Fregate Island Seychelles Sun, Sea, Sand and Sleep
MY TOP CHOICE DESTINATION FOR AFTER COVID-19 TRAVEL !
20 Pillows To Choose From On Fregate Island
When you check into your hotel and they give you a choice of 20 different types of pillows for your bed, you certainly have the idea that it could be a bit special! That ‘special’ theme continues when, they give you the keys to your own solar powered golf buggy, for the duration of your stay and there’s not one golf links in sight.
One of the 7 beaches on Fregate Island Seychelles
After you have had a complimentary hour-long massage to get over your travel weariness, you start to understand how this pretty well perfect resort responds to its often, very prestigious guests.
Private motor launch transport. Fregate Island, Seychelles.
Bathed in the delightful warmth of the Indian Ocean. This exclusive destination continues to present its guests with a whole range of, above five star service of food and facilities.
Spend one of your days here on this beach on Fregate Island Seychelles.
Part nature reserve, this idyllic looking tropical island of Fregate Island offers a pampering experience, par excellence !
Private Means Private
With private being the watch word, as the resort goes out of its way to ensure all its guests enjoy a quiet relaxing and a ‘get away from it all’ time whilst there.
Perfect beaches on the island. Fregate Island Private, The Seychelles.
Fregate Island, has 16 cliff top villas, but they are well separated from each other, giving guests the chance to perfectly enjoy their own terraces, private pools and jacuzzis. Add in your own private butler you now really start to find out when they say private, they mean it!
Pool deck at one of the villas on Fregate Island, Seychelles.
The island has seven beaches. One for each day of the week and you are more likely to have one those to yourself anyway! In fact there is one very special private beach that can be used on a first come first served basis. By turning the small wooden sign to ‘beach in use’. Then its yours for as long as you like that day!
Fregate Island Very Private Beach
This as you can imagine is very popular, so you have to be pretty quick to bag it. Being totally realistic with such a choice of other beaches its very easy anyway to get away from the other guests, if that is your desire.
Your own private beach…put up the sign and the beach is yours!
You’re at your chosen beach for the day what about lunch? Well you just contact your butler and he will bring you a picnic or barbeque lunch in fact whatever you desire they will oblige. If you want a full English breakfast on the beach at midnight with champagne then that’s what you get. Honestly they will do what ever its takes to ensure you get what you want, when you want it.
Fresh fruit salad served by your Butler on one of the beaches.
As well as beach locations, there are dozens of places all over the island that you could spend time enjoying the fabulous views, along with meals to match. A 30metre high tree house, where you could eat canapés, in the canopy!
View from the tree house on Fregate Island to the marina.
Or perhaps a wonderful lookout tower built on the granite rocks at the one of high points of the island. Great panoramic views over it too accompanied with a light lunch or a very high tea!
Bats To Marvel At On Fregate Island.
A perfect location in the late afternoon, to spot the giant fruit bats as they fly past at eye level, en-route to their own fruity breakfasts!
Your beach Sir and Madam! Fregate Island, Seychelles.
If you have sorted out which pillow you would like. You then have a myriad of other choices what else to do perhaps? Well there’s snorkeling, sailing, sport fishing. The first class Rock Spa has a wonderful ambiance to while away many hours with a vast range of pampering treatments to ease away the strains of life and work.
Dine in style in your room at Fregate Island, Seychelles.
There is no music played in the public areas, but you can have at as many decibels as you like, in your own suite equipped with a huge TV and entertainment equipment. Also iPhone dock to play your own.
Sleep in style, Fregate Island Private, The Seychelles.
Here on Fregate Island, it’s the sounds of the very special nature of the island that is what the hotel wants you to hear.
Dine With Some of The Rarest Animals In The World On Fregate Island!
It’s a unique place, indeed you can find yourself dining with some of the most extremely rare creatures on the planet. It’s not unusual to find a Magpie Robin a bird that until very recently was down to just 22 in the world and it only lived pretty well almost exclusively on Fregate. Brought back from the brink by a project started on the island, there are now over 100 birds on this island and two other reserve islands very close by.
Brought back from the brink of extinction the Magpie Robin Fregate Island, Seychelles.
The frolicking and wonderfully coloured tiny red Fodys are not backward in coming forward to join you for tea and biscuits. Along with the occasional harmless small lizards, well Skinks actually. They too, are all over the island but charming with it.
Fairy Tern nesting Fregate Island Seychelles.
The pure white delicate Fairy Terns who nest in the most crazy way just on a branch joint, with no nest, they just seem somehow to balance their egg and themselves defying gravity in a most elegant way.
The Crazy Terns Nest On Bare Branches
The Terns along with the striking Tropic Birds with their long white tails look magnificent in flight against a background of the pure blue Indian ocean or sky.
The main pool but with your own private one, it hardly gets used!
The larger wildlife includes Giant Tortoises who wander all over. If it looks like a rock and it moves, then it’s a giant tortoise! A very special privilege at certain times of the year is another large shelled creature, but this time from the sea. Here turtles return annually to nest on most of the beaches.
Baby turtle being returned safely to the surf, Fregate Island Private.
How thrilling it is to see them laying their batches of eggs in the warm sand and even more thrilling to see and to occasionally help a tiny hatched turtle into the warm surf, its home for some years to come.
Hunt your beach one of seven on Fregate Island, Seychelles.
With all this exceptional wildlife on the island, its no wonder to find out that there are two full time environmental experts employed here. They look after and monitor the island’s flora and fauna.
Rarest Of The Rare
Even here the animals have more or less the equivalent of a butler, but they do however have to share somewhat more than the guests!
This is the only place in the world that this beetle lives naturally.
Another but not well known creature. However, of world significance is the extremely rare Giant Fregate Island Beetle or Fregate Tenebrionid Beetle found only on this tiny remote granite and sandy island.
Colourful Fody Fregate Island, Seychelles.
Fregate Island Seychelles Special Nature
When first seen by naturalists, they thought the beetle was put together from parts of other beetles as a joke, but the joke was on them. This and its not so really giant, was a real one off. It is found living nowhere else in the world other than on Fregate. And, even today the only other beetles of this type are held in London Zoo for a special research and species saving project. If the Fregate stock was to succumb to natural disaster at least there is the chance to re-colonize.
Helicopter transfer in and out of Fregate Island Seychelles.
The island strives to improve its green credentials all the time, it gathers fresh water from the sea and they have solar to help power the island and that plant too. They have a hydroponics garden, growing a huge range of vegetables and herbs for use the kitchens.
Fresh Fruit From The Island Itself
Tropical fruits are cultivated all over. Super fresh mangoes, papaya, bananas and passion fruits speed their way to your plate straight from the trees. Importing some food and fuel but with solar electrical generation the island has reduced its need for outside fuel to the very minimum.
Quiet beaches all over Fregate Island, Seychelles.
When it comes to the accommodation for the human guests, well there is little left to be desired. The generous sized villas with one bedroom but a few do have two. They have a small separate dining room and an attached extensive lounge, with huge relaxing seating.
Terrace, pool, jacuzzi, and Indian Ocean on Fregate.
A separate open to the sky showering facilities adjoining and the main bathroom is set in neatly behind the bedroom. Sumptuous with a huge bath, two showers one inside, one open to the elements. Giving an overall feeling of excellence and pure luxury.
Butler Service On Fregate Island
The super large softly draped four-poster bedroom, enough for the 20 choices of pillows. Mind you if you found out and could not make up your mind up about which ones you actually wanted!
Not a links in sight but this solar powered buggy helps to get you around.
Again for meals, breakfast served and prepared by your butler either in your own interior dining room or under a thatched gazebo on the terrace. With wonderful views from your extensive terrace is a pretty good way of starting any day.
Afternoon tea snacks served by your Butler at the top of the island.
Choices continue as fine dining experience could be in the air-conditioned restaurant at Fregate House. Or perhaps, in the colonial style Old Plantation House or Old Boat House maybe. Even a romantic candle lit beach setting, people have even taken dinner at the helipad!
Welcome…Fregate Island, Seychelles.
Brad Pitt And Angela Joli
Talking of high flyers. Members of the international film set did once try to book the whole island a number of years ago when they were together. Brad Pitt and Angela Jolie wanted it for them and their children. However, some of the villas were already taken and those guests did not want to give up that week. The film stars cancelled, as they wanted the whole island all to themselves!
At around €5,000 per night per room (2020). But back then it was €3,500 and there are 16 rooms, well you work it out! If they were happy to pay that sort of money then in my book that makes Fregate Island Private a pretty special place. And yes indeed, that is exactly what it is!
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One bedroom Villa Accommodation in a spacious Villa with one bedroom and lounge, Villa Sun Terrace and Private Pool with a Jacuzzi Private Butler Service. Every villa offers individually controlled air conditioning, ceiling fan, Wireless Internet Access and personal safe. Use of personal Buggy.
Helicopter transfer: Around €1000 for two persons.
Twin Otter transfer: Starts around €1,500.
