Two Days on Reunion Island Without Overspending Two days on Reunion Island means picking one region, not touring the whole island. This plan pairs the free lagoon at Saint-Gilles-les-Bains with a single volcano day at Piton de la Fournaise, on a car-rental budget of about EUR 20-25 a day. Need more time? See the 4-day , 6-day , and 7-day versions of this itinerary, which add the cirques and the wild south.

Four Days on Reunion Island: Coast, Volcano and One Cirque Four days is enough to add a cirque to the coast-and-volcano loop from the 2-day itinerary , without pretending you can also fit Mafate or the whole south. This plan keeps Days 1-2 the same lagoon-and-volcano opening, then spends Days 3-4 in Cirque de Cilaos, a genuine spa town reached by a hairpin mountain road. Rental car and one gite night are the two real costs here; everything else is close to free.

Six Days on Reunion Island: Two Cirques on a Real Budget Six days extends the 4-day itinerary with a second cirque, Salazie, plus a spare day for the one genuine splurge on this island: a helicopter flight over Mafate. Days 1-4 stay the same coast-volcano-Cilaos spine; Days 5-6 add Salazie’s waterfalls and a choice between resting or spending EUR 300-380 on the flight. Rental car, one or two gite nights, and that optional helicopter are the whole budget story here.

Seven Days on Reunion Island: The Full Loop on a Budget Seven days is the shortest realistic full loop of Reunion: coast, volcano, two cirques, and the wild, wet south, all built on the same spine as the 6-day itinerary with one more day tacked on. Days 1-6 stay the same coast-volcano-Cilaos-Salazie route; Day 7 adds the Saint-Philippe lava fields on the drive back to the airport. A single rental car for the whole week, at roughly EUR 20-25 a day in low season, is still the main line item.

Reunion Island’s Best Sights, Ranked by What They Actually Cost Most of what makes Reunion worth visiting is free or close to it: the coral lagoon, the cirque villages, the volcano park entry. The two real costs are a rental car, at roughly EUR 20-25 a day in low season, and one optional splurge, the EUR 300-380 helicopter flight over Mafate. Reunion is a French overseas department in the euro and the EU, not an independent country and not part of Mauritius, which sits as a separate nation roughly 175km away.