SPA & WELLNESS

The island's fi rst rooftop wellness experience at LUX* Grand Baie Resort & Residences features Olympic-sized running tracks and a My Beast machine to ‘Muscle up on the Roof’

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The Global Wellness Trends Report 2021 heralded a new era of wellness travel, with travellers seeking slower, more mindful experiences. Wellness has always been a strong offering at Mauritius' holistic, lifestyleoriented, spas, which embrace global trends

ANCESTORAL HEALING

In Mauritius wellbeing, like cuisine, religion and culture, is a meeting between east and west. Many Mauritians hail from Asia, and brought their indigenous healing traditions with them – and island spas have drawn on this ancestoral knowledge to create authentic island treatments. Signature massages at Attitude’s POZ (‘pause’) spas are ‘Gran Mama’,with Moringa oil, geranium and neem leaves, and ‘Ti balad dan Chamarel’, a body scrub combining local muscovado sugar with Chamarel coffee beans. Eco-conscious SALT of Palmar’s SALT Equilibrium spa also focuses on homegrown products, Heritage Le Telfair’s new locally-made ecological body products contain natural island ingredients such as Fair Trade sugar cane, banana fl owers and coconut water. Constance Prince Maurice has added a sugar scrub in the spa – and children can now create their own in the kids club.

FLOWER POWER

Maritim Resort & Spa’s upgraded Tropical Flower Spa features Mauritian rituals with essential oils from Frangipani, Aloe Vera and Bougainvillea. A honeymoon ritual at the phytotherapy spa at C Mauritius starts with a coconut oil foot massage and ends with an al fresco fl ower petal bath. New beauty treatments include Carita’s gold-infused fi rming facial at The Residence Mauritius’ revamped Sanctuary Spa.

Mauritius has world-class resorts and spas, located in beautiful and peaceful environments to bring solace to the body, mind and soul

SELF-CARE

Self-care is understandably one of this year's hottest trends. ‘In Pursuit of Wellness’ at adults-only SALT of Palmar features forest therapy at breakfast, introduction to raw cuisine, a nourishing ‘keen on green’ lunch, afternoon yoga and a treatment at the SALT Equilibrium spa. Veranda Tamarin’s new Explorer Program features aerial, paddle and ashtanga yoga sessions. LUX* Grande Gaube’s new Habits Wellness Routine includes outdoor training experience ‘Vitality Parcours’, a raw food cooking class, sunrise stretch on the beach, nature walk and relaxing massage at the spa. Shanti Maurice Resort & Spa offers 365-day yoga retreats and a new Wellness Chef to create tailormade meal plans for guests on full board. Newly-opened LUX* Grand Baie Resort & Residences has a hydrothermal spa, with a Turkish hammam, Kneipp walk and Tepidarium soaks, below sea level, while the energy bathing space at the new Explore Spa at Le Méridien Ile Maurice to stimulate, engage and invigorate the senses, includes the islands fi rst snow room.

WELLNESS EXPERIENCES

A new Positivity Ritual at LUX* Grande Gaube, has guided meditation at the mindfulness maze while setting your intention, barefoot walking, breath work and relaxing vibrations from a singing bowl. The eastern-fl avoured spa at Dinarobin Beachcomber Golf Resort & Spa offers Japanese Makko Ho stretching, Mindfulness Meditation, Respirology and Tibetan Rites at the foot of Le Morne Mountain. The Santosha Mindful Wellness spa at Tamassa, offers twilight sessions for a date night to remember, and post-party rejuvenation treatments, while SALT of Palmar’s new immersive wellness experiences for couples include an energy recharge meditation at the Vortex in Riambel, a sleep equilibrium ritual and emotional release through art therapy. Recently renovated romantic favourite, Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel, offers tandem massages in an open-sided clifftop treatment hut, while glampsite, Otentic Eco Tent, has sports massage in a spa cabin beside the river.

Tamassa Bel Ombre Spa Pool

WELLNESS PACKAGES

Three- to seven-day wellness packages in tropical Mauritius can deliver lasting benefi ts. Daily guided forest walks, cultural tours and snorkelling in Blue Bay marine park feature alongside yoga, meditation and tai chi in new tailor-made spa programmes at Anantara Iko Mauritius Resort & Villas. ‘Detox’ and ‘Reenergise Regenerate', are new personalised ayurvedic wellness retreats at Long Beach Mauritius’ Cinq Mondes spa. Lokal Adventure’s ‘Nou Dan Bien’ wellbeing packages offer hiking, snorkelling or paddling in the lagoon, cultural activities, vegetarian food and beach or forest yoga, meditation and pilates.

VERANDA’S NEW explorerprogramme

Located on the east coast of Mauritius, Veranda Tamarin Hotel has introduced a new “Explorer Programme” for visitors looking for original experiences. Aimed at intrepid travellers looking for adventure and to learn about the local culture, the hotel gives each guest staying more than 4 nights an ‘experience credit’ as part of their room booking. The credits can be used to undertake various unique experiences, created by the hotel and guided by local professionals for a discovery of Mauritius.

CREDITS GIVEN FOR EXPERIENCES

For a 7-night stay guests receive a Rs 5,600 experience credit and for a 10-night stay: Rs 8,000 experience credit. Some of the culture and discovery options include a street food tour, a discovery of the local coffee torrefaction process, and taking part in an interactive kitchen. Or for the more active there are plenty of options including trekking to Le Morne or to Case Noyale at sunset, sport fi shing, a catamaran cruise, kayaking and dolphin watching or an electro bike tour. To get around guests can rent a mini moke, try a scooter, ride a bike, or use the shuttle service, all redeemable against the experience credits.

VERANDA TAMARIN WITH ITS SURF VIBE

The iconic hotel on Tamarin Bay in the west of Mauritius is quickly gaining a reputation as the place to be with its relaxed surf vibe, and panoramic roof top infi nity pool and bar, in the heart of a vibrant and arty community. It has a very distinctive and eclectic music concept that attracts locals and visitors to its Crazy Fish Restaurant on a weekly basis.

Rates start from £120 per night / 2 adults For more information visit: veranda-resorts.com/en/mauritius-hotel-tamarin