Shangri-La Le Touessrok, Mauritius

Majestic tropical scenery, beautiful beach layout, great hospitality from everyone, lots of resort activities. The breakfast was phenomenal with great variety. All. The restaurants were great, but Coco's Beach House was unreal. We had a fantastic time!

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Excellent beach resort with excellent views and beautiful beaches

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The hotel is stunning. Absolutely beautiful. I’d read about the private island before we came but didn’t think we’d really visit it. Make sure you do! It really is just paradise. We spent every day there. The food at all locations is really good. The breakfast is really good quality. We loved Coco’s for dinner at the beach. So many aspects of the hotel are 10/10. The team were all so brilliant and friendly. It’s really impressive how they remember you and your room number. Small details like that make you feel special. Some people id like to call out for being extra special: Karen at breakfast (possibly the sweetest person alive!), Christelle at Coco’s, Johann and Yussuf at the Island, Ayesha from the cleaning team. Thank you for being so lovely.

However… we’d booked to stay here on our honeymoon. Choosing Shangri-la as you expect a certain level of luxury and relaxation (which the hotel in itself delivers). For the majority of our stay the hotel was nearly fully taken over by a Multi Level Marketing company called Coral Club, where they send loads of their top sellers for something called an executive vacation. Unfortunately they didn’t book out the whole hotel. So we were in the background of their trip. Important to note - I’m fine with corporate bookings. I know they happen. We actually had one at the hotel when we arrived. I won’t name the company. But they were all very civilised, polite, quiet. Really no bother at all. It really didn’t impact the trip in the slightest. However, this Coral Club lot were a nightmare. They were so loud, rude, and definitely did not fit the vibe of the hotel. Sat at meals in tracksuits (there’s a dress code), playing YouTube videos or being on FaceTime really loudly (during meals?!). Walking round tables and having conversations over you whilst you’re eating. Meals were very uncomfortable. Because there was so many of them, they’d take over areas. Making loud TikTok’s / instagram videos in the nice relaxing parts of the hotel. I can’t describe it but you’d be sat enjoying your trip with a constant worry that they’d soon take over that area. At times during the trip they’d fully have large parts of the hotel reserved for them, including one night where they had the full beach and restaurant for their loud and tacky awards night. So whilst the hotel is amazing. Sadly, if we’d known about this event before coming we wouldn’t have booked as it was pretty horrible for a honeymoon vibe. The hotel should’ve either booked the hotel out entirely for coral club or notified us of the event so we could’ve cancelled and gone somewhere else.