Trou aux Biches Beachcomber Golf Resort & Spa, one of Mauritius’s best-known beach resorts, reopens on 15 October 2026 after a four-month renovation by JFA Architects: refreshed suites, a redesigned lagoon-front L’Oasis restaurant, a new all-day Corner Café and boutique, and a beach restoration that has put 13,500 cubic metres of sand back on the shore — in the resort’s 55th year.
Trou aux Biches is the resort people mean when they talk about old Mauritius. It opened in the early 1970s on the sheltered north-west coast, when the island’s tourism was barely a decade old, and for half a century it has been the place families come back to: low-rise suites in a garden running down to a long white beach, calm water inside the reef, and sunsets over the lagoon. The question with a 55-year-old icon is always the same — how do you modernise it without losing what made it?
Beachcomber’s answer, after four months closed over the southern winter, is a refresh rather than a rebuild. The resort reopens on 15 October 2026, and the most important change is one you can’t see in the press photographs: the beach itself has been rebuilt.
Trou aux Biches Beachcomber: Key Facts
- Reopens: 15 October 2026, after a four-month renovation from mid-May
- Where: Trou-aux-Biches on the north-west coast of Mauritius, about 20 km from Port Louis and 8 km from Grand Baie
- Architects: JFA Architects
- What’s new: refreshed Beachfront Junior Suites, Senior Suites and Garden Suites; a redesigned L’Oasis restaurant and bar on the lagoon; a new all-day Corner Café; a redesigned Beachcomber Boutique
- The beach: restored with the nature-based STABIPLAGE® system — six submerged geotextile structures and 13,500 m³ of sand replenishment
- Anniversary: the resort’s 55th year
- Families: a free kids club for ages 3 to 11, with its own restaurant, garden and pool, and a free teens club for 12 to 17
- Owner: Beachcomber Resorts & Hotels, the Mauritian group behind Royal Palm and Paradis
What the Renovation Changed
The centrepiece is L’Oasis, the main restaurant on the lagoon. It seats up to 450 guests and has been redesigned around natural light from sunrise to sunset, in rope, rattan and ceramic tile. The buffets have been rethought as rooms in a Mauritian house: the cold buffet styled on a traditional Mauritian home, the warm buffet on a family residence. It is a nice idea for a restaurant that has to feed hundreds of people three times a day without feeling like a canteen.
Alongside it is the new Corner Café, serving crêpes and coffee through the day, and a redesigned Beachcomber Boutique with local crafts, resort wear and handmade baskets, plus a corner for tasting and buying imported coffees and gourmet products. The suites — Beachfront Junior Suites, Senior Suites and Garden Suites — have been refreshed for comfort while keeping their vintage-inspired décor. Beachcomber describes the new look as “refined, tropical and effortlessly contemporary”.
The Beach Restoration
This is the part of the story that matters most, and the part least likely to make the brochure. Between 1967 and 2012, the shoreline at Trou aux Biches retreated by about 40 metres, with erosion in places of one to two metres a year. For a resort whose whole reason for being is its beach, that is an existential problem, and it is one shared by much of the Indian Ocean.
Beachcomber’s response, carried out between mid-May and September 2026, uses STABIPLAGE®, a nature-based technique: six submerged geotextile structures that work with the currents to hold sand in place, and 13,500 cubic metres of sand replenishment to rebuild the width of the beach. The aim is to stabilise the shoreline and protect the reef ecosystem and the resort behind it. The beach stayed open to the public throughout the works — Mauritian beaches are public by law.
The Resort Beyond the Renovation
The rest of Trou aux Biches is unchanged, and that is mostly good news. Beyond L’Oasis there are further restaurants serving Asian fusion, Italian and Indian cooking, with both buffet and à la carte dining; a Spa by Clarins; and a choice of suites and two- and three-bedroom villas with private pools set through the gardens. Guests have privileged access to two 18-hole, par-72 golf courses, Paradis Golf Club and Mont Choisy Le Golf. An all-inclusive package covering lunch and a selection of drinks is available.
For families, this is the resort’s real strength: the free kids club takes 3- to 11-year-olds and has its own restaurant, garden and pool, and there is a free club for teenagers. Grand Baie, the north’s main town for shops and restaurants, is about 8 km away.
How Much Does Trou aux Biches Beachcomber Cost?
Beachcomber’s UK partners quote a 7-night all-inclusive package for two adults and two children in a Two Bedroom Family Suite, with return flights from London Gatwick, at £10,791 for travel from 1 December 2026. Room-only and half-board rates vary widely by season and room type, and December to April is high season in Mauritius.
Rates swing 10–20% between platforms and between dates, so five minutes of comparing is worth it.
- Compare rates on Booking.com — for February 2027 I found three nights with breakfast from about US$1,295, roughly $430 a night
- See Expedia — nightly rates from about $433 on the same dates, and useful when bundling flights
- Check Trip.com — from about $447 a night on the dates I checked
Around the stay, a full-day catamaran cruise to the northern islands from Grand Baie is the classic day out from this coast.
The Lens I’m Reading This Through
The beach in the brochure is not always the beach you get. Erosion is the quiet crisis of the Indian Ocean, and most resorts deal with it badly — sea walls, rock groynes, sandbags that eat the beach they are meant to save. A resort that spends its renovation season rebuilding its beach with a nature-based system, and tells you the numbers, is telling you something about its priorities.
What I can’t judge from a press kit is how the refreshed suites feel next to the newer resorts on the island, and whether L’Oasis really escapes the buffet-hall problem at full capacity. Those need a stay. If you are weighing up the Indian Ocean more widely, I have reviewed LTI Maafushivaru in the Maldives and covered the reopening of Fregate Island in the Seychelles.
Tip: The north-west coast is the sunniest and most sheltered on Mauritius, and the lagoon here is calm enough for young children all year. If you want a beachfront suite with its own pool, book early for the December holidays.
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