Villas d'or are an excellent choice for self caterering tourists on Praslin Island. The one bedroom Villa has a bedroom, bathroom and a livingroom with kitchen plus a private terace with a garden. Everything very clean. spacious. The beach some meters away.

You have a fridge, aircon in the sleeproom, microwave, oven, CD player (local area coded), VCR, TV with 2 local programms.

No dishwasher and no washing machine.

We can only recommend this.

However, you shall have a car (we got one from local United Car Hire for 40 eur/day) and food shopping is not that easy. But there are plenty of restaurants in short travel distance.

The manager, Pierre, is very helpful and friendly.

I would recommend this over a standard hotel room.

I can't agree more with the review below. We had a fabulous time at Villas D'Or, the staff were second to none and the Villas are fantastic. We stayed in a two bed villa which was huge and well equipped for 4 adults and you'd have no problmes squeezing a couple of kids in as well given the space on offer. Hardly anyone else there during our stay and I imagine even at full capacity its still a private haven of tranquility. There are a lot of luxury options in the seychelles and if you can't afford to pay through the nose, but you don't want to compromise on location and accomodation standard then Villas D'Or is hard to beat. A truly lovely place with all the beauty of the Seychelles and kindness of the Seychellois people on your doorstep. I'll be recommeding it to all my friends for years to come!

The Villas D'Or looks on the face of it like a 5 star hotel! On arrival you sweep through a long driveway full of flowers and palms and then reach reception. Claudianne greets you and is so helpful about everything - she even managed to find us limes when there were none to be had on the island!

The villas are all sea facing and the beach is literally yards away. They are very well furnished and decorated and have everything you need whether you self cater or not. Cleanliness is incredble with bed and towel change every day.

Food is easier to find now than the previous reviewer found. We found a small supermarket in Baie St Anne which had almost everything you need, even olive oil! The only thing difficult to find is salad stuff! Never found even a lettuce and the shop lady laughed at us each time I asked for something else! However, there are trucks that turn up by the side of the roads with various items like eggs, tomatoes etc.. so catch them quickly!!

What is so amazing about The Seychelles is that it is still so undeveloped. The people live simply on fish mainly , there are no major supermarkets only small shops and tourism has not been allowed to spoil these island (not sure about Mahe as didn't visit). If you want to eat fish yourself just go to the jetty in Baie St. Anne, wait for the conch to be blown and you will know when the fish is coming in! It really is as simple as that!

The beach at the villas is superb - beautiful white sand, calm sea and palm trees in abundance. The sun is incredibly strong though so beware - we got burnt through clouds having thought we were tanned already!

As in Bird review I made, you really don't need many clothes as you live in a swimming costume by day and casual by night unless you visit the Tante Mimi restaurant which is pretty smart dress. We preferred to self cater as it was such fun trying to buy stuff - you also see the local life when doing this.

Do buy wooden fish from Albert (Poisson en Bois) who is a real character.

All in all I would absolutely recommend the Villas D'or to anyone going to Praslin. Really friendly staff, particularly Claudianne, who really did bend over backwards to help us but everyone is lovely there and the accommodation is superb!

We will certainly be going back!!

I just came back yesterday from 10days at Seychelles, and 4 days at Les Villas D'or. All the good things about this hotel are confirmed, confortable villa, clean, nice, really close to a beautiful beache "Cote D'or".
The lady at the reception, Claudanne, is particularly nice and friendly; she helps me in any my activities and has always a smile in her face.
What is very annoying, is the attitude of a boy the work there, Pierre.
Talking to the others customers at the hotel, we found that before your arriving, he sends to every tourist female (of the couple) a sad email (from his own hotmail account), asking to buy (for apparently presents) mobile phone (particularly nokia mobile), after shave and other litlle things; every nice person, thinking that maybe people in the island can't easily buy one, do it and often doesn't accept payments (my case) or accepting (case of other people) payment in a SRupies at a very bad change.
So at end, the Smart Boy, organized a commerce in Mahe/Praslin of new mobile phone that customers brings to him, that he usually pay less that normale cause bad money change and leading on that he will use for presents and not for own illegal commerce.
I think that this is not really nice, cause appears as poor and desperate for build up an own business, is not what a tourist aspect in an holiday.