What you get

Four things, not a PDF

Almost everything written about Seychelles is resort content. This is the trip we actually did on a normal budget, laid out so you can use it while you are standing at a ferry terminal with a printed ticket in your hand.

the detail

The full guide

Island by island, where we slept and what it cost a night, every beach, every takeaway, and the full cost breakdown for twelve days.

the fun one

Interactive map

34 spots pinned and colour coded, each with our notes and a photo. Filter to just the beaches, or just the food.

the clever bit

Magic itinerary

One tap and your eight days appear, island by island, with both ferry crossings placed where they actually fall.

then yours

Yours to change

Drag it about, cross things out, add whatever is nearby. Every travel time updates as you go.

The magic bit

It builds the whole route, not just the days

Seychelles is not one island, and that is where most itineraries fall over. You do not just need to know what to do on Praslin, you need to know which night to be on which island, which ferry that means, and which morning disappears on the water. So it lays the whole eight days out for you, crossings included.

One length, eight days, because that is the trip we would sell you
Only islands we actually stayed on, in the order we did them
Nights split the way we would split them, not evenly
Both ferry crossings are their own stop, with the price and the warning

Mahé 9/10 Praslin 9/10 La Digue 10/10 Mahé again

magic itinerary

First, the plan

Built for you in one tap

Tap it once and your eight days appear, island by island, in the order we did them. Every leg tells you how far it is to the next place and whether that is a walk, the car or the bike, so you are not sitting on a bench at Baie Ste Anne with three tabs open trying to work out what is close.

The days you change island say so in their own right, with the real price of the crossing and the warning about which one is rough. Where we never timed something ourselves, it tells you that instead of making a number up.

Magic itinerary

day 2 The crossing and Anse Lazio

Getting there

The ferry across to Praslin

An hour and fifteen, and it is rough. Collect and print your ticket at the terminal first, a digital one is not enough.

A ferry across, so it runs to a timetable

Late morning

Anse Lazio

Has been ranked the third best beach in the world. Do not drive down to it, park at the top point and hike the 15 minutes down.

The rest of your 8 days is in the guide

Then, your version

Then make it yours

Nothing in there is fixed. Cross out the takeaway you do not fancy, drag a stop up or down by the little grip, or send it into a different day if you would rather have a lie in. The dashed plus sits right on the gap between two stops, so if you want something in the middle of your afternoon you just tap the middle of your afternoon.

Every travel time recalculates the moment you change something, and so does the total for the day, which means the plan on your screen is always the plan you are actually doing.

Magic itinerary

day 5 La Digue

Morning

Anse Source d'Argent

The famous one. The ticket lasts 24 hours, so buy it from 4pm the day before and use it all the next day.

19 min walk, or about 8 min on the bike

Late morning

Bikini Bottom

The most expensive coconut of our lives, but a great vibe, and you can hire snorkelling gear and body boards here.

No guessing

It knows what is near

Tap that plus and it only offers you things that are actually close to where you already are, closest first, with the real travel time from the stop above it. Filter it down to food, or drink, or somewhere for after dark, and every single option is still a place from our twelve days here rather than whatever is paying to be top of a list.

Magic itinerary

day 5 La Digue

Morning

Anse Source d'Argent

Add after Anse Source d'Argent

Everything Activity Food Drink Nightlife

Right by Anse Source d'Argent Rey and Josh One of the best takeaways we had, and not oily. +

8 min on the bike Anse Patates Small, all granite boulders, and lovely. +

9 min on the bike Island Best Bar Get the mango colada, made with the Takamaka dark rum we tasted back on Mahé. +

Then send it

Straight into the group chat

One tap on share and the whole route lands in Messages, WhatsApp or your Notes, your edits and all, with a map link on every stop. No app to download, no account to make, nothing for your friends to sign up for.

Text it to whoever you are travelling with
Save it to your Notes for the plane
Every stop keeps its Google Maps link

The bit nobody publishes

A$1,997 each for twelve days, flights not included

Seychelles has a reputation for being honeymoon money only, and it absolutely can be. This is what it came to doing it our way. Every figure here is the islands themselves, not our flights, because you will book your own from wherever you are and ours would tell you nothing useful.

A$1,997 per person, A$3,994.33 for the two of us. Accommodation, all three ferries, the hire cars, the food and everything we did. That is A$166 per person per day, and it already includes where we slept.
A$1,128 each on eleven nights. Averaging A$205 a night for the two of us, and La Digue was more than double Mahé. We booked two days out in peak season, so those are last minute prices, not the going rate.
A$236 each on three ferry crossings. The long ones are the expensive ones. Praslin to La Digue is fifteen minutes and cheap.
Groceries were 7 percent of what we spent on the ground. That is the whole trick, and it is only possible because every place we stayed had a kitchen.
Our flights were A$1,364 each, Dar es Salaam to Seychelles to Mauritius. Deliberately left out of the total above, because almost nobody will fly what we flew.

Have a look

All three islands, on one map

Here are a handful of the pins, a few from each island. The grey dots are the rest. The full map has all 34, each with our notes, a photo and a link to book it.

28 more spotswith our notes and photos

Our photos, not stock

Twelve days on these islands

The detail

What is actually in it

The route. How many nights we would give each island, and the one we got wrong.
Where to stay. All four places we slept, with what we paid a night on each island.
The ferries. Who to book with, what it cost, which crossing is rough, and the ticket rule nobody warns you about.
The cars. Who we hired from on Mahé and Praslin, what it cost, and why you want none at all on La Digue.
The secret beach past Anse Lazio. Exactly where the path starts. We had it entirely to ourselves.
The Anse Source d'Argent ticket trick. How to get two days out of one ticket, and the hour to go.
The tortoise day. What Curieuse cost, what is included, and the park tax you pay on arrival.
What it cost. Every line across twelve days, A$166 per person per day, and where the money actually went.

From me to you

Hi, I'm Ellen

I've been travelling full time for the last 18 months, and every guide I make is a trip I actually took. Nothing in here is researched from a desk: if I name a restaurant, I sat in it, and if I link a place to stay, I would book it myself. Seychelles was my 50th country and it more than earned the spot.

And the flip side of that: we did not go to Vallée de Mai, and we drove past Anse Parnell without stopping, so neither is written up as though we did. I am not going to write you a day I did not do.

51 countries and counting.

Ellen x

Before you ask

Questions

How do I get it after I pay?

Straight away. You land on your own page with the guide, the interactive map and the route builder, and the same link is emailed to you so you always have it.

Why is the itinerary eight days?

Because eight days is the trip. A night on Mahé to land and get the car, two days on Praslin, two on La Digue, then back to Mahé for the end so you are not chasing a ferry on the morning of your flight. Fewer and you spend the trip on boats. We did twelve and the extra days were lovely but they were not the thing that made it work.

Is Seychelles actually affordable?

More than people think, but it is not cheap. Twelve days came to A$1,997 each, flights not included, which is A$166 per person per day and that already covers where we slept. The guide has every line of it. The lever is a kitchen and local takeaway, not a resort.

When should I go?

Not August, if you are travelling a long way. We went in August, which is their windiest time of year, and we got lucky on most beaches because they are protected. But Praslin was a washout and Grand Anse on La Digue was too rough to swim. We came because we were already close, in Tanzania. The guide says this plainly rather than selling you the month we happened to go.

Does it cover Vallée de Mai?

No, and I want to be straight with you about it. We saw coco de mer on Curieuse but we never made it to Vallée de Mai itself. Everything in this guide is somewhere we actually went.

Do I need Notion?

No account needed. It opens in your browser like any web page, on your phone or laptop.

What if it is not for me?

Email us within 30 days and we refund you, no questions asked, and you keep the guide. Full details on our refund page.

Does it go out of date?

We update it as things change and you get every update free, forever.

Skip the fortnight of working it out

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Have the best trip, Ellen x