Acajou Beach Resort
Sixty-five recently refurbished rooms opening onto Côte d'Or, the best stretch of sand on Praslin's north coast. The kitchen has a reputation of its own.
Acajou Beach Resort, in seven frames.
The property's own photographs and its guests', as they are published on the listing.
Photographs: Acajou Beach Resort, as published on the property's listing in the SeyBooking.com directory.
What Acajou Beach Resort is.
4.6out of 5634 reviews on Googleread 2 September 2026
Acajou is a Creole-style resort of about sixty-five rooms sitting directly on Côte d'Or, which is the main beach on the north coast of Praslin and one of the best stretches of sand in the country. Many of the rooms have been refurbished and are modern and generous, and the resort opens straight onto the beach rather than across a road.
It holds 4.6 from more than six hundred reviews. Two things dominate them. The first is the food, and specifically the buffets, with the executive chef named again and again, which is not something guests usually bother to do. The second is the team, described as warm and quick to make families with small children feel at ease.
Sunsets face you here, because Côte d'Or looks north-west. That is a real advantage over the south-coast hotels and it costs nothing extra.
Where it stands.
Côte d'Or, which the map also calls Anse Volbert, is the most sociable part of Praslin, a long sheltered bay with calm, shallow water that is safe for swimming. Shops, dive centres and casual restaurants line the road behind the sand, and a small island sits offshore that you can snorkel out to. Most of Praslin's boat trips, to Curieuse, Saint Pierre and La Digue, leave from this bay, and Anse Lazio and the Vallée de Mai are both a short drive.
What a week here feels like.
A comfortable beach hotel that is well positioned rather than spectacular, and better value for it. The location does most of the work: everything on Praslin starts within a few hundred metres of the front door.
Who it suits.
Couples and families who want a good beach and a good dinner without paying for a villa with a pool. It is the sensible middle of Praslin.
What this means for you.
The best-placed hotel on Praslin for a trip that involves getting on boats, because the boats leave from this bay. Book a Curieuse or Saint Pierre day and you walk to it. The buffets also solve the dietary question more easily than an à la carte kitchen does, because a buffet always has something on it, though you should still say what you need when you book rather than at the first dinner.
What guests actually wrote.
Two of the reviews on the listing, in the order Google shows them and in the words they were written in:
We had a wonderful stay at Acajou Beach Resort and cannot recommend it highly enough. Everything was perfect from start to finish. The entire team was incredible, so warm, welcoming, attentive, and genuinely kind.Ludivine, Google review
We had a wonderful stay at Acajou Beach Resort on Praslin and can highly recommend it. The food was absolutely outstanding – easily 10/10.Anna, Google review
The full picture is 4.6 out of 5 from 634 reviews. We do not average these, filter them or add a score of our own on top.
How you arrive.
Praslin is reached from Mahé either by the fast ferry, about an hour from Victoria into Baie Sainte Anne, or by a fifteen-minute flight to the island's airstrip. The ferry is cheaper and shows you the sea. The flight is quicker and carries fifteen kilos a person, which is the figure that usually decides it for a family. We can arrange the transfer at both ends so the chain is not yours to assemble.
Where the room is actually sold.
Booking and payment happen on SeyBooking.com, the licensed Seychelles operator, on Acajou Beach Resort's own listing there. We are a guide. We take no payment, hold no room and add nothing to the price, and the button on this page opens that listing so you can see the rate for your dates, which is a thing no guide page can honestly print. Most rooms show free cancellation, and the listing says so before you commit.
The sheet, with its source.
| Island | Praslin |
|---|---|
| Where | Cote Dor |
| Size | 65 rooms · 130 beds, per the Seychelles tourism register |
| Rating | 4.6 out of 5, from 634 Google reviews |
| Read | 2 September 2026 |
| Booking | On the property's own listing at SeyBooking.com |
The rating moves. It was read on the date above, from our own directory listing, which is the page the button opens.
- Rates and availability for your dates, on the licensed operator's own page
- Free cancellation on most rooms, shown before you commit
- The car, the transfer and the days out we arrange separately, at no extra cost
We are a guide, not a travel agent. We take no payment and hold no room. The button opens Acajou Beach Resort on SeyBooking.com, the licensed Seychelles operator, where the price for your dates is. Rating read 2 September 2026.
The six people ask.
Where is Acajou Beach Resort?
Cote Dor, on Praslin. Praslin is reached from Mahé either by the fast ferry, about an hour from Victoria into Baie Sainte Anne, or by a fifteen-minute flight to the island's airstrip.
How big is it?
65 rooms and 130 beds, per the Seychelles tourism register. The room types and what is free on your dates are on the listing.
How is it rated, and by whom?
4.6 out of 5 on Google, from 634 Google reviews, read on 2 September 2026. That is Google's figure and not ours. We do not run a rating of our own, we do not average anything, and we do not publish a score we could not show you the source of.
How do I book it?
On SeyBooking.com, on Acajou Beach Resort's own listing there. The button on this page opens it. We take no payment on this site and there is no form on this page, because the room is not ours to sell.
Can you arrange the rest of the trip around it?
Yes, and that is the part we do run. The car, the airport transfer, the days out and, if that is why you are coming, the wedding. Book the room on the listing, then tell us the dates and we will build the rest around them at no extra cost.
We are vegetarian. Will the kitchen manage?
Probably, if you tell them early. A resort kitchen of this size will normally cook vegetarian without any fuss, and Jain is a longer conversation that needs to happen at the booking rather than at the first dinner. We are not going to claim more than that about a kitchen we have not spoken to. If the requirement is strict, look at the self-catering places on this page, where a kitchen of your own settles it.
If Acajou Beach Resort is full.
Three more places on the same islands, ranked by how many people have reviewed them rather than by what we think of them.
Berjaya Praslin Resort
Seventy-four rooms on the sand at Anse Volbert, with the highest score of any large hotel in the country. The front desk is the reason, and the…
Constance Lemuria Resort
A hundred and fifteen rooms, suites and villas across three beaches at the north-west tip of Praslin, with the country's only eighteen-hole golf…
Le Duc de Praslin
Around thirty rooms and cabins a step back from Côte d'Or, decorated with real care. The chef comes out to check what you can eat, which is on the…
What we do run.
The room is SeyBooking's. Everything that happens around it is ours, and it is arranged from this site at no extra cost.
Car hire, from €45 a day
Ten cars, no deposit, delivered to the door of wherever you are staying and collected from it.
Airport transfers
A driver who watches your flight number and waits with your name on a board. Nothing to pay until you land.
Days out and excursions
Island tours, boat days, snorkelling and walks, with real ratings and free cancellation to twenty-four hours.
The terminal photograph above: Remi Jouan, CC BY-SA 3.0
Room chosen. Now the week.
Book the room on the listing, then tell us your dates. The car, the transfer and the days out come back in one message, at no extra cost.