Best hotels in Flic-en-Flac and Tamarin: 7 places facing the sunset

Right at the tip of Wolmar, where the coast bends round into Tamarin Bay, the Sands has 91 suites on about two and a half hectares, along a 240-metre crescent of beach. Children are only accepted from age 12, which tells you what the place is about: it's built for unwinding.

There are three restaurants: Tamarind Terrace, the Pink Peppercorn beach grill and Spices for Indian food, and the Dine Around deal lets you eat at the Maradiva next door too. A spa, kayaks and boat trips out to see the bay's dolphins fill the days, and the resort holds Green Globe certification.

La Pirogue opened in 1976 and turns 50 in 2026 without changing its formula: 248 rooms in palm-thatched bungalows laid out like a fishing village, in a coconut grove that runs along more than a kilometre of Wolmar beach. Sugar Beach, run by the same Sunlife group, is next door.

There's a free club for 2 to 11-year-olds and another for 12 to 17s. Windsurfing, paddleboarding, kayaks, Hobie Cats and a glass-bottom boat are all included. For food, there's a buffet at Wolmar, seafood at Magenta, Mauritian street food at the Coconut Café and around sixty wines by the glass at the Van Der Stel bar. Choose half board, full board or all-inclusive.

There are no ordinary rooms here: around sixty villas, each with a heated private pool, spread over roughly ten hectares at the end of Wolmar, facing Tamarin Bay. The smallest are 163 m², the presidential villas 345 m² with a butler. The Tourism Authority grades it 5-star Luxury.

Four restaurants share the evenings: Cassine for fine dining, Cilantro for Indian, Haiku for teppanyaki and the Beach House Grill for fish. The spa is Ayurvedic, and the Peter Pan club looks after 4 to 12-year-olds. Guests mostly talk about the privacy of the villas and the highly personal service.

A colonial-style manor house and villas set in gardens, on a kilometre and a half of beach shared with La Pirogue, its Sunlife sister next door. The 238 rooms range from 40 to 100 m², and a 2023 refurbishment added the Buddha-Bar Beach and interconnecting family rooms.

There are two pools, one of them adults-only, a spa and seven restaurants and bars, from Le Patio to the Buddha-Bar Beach by way of Citronella's and the Tea Room. Children aged 2 to 11 have their own club, and so do teenagers. Half board, full board or all-inclusive.

The Hilton has a stretch of Wolmar seafront looking out over Tamarin Bay. All 193 rooms and suites were redone in a renovation completed at the end of 2023, which also covered the restaurants and beach bars and added an infinity pool.

You can eat Thai at Ginger Thai, Indian at Kesari, fish at Coquillages or at the Pomme d'Amour buffet, with the Hibiscus Bar and the Sunset Bar for sundowners. The Ti Poussin club takes 4 to 12-year-olds and has its own pool, and the hotel is a popular wedding venue.

A small Medine group hotel on Tamarin Bay, with the Rempart mountain as a backdrop. There are about fifty 39 m² Deluxe rooms, all with balconies, eight of them on the beachfront. La Madrague restaurant looks out over the bay.

The big draw is the Tamarina Golf Club next door, an 18-hole par 72 designed by Rodney Wright and opened in 2006, with green fees free for guests ( conditions apply ). Stays of two nights or more also include one entry to Casela nature park, plus use of a sports complex. Rooms are sold all-inclusive.

The laid-back choice on this list, in Tamarin village opposite the public beach. Boho decor, free surfboards and live local music at weekends: it leans right into the surf-village vibe. The 102 rooms range from adults-only Comfort rooms to two-bedroom Family Units.

Up top, the View is an adults-only bar and pool looking out over the bay. Downstairs, Ye! Man does the buffet and Crazy Fish the seafood, and the Timomo club looks after 3 to 11-year-olds for free. There's a Seven Colours Spa, and you can book half board or the All Add In all-inclusive deal.