Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island Soon to Open

The Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island, the hotel chain’s first venture into the Seychelles, is scheduled to debut later this year on a private island.

The resort is little over 130 kilometres south of Mahe, in an atoll flanked by palm groves and migratory seabirds and turtles, sheltered by its own lagoon and coral reef.

It will be home to a collection of 50 seafront villas, offering up to five bedrooms, a private pool and personal concierge. The resort will contain six restaurants and bars, while The Waldorf Spa will offer six treatment rooms, a beauty salon, hammam, spa suite and outdoor spaces.

Elias Pertoft, general manager, said: “In the two decades I have called remote tropical islands a home, I have never witnessed an island as pristine as Platte Island, nor one so teaming with wildlife, where it is possible to glimpse endangered Hawksbill turtles laying eggs, eagle rays and reef sharks ribboning along the lagoon.”

The Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island will use a solar field to generate renewable energy for the majority of its operations as part of the resort’s Travel with Purpose pledge. To “deliver a sustainable farm-to-table culinary experience for guests,” the island will source a sizable portion of its fruits and vegetables from its garden.

In addition to Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Seychelles Northolme Resort & Spa, Hilton Seychelles Labriz Resort & Spa, and DoubleTree by Hilton Seychelles – Allamanda Resort and Spa, the opening will increase the number of hotels in the parent company Hilton’s Seychelles portfolio to five. Canopy by Hilton Mahe will also soon open under Hilton.