- Beach: Not enough sunbeds. It's all well and goo...

- Beach: Not enough sunbeds. It's all well and good that they are free and that towels are given for free, but it's not enough in the back and front. Furthermore, it is completely incomprehensible that the coconuts of the palm trees are not chopped off. All the spots under palm trees are therefore gone, unless you run the risk of being killed.

- Rooms: Many reviews point to a renovation backlog. We can basically agree to this for the whole hotel, even if we probably got one of the better rooms. Only the shower and bathtub looked worn and mold in the door frame of the toilet in the corner, otherwise it was okay actually. The beds are good. Sufficient hot water available. You can go out on Zanzibar or the Maldives. Room service twice a day friendlier than the rest of the staff and good. The hotel complex itself is pretty, but public corridors are often dirty.

- Food: One of the reasons why we booked the Sofitel were the positive reviews of the food. That's why we booked full board. Unfortunately, the food is only convincing in places. Breakfast is as good as excluded from this, which corresponds to the 5 star standard. You miss a maximum of more sausages and one or the other really exotic fruit such as jackfruit, otherwise everything from cold to warm dishes is available and of excellent quality. Well, my partner would have liked to see smoked salmon, but the smoked marlin makes up for that.
Lunch is mostly good, but it doesn't offer much. Dishes that cost extra, apart from the king prawns, disappointed. I've tried them all.
Then for dinner ... theme-related buffet 50% bad and 50% felt good. Here, too, little is daring. The only buffet that I put the 5 star stamp on was the seafood buffet. The rest are mixed. You can always find a few very good dishes, but I'm used to better dishes from other hotels. Pasta Corner still delivers the best results. Also a compliment to the young cook and to the old lady who makes the pancakes in the morning. The two beams at least look like a buck.
However, I found the A La Card restaurants to be disastrous. The Chinese Ming Court serves canned mushrooms and bamboo, overwhelms the taste at most in its boring and impresses at the maximum in the variety of extra costly dishes, which are usually not worth the extra charge, as in the beach restaurant at lunchtime. The seafood soup was completely next to it. In fairness I have to say that my daughter's chop was good.
The Japanese teppanyaki restaurant is expensive, but truly "imperial" in culinary terms. The only one with an extra charge (approx. 80 ), which I don't completely regret. Praise to the master and his show. The beach restaurant offered a lobster evening in 5 courses for a similar price on another day, but it was okay.
Drinks are paid extra, as in most hotels in Mauritius, which is not only annoying but also in terms of price beyond good and bad. Even water. By the way, the bars with their expensive cocktails are a disaster. The Mango Daiquiri was still good, but Frozen Melon Caipi and Long Island Ice Tea were good for the drain. Since you like to pay the 30 on top .....
The gourmet restaurant Jacaranda is clear but gourmet ... well ...
I would like to praise desserts in general, they were all good to excellent. This even applies to a lot at the buffet, in this regard one performs above other hotels.
I would like to explicitly emphasize that full board is NOW worth it. Even in the evening you pay the same surcharges as with half board. Ridiculous. And then don't even have a free choice at lunchtime.

Service: Lots of bored faces in the restaurants. Nobody asks whether it was tasty, whether there was criticism. Not at the buffet, not in the a la card restaurants. Room service as described above was the friendliest, followed by reception.