Victoria Beachcomber Resort and Spa

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Similar to the regular Deluxe Rooms, this variation is found on the ground floor. Sleek and light décor covers a large lounge area that opens up onto a terrace, making this a beautiful options for couples or families of up to four people.

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Located right on the edge of the beach, guests will wake up every morning to the view of a turquoise ocean. Perfect for a couple either alone or with a young child, these stylish rooms are painted orange to give the rooms a warm glow. The adjoining terrace is a wonderful place to sit and enjoy the long sunsets in the evening.

Room Specifications:

This spacious suite offers luxury and comfort with a panoramic view of the beach and blue sea beyond. Guests will be able to relax on the plush sofas in the living room area and enjoy a romantic meal in the bright dining area. The bedroom directly extends onto a terrace which offers a peaceful haven for couples to relax in. Placed in a more secluded corner of the hotel, this suite is ideal for a couple seeking a calm and private getaway.

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Ideal for corporate guests, this large suite offers refined comfort along with the possibility of holding small-scale private meetings. A sophisticated feel, aided by the elegant décor, gives this a room a certain amount of professionalism.

Equipped with WIFI, a fax, a telephone with international dialling and other business facilities upon request, this suite offers all the necessities for a successful business trip. The vast indoor and outdoor living areas provide a perfect holiday living situation and also the ideal space for private meetings and work sessions.

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Featuring a private terrace, this bar is reserved exclusively for adults. With a wide selection of drinks to choose from, the bar lives up to its name by offering guests the chance for a game of snooker, or even the opportunity to have a cigar.

Opening Hours : 03:00PM to 11:00 PM

Attire
Daytime: casual
Night-time: casual smart (shirt and trousers for gentlemen)

Offering complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi and a wide panoramic view over the turquoise ocean, this Internet Bar is the perfect place from which to contact your friends and family across the bar. Sip on a delicious cocktail whilst catching up on events back home, combining both your holiday away with your regular life. Snacks à la carte are available.

Opening Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Attire
Daytime: casual

The Nautil Café offers guests the unique chance to swim directly from their rooms and straight to the bar. A myriad of snacks and drinks are available here at a café that is undoubtedly the coolest place in the resort.

Opening Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Lunch: à la carte style from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Snacks à la carte from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Located near the Le Casa restaurant, this is one of the resort’s two beach bars. Offering free access to Wi-Fi, it serves a wide range of drinks and cocktails, as well as baguettes for those feeling peckish.

Opening Hours: 10 am to 5:30 pm

Serving as the resort’s other beach bar, the Parrot Bar can be found nestled between Le Superbe and L’Horizon. Like the Sunset Bar, it offers free access to Wi-Fi and serves a wide range of drinks and cocktails as well as baguettes for those feeling peckish.

Opening Hours: 10 am to 5:30 pm

Located on the rim of the Balaclava marine park, Victoria’s lagoon is ideal for a variety water sports, particularly snorkelling, which will allow participants to get up close and personal with the huge swathe of life found out there. The turqouise waters are home to endless varieties of coral and scuba divers will be able to get even closer to the underwater world, accompanied by professionals from the diving academy.

In addition, there are many other ways guests can enjoy the beautiful lagoon, with the likes of water skiing, windsurfing, wakeboarding and sailing all offering an opportunity to get your feet wet. Every activity is supervised by experienced instructors.

Free:

• Water Skiing
• Windsurfing
• Sailing
• Glass bottom boats
• Pedal boats
• Kayaks
• Free initiation of scuba diving in the pool
• Snorkelling trips (only during specific hours organised by the Boat House)
• Aquagym
• Stand-Up Paddle
• Wakeboarding

At extra cost:

• Scuba Diving
• Deep-sea fishing

Diving:

Diving Academy found on Resort site
Nominated in 2016 & 2017 by the World Travel Awards in the “Indian Ocean Leading Dive Resort” category

“A Board of Directors composed of Beachcomber officials oversees the activities of FED, which is managed by an Administrator backed by a team of 4 employees in charge of implementing the projects of the Foundation. There are also a number of regional committees run on a volunteer basis since 2003 by Group staff members with an interest in social matters. Having them on board provides a clear understanding of the needs of regions surrounding our hotels. The regional committees work with NGOs, stakeholders, local authorities and other government bodies for the implementation of social projects in their respective regions.

For the period from 1999 through 2015, Beachcomber has contributed total funding worth Rs 150 million to support the activities of FED. The Foundation’s priority areas are:
Education and training;

• Health, including the fight against drug abuse and disability;
• Socio-economic development; and
• Conservation and promotion of the natural and cultural heritage of the country.

FED’s Specific Position in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Landscape of Mauritius

Beachcomber was among the first companies in Mauritius to set up in 1999 an autonomous entity, FED to implement its CSR policy.

FED broke new ground by making a commitment to the long-term funding of NGOs (over a 3-year period) to help improve the quality of services to their beneficiaries and allow them to offer adequate employment conditions to qualified professionals. FED has also organised ongoing training for NGOs supporting children jointly with UNICEF.

From 2003, FED has increasingly integrated its activities with the hotel operations of Beachcomber. PEJ trainees are thus offered work placement opportunity in our hotels, which are also significant clients for Beautiful LocalHands.

The involvement of our hotels and employees in FED’s regional committees gives us insight into the social issues affecting their regions while maintaining contact with the local associations and authorities. They also provide FED with a better understanding of the needs of the hotels and help the Foundation find ways to contribute to their operations. For instance, contacts made with associations or colleges in the West of Mauritius have facilitated the hiring of apprentices at Paradis/Dinarobin, and the implementation of environmental projects such as the use of recycled glass for water filtration systems. The regional committees in the South-East and  South-West have also assisted with the logistics of the Beachcomber UTRB 2016 trail running event through arranging volunteers to guide runners along the course.”

“FED launched the Projet Employabilité Jeunes (Youth Employability Project, PEJ) in 2004 to improve the employability of beneficiaries. We prepare them for workplace realities through training in the social and academic skills required for a rewarding personal and work life as well as work placements, mainly in Beachcomber hotels.

PEJ follows up on a joint pilot project in 2001 by FED, the Beachcomber Training Academy, Dinarobin Hotel Golf & Spa and an NGO in Tamarin; out of the 8 young people from this village involved in the project, 4 have secured long-term employment with the hotel following the training. PEJ has subsequently been implemented in all regions of operation of Beachcomber hotels. Since 2015, PEJ trainees receive training leading to a vocational qualification in hotel techniques along with work placements, which allows them to return to education through continuous learning.

More than 1,900 young people have benefited from PEJ, and half of them have secured stable employment; some of them are even pursuing an international career in tourism while others have successfully moved into other fields. These young people who were faced with a challenging future are now responsible adults who make a living for themselves and their family. In addition, former PEJ trainees are role models for their peers as they are living examples that hard work and willpower can lift someone out of marginalisation and into the socio-economic mainstream.

PEJ allows Beachcomber hotels to thrive in their surroundings by offering support and real career opportunities for young people. Additionally, many members of regional committees and employees in general recommend to young people, whom they know are in difficulty, to join PEJ. The project has also become a way for FED to strengthen links with civil society organisations and various government authorities. The Foundation is working with associations in the surrounding communities of our hotels to promote PEJ, attract young people and support those with particular difficulties. FED also calls upon resource persons from NGOs to provide training on specific themes such as drug addiction, AIDS and labour law.”

“Since 2013, the 55 artisans working regularly with FED founded the Local Hands association. Thirty-five of them use the workshops provided by the project at Phoenix (textiles), La Gaulette (pottery, textiles) and Bambous (coco fibre, paper and other recycled materials). The 20 other craftworkers are self-employed small entrepreneurs who sell part of their products through Beautiful LocalHands.

Most of these craftworkers also have their own clientele that Local Hands has helped them expand. This project has indeed enabled them to produce work of a higher quality, which attracts more clients and allows them to raise their prices.

Local Hands has a flexible structure which enables the craftworkers to work from home or in the workshops and set their own work schedules. It also allows people who are not able to cope with the demands of a conventional business enterprise, such as elderly women and the disabled, to earn an income, thus helping improve their self-esteem. The project additionally allows them to escape from their isolation and meet with other craftworkers: this changes their self-perception and gives them new perspectives on their lives while giving them new resources to address the difficulties they are facing.

These 55 craftworkers are mainly women who use their earnings to improve the quality of life for their families or give their children a better education, thereby improving the latter’s chances of success in the labour market and breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty. Some craftworkers who receive large orders also seek help from their relatives and entourage, which means that in practice there are more people than the 55 craftworkers registered with FED who earn money from the project.

By allowing these craftworkers to derive an income from traditional Mauritian handicraft techniques using vacoas (screwpine) and coco fibre, Local Hands promotes these techniques and helps maintain this cultural heritage. The project also helps keep these plants growing, and therefore preserve the environment and biodiversity.”

“In collaboration with FED, the regional committees have also set up their own social development projects in their respective regions:

• Alcohol and drug abuse prevention in the North jointly with regional associations and specialist NGOs at national level
• Computer literacy programmes in the South-East and South-West in conjunction with the National Computer Board,
• Mentoring for the youth in the South-West in conjunction with the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award programme (Ministry of Youth and Sports)
• Occupational integration project aimed at upper secondary level students from a college in the South-West

The regional committees also manage their own budget for the financing of NGOs and associations in their region in line with the philosophy and priorities of FED while adapting them to the specific characteristics of their regions. This allows the Foundation to develop links with local associations and authorities as well as specialist NGOs at national level in specific fields such as drug addiction and AIDS, which contribute their expertise to projects implemented by FED.”

“We have launched the Top FED initiative which allows our guests to contribute to the programmes of our social foundation, Fondation Espoir Developpement Beachcomber, through their hotel bill. A friendship bracelet of 1 euro is also proposed in Beachcomber Boutiques and to All-Inclusive guests. Through this show of solidarity, the guests take part in supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Mauritius. All money raised will be donated to the Foundation for its Youth Employability Programme.”

For more than 25 years, Beachcomber has pursue a corporate citizenship policy focused on protecting and developing its natural and social environment. Our main themes in regards to the environment are energy, water, waste management, and biodiversity.

In February 2020, Beachcomber Resorts & Hotels outlined another commitment: to completely eradicate the use of single-use plastics from their holiday accommodations by July 2021. To achieve this goal, the Group has launched a major action plan with specific deadlines. The plan consists of:

• Identifying all single-use plastic items used in its hotels
• Compiling a list of alternatives made from environmentally-friendly materials
• Gradually replacing the plastic items with either biodegradable or recyclable products.

This plan is the latest in a series of efforts by Beachcomber to lower its consumption of single-use plastic. Since 2017, we have initiated a ban on straws and phased out the use of plastic water bottles in each of our hotels. They have been replaced by biodegradable paper straws and glass bottles respectively. In addition, plastic stirrers have also been removed from all Beachcomber hotels. As a result of these initiatives, the Group has reduced its plastic bottle usage by 40 tonnes per year and stopped handing out 350,000 plastic straws as well as 525,500 plastic stirrers per year.

Furthermore, plastic laundry bags have been replaced with cloth bags made from used bed sheets at housekeeping level. In the near future, miniature toiletries (shampoo, shower gel, etc.) made of plastic will be replaced with refillable dispensers. Beachcomber Resorts & Hotels also aims to eliminate all single-use plastic food containers from its restaurants.