Stayed at Les Villas d'Or for six nights. Was a beautiful setting with friendly and helpful staff. Used the self catering facilities for breakfast and dinner to help save money. Small markets were within 10 minute walk. Beach was 20 steps from the deck of our room. The rooms were very nice and clean. Rained a couple days we were there so rented movies from the office to keep occupied.

A bit expensive (about $325 USD/night). Great villas though. Nicely equipped. No oven on the cooker though. Well equipped in all other respects. Internet access is extra and only available in reception area. Great staff. Very helpful. Onboarding process is excellent. Absoluter paridise location. Best beach on the world right off the padio deck. Praslin/Villas D'Or a perfect place to get away from it all. Peaceful/quiet, feels like you have the indian ocean beach to yourself. Praslin a quiet place. Best to rent a car to get around the island. Driving is tricky with a manual auto but ok. My wife absolutely loved to accomodation and so did I. Reasonable choice of restuarants nearby. All in all, good value for the money.

We stayed at Villas d´Or for two weeks in October 2010, and enjoyed it. The villas are spread around a lovely and well-kept big tropical garden (a gardener is working on it every day), and are away from the road and very close to the beach. We were traveling with an infant, and were provided with a baby-cot, a high-chair and a small childrens bath-tub, without even having to ask for it. We spent many evenings on the veranda after having been out for dinner, sipping wine and enjoying the sound of the surf while our little boy slept soundly inside. Compared to many resorts, the bungalows are actually set apart from each other, and have plenty of garden around them.

The villas are cleaned every day, towels are changed and beds are made. Beach towles were provided at no extra charge, and were exchanged at any time when requested. The service is really good - we asked for a rental car to be booked through reception, and within 30 minutes it was delivered by the car rental agency, at a fairly good rate that is. When a problem occured, it was dealt with immediately in a very friendly and professional manner, and a most satisfying solution was found within minutes - it is this approach to service that makes a difference. One minus: the double bungalows are not totally soundproof due to connecting twin-doors, and you may here your neighbours at night... However, when we mentioned this to management. it was solved within minutes by insulating the room between doors with foam parts. May I suggest to do this as a precautionary measure at any time ?

Restaurants and shops are easily reached by a 15 minute walk along the beach (or the road, but why bother when the beach is just there...?).

We would recommend Villas d´Or to everyone who wants to stay at a quiet lovely beach, and enjoy the island of Praslin without having to spend a fortune. Many travellers only stay for a few days which really is a shame - we loved every day of our holiday.

When we arrived at Villa d' Or we had to wait because they were helping some other guests. After that they apologized for the bad reception .... who cares: We were finally on the Seychelles Islands.

Villa d' Or is absolutely wonderful. The service is great and you only have to ask and everything will be arranged. We had two adjacent villa's with connection doors so our children had there own villa. Our villa were situated in the middle and we had a great view at the Indian Ocean.

There is also a small pool which has only been used by our children and they really enjoyed it. One evening the manager arranged a Creole diner for us being brought to our Villa so we didn't have to go out with our three children. It was absolutely delicious. The fun part was that we had to decided what the diner was worth (that's a little awkward for us Dutch) but i think we gave a good price.

There are some great things to see and paces to eat. If you want to have some more information, please e-mail us.