Accommodation in Mauritius

Mauritius is not just about the coast: Sega brings its own musical and dance tradition into the travel experience, curries and rotis make cultural influences tangible, and an island tour can take you from Port Louis and Pamplemousses through the highlands to Black River Gorges National Park and on to Chamarel. For families, this opens up different ways to shape shared days—with nature, culture, and culinary discoveries instead of a stay focused solely on the beach.

Quick & good

  • Sega: Mauritius’s musical and dance tradition offers a direct way into the island’s cultural side.
  • Cuisine with multiple influences: Indian spices and Creole influences shape important parts of Mauritian cooking.
  • Curries, rotis, and street food: These dishes and ways of eating invite you to get to know Mauritius through taste as well.
  • Port Louis and Pamplemousses: Both places are stops on the described Mauritius round trip and combine city and garden experiences.
  • Highlands: Trou aux Cerfs and Grand Bassin represent stops away from the coastal scenery.
  • Natural landscape in the southwest: Black River Gorges National Park and the Seven Coloured Earths of Chamarel are concrete destinations on an island tour.

Mauritius between coast, highlands, and nature

If you choose Mauritius as your travel destination, you can think of the holiday as a sequence of different impressions. Port Louis adds an urban element to the trip, while the Botanical Garden of Pamplemousses shows another side of the island. With Trou aux Cerfs and Grand Bassin, highland stops are added. Black River Gorges National Park and the Seven Coloured Earths of Chamarel broaden this picture with nature and landscape experiences.

For a family, this range is especially helpful when planning for the first time: you can consider whether, alongside relaxing days by the coast, there should also be room in the itinerary for culture, gardens, the highlands, and natural landscapes. The places mentioned provide different points of connection and make a trip with changing themes easy to imagine.

Seven Coloured Earths of Chamarel in Mauritius
Seven Coloured Earths of Chamarel in Mauritius. Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Culture and cuisine as shared discoveries

Sega makes the cultural identity of Mauritius vivid: music and dance become a distinct way of approaching the island. Added to this is a cuisine in which Indian spices and Creole influences come together among other elements. Curries, rotis, and street food give this connection concrete form.

Such experiences can be planned as a good complement to nature and coastal days. Children and adults can pursue different interests without the trip depending on just one activity: a meal can follow an excursion into a landscape, making another part of the island’s culture visible.

Choosing accommodation according to your itinerary

In Mauritius, your choice of accommodation should match the experiences you actually want to combine. If Port Louis, Pamplemousses, highland stops, Black River Gorges National Park, and Chamarel are meant to play a role, check the exact location of your accommodation and how it fits into your personal travel plan before booking. That way it stays clear whether you are mainly looking for a fixed base for quiet days or want to combine several different stops.

The ten Mauritian regions on this page help with further orientation. As concrete starting points for the places mentioned, you will find Port Louis, Pamplemousses, and Black River. Other regional names are Flacq, Grand Port, Moka, Plaines Wilhems, Riviere Du Rempart, and Savanne. Rodrigues is also listed as a separate regional choice.