Tamarina Golf & Spa Boutique Hotel

Tamarina Golf & Spa Boutique Hotel sits on a hill overlooking the Tamarina Golf Club's 18 holes and Tamarin Bay, one of the most dramatically beautiful positions in Mauritius. The property is compact — fewer than 30 rooms — and the intimacy of the scale allows a quality of service that larger properties struggle to replicate. It's a golfer's hotel first: the course below is one of the island's finest, designed with the mountain topography in mind and incorporating ocean views at several tee positions that make the round more distracting than it should be. But it works for non-golfers too: the infinity pool overlooking the bay and the mountain beyond is one of Mauritius's great vantage points, the spa is a competent and peaceful operation, and the restaurant's elevated terrace above the valley serves Creole and French cooking with a confidence that its size suggests shouldn't be possible. Tamarin Bay's resident spinner dolphins are a five-minute drive to the water's edge, and Black River Gorges National Park is 20 minutes on the same mountain road. Tamarina Boutique Hotel is the quieter, more contemplative west-coast alternative to the beach properties below — a choice for those who want elevation in every sense.