Four Seasons Resort Seychelles

The Hotel

Four Seasons Resort Seychelles opened on 16 February 2009 as the brand's first Indian Ocean property — built on a 67-acre site on the granite hillside above Petite Anse beach in the Baie Lazare district of southern Mahé. The site is one of the most architecturally significant in the Seychelles: a steep granite-rock slope rising 180 metres from a 200-metre crescent of white-sand beach to the central peak of the Morne Seychellois National Park. The architectural commission was BBGM Architects of New York with interior architecture by Hong Kong-based BLINK Design Group; the brief was 67 detached villas distributed across the steep slope using the topography as the principal architectural feature, with each villa cantilevered into the granite at a different elevation so as to provide unobstructed Indian Ocean views and complete privacy from neighbouring villas. The result is one of the most architecturally distinguished island-resort architectural projects of the 2000s.

The 67 villas divide into Garden View (12 villas at 195 sqm), Ocean View (38 at 195 sqm with the Indian Ocean line-of-sight from the upper slope), Beachfront Villas (8 at 280 sqm directly on Petite Anse), and Multi-Bedroom Residences (9 at 320-650 sqm with two or three bedrooms). The Three-Bedroom Residence at 650 sqm is the milestone unit, with two infinity pools, dedicated villa staff, and a private staircase down to Petite Anse. All villas include private 4-metre infinity pools as standard. Bathrooms are travertine; bath products are Lorenzo Villoresi Firenze, Four Seasons' signature.

ZEZ is the principal restaurant — a contemporary Creole-Asian register opened with the resort and continuously a Seychelles dining destination since, with the kitchen team trained in both Mauritian and Cantonese registers and a small but ambitious tasting-menu programme. Kannel is the all-day brasserie programme. The Sanctuary Spa is the dedicated wellness pavilion; the Petite Anse beach club handles the beach-front register. The three outdoor pools (the family pool, the adults-only Pool House, the lagoon-edge) and the full-service Watersports Centre complete the wellness layer. The Four Seasons Kids For All Seasons programme runs full-day; the property runs daily-departure schooner cruises to the offshore islands of Anse Soleil, Baie Ternay and Anse Major.

The Mahé position is the booking proposition. From the property it is 35 minutes by car to Seychelles International Airport (SEZ), 30 minutes to Victoria (the Seychelles capital), 25 minutes to Beau Vallon and the principal Mahé restaurant cluster, and a 30-minute boat-ride or helicopter to Praslin (for the UNESCO Vallée de Mai). The southern Mahé coast at Baie Lazare is the principal Mahé luxury-resort coast. For travellers wanting the unambiguous main-island Seychelles booking with the Four Seasons family-resort programme — particularly for honeymooners and multi-generational families — Four Seasons Mahé is the right answer. North Island is the private-island alternative; Six Senses Zil Pasyon is the Praslin alternative; Four Seasons is the Mahé answer.

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