Hotel Reviews

BERJAYA PRASLIN SEYCHELLES RESORT

Berjaya Praslin Seychelles Resort is located bang on the Cote’-de- Or Beach and has lot of restaurants and parish shops/ money changers/ clothing shops etc in its vicinity. They welcome you with a cool lemon grass drink, which is so refreshing after a ride from jetty to the resort.

                                                                  Deluxe Sea-view Room

We stayed in the Deluxe Sea-view Room. These rooms are closest to the Beach and the resorts’s Pizzeria Restaurant and have a nice view of the ocean across the garden. The rooms offer you enough privacy and peace from the resort’s internal area, near pool/bar/souvenir shop and restaurant area. Rooms are well equipped with bath tub and other facilities.

                                                              Cocktail Bar - Near Fregate

We got a fruit basket on our first day, which was quite plentiful and had all local fruits. 

                                                              Fregate Restaurant

Breakfast buffet spread is in fregate restaurant and dinner is in Pizzeria, which is accessible by Public and is on the beach.

                                                              Pizzeria Restaurant

 They have all the tour arrangement facilities, cab booking etc. Coffee is served free of charge 4 PM to 5 PM, in the Fregate area opposite the pool. 


                                                  Farish Shop on Berjaya's Entry Gate

There is a farish shop on the gate and a souvenir shop in the parking area near reception.

                                                                     Swimming Pool

Swimming pool was very small but who needs one, when the beach is right at the doorstep. One can avail a shower room at the time of checking out, if your ferry back to the main island is late eve.

We found the staff very polite and helpful. Overall we had a pretty nice stay here.

Room Tip: Sea View Room had better accessibility to the beach and Pizzeria. Garden facing rooms are no use as they are in interiors and have no sea access or to other facilities of the resort.

BERJAYA BEAU VALLON BAY RESORT & CASINO

Berjaya Beau Vallon resort as the name suggests is located in the famous Beau Vallon bay, place to be for the most beautiful sunsets at Mahe, Seychelles. The resort is a huge one with a wide variety of room offerings, and because of its location has a high demand in every season.  

                                                 Resort's back side - opposite the Beach

We travelled in first week of May, 2014 and resort was bustling with people. The reception staff is unfriendly and unwilling to do anything even minutely small, beyond their strict rules and policies. Room service is extremely poor and you have to demand 2-3 times on the reception helpline (room service never picks) to get the waters or coffee/tea updates.

The rooms were smaller as compared to The Praslin resort. We had taken the standard room and were eligible for an upgrade, but they refused citing Hotel rush. Despite the fact, that we had confirmed this fact before booking, and then only made payments.

                                                 Lounge Area and Parrot Restaurant

The resort’s Parrot restaurant was an extremely nice place with variety of offerings for a long stay and polite and helpful staff. It had a different buffet of International Cuisines every night and restaurant ala’-carte itself was multi specialty with varieties from Italian, Chinese, Creole’, Teppanyaki Counter to Indian Restaurant. Swimming Pool size was bigger than their Praslin resort.

                                                                     Swimming Pool

You have to collect beach towels early morning during breakfast time, or else they finish. There are decent numbers of Beach beds that they place on the beach side. The evenings used to be pretty lively with some musical show, dance performance or a DJ on offering. There was a small casino as well to spend time.

Also, there is a tortoise pen towards left from the reception lobby having 8-10 Large Aldabra Tortoises.

There is spa facility, some boutique and souvenir shops near the restaurant. Travel desk is opposite the reception counter. One of the good things was free pick up and drop facility to Victoria, Mahe. Every guest should make avail of this facility in order to save taxi charges, but one needs to book it in advance, i.e an evening before.

Room Tip: Go with the quality of room, rather than view as no room had any decent views.