over the bay in the way pools do when no one is watching the budget. The spa looks out over the water, the staff is warm, and the whole property still carries the color and ease of something styled for a shoot.
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A working wildlife reserve that happens to have 23 cottages on it, Denis Private Island sits on a 375-acre coral atoll with its own airstrip, a century-old lighthouse, and giant tortoises a short bike ride from your veranda. The colonial-style villas are built with wood from a carpentry workshop on the island, and some have plunge pools. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.
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Fifty-two villas, each with a private pool, tucked between jungle hills and a wide beach on a private peninsula at Anse Intendance. This is a French luxury resort in the LVMH mold: Parisian precision in a tropical setting, five restaurants ranging from beachfront casual to refined Japanese and French, and a Guerlain spa running rituals built around island botanicals. The kind of place where service has already thought of it before you have.