Mauritius golf holidays for couples: the island done properly

Two people, two different mornings, the same dinner table at night. That is the shape of a good Mauritius week. One of you tees off at half seven while the other has a slow breakfast and walks down to the water. By one o’clock you are both back at the pool. It only works if the golf and the beds sit on the same estate or close to it, which on this island they often do.

The geography helps. Mauritius is small, roughly 40 miles top to bottom, but the coasts have different characters. The east is the classic side for golf resorts, calmer lagoons, the bigger championship estates. The west is drier and more dramatic, with mountains coming down close to the sea. The north is busier and a touch livelier. You can base yourself in one place and play across two or three of them on day trips, and our specialists arrange the private transfers so neither of you is hiring a car or reading a map.

A word on timing, since it changes everything here. The cooler, drier months from May to November are the golfers’ season, comfortable to play through the middle of the day and pleasant on the beach. The southern summer, December to April, is hot and humid with a chance of a tropical downpour that clears as fast as it arrives. Neither is wrong. They just suit different couples.

If you want the postcard, you want the east. Constance Belle Mare Plage is the one most golfing couples have heard of, and for good reason. It opened in 1975 as ten self-catering bungalows and is now a proper resort along two kilometres of the best beach on this coast, with a recent refurbishment that added a Sisley Paris spa. Two championship courses sit on the doorstep. The Links and Legend courses at Belle Mare Plage give you a real contrast in a single stay: Legend is a par 72 laid through indigenous forest with the back nine running down toward the beachside hotels, while the Links is a more forgiving par 71 for the morning after a long dinner. From £920 (≈ €1,055) (≈ $1,225) (≈ CA$1,725) (≈ AU$1,745) (≈ NZ$2,115) (≈ CHF 975) pp, this is the grande dame of Mauritian golf and it knows it.

Further down the same coast, the Ernie Els-designed Anahita Golf Course runs along the lagoon at Beau Champ, opened in 2008 to USGA standards with six tees so the handicap gap in a couple stops mattering. The par-5 fourth, Ocean Drive, plays right along the water’s edge. Stay at The Bay Club at Anahita (£775 (≈ €895) (≈ $1,035) (≈ CA$1,445) (≈ AU$1,465) (≈ NZ$1,775) (≈ CHF 825) pp) and you have the course, a spa and a quiet stretch of beach without the scale of the bigger resorts. It suits couples who want space rather than a programme.

The Domaine de Bel Ombre in the south-west is where the island’s golf got serious. Le Chateau and La Reserve golf courses belong to the Heritage estate, and La Reserve is the headline: the first contemporary links course in the Indian Ocean, co-designed by Peter Matkovich and Open champion Louis Oosthuizen, opened at the end of 2023 and already named Golfweek’s number one in Africa for 2026. It is GEO Certified and genuinely different from anything else you’ll play out here. From £890 (≈ €1,025) (≈ $1,185) (≈ CA$1,665) (≈ AU$1,685) (≈ NZ$2,045) (≈ CHF 945) pp for the golf-resident rate.

For where to sleep, you have a clean choice. Heritage Le Telfair took World’s Best Golf Hotel at the 2025 World Golf Awards, with a colonial style and a wellness slant, from £890 (≈ €1,025) (≈ $1,185) (≈ CA$1,665) (≈ AU$1,685) (≈ NZ$2,045) (≈ CHF 945) pp. Its sister, Heritage Awali (from £939 (≈ €1,085) (≈ $1,255) (≈ CA$1,755) (≈ AU$1,775) (≈ NZ$2,155) (≈ CHF 995) pp, seven nights all-inclusive), is the five-star all-inclusive on the same beach with African-inspired interiors and the same two courses. If you’d rather not see a bill all week, and many couples on honeymoon-grade trips would rather not, Awali is the one I’d point you to. Same golf, same sand, and the wine is already paid for.

The west coast is the island’s other face. Drier, mountainous, a bit more rugged. Tamarina Golf Club is the only championship-standard layout on this side, sitting at the foot of Mount Rempart with views over Tamarin Bay. Rodney Wright designed it across savannah and basalt outcrops, and the seventh frames the mountain and the bay together in a way that stops most people mid-swing. From £650 (≈ €745) (≈ $865) (≈ CA$1,215) (≈ AU$1,225) (≈ NZ$1,495) (≈ CHF 685) pp, it is also the most approachable price on the island. The matching Tamarina Golf and Spa Resort is a boutique four-star with just 49 rooms, which is the point: a tranquil base for a couple who want the west’s drama without a crowd.

There is good golf in the north and the south-central too, played on tailor-made stay and play arrangements rather than at a fixed package price. Mont Choisy Le Golf in the north is a Peter Matkovich design built over an old sugar plantation, with water and volcanic rock in play. And Avalon Golf Estate in the cooler south-central uplands, another Matkovich layout, has an open rolling feel and that early-tee-time emptiness he calls the millionaire’s atmosphere. Both make excellent day trips from an east or west coast base.

The honest truth is that the golf is the easy part. The art is in the balance. A typical couple’s week here might be three or four rounds, not seven, with the non-golf days kept genuinely free for the spa, a catamaran out to the lagoon, or simply nothing at all. We tend to pair a championship stay-and-play base on one coast with a day trip or two to a contrasting course, so you see more of the island without packing and repacking.

We are ground-only and tailor-made, so every trip is built around your two handicaps, your dates and what each of you actually wants out of the week. Flights are an add-on we arrange and protect under ATOL where they are included; we also hold PTS and IATA. We have been doing this since 1981, and you deal with one named specialist from the first call to the airport pickup at the far end. No call centre, no being passed around.

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