The hotel is spread out along a coral sand beach and private lagoon. One enters the lobby over bridges spanning plant-studded, moving pools and water displays. The swimming pool seems to become one with the lagoon and with the natural and man-made pools of water. The hotel itself feels like a serene island. Unashamedly luxurious, but not in the old fashioned sense of lavish decorations, gold paint or velvets, this hotel is one of natural elegance born of simplicity and beauty, using natural marble, wood and stone in the architecture, to harmonize with the landscape.
Every suite has a tranquil water view.
The atmosphere emanates a Zen quality. At one time Ile Maurice was an island of plantations, and one of these graceful old mansions remains. It is the largest house on the island and has one hundred windows to catch the cooling summer breezes. Large as it is, the second floor, where the family's seventeen children slept, must have been crowded. The plantation house is carefully maintained in its original style and is still in the family of the original owners.