It's actually very easy!

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Most visitors arrive in Mauritius by plane at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (SSR) International Airport in the southeast, which now has a slick new terminal building.

 

Europe
Direct flights take around twelve hours from London to Mauritius with direct services available from Air Mauritius (airmauritius.com) and British Airways (ba.com). Airlines flying non-direct services from London include Emirates (emirates.com), Air France (airfrance.com), Virgin Atlantic (virgin-atlantic.com), Qantas (qantas.com.au), South African Airways (flysaa.com) and Lufthansa (lufthansa.com). Flying to Mauritius from other UK airports or from Ireland involves either catching a connecting flight to London or flying via the airline’s hub city. For those departing via Paris, the Vanilla Islands Pass from Air Austral (air-austral.com) provides discounted island-hopping in the Indian Ocean between Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, Madagascar, Comoros and Mayotte: a minimum of four flights must be booked to qualify.

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Flights from the US and Canada
There are no direct flights from the US and Canada to Mauritius; it takes around 24 hours to reach Mauritius from New York City, for example. The best options are via London or a continental European city such as Paris.

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Flights from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Flights from Perth operated by Air Mauritius (airmauritius.com) are the only direct link from Australia, taking eight hours. Common routes are via South Africa or Dubai.

Flights from New Zealand require at least one change; common routes are via South Africa or Dubai.

Direct flights from Johannesburg and Durban with Air Mauritius take four hours.

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Air passes
Trips to Mauritius are commonly twinned with a Kenyan or South African safari and visit to Réunion Island. If you’re planning on doing this, an African Air Pass (staralliance.com) is useful: it allows four to ten discounted flights from a choice of 25 countries in the space of three months, and can be bought with any Star Alliance member ticket outside Africa. Using Air Mauritius’s network, Mauritius can also be a stopover on an RTW flight, combined with Asian destinations, from Shanghai to Singapore, and even Australia.

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Road Transfers

On arrival at the airport we will arrange for a meet and greet service and transfer to Black River and the La Balise Marina, where our yachts are moored.

Its a short drive across the island.

Or we can arrange for transfer to your resort if you are doing pre-charter nights on the island.

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St Brandon Atoll

Depart from La Balise marina and sail off into the sunset.

Its a full day and nights sail to the atoll. 

So you can fish enroute, or relax and recharge your batteries, read a book, eat, drink, play music and just enjoy cruising on the Indian Ocean