Lodoicea Apartments

The apartments are named after plants, so guests book the Mang unit or the Koko family unit rather than a room number. Reviewers describe them as clean, spacious and well equipped, with comfortable beds and top-quality sheets in the Mang bedroom. The kitchens are fully kitted, with a coffee maker and filtered water, which one guest summed up as being like at home. Bathrooms are spacious, and beach towels are provided.

The hosts are Silvia and Jastin, and guests name them warmly. Reviewers call them super nice, communicative and willing to help. Silvia arranged car rental and airport transfer for more than one guest, and the guests who stayed two weeks in the Koko apartment said the hosts helped them feel at home. Value for money comes up more than once, along with the note that the place suits a family stay.

Mount Simson is a quiet hillside district, and the setting is the point here. The nearer of two beaches is a 7 to 8 minute walk, isolated from the main road, and the bus stops are about 5 minutes on foot. It reflects clean, well-stocked apartments, a pool guests love, real quiet away from the road, and hosts who follow through. No guest raised a real drawback.

Mount Simson is a quiet hillside area on north Mahé, above the coast near Beau Vallon and Bel Ombre. The draw here is the remove from the road rather than a busy village core. Two beaches sit within walking distance, the nearer one a 7 to 8 minute walk down and away from the main road, quiet and isolated. Bus stops are about a 5 minute walk, so getting around without a car is workable. Even so, a car opens up the north coast and Victoria, and the hosts arrange rental and an airport transfer, which makes the hillside location easy to settle into on arrival.