The Travelshop there should be able to directly answer that question for you.

I'm in the final stage of ticketing a AONE5 through BA MRU, all my segments are confirmed, just waiting for the calculation of taxes.
They answer my emails within 24 hours, but like mentioned by JohnAx they need London to answer all the questions and it's also London who calculates the price.

I'm also planning to do a quick turnaround and this is the answer BA MRU gave me: "CONCERNING YOUR TICKET CAN YOU ADVISE IF YOU ARE ARRIVING THE SAME DAY.IF YES ONE OF OUR BA REPRESENTATIVE WILL GIVE YOU THE TICKET UPON ARRIVAL."

If everythings works out I'll start my AONE5 on 10/02, so hope i can confirm this soon.

Having just started our AONE4 last month ex-MRU, I can confirm that LHR-MRU-LHR on the same aircraft is perfectly doable, although it's a shame when you catch a glimpse of all that tantalizing coastline and beaches out of the aircraft window.

We arrived just before 7am and wandered through to the immigration hall. Just before the immigration desks, on the right hand side, is the transfer desk. It was unmanned when we arrived - I spoke to one of the handling agents and within a few minutes, her supervisor arrived with a thick wad of tickets, itineraries, invitations to the lounge and boarding passes for the return sector to LHR and even our onward journey from there. She even escorted us through security back into the departures area. (Now that's what I call service!) ^

All this took less than 15 minutes, so we had a good hour and a half before boarding for the flight back to LHR, so we were free to wander through the duty-free shops offering a choice selection of stuffed dodos.

So, perfectly doable as a double-header but definitely worth stopping off for a few days, IMHO!

I hope also to book an AONE5 out of Mauritius. Would you mind sending me (or posting) the email address mentioned for the TravelShop (I assume this means the British Airways Travel Shop in Mauritius).

QG, I guess you used BA to get to Mauritius from London to start your trip. Did you just buy a return ticket, or use award? It seems just looking briefly at ba.com that a single is more expensive than a return (I'm looking at end of October). I'm hoping to hop over from London, AONE5 out of MRU, then head to South America via London. Presumably when I end the RTW, I will have to come back to Mauritius (and use the return part of my ticket?), or I guess it would be easier to fly back to London from Morocco if I'm paying for it myself?

Thanks for your advice all..

The proper thing to do, at the end of your trip, is to begin the next one. It's a lot like eating popcorn or potato chips - one just gives you the appetite for the next.

Talking about jumping from one RTW to another: in a couple of weeks, my wife and I will be finishing an AONE5 in Cairo and will begin the next one in Mauritius. We found that there were very reasonably priced F and J fares on Emirates from CAI to MRU.

I've just changed my existing RTW, which began in CAI, to end in DOH so as to do a further AONE3 from Qatar. I could end this in BAH or DOH.

Do you happen to know if Emirates also do reasonably priced F or J ONE-WAY from BAH or DOH to MRU? I thought of using a UA award on Emirates, but UA don't appear to allow one-way use in the same manner as BA. It would mean throwing away the return leg of the UA award.

If you don't mind me asking, how much was the F/J fare from CAI to MRU? And what is the best time of year to go to MRU, avoiding extreme heat and rain/storms?

We used QF points and got WT+ award tickets one-way to MRU. A word of caution with one-way tickets, though. They normally require you to show an onward/return ticket and we were asked about these at check in. I explained that we were to pick up our tickets at MRU, and could only produce our emailed itinerary which, fortunately, had our ticket nos.

Good luck and happy travels :)

The cost of my CAI-MRU ticket in First on Emirates (EK924-EK701) is US$1096 ($981 plus taxes) and has the advantage of a layover of only 90 minutes at DXB. I didn't consider ending closer to MRU because after rushing through Egypt at the start of the ticket a year ago, we wanted to spend time on a Nile cruise this time around.

Your question about cost to MRU originating in BAH or DOH led me to check ITA to see how much I might have saved by ending there instead. However, for a randomly picked day (Oct. 31) the First-class fare from either BAH or DOH is about $300 more than from CAI- i.e. both are about $1420-- and seem to have layovers of about 20 hours at DXB. Interesting, while flights from all these three origins obviously pass through DXB. The cost for DXB-MRU itself is $1753!!

As for origins, note that even though you can do an AONE3 from Qatar but not from MRU, the AONE4 from MRU is about $1100 cheaper than the AONE3 from Qatar.

Because this is my first time in Mauritius, sorry I can't help on when to go from personal experience but I have read that summer (Dec-March) can be hot and humid and this is also cyclone season. Sep-Oct appear to be the driest months and also the more moderate temperatures.

EK J fares one-way to MRU tend to be around USD750 from the less prosperous Middle-East countries. Their web site is pretty good for pricing and booking. The biggest problem imo is the little island of Mauritius isn't an economic or tourist powerhouse and thus has quite poor air service, making connections through there somewhat boorish. Iirc connections through DXB were painfully inconvenient, the flight left at around 3 AM, and arrived an hour after the BA departure.