Heritage The Villas

Heritage villas is a great venue for large families and specially as we were looking for a mix of private time blended with hotel amenities. Will definitely come back. Special mention to Stephanie and reception team for coordination! We also used the hotel facilities (spa, pool and restaurant) and had great culinary diversity and experience.

In February 2024 my wife and I spent ten days at the Heritage The Villas. The villas are located in a kind of gated community on a hill amid a golf course and are connected via small paths to the Heritage resorts Le Telfair and Awali. We had an electric golf cart which took us to the resorts in a couple minutes (actually fun to drive although our buggy seemed a bit dated) and with our Gourmet Bliss package we could enjoy the two resorts' various restaurants (and cocktails in e.g. the bar Cavendish at Le Telfair) without hesitation. We could also use the C-Beach Club and had dinner at the Golf House as well as the Chateau. Only some dishes/cocktails were excluded from our package and marked as such in menus. The refrigerator in the villa is supplied each day (excluding Sundays) with two bottles of water, two cans of Coca Cola and Fanta each, a few cans of local beer, and juice and milk carton and this was included for us, too. After our early morning arrival we had to wait about five hours for our villa but we could use the C-Beach Club in the meantime. Plus we got a free upgrade from our booked One-Bedroom Villa to a Three-Bedroom-Villa. The villa (No. 107) was beautiful and we had three bedrooms each with ensuite bathroom (two with bathtub) and aircon as well as two outside showers (one on a balcony, hidden from sight, and one in the garden). Also aircon in the open kitchen/dining/living room area with guest restroom. The pool had a perfect size for us and the peace and quiet (plus nice views) in the area were extremely relaxing. There is a short handover procedure at the beginning and at the end of the stay for the buggy and the villa, which was however reasonable and smooth. It's an understandable process considering you're taking over an electric cart and a house with inventory. Due to a Cyclone Level 3 there was a lockdown on the whole island for one day so that we were confined to our villa for a day and night, but we were well taken care of during the Cyclone: we were kept informed about the situation via WhatsApp and during the storm, when it was still safe, some staff made the way up to the hillside villas to supply us with food and drinks. Not everything was perfect, naturally, but it was almost perfect. It would have been great to have some slippers and bathrobes in the villa, for example, or an in-villa breakfast or dining included in the Gourmet Bliss pack or so. But whenever we addressed something (we didn't address the slippers and bathrobes...) it was taken care of swiftly and without much ado. For example, when I voiced my strong discontent about the Awali's Boma restaurant and its African Night concept (didn't feel exclusive at all and certainly not authentic but rather like ordinary package holiday stuff to me), the manager on site immediately reacted by offering to have a staff member accompany us to the Infinity Blue restaurant for an excellent a la carte dinner. So we left Boma and continued our dinner at the Infinity Blue, which saved the evening. It terms of excursions the Chamarel waterfall and seven-coloured earth is easy to reach from the Heritage The Villas with a taxi. We also did some snorkeling at the reef near the hotel, which was nice, and stand-up paddling (free). Mauritius very much feels like a paradise!

A week of golf to meet friends who were out here for a few weeks. The villa was superb, overlooking the Chateau course - excellent equipped, ample size and very private. The maid service was excellent, as was the service offered by the concierge team. Nothing was too much trouble and they were very efficient in communicating. Each restaurant was great, but Gin'Ja stood out as being the jewel in the crown - a superb pan Asian - wish we had gone there sooner. Having full access to both the Telfair and the Awali is excellent, with each offering something a little different. The Gourmet Bliss/All Inclusive package I think actually saved us a small fortune, and overall to us it felt like good value. If your a golfer, try and get to La Reserve early - A proper golf course, spectacular with 18 great holes. They have done a great job and probably be top 15 - 30 in the world once established. Would love to make this trip a regular one!