Luxury Hotels in Turtle Bay, Mauritius

A Garden Retreat On Baie Aux Tortues

The Oberoi, Mauritius places the stay among subtropical gardens beside Baie aux Tortues. It suits travellers who want vegetation and shore close to the accommodation, with northern cultural visits and Port Louis supplying different outings beyond the resort.

Choose Pamplemousses For Plant Collections

The botanical garden at Pamplemousses has a substantial collection of indigenous and exotic plants. Giant water lilies give the ponds a distinctive scale, while the palm collection includes the talipot, whose dramatic flowering occurs only once in its life. A garden visit here rewards interest in particular species and their growth forms, beyond enjoying the planting around a hotel.

Grand Baie's shops and dining can provide a separate town outing for those whose interests lie beyond gardens.

Make Port Louis About Maps And Art

The Blue Penny Museum at Le Caudan Waterfront offers a specific reason to visit the capital. Its maps and navigation instruments trace the island's place in maritime exploration, alongside colonial archives and artworks. Lislet Geoffroy's late-eighteenth-century navigational map represents Mauritius and Reunion, giving geography a historical form on paper.

For an art-led visit, Prosper d'Epinay's marble sculpture of Paul and Virginie brings literature into the same museum. Created in 1881, it depicts Paul helping Virginie across a stream. Choose this collection for cartography and sculpture, rather than making a capital visit only a circuit of shops. The harbour-side location gives the city outing a clear destination.

Our Mauritius destination guide covers the wider island, including the separate southwestern forest landscape of Black River Gorges.