Mauritius · 8 April 2026
Mauritius two-centre golf holidays — east-west itineraries that work
Plan a Mauritius two-centre golf holiday across east, west and south coasts. Four 10–14 night itineraries from Belle Mare, Anahita, Tamarina and Heritage. Talk to Simon.
Mauritius is small enough to see twice, in two very different moods, on a single trip. Here are four two-centre itineraries our clients keep coming back to.
A Mauritius two-centre golf holiday is the trip I plan more than any other. The island is sixty-five kilometres by forty-five. A private chauffeur between most of the resorts I use runs to about forty minutes, so “isn’t it a faff to move?” has a short answer. No. It’s a transfer, not a journey. The east, south and west coasts are three quite different holidays. Stitching two of them together is the difference between a fortnight by one pool and a trip you’ll talk about long after you’re home. See all our Mauritius golf packages for the single-centre alternatives. Below are the four combinations I book most, with the per-person ground-only price for each fourteen-night pairing.
Why split a small island into two halves?
The geography does the work. Drive an hour from Constance Belle Mare Plage on the east coast to Heritage Le Telfair on the south and the soundtrack changes. The lagoon flattens. The cane fields rise. The air smells of woodsmoke off the Bel Ombre estate instead of seaweed off Belle Mare beach. Move on west to Tamarina and Mount Rempart fills the windscreen. Three coasts, three weather patterns, three different golf experiences. Two weeks in one hotel and you’ve seen one Mauritius. Split the stay and you’ve seen the whole island, without unpacking more than twice.
East coast vs west coast vs south. What each one gives you
The east coast is the postcard Mauritius: long lagoons, white sand, the trade wind that keeps things bearable in February. It’s where Belle Mare Plage sits on its two kilometres of beach, and where Anahita Golf & Spa Resort, now The Bay Club at Anahita, looks out across the channel to Île aux Cerfs. Golf is the headline. Belle Mare’s Legend and Links are both on the property, and Anahita pairs the Ernie Els course with Bernhard Langer’s eighteen holes on Île aux Cerfs reached by a 24-seater shuttle from Pointe Maurice jetty.
The south coast at Bel Ombre is the green, hilly, slightly old-Mauritius half. Sugar history, the UNESCO Man-and-Biosphere Reserve up the slope, the Bel Ombre estate running 2,500 hectares from the cane fields down to roughly a kilometre of beach shared by Le Telfair and its sister property Heritage Awali. The golf is the reason most of my clients now choose this coast. La Réserve Golf Links, co-designed by Peter Matkovich and Louis Oosthuizen, opened on 1 December 2023 and was named World’s Best New Golf Course in 2024, Indian Ocean’s Best in 2025, and Golfweek’s number one in Africa for 2026. Le Château, the older Matkovich layout, sits a five-minute buggy ride away.
The west coast at Tamarin is the quiet one. Smaller hotels, drier weather, big skies over Mount Rempart. Tamarina is the only golf resort there I’d put on a two-centre. Forty-nine rooms across a single floor, Rodney Wright’s par-72 layout running through 206 hectares of estate, and a clubhouse called Le Dix-Neuf that does a bol renversé I’d happily drive across the island for.
“La Réserve Golf Links, co-designed by Peter Matkovich and Louis Oosthuizen, opened December 2023, was named World’s Best New Golf Course 2024 and Golfweek’s No.1 in Africa for 2026.”
Itinerary A — Belle Mare plus Heritage Le Telfair (the headline pairing)
The headline combination, and the one I’d give most golfers. Seven nights at Belle Mare Plage on half board with complimentary green fees on the Legend and the Links. Baiocchi’s 1994 layout through indigenous deer-hunting woodland, and Wright and Alliss’s 2002 inland links with the old lime kiln next to the eighteenth. Then a forty-minute transfer south to Heritage Le Telfair on bed and breakfast, both Heritage courses included. Belle Mare is the long-beach, eight-restaurants, four-pools half. Heritage is the golf-trophy half. La Réserve is the course you’ll be talking about on the plane home. Belle Mare hosts the MCB Mauritius Legends and the MCB Ladies Classic. Le Telfair holds the World’s Best Golf Hotel 2025 trophy from the World Golf Awards.
Best for: Golfers who want the trophy course, the long beach, and the spa at both ends.
On-site golf: Legend + Links at Belle Mare, Le Château + La Réserve at Heritage. Four championship courses across the fortnight.
From: £1,808pp for the 14-night pairing (Belle Mare 7n HB £919 + Heritage Le Telfair 7n Bed & Breakfast £889, ground-only).
Itinerary B — Anahita plus Heritage Le Telfair (the four-course trip)
Four designers in fourteen nights. Week one at The Bay Club at Anahita on bed and breakfast, with unlimited play on the on-site Ernie Els course. Ocean Drive at the par-5 fourth. Turquoise Lagoon at the par-3 seventeenth looking across to Île aux Cerfs. Then the shuttle from Pointe Maurice jetty to Bernhard Langer’s Île aux Cerfs Golf Club, with the boat included in the green fee. Week two at Heritage Le Telfair with Le Château and La Réserve included. That’s Els, Langer, Matkovich and Matkovich-with-Oosthuizen on four consecutive championship courses, a run that’s hard to put together anywhere else inside ten days. Both hotels sit on the eastern half of the map, so the chauffeur runs the back roads rather than the central plateau.
Best for: Architecture geeks. Four big names, four signature holes, four very different routings.
On-site golf: Els at Anahita, Langer on Île aux Cerfs (boat included), Le Château + La Réserve at Heritage.
From: £1,664pp for the 14-night pairing (Anahita 7n Bed & Breakfast £775 + Heritage Le Telfair 7n Bed & Breakfast £889, ground-only).
Itinerary C — Tamarina plus Belle Mare (the Rodney Wright trip)
The connoisseur’s two-centre, and a good one for couples where one half plays and one half doesn’t. Start west at Tamarina on half board for seven nights. Forty-nine rooms, La Madrague for the breakfast buffet over Tamarin Bay, dolphin-watching boats at dawn, and Rodney Wright’s 6,886-metre par 72 with the view of Mount Rempart from the seventh tee. Tamarina sits on Tamarin Bay with the proper swimming beach club a short shuttle ride away at La Preneuse. Its green-fee partnership programme means you also get reciprocal access at Sugar Beach, Sofitel So Mauritius, Maradiva and Paradis Beachcomber. Then a forty-minute transfer east to Belle Mare for seven nights on half board, with the Legend and Wright’s own Links course. The same designer’s hand at both ends of the trip. The contrast between a 49-room boutique and a 278-key grand resort is the whole point.
Best for: Mixed couples (one plays, one doesn’t), boutique fans, anyone who wants the west coast quiet and the east coast scale in one fortnight.
On-site golf: Tamarina’s Rodney Wright par 72; Belle Mare’s Legend + Links (the Links also a Rodney Wright design).
From: £1,568pp for the 14-night pairing (Tamarina 7n HB £649 + Belle Mare 7n HB £919, ground-only). The lowest-priced of the four.
The signature shots from each resort
Itinerary D — Heritage Awali plus Belle Mare (the all-in, low-effort one)
For clients who want the bill capped and the planning to disappear. Seven nights at Heritage Awali all-inclusive. Dark wood, warm tones, the Swahili meaning of Awali is “a return to what is meaningful”, with full Bel Ombre estate access: both Heritage golf courses, the Christian Têtedoie menu at Le Château de Bel Ombre, the kilometre of beach shared with Le Telfair. Then up to Belle Mare for seven nights on half board with complimentary golf on the Legend and the Links. Two distinct moods, one short transfer. The lowest-effort fortnight on this island.
Best for: Clients who want it priced once, paid once, and never to see a bar tab, with championship golf still front and centre.
On-site golf: Le Château + La Réserve at Heritage (estate-wide access from Awali), Legend + Links at Belle Mare.
From: £1,858pp for the 14-night pairing (Heritage Awali 7n all-inclusive £939 + Belle Mare 7n HB £919, ground-only). Awali’s all-inclusive absorbs the food-and-drink line that’s hardest to predict.
The mechanics. Transfers, baggage and rest days
Everything below comes from booking these trips for fourteen years. The inter-resort transfer is always private chauffeur. Not a shuttle, not a hire car. Tamarina is fifty minutes from SSR airport; Anahita thirty to forty; Heritage Le Telfair fifty; Belle Mare sixty-five. The hop between any two resorts on the island runs to about forty minutes depending on the route. Baggage is handled at both ends by the resort concierges. Clubs travel separately if you want. The trick to making a two-centre feel like a holiday rather than a route march is to plan rest days around the transfer day. I block the move-day morning for the spa at the outgoing resort. Seven Colours at Le Telfair, L’Acacia at Tamarina, GLOW by Sunlife at Anahita, Constance Spa with Sisley at Belle Mare. The drive after lunch, and an early dinner at the new hotel. You arrive settled, not shattered.
How many rounds is realistic?
The question that decides whether a two-centre suits you. Most clients play five or six mornings out of ten, not ten of ten. Mauritius is hot by eleven, and the spa, the beach, the boat to Île aux Cerfs and the tasting at Chamarel Distillery are all part of why you flew this far. The maths for itinerary B above: three mornings on the Els at Anahita, one on the Langer at Île aux Cerfs, two at La Réserve, one at Le Château. Seven rounds across fourteen nights. Push for eight or nine and you’ll come home sunburnt and tired. For full course-by-course detail across all seven championship layouts, see our Mauritius championship courses guide. For the all-inclusive maths underlying itinerary D, see what’s actually included on a Mauritius all-inclusive golf package.
Simon’s quick take
- Best for: couples or fourballs taking ten to fourteen nights who want variety. Different golf, different food, different mood, without the airport faff of island-hopping.
- Worth knowing: every package we quote is ground-only. Flights and the airport transfer are quoted separately, and the inter-resort chauffeur on the day you move is a small added line you’ll forget you paid for by lunchtime.
- Simon’s tip: if you can choose, end the trip at the resort with the better spa rather than the better golf. You’ll want a long afternoon of nothing before the night flight home, and Seven Colours at Le Telfair is the one I send people to.
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