Shopping malls Grand Baie

It's the largest supermarket in the northern region, well-stocked with food and household products, as well as handicrafts, books on Mauritius, local teas, spices, fruit jellies, exotic jams, etc., sold here for less than in souvenir stores or most markets. At the entrance: a shopping mall with hundreds of boutiques selling local and international brands. There's also a food court, a French bakery (Paul), several restaurants and leisure facilities - bumper cars, casino, bowling alley...

The largest shopping mall in the northern region stands at the back of Grand Bay: a Mall with a capital M with stores, supermarkets, food courts and restaurants, bars and cafes, multiplex cinema, sports center: a cobblestone! Modern in terms of design, functional and easy to understand thanks to a thematic distribution of spaces around a central esplanade of 5,000 m²designed for children. Everything is like clockwork! We love the concept store Le Rendez-Vous and the local brands Cottons, Out of Africa, Out of the Blue, Phydra.

Like Port Louis, Grand Bay has its own bazaar, much less typical and typified than its corollary of the capital. Even if the place gathers about a hundred stalls (T-shirts, bags, baskets, pareos, towels, tablecloths, spices, model ships, etc.), its covered market looks do not justify the overbidding of prices. Not only is it full of china and counterfeit goods, but clothes or handicrafts are sometimes more expensive there than in the shops. Sign of destiny: the tourist attraction is on... Racket Road!

In the jungle of XXL malls, we're sure we've fallen in love with Grand Baie's oldest shopping center: an open-air, horizontal strolling area, partially on the seafront, with a chic bistro overlooking a small square (Sauterelle), a café overlooking a small marina, pretty pavilions bringing together some forty international and local brands of clothing, bags, beachwear... including 69 Slam, INAM (cashmere), Macumba (tunics, deco), Panier de Lili (natural fiber bags), Morebelli (jewelry)...

Although this collection of stores, restaurants and cafés is an extension of the Super U, on the same vast shopping area, it is a shopping complex in its own right. Arriving from downtown Grand Bay, Richmond Hill is at the far end of the parking lot. Few people make the effort to walk the extra few metres, and the place is pretty quiet. But it's the place to go for Adamas: the region's largest boutique for brand-name jewelry and watches, and the largest showroom for diamond-set jewelry.