My wife and I did 10 nights in the Seychelles for our 10yr anniversary.

We booked the twice the paradise offer doing 7 nights in a Sunset Beach Suite on Desroches with 2 free nights on Mahe at the end. We upgraded our 2 free nights to a Hilltop Villa for 200euros and added a 3rd night.

I can not say enough good things about FS Desroches - it is absolutely worth the extra flight. It's on another level, even compared to FS Mahe. There are a lot of exceptional properties in spectacular locations and Desroche is one of them, but the staff really set the property apart from anywhere else we have been before.

The Sunset Beach Suite was massive and well located. We stayed in villa #10 and it was super private with a nice walkway down to the beach. Buggy service was nice for dinner, but we mostly cycled around the island.

We went to all of the beaches with Aquarium and Madame Zabre being our 2 favorites. The setups they have at each beach are excellent and makes it very easy to spend half a day out. Even better, they're going to be bringing in a food / drink truck to service the remote beaches so you can order lunch without needing to come back. We saw turtles and rays and some nice fish snorkeling.

We did a beach picnic which was a really nice experience and the food and Rose were all nice for a hot afternoon.

We did a 2 tank dive with Blue Safari and saw a lot fish, sharks, rays, turtles, eels etc.. Really 5 star full service from the dive shop.

Spa was beautiful - show up 30 minutes early just to admire the room! We did a 90 minute couples massage and it made me question if I really had a good massage before (kidding!) - but it was really top level... the knuckling... so good.

The tortoise sanctuary was super cool and very informative.

We also loved the star gazing - we did a private experience and Alex was so passionate and knowledgeable. On a clear night, it is remarkable what you can see both with the telescope but also your naked eye.

We did a vow renewal and it was spectacular. The setup was done on Madame Zabre beach and we had a magnificent dinner at the top of the lighthouse. We got some amazing photos all over the island and the fire-red sunset as we sat down for dinner was the perfect end.

Breakfast was top notch every day. Mimosa hold the OJ. I tried pretty much everything on the menu. The detox juice was delicious as were all of the meats, cheeses, fruits, yogurts and pastries.

Lunch we usually kept pretty simple... pizzas, salads, burgers - everything we had was good.

Dinners were all good. We did the half-board which was definitely worth it. We ate at the lighthouse twice, deli twice, the Sunday seafood dinner, Thursday Lebanese dinner and then our top of the lighthouse dinner on the last night.

The king crab, tartare, kobe beef and lobster thermidor were excellent at the Lighthouse.
The edamame, calamari, shrimp beef sliders and all of the rolls / nigiri were excellent at the Deli.
Lebanese dinner was delicious, but WAYYY too much food for 2 people.
The seafood dinner was the only ok experience. The seafood should be more made to order instead of just cooking and having it sit buffet style.
Top of the lighthouse dinner was great and had its own unique 6 course menu that we did some customization to. We had an amazing sunset which really highlighted it.

Wine and champagne were super expensive. Around $60 Canadian for a glass of Champagne and over $300 for the cheapest bottle. We knew this going in and brought 8 good bottles with us like Cristal, Dom, Vilmart, Roger Coulon and Ulysse Collin. We had a lot of good cocktails, but brought our own champagne to dinner every night for the reasonable 40 euro corkage fee.

Overall Desroches is spectacular. It is so private and secluded, you hardly ever see anyone else outside breakfast and dinner.

FS Mahe was also amazing. Our Hilltop Villa (101) had the most amazing views and was super private. The buggies are a must to go anywhere and new ones they just got are so comfy and stylish. Even the 1 night when it rained, they go fully covered!

Mahe is much more crowed, especially on the beach, compared to Desroches. With that said, the beach is nice, the beach service excellent and all of the included water activities enjoyable. The snorkeling right off the beach is hard to beat. We saw eeles, turtles, sharks, big groups of rays and a tonne of other fish.

Again, food was all delicious.

The tomahawk for 2 from the steakshack was lights out!
The sushi in Koi was also top stuff. Crazily, we were the only 2 people in there so we had a great conversation with the sushi chef from Indonesia and he made us some great bites.

Overall 2 spectacular properties which are really well run.