One&Only Le Saint Géran

Le Saint Géran will be fifty years old in October. All the more reason for the old lady to really dress up. The new, glamorous Guerlain spa is a fantastic success. The way it sparkles and gleams, it would receive a standing ovation even on the poshest Parisian avenues. In Mauritius, the icing on the cake is an 18-metre outdoor infinity pool, over which a slender coconut tree bends like a model. The range of restaurants is similarly stimulating. Top quality everywhere: whether at the seafood buffet in "La Terrasse", where lobster and oysters are piled high, in "Le Badamier" with lobster ravioli or in the Spanish-Japanese fusion restaurant "Tapasake". As a crowning after-dinner drink, Kamal also mixes a perfect benchmark sour in the library ambience of "Le Carré". Purring contentedly, you then head for your overnight stay in a chic Lagoon Room with huge beds, a spacious marble shower and wooden floor tiles - with a reassuring WhatsApp message from the host on your cell phone: "Cyclone warning canceled". He had been less informative at check-in: If we had closed the patio door from the outside, we would have been locked out - you need your own key for that. The sports facilities are self-explanatory, ranging from paddle tennis to workouts, wakeboarding and water skiing. Swiss hotel director Roman Goetsch would like to expand the water sports program and modernize it with electric boats, e-surfboards and jet skis. However, with the hotel's own diving center, which also trains instructors, the One&Only is already leading the way. Guests can be filmed and photographed by underwater drones - great souvenirs! Old lady my ass.

Test highlight: The speedboat ride along the mangroves and to a Hindu temple.