The beach day out of Victoria
Cerf Island
Island · Marine national park
Cerf Island in short.
Cerf is the easiest island in Seychelles to actually stand on. Ten minutes by boat from Victoria, inside the marine park, with quiet beaches, a few small places to stay and a handful of restaurants that put tables on the sand.
Can you go?
Open. Day boats land here, and there are guest houses if you want to stay.
Cerf Island, in 2 frames.
Every frame below was found in this island's own Commons category and its own title names the island. Captions are the file's title, so you can check the call.
Photographs, under Creative Commons: Kusafiri, CC BY-SA 3.0 Christoph Scholz, CC BY-SA 4.0 Hansueli Krapf, CC BY-SA 3.0
A day, or a few nights
Most people meet Cerf as the lunch stop on the Sainte Anne park trip: an hour of snorkelling straight off the beach in protected water, then grilled fish and creole curry under the trees with Mahé across the channel.
About a hundred people live here, and a small number of guest houses and lodges take visitors. Staying is a genuinely different holiday: no cars, no road, a boat to Victoria when you want one, and the capital's lights across the water at night.
The water
Because the whole island sits inside the park, the snorkelling starts at the shoreline rather than needing a boat. It is shallow, calm most of the year, and busy with reef fish and turtles. It is the right place to put somebody in the sea for the first time.
How you arrive
Ten minutes by boat from the Inter-Island Quay in Victoria or from Eden Island. Day trips run daily, and the guest houses arrange their own transfers.
The sheet.
Checked 2 September 2026 against the sources named in our island file.
- Area
- 1.27 km²
- Resident population
- about 100
- Crossing from Victoria
- about 10 minutes by boat
- Inside
- Sainte Anne Marine National Park
What people ask.
Can we visit Cerf Island?
Open. Day boats land here, and there are guest houses if you want to stay.
How do you get to Cerf Island?
Ten minutes by boat from the Inter-Island Quay in Victoria or from Eden Island. Day trips run daily, and the guest houses arrange their own transfers.
What we do arrange.
We do not sell islands, and most of these could not be sold to anybody. What we do arrange is everything that gets you to them and around them once you land.
Car hire, from €45 a day
Ten cars, no deposit, handed over at the airport, the jetty or your hotel.
Days out and excursions
Island tours, boat days, snorkelling and walks, with real ratings and free cancellation to twenty-four hours.
Airport transfers
A driver who watches your flight number and waits with your name on a board.
The terminal photograph above: Remi Jouan, CC BY-SA 3.0
Planning around this island?
Tell us the dates and what you want the trip to feel like, and Meera will write back with what is actually possible.