We stayed in the One&Only in Sept 2012. We found the beach to be beautiful, clean and exactly as it appears in photos. There are lots of activities and water sports as well. The gym staff is great and the gym is very clean and has nice equipment. Overall, people are friendly and helpful.
We found the buffet dinner to have ample choices even for picky eaters. We tried both of the a la carte restaurants as well (Prime and Rasoi) they were fantastic. We ended up going to Rasoi twice as we found the food to be exceptional. I would normally provide some food recommendations but each dish we had was absolutely delicious so I think there are no “better” choices. The restaurants are a bit pricy – easily $45 for baryiani rice and even more for some of the curries and steak. Each dinner cost us over $300 for two people.
Here is what I think you should know before booking - the extras add up and alcohol is extortionately over priced. Before you come, make sure to make a pit stop at duty free. Believe me, I’m used to overpaying for alcohol living in New York, but $30 for a single shot of gin and tonic in a tiny glass is absurd. I just don’t think I enjoyed the drink $30 worth and over the course of a day / evening you can easily have multiple cocktails which quickly add up. Of course fancier island cocktails are more than the $30 I quoted, but just use that as a reference point. That being said we did order a bottle of wine with each of our dinners as we were on holiday, and wanted to enjoy it, but know you will pay an arm and a leg.
Lunch is so overpriced we wound up renting bikes and finding a few local places that were delicious.
We played golf on two or three occasions, again club rentals and balls are overpriced. I think one ball is like $5 so it’s a bit extortionate again.
Unless you prepay you will not be picked up at the airport. Airport pick up is an extra fee – cant remember what it was but a cab will get you there for half the price.

The other thing to note is that the place can use a bit of an update to the rooms. They are not new or chic by any means. The rooms were quite spacious but do need an update.
Overall, the place was nice but not worth the money. We happened to be traveling around South Africa so Mauritius was a nice beach break after our safari and Cape Town visit, but don’t think we’d be making a 20 hr journey back any time soon considering the Caribbean Islands and BVI are a short 4 hour flight away equally beautiful and for a fraction of the price. That being said South Africa is amazing and a must go. South Africa is definitely worth the journey!

We have just returned from our third visit to this hotel and we had a great time once again.

The watersports are excellent - the waterskiing is particularly good as it's in a lagoon, and the team are always happy to help you learn to sail and ski.

The Fitness team are first rate - we had personal training with Stephan and Ronnie and they really helped us deal with injuries and overall fitness.

We love the tennis - Ashwinder is dedicated to ensuring you enjoy your game and will help in any way he can.

Ramesh and his golf team are also wonderful - always ready to give you tips on how to improve your game.

The best rooms for us are those that open onto the beach - 152 - 132 are on the ground floor and you can open the doors and dive into the sea first thing in the morning if that's what you want to do!

Our gripes are the cost of extras, the average buffet meals, and the lack of stock in the shops - this is clearly a hotel on an economy drive - highlighted by a significant decrease in staff in various departments, and this needs to be monitored as the best thing about this hotel is the commitment and enthusiam of the staff, which is being severely challenged.

The rooms are nice, but could do with a re-vamp to bring the hotel back to its former glory.

The Famous Nne who entertain in the evening are brilliant, and create a great atmosphere.
The hotels has many guests who return year on year because they love the facilities and the general ambience, but this won't neccessarily impress new visitors, so there needs to be less complacency if this hotel is to remain first class.

We will return to Le St. Geran because we always have a consistently good holiday there, but I hope the new management doesn't trade on it's past reputation because the other more negative reviews make some valid points.

If you love sports, then I don't think there is a better option. We also like the Heriage Awali for family trips as it's all inclusive but it doesn't have such good ambience,the Touessrok as we were married there but the sports facilities aren't so good, and the Dinarobin, which lacked atmsophere and you need to travel to the sister hotel for watersports.

Having heard certain reports about the Hotel not being as good as it used to be etc, we were slightly apprehensive. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left, we thoroughly enjoyed it. The staff, the food, the drink, the water sports, the golf, the music and the overall experience was outstanding. I have been lucky enough to stay in some great hotels and this really rates amongst the best in my experience.

Le Saint Geran is the fifth hotel we've visited in Mauritius (having previously stayed at The Residence, Heritage and two now LUX resorts) and until this one we've only ever had exceptional holidays on the island so continue to go back. This hotel cost far more than the others so we expected something even better than what we'd had before but we were sorely disappointed.

The main problems were the food, the prices, often indifferent service, there was nowhere to sit around the pool and overall that these things did not meet our expectations for a well regarded 5 star hotel.

We are experienced travellers both for work and leisure and only really stay in 5 star hotels for our holidays and this hotel had the worst food we've had on any of our trips. At dinner most of it was fine if often unexciting but the breakfasts and lunches were awful. The breakfast items are cooked and left to go soggy and cold and the lunches were very expensive and not up to the quality they should be, eg scraggly bits of chicken served in stir-fries and soggy sandwiches. In contrast we can still remember meals we ate 8 years ago in the Beau Rivage (now LUX) as they were so good!

We're used to high prices but the salmon bagels at lunch (with not good quality salmon) cost £19.50, orange juice was £7 per glass and in the spa area fruit juice cost £11.50 for a small glass which we just thought was extortionate! One day we borrowed the hotel bike and went down the road for lunch at The Longbeach, with its many restaurants to choose from, nice food and lower prices we were disappointed to return to our 1 bad lunch restaurant!

The other thing that really spoiled our holiday was the layout of the pool area which meant there was nowhere to lie by it to sunbathe during the day. We don't particularly like lying on the beach where trawlers can bother you and prefer sitting by the pool off the sand normally but the St Geran pool area was mostly taken up with tables for dinner so there were literally only 7 sun-beds by the pool. By mid afternoon that area was completely shaded over as there were so many palm trees it is a very badly designed set up. We ended up sitting in the spa area which had a small pool and a few beds around but with the prices of drinks, no service there and no atmosphere it wasn't what we were hoping for when we booked it!

In other Mauritian hotels we've had service second to none with your every wish catered for to the extreme but at this one we had to hunt down towels for our beds, waiting staff were often more interested in chatting amongst themselves than serving and people walk past without acknowledging you. Some people were lovely but there was no consistency.

This hotel was a recommendation from someone who had stayed there before many years ago when it was twinned with Le Tousserok so we can only assume it's still trading on its old reputation as there was nothing about it that would make us want to return there based on our stay.

So as not to give a completely negative review, the good things about this hotel were that all the activities were included eg bikes, watersports, table tennis etc which was nice. They also have a great watersports teams who taught me to sail a hobiecat. There is also a lovely pond as you go in with ducks and geese which was lovely to see.

I wouldn't recommend this hotel and would probably give it 3 1/2 - 4 stars based on the food and service which didn't match up with the higher than 5 star prices!