Search “Mauritius bus tour” and you will not find an open-top double-decker circling Port Louis on a fixed loop with recorded commentary. It does not exist here. What does exist is a real, working public transport network and a separate, more useful product that tourists end up booking instead once they understand the island’s layout. Why there is no hop-on hop-off bus Mauritius is a large volcanic island of mountains, sugarcane plains, and a coastline that swings between hot, dry resort strips and a cooler, rainy central plateau.

Romance Here Doesn’t Need A Four Seasons Budget Grand River South East (GRSE) sits on Mauritius’s east coast, and the postcard version of romance here is the Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita in nearby Beau Champ: private pool villas across 64 acres of garden, overwater spa pavilions, couples’ massages with local sugarcane scrubs. It is genuinely excellent. It is also priced for a splurge, not a Tuesday night. The good news: the same river, the same lagoon and the same waterfall gorge that make this stretch of coast romantic are available for a fraction of the cost, if you know where to look.

Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. Seven days: the whole island, one region at a time Seven days is enough to add the wild South coast on top of North beaches, a West day, an interior day, an East day, and a capital-city finish, all from one North-coast base with no hotel changes.

Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. Six days: North base, three day trips, and a capital-city finish Six days on a North-coast base gives you room for a West day, a South/interior day, and an East day, each a there-and-back rather than a change of hotel.

Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. Five days: a North-coast base, a West day, and a central-plateau day Five days is enough to add a proper interior day and an East-coast one on top of a North-coast base, without the island-crossing a shorter trip has to skip.

Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. Four days: a West-coast base plus two set-piece day trips This plan bases you in Flic en Flac on the West coast and builds two day trips around it, rather than trying to island-hop on a short timeline.

Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. Two days means one region, not the whole island Mauritius is small on a map and slow on the road, so two days is not enough time to circle it, and trying is how a budget trip blows past its transport line.