Luxury Beach Villa
210 m²Sleeps 3Beachfront, private pool
One of four beach villas with handcrafted furniture, a private plunge pool and outdoor showers, and a veranda that looks straight over the sand.
Net rates on request
PRIVATE ISLAND · FIVE STARS
Cousine Island
A private conservation island eight kilometres off Praslin, with five villas, one open-air pavilion, and three decades of turtle and seabird restoration behind every stay.
A private island, carefully restored
Cousine Island sits eight kilometres west of Praslin, a granite outcrop ringed by reef and a single sweep of white sand. Reached by catamaran or helicopter, it takes no more than twelve guests at a time, a limit the island keeps by design rather than convenience.
What was once a worn-down plantation has spent more than three decades under restoration, and the island now runs as a working conservation project as much as a private retreat. Five villas, one open-air pavilion for dining, and a spa built into the old beach house are the full extent of what's here — the rest is reef, forest, and the seabirds and turtles the island exists to protect.
LOCATION8km west of Praslin, inner islands
ROOMS4 Luxury Beach Villas & Presidential Villa
BEACHPrivate beach, reef-fringed
STYLERestored plantation, conservation island
BEST FORFull-island buyouts & conservation-minded travellers
Villas
Just five addresses on the island in total: four beach villas and the Presidential Villa, each with its own pool.
Presidential Villa
625 m²Sleeps 4Two master suites, private infinity pool
The island's only two-bedroom villa, with its own gym, study and chef's kitchen around a beachfront infinity pool; up to two children can be added on request.
Net rates on request
On the island
No spa menu of forty treatments or a run of restaurants — just what a twelve-guest island can genuinely offer, done properly.
Lakaz Lo Lans Spa
Treatments built from ingredients grown on Cousine, Praslin and Mahé — coconut, papaya, banana leaf, sea salt — set in the island's original beach house.
Dive & Watersports Centre
A house reef a few strokes from shore, plus boat dives further out for manta rays, whale sharks and reef sharks, with groups capped at four divers.
Turtle Conservation Programme
Guests can join the island's wildlife team on night patrols and hatchling releases, part of a monitoring programme running since the early 1990s.
Yoga & Wellness
Open-air sessions on the beach at sunrise or on the spa's yoga deck, spanning Hatha, Vinyasa and Yin practice.
Where to eat
One dining room for the whole island, so the kitchen cooks for everyone rather than a la carte.
CREOLE-INSPIRED · OPEN-AIR PAVILION
The Pavilion
The island's single dining room, open on all sides, serving Creole-inspired meals built around whatever the boat brought in that morning.
HOTEL GALLERY
Inside Cousine Island
Bring a client to Cousine Island
Tell us the dates and the occasion. We will hold space at net rates and manage every detail once your clients land.