Natuurreservaat Ile aux Aigrettes, Blue Bay Beach, La Vanille Park en Gris Gris

First of all, I only use Viator. It simply is the most trusted and best tour operator you will find! Any problems and Viator will resolve them for you at ease and without issue. As for the tour itself, it was possibly our best experience whilst visiting the Mauritius, mostly due to our driver/tour operator who could not do enough for us, he provided a lot of information and history about the various places we visited and about Mauritian culture which all helped to make the tour a very memorable experience. I would not hesitate to recommend this tour and if you’re lucky you might have the same driver who we cannot speak highly enough as he really was such a gentleman… he took us to extra places not on the tour as we had engaged with him and expressed an interest in learning more about the island and creole culture. We really felt blessed to have such a fantastic tour which was mostly down to the driver as he went above and beyond what is expected. The tour itself covered so much, the nature reserve was a tad slow however our driver more then made up for this after sensing that we felt a bit bored during the nature reserve visit which over ran as there were aging tourists taking part who lacked basic fitness but that cannot be helped.

If I could give less stars I would. Where do I start. Dangerous driving, a car that STANK and a horrendous attitude. Not to mention the driver tried to SCAM us and got verbal with us on drop off after demanding more money for a trip we'd already paid for. Avoid at all costs. We were picked up on time and briefly greeted, all seemed well. The trip we bought was advertised as a visit to Il aux augrittes (2 hour), blue bay (2 hour), la vanille park (3 hour) and gris gris (1 hour). Upon approach to the boat embarkation point the driver instructs us he will visit blue bay for photos for 10 minutes. I confirm that we will go back after to snorkel and he states 'oh you want to stay there, we should go after then' and that he'd organise a boat (read on for that saga...). I then ask if we can have a shorter stay at la vanille to give us more time at gris gris, he states 'we have no time for gris gris, I'm only paid 8 hours (but that's the tour we paid for!). We start to consider missing la vanille to get to gris gris and see the cascades. We arrive at the boat embarkation and wait 30 minutes before being greeted by the LOVELIEST of MWF staff, the setup they have is fabulous as are the guides for the NGO , if you want to visit il aux augrittes hire a car and do it yourself (we certainly wish we had). We get back and onwards to blue bay, we ask about if we can stop for lunch and get a very non committal answer of maybe a restaurant later , bearing in mind it's now midday. We arrive at blue bay to meet the drivers 'friend' who quotes us 4500 for 3 people for an hour in the bay and tries to shuffle us on the boat with our hastily bought noodles (by our own request/doggong our heels in!). SCAM ALERT , we asked the driver leave us to discuss and made our own enquiries with others as this seemed obscenely high, we were then quoted 2000 immediately without a haggle from another operator the driver shooed away initially. We told the driver he'd see us in an hour and he looked sheepish to say the least after asking us the price we'd agreed! We arrive back from am AMAZING SNORKEL, again, the marine park is stellar, get a car or hire a taxi from your hotel and do it yourself AVOID THIS TOUR OPERATOR. As the driver has stated we don't have enough time for gris gris and at this point we just want to go home we ask if he will drive us up the east coast if we skip the already paid for the other parts of the tour seen as we have paid for his time. He agrees and off we set. What a stunning coastline but scary driving isn't in it. Middle of the road, swerving all over the place and several near misses later we arrive at the hotel. We go to leave and he starts demanding more money stating we said we'd pay him (which after the day we'd had we certainly did not!). We were very grateful our hotel security were there stood close by. The days events away from the driver were amazing, with him... Just shy of traumatic. Do it yourself or with someone else, the locations are well worth the visit.

La description de viator ne correspondait pas a ce que nous avons recu. Taxi parle peu anglais et francais. Duree non respecter. Connais pas les excursion ou on va. Regarde constamment google map savoir ou il va .