Cerf Island Resort

Beautiful hotel with great facilities; two infinity pools, superb villas with outdoors showers (book the villas!), golf buggy service, and great bar. The staff is extremely nice, welcoming and helpful, and very responsive. Breakfast will keep you fed for the whole day until dinner, which is great considering the lack of food options on the island. Bonus point for the free kayak and snorkelling equipment.

Consistent with other comments here, the quality of the food is below expectations for a 4-star hotel (for example, our fruit salad for dessert was frozen, poached eggs were too cooked, and the pana cotta was half liquid). The ‘beach’ is also underwhelming (basically none at high tide), but the hotel made up for it with a nice sandy deck by the water with lounge chairs.

Nice location off the mainland, has a jungle, the small infinity pool is nice. Recommend the trip to Moyenne island.

Food was the worst we’ve had. It was actually shocking - one soup was so salty we couldn’t have more than one bite. They asked us why we didn’t finish it and when we politely mentioned it was salty the response was a sarcastic ‘well it can’t be to everyone’s taste’. They even managed to ruin pasta and pesto, which was bland and overcooked with the pasta stuck together. They only have one restaurant and you get the impression they’re taking advantage of people not being able to eat anywhere else. The fact we spent so much money to have inedible or, at best, average meals and rude customer service ruined our experience, which was a huge shame. There are a lot of attempts to sell you more things, e.g. WiFi in the room, drinks at dinner, massages etc and if you decline you’re made to feel like you’re cheap. In a 4 star resort at this price, WiFi should be included - even hostels have free WiFi. Once we asked if room service could not leave our bathroom door open when they finish cleaning as it was letting mosquitos in, but after that they left the veranda door open every day and stopped making our bed properly. It just felt like they have a vendetta if you ever ask for or decline anything. Loud and polluting construction works also ruined one pool and the beach so you could only sit by the small pool. The resort itself has a whole floor with a bar and snooker table etc that has just been left to gather dust next to the main pool; it’s an eyesore and makes you wonder how well they’re doing financially (which might explain some of the above issues). Honestly, it’s an overpriced 3 star masquerading as a 4 star with terrible food. Do not recommend, especially not for more than 2 nights.

The island is beautiful. Some of the staff were very friendly and accommodating. Nicely located to other islands for snorkeling and kayaking Some of the staff - Prakash , Ryan and Warren were amazing and really helpful.

We weren't aware that the roads pathways in the resort were so steep and needed to take the golf cart up and down to our room which wasn't ideal but at least they had that to offer. Some of the staff were not very friendly

Cerf Island Resort is a precious relax corner among the other amenities of the Seychelles. Beside the beautiful location, situated into the jungle, the staff has been incredibly kind and helpful since the moment of the reservation, until even after our departure (we forgot the ipad on the room and they brought it to us at the airport, at night!!!). A special thank to the receptionist Bhargav who has been so helpful, nice and friendly to us. We can't wait to return!!

Spacious, plush villas each hidden within the beautiful natural hillside forest equipped with everything you need to relax in comfort

I enjoy walking and climbing but if you need to avoid stairs, request lower accommodation closer to the common area buildings

El Resort es perfecto para desconectar y descansar! La atención de todo el staff increíble. Comida criolla deliciosa. Repetiremos

Stunning property with beautiful views. Very quiet and peaceful atmosphere. All employees were very nice and polite.

Nothing to not like

1) The staff is super friendly and always willing to help and solve any issues which you might come across with. 2) Breakfast: Excellent, really complete. 3) Dinner: Excellent, my congratulations to the chef.

The price could be improved, even if the hotel is wonderful and really well maintained, the prices for the room I got seemed a bit high for a short stay.

Cleanliness

Hills and too many stairs