My wife and I booked the hotel in February as part of a business class travel package with “Emirates Holidays” and had a two week holiday in this fantastic hotel.
The pluses
The Hotel
1) Well designed buildings with a feeling of Luxury and a bit of a “Wow” factor. The rooms were spacious and clean. The public areas were airy and in harmony with the beautifully maintained and extensive gardens. The pool was large and never overcrowded and in common with the beach drinks and snacks were only a brief wave away.
2) The staff are the most pleasant and genuinely helpful that we have ever encountered. Whilst we were on holiday my wife was ill for two days. They arranged a doctor’s visit, the resident nurse rang every couple of hours to check on her and the restaurant staff prepared and delivered special food to the room. The hotel manager also sent a get well card and a selection of fruit.
3) The facilities, bars and restaurants were all excellent. The quality of food was first class. The main restaurant had theme evenings, Indian, Chinese, etc. and the quality evening entertainment reflected this theme.
4) We tried the spa for joint massage and the treatments were excellent and at reasonable rates
The flights
1) Business class flights both ways with “Emirates” including transfers, lounges, quality of food and the caring and cheerful service was virtually faultless, which gave a great start and finish to our holiday.
The Island
1) The Island and its people are warm and friendly
2) The weather was like a really pleasant summer day in the UK but with that extra bit of sunshine.
3) We hired a car for 12 days for £270.00 and there was plenty to see & do
The Minuses
The Hotel
1) Cost of drinks in the bars & restaurants were, even for a 5 star hotel a bit over the top (i.e. € 7.00 for a large beer, € 12.00 for a single Baileys)
2) Guests “reserving” sun beds around the pool. Most guests were from the UK so it was disappointing to see the adoption of this unreasonable habit pioneered by some of our European cousins.
Overall we had a brilliant holiday and can only thank the staff and management of the Beau Rivage and Emirates for their efforts which made this trip so memorable.

We travelled to Beau Rivage on the 9th Sept 2009 for 14 nights.
Without going into great detail the hotel, staff, and food were superb.
We have travelled extensivley over the past 35 years to the Carribean, Americas and the
Indian Ocean including the Maldives and have never come across staff that were so helpful and wanted to please. It was a breath of fresh air.
Also a mention for the airline Emirates.
From collection at home, private transfers on the island, and transfer home marvellous.
Business Class via Dubai superb on all 4 flights.
We will visit the island and Beau Rivage again.

went to the beau rivage in September, absolutely wonderful, from the time we arrived to the time we left everything was fabulous.....on arriving we were treated like v.i.p., welcomed with drinks and wet towels, at the gate, escorted by 2 people to the lounge, reception came to us ( what a change from other hotels) when we were relaxing in the lounge area with a drink..........manager escorted us to our room (Junior suite) which was really nice, and only a step from the beach,,,The gardens are to die for with hammocks, palms trees beautiful cabanna's and pools with large gold fish...beach
wonderful white sand that streches for miles and blue see. Hotel configuration is 'spot-on' pool is magnificent with the bars and most of the restaurants overlooking...at night
it is really lovely........THe hotel its -self is so beautiful and all the staff are 6* star...so
wonderfully attired, well mannered, nothing too much trouble and above excellent with there service. in every department .( Special mention for the 'beach boys' and the medditerean beach restaurant....who looked after us so well each day.) Entertainment great, .............all the restaurants excellent... seems to be only one thing that most people complained about was the .........prices on drinks.......
maybe if you decide to go you should consider 'luxury experience' as we did.......found it was really worthwhile for us........need to read the package...too much on there for me to highlight.......however, worked for us........ spa - unbelievable, thought i'd died and gone to heaven.......... Would I go Back....IN A HEART BEAT !!!!!!!!

The hotel is brilliant. I loved the property, the decor, gardens, the beach. The best thing is the service, which is simply outstanding and rarely to be found in Europe. Spa is very good too. Massage is fantastic as well as other treatments. They also have free yoga sessions two times a week.
Food is very fresh and the choice is excellent choice. There are four restaurants and I highly recommend IndoChine, which is an experience. The seafood restaurant is also very good as well as the buffets at the Rive Gauche restaurant. We especially liked Iniand and Asian nights.

When we came, the hotel was 40% full; when we were leaving it was 75% full. The main difference was felt at the beach. It was far too crowded, chairs next to each other. There was no privacy at the beach at all. This was the only downside.

Best season in terms of climate in the east coast is 1st October to 30th November. During our first two weeks of September, we had 3-4 days of mixed weather. Other days were fine, although it was always windy.

The best things to see: Iles aux Cerfes and Chamarel estate in the South, shop in Port Louis market - best prices. Do not buy at the beach and beware of taxi drivers and hired car drivers. They always drag you to the shops wherever they take you as they receive fees from these shops. I checked the prices at these shops and realized that I can do better during sale in Harrods. And I will know what I will be buying.