Overview: Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island

February 27, 2025

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I not too long ago loved a beautiful vacation within the Seychelles with the Hilton Resort Group. You possibly can learn my journey studies right here:

Immediately: Overview of Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island is a situated on a personal island, simply over 130 km (80 mi) south of Mahé, in a pristine atoll fringed by palm forests and guarded by its personal coral reef. House to native hawksbill turtles, eagle rays, manta rays and whale sharks, a lot of Platte Island’s surrounding surroundings stays fantastically untouched, promising a plethora of firsts and an unmatched sense of magic for visitors. The ultra-luxury property homes an intimate assortment of fifty seafront villas with private concierge companies, together with one-to-three-bedroom villas in addition to a grasp five-bedroom villa with expansive gardens. Every villa is designed with a fan-shaped fashion that provides the area an ascending pitched ceiling. The villas are additionally sensitively set again from the shoreline and have expansive gardens that create an undisturbed place for sea turtles to put their eggs. The resort combines Waldorf Astoria’s elegant service and 5-star luxurious with Platte Island’s timeless environment to ship a memorable expertise for stylish vacationers.

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island options in my high 10 record of the greatest luxurious resorts within the Seychelles.

Have you ever ever stayed at Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island? If that’s the case, what was your expertise? Go away a remark.

On this overview (extra data and photographs beneath my YouTube video):

PROS & THINGS I LIKE

The brand-new Waldorf Astoria Seychelles is situated on Platte Island, one of many archipelago’s Outer Islands. For some context, the Seychelles are divided within the Inside Islands and Outer Island. The Inside Islands – that are largely granitic islands – cluster primarily across the principal islands of Mahé, Praslin and La Digue, forming the cultural and financial hub of Seychelles in addition to the middle of its tourism trade. There are 43 Inside islands in complete, and collectively they’re house to nearly all of Seychelles’ lodges as effectively nearly the complete inhabitants of the archipelago. The Outer Islands are comprised of 72 coral islands and 4 atolls, and are located in the direction of the South, nearer to Madagascar, and sometimes a whole lot of miles from the primary island of Mahé. Distant and magnificently untouched (only some are populated), the Outer Islands are flat and low-lying, and sometimes type atolls round a central lagoon.

An idyllic haven providing an enchanted escape from the odd, Platte Island – house of the Waldorf Astoria Seychelles – is a tiny and distant island, surrounded by nothing however the huge expanse of the blue Idian Ocean. The island measures about 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) from north to south, with a width from 250 metres (820 ft) within the south to 550 metres (1,800 ft) within the north and a land space of 0.578 sq km (0.223 sq mi). Platte Island (that means ‘flat’ in French) earned its title as a nod to its flat typography and forested sandy cay and was an uninhabited coconut plantation earlier than it was remodeled into the unique and blessfully distant Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Resort. The island is situated 130 kilometres (81 mi) south of Mahe, the primary island of the Seychelles, and might solely be reached by a 20 minute aircraft flight (which is organized by the resort).

Platte Island – house of the Waldorf Astoria Resort – performs a vital function within the conservation of inexperienced turtles and hawksbill turtles. Hawksbill turtles normally lay their eggs from September to March, with peak hatching exercise occurring between late November to mid-January. Throughout this era, visitors can anticipate to see hatchlings rising from their nests every day. However turtle sightings are assured year-round, though security viewing protocols are in place, significantly throughout the inexperienced turtle season, which spans from January to September. To boost their turtle-watching expertise, visitors are inspired to take part in guided seaside walks led by skilled employees. Providing useful academic insights into the island’s function within the preservation of the Seychelles’ sea turtle populations, the guided walks give an opportunity to look at the turtles with out disrupting their nesting or hatching actions or impacting their welfare.

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island options an simply navigable structure. Bisecting the island (from north to south) is a runway for the small plane that transports visitors day by day to and from Mahé, the Seychelles’ foremost island. On the coronary heart of the resort, on the western facet of Platte Island, is a communal space, housing the foyer & concierge space, an all-day restaurant, a sundown bar, and an extremely giant swimming pool. Shut by are additionally an exhibition (with details about the island’s pure wonders), a high-end boutique, a water sports activities middle, a baby’s membership, a fitness center, and tennis & padel courts. Throughout the runway, on the island’s jap facet, one finds a fantastic spa and the employees quarters. Friends get trendy white bikes to get round, and buggy service is supplied as effectively (24/7). Importantly, all of the lodge services and pavilions are sensitively set again from the shoreline to create an undisturbed place for sea turtles to put their eggs.

Designed by Eco-id Architects Pte Ltd, Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island’s distinct structure and ethereal interiors mix luxurious with earthy tones, beautiful artwork, and high-end furnishings. The structure of the resort’s foremost pavilion echoes the coloured and patterned tortoiseshell of the island’s native hawksbill turtles, whereas the inside design is impressed by the coconut palm bushes. Handcrafted components, together with driftwood paintings, rejoice the island’s pure magnificence and help native communities. Seashell curtains, crafted from regionally collected shells, cascade within the reception areas as a reminder of the ocean’s magnificence. Flooring to ceiling home windows and open areas convey the tropical views inside, reflecting a real sense of place – anchored by the long-lasting Waldorf Astoria sundial clock as a timeliness middle piece. The sundial clock was impressed by the Moulin Kopra, a Creole melting pot beforehand used on the island.

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island options 50 one- to five-bedroom villas, that are scattered all through the island and set again from the seaside to guard nesting sea turtles. Impressed by the shell of the hawksbill turtle, the resort’s villas include faceted shapes, folding and bending to turn out to be giant ethereal canopies. Throughout my vacation, I stayed in a one bed room Hawksbill Pool Villa, which was set alongside the island’s western shores. Designed with a fan-shaped fashion that gave the area an ascending pitched ceiling, the villa included a personal pool and a lush backyard fringed by coconut bushes. On the within, the villa featured an open-plan, up to date design with sliding partitions for privateness and got here with a salon, bed room with king mattress and a rest room outfitted with double vainness, stand-alone bathtub and indoor & outside showers. Excessive-touch surfaces, equivalent to bedside tables with intricate mosaic tiles, echoed the turtle shell shapes.

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles brings its culinary experience to Seychelles Platte Island with three wonderful eating places that mix the perfect of worldwide and native flavours. Celebrated Govt Head Chef Jane-Therese Mulry serves Creole-Latin fusion ideas, together with tapas, oysters, and champagne, in addition to delectable Asian and Mediterranean impressed delicacies towards sweeping vistas of the Indian Ocean.
- Housed in a pavilion on the island’s southern tip, Maison Des Epices is the resort’s Creole-Latin fusion and night culinary vacation spot. The restaurant presents an immersive eating expertise the place custom meets innovation by means of style and authenticity. It prominently options dwell cooking stations and regionally sourced produce, remodeled into memorable dishes that emphasise its family-style service.
- Embodying the ‘soil-to-soul’ idea, Moulin Restaurant is the resort’s signature restaurant, situated in a vegetable backyard alongside the island’s jap seaside. The stylish venue supply visitors a holistic journey to aware consuming with contemporary substances from the island’s backyard. Moulin additionally operates as a cooking college throughout the day. Friends can be part of the chef on a one-hour tour of Moulin’s herb backyard to be taught concerning the resort’s sustainable method to rising and harvesting contemporary produce.
- Positioned in the primary pavilion is La Perle, the resort’s all day eating venue. Every morning, La Perle restaurant presents a health-conscious, à la carte breakfast expertise with a collection of cold and warm meals, and expertly crafted single-source Tanzanian espresso. At night time, La Perle transforms right into a high-end Mediterranean restaurant with flavors that take visitors on a gastronomic journey from Spain to Türkiye.
- Non-public eating experiences are additionally obtainable, and visitors may even go for lunch on the reef. Extra culinary experiences embrace a personal barbeque, picnic-style breakfast, and floating trays in villas.

Moreover its three eating venues, Waldorf Astoria Seychelles additionally presents three distinctive bar ideas, that are all situated round the primary pool space:
- Reflective of the model’s iconic Peacock Alley lounge, the Parisian-inspired Peacock Terrace at Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island offers visitors with day by day delights and a artistic beverage menu all through the day, together with a various vary of teas, natural infusions, and pastries.
- Night stars set the stage for elegant pre-dinner indulgence and refined nocturnal sips at Lalin. The colourful venue – which overlooks the pool – showcases an array of ingenious cocktails crafted with creative aptitude.
- Torti is the resort’s pool and seaside bar, identified for its customizable ‘bento field’ choices and contemporary sushi. The bar attracts visitors right into a full of life music-filled soundscape that harmonises with the stress-free cabanas and sunbeds organized within the pool.

Solely within the Seychelles are the unique fruit coco de mer discovered. Its uncommon double-coconut form is referenced and abstracted within the design of the resort’s spa, lending sensuous curves to embrace the pristine and pure setting. The Waldorf Astoria Spa blends wellness expertise with excessive contact therapies to ship rest, rebalance and rejuvenation by means of particular person therapies and personalised applications utilizing sustainable substances equivalent to natural seaweed, regionally sourced coconut, and native crops. Designed to nourish the physique, thoughts and spirit in a tranquil panorama, the spa additionally offers revitalising yoga, guided meditation, and mindfulness classes to give attention to breathwork and inside steadiness and is supported by thermal experiences together with sauna, steam, and hydrotherapy. There’s additionally a health middle on the island, that includes Technogym gear, in addition to an open air health studio, and tennis & padel courts.

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island presents a thoughtfully curated line-up of native experiences for visitors to take pleasure in. Friends can immerse themselves within the charming world of fly fishing, for novice and seasoned fly fishers. With the steerage of professional instructors, visitors can uncover the island’s numerous ecosystems, find out about accountable fishing practices, and discover shallow flats and tranquil lagoons. Water sport experiences are additionally designed for visitors to thrill within the island’s pristine waters, with a variety of actions together with scuba diving, free diving, paddle boarding, kayaking and deep-sea fishing experiences. Friends can even take part in eco-awareness applications designed to construct a deeper reference to nature, whereas actively contributing to the sustainable growth of the island. Different actions embrace star gazing classes, an alfresco outside cinema expertise and dancing beneath the island’s night time sky.

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island has carried out a number of sustainability insurance policies and initiatives to protect and defend the various natural world that additionally name the island house:
- The property has a resident Setting Supervisor & Marine Biologist and has fostered partnerships with native non-profit organisations – together with the Island Conservation Society – to handle a number of tasks that present lasting options in the direction of preserving the character of the island.
- The resort makes use of a photo voltaic area to create renewable vitality throughout most of its operations, and the island’s pure backyard offers a big portion of the resort’s fruit and veggies for a sustainable farm-to-table provide.
- The resort’s devoted 2.5-megawatt photo voltaic farm permits it to energy 95 % of its operations by the solar, and water manufacturing by means of a desalination course of leaves rain and floor water for vegetation. An on-site water remedy plant additionally helps the reuse of water throughout day by day operations, making certain a closed-loop method to decreasing waste.

The property is managed by Waldorf Astoria, which is positioned because the flagship model throughout the Hilton Resort Group’s portfolio. Impressed by their timeless environments and stylish service, Waldorf Astoria lodges ship a simple expertise seamlessly, creating a real sense of place for visitors by means of beautiful structure, Peacock Alley, refined artwork collections, Michelin-starred eating ideas and elevated in-room facilities. The unique Waldorf Astoria New York was a spot like no different: a marvel of the fashionable age with electrical energy, telephones, a shower in most visitor rooms, and palatial public areas, whose distinctive mix of customized service, architectural grandeur and complex fashion attracted leaders of trade, illustrious artists, and society’s elite. It additionally captured the creativeness of lodge magnate Conrad Hilton, who stored {a photograph} of The Waldorf Astoria beneath the glass on his desk. On the image he had written merely, “The best of all of them.”

CONS & THINGS TO KNOW

IMHO, Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island is the perfect lodge within the Seychelles when judged by its world-class service, beautiful villas, refined eating venues, and wellness providing. That mentioned, there are some factor you’ll want to know when contemplating a keep right here:

Platte Island – house to Waldorf Astoria Seychelles – is without doubt one of the Outer Islands, which function a very totally different panorama and topography as in comparison with the Seychelles’ Inside Islands. The Inside Islands (e.g. La Digue, Mahe, Praslin, North Island, Fregate Island) are granitic islands whose pure magnificence is unsurpassed. That includes lush jungle vegetation, a hilly panorama and the world’s most stunning seashores, the picture-perfect Inside Islands symbolize the true Bounty Islands that the Seychelles are so well-known for. The Outer Islands (like Platte Island) have a unique sort of enchantment: these blissfully distant islands are largely flat, typically surrounded by a lagoon, they usually function coral seashores. If it’s your first time within the Seychelles, I extremely advocate to mix a keep at Waldorf Astoria Seychelles with a couple of days on the Inside Islands to just remember to additionally get to expertise the breathtaking great thing about the Inside Islands.

Platte Island is totally surrounded by a single white sand seaside, nevertheless it’s not the perfect seaside within the archipelago. Platte Island’s seaside is a coral seaside, so the sand is just not as tender because the powder seashores of the Seychelles’ Inside Islands; and through excessive tide, the seaside almost disappears in a couple of spots. As well as, Platte Island is surrounded by giant seagrass meadows, so loads of seagrass is current within the sea and likewise washes up on shore in sure areas of the island. Moreover being visually not so engaging, the seagrass can even current a problem for conventional seaside actions like swimming and snorkeling. Nevertheless, whereas the seagrass could trouble some visitors, it’s the prime motive why Platte Island is house the most important inhabitants of nesting turtles within the Seychelles for the reason that turtles feed on the seagrass (round 600 to 700 turtles come ashore throughout the nesting season). So what the seaside could also be missing when it comes to magnificence is greater than made up by the turtle scenes you’ll witness. As a visitor of Waldorf Astoria Seychelles, you must respect the distinctive marine ecosystem of the resort (and really feel privileged to be a part of it throughout your vacation).

Attending to Waldorf Astoria Seychelles requires a brief flight, which departs from the Seychelles’ worldwide airport on the primary island Mahé. All flights to the resort are chartered by means of a 3rd get together: Island Growth Firm Aviation PVT LTD. The flight – which takes solely 20 minutes – is operated by a Beechcraft airplane that accommodates a most of 19 passengers. There’s normally just one scheduled flight a day between Mahé and the resort (though the aircraft will also be chartered for a personal switch), and the time schedule of the flight could not all the time align effectively along with your worldwide flights. It’s not a lot of an issue when flying to the resort (since visitors can wait for his or her home flight to Platte Island at Waldorf Astoria’s non-public lounge room at Mahe Airport) however it may be a problem when getting back from the resort (since lounge entry is barely supplied previous to your keep on the resort, not after). Therefore, I extremely advocate to remain at the least one further night time on Mahe after your keep on the Waldorf Astoria.

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island is situated 130 km (80 mi) from the closest land mass (Mahe Island), so all excursions on the resort are solely island based mostly. As already talked about, the property does supply a variety of land and water actions, offering a steadiness of rest and journey. Nevertheless, the resort was nonetheless teething out some issues with its water actions throughout my keep (which can have been resolved by know). For instance, throughout my five-day keep on the property, there was just one time slot obtainable for diving, which was a pity given how a lot the resort praises its pristine marine eco-environment. The difficulty was that just one boat was current on the property, which needed to handle all of the water based mostly actions (so availability was problematic). A number of the water actions have been sourced out to a 3rd get together, and it was my impression that there was positively some room of enchancment right here as a way to supply visitors a extra various and dependable schedule of water based mostly actions.

MY VERDICT

Location: 8/10
Design: 9/10
Pool: 10/10
Rooms: 9/10
Meals: 9/10
Breakfast: 9/10
Spa: 9/10
Service: 10/10
Wow issue: 9/10
Worth for cash: 8/10
General expertise: 8.8/10 – superb!

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BEST TIME TO VISIT

The Seychelles is usually offered as a 12 months spherical vacation spot and it’s. Nevertheless there may be extra probability of dangerous climate, that’s to say rain, from November to March. The transitional months of October and April are wonderful for a go to because the oceans are very calm and the climate balmy. Throughout the dry seasons (Could to September), it may be windy (inflicting seaweed on the south or south-easterly facet of the islands) with tough seas.

HOW TO GET THERE

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island is situated 130 kilometres (81 mi) south of Mahe, the primary island of the Seychelles, and might solely be reached by a 20 minute aircraft flight. Flight transfers are organized by the resort.

PHOTOS

Under is a collection of my photographs of Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island. To view extra photographs (together with breakfast and dinner on the totally different eating places), click on right here.