Ste Anne Island (Ile Sainte Anne) is the largest island in the Ste Anne Marine National Park, about 4 km off Mahé. Club Med Seychelles occupies it and SPGA restricts access, so day trips do not land. You can still snorkel the nearby reef and see the island from a boat on the way to Moyenne.
You can’t visit Ste Anne Island on a day trip. Club Med Seychelles occupies the island, and the Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority (SPGA), which runs the marine park, says access is restricted. The only way onto Ste Anne is to stay at the resort.
What you can do is snorkel the water around it. Ste Anne is the biggest island in the Ste Anne Marine National Park, and boats heading to Moyenne Island pass right by it. Tour operators often name the reef between Moyenne and Ste Anne as the best snorkelling in the park.
Ste Anne covers about 2.2 km² and rises to a hill of 246 m, according to SPGA. It lies about 4 km off Mahé’s east coast, facing Victoria and Eden Island. A small village on the island had 40 residents in 2014.
The history runs deeper than anywhere else in the park:
Club Med’s page places the resort on Saint Anne Island and calls it the island’s only hotel. It is sold as premium all-inclusive, with dining, an open bar and 39 included activities, and “coral and turtle discovery” listed for families. Excursions off the island cost extra.
Getting there means a boat. Travel News put the transfer at about 15 minutes from Mahé when the resort opened in 2021, and the agent SeyVillas says airport guests go by bus to a Club Med jetty at Eden Island, then by boat. Club Med is not listed on Booking.com, so book through Club Med.
We found no day pass for non-guests on Club Med’s page. If you want a night inside the marine park without an all-inclusive package, Cerf Island next door has smaller hotels and lets day visitors land. For hotels on Mahé near the boats, see where to stay in Mahé.
SPGA calls Ste Anne one of the most important nesting sites for hawksbill turtles in the granitic islands. During the nesting season some beaches are restricted, and SPGA’s visitor page lists four as off-limits:
Those rules apply to Club Med guests too. From a tour boat, the turtles you are most likely to meet are in the water: green turtles feed in the park’s seagrass meadows, one of the largest in the granitic islands, and hawksbills turn up on the reefs.
Every marine park tour passes Ste Anne, because it sits between Mahé and the smaller islands. The reef between Moyenne and Ste Anne is often named as the best snorkelling area in the park. That ranking comes from tour operators, not a survey, and the 2024 coral bleaching hit these reefs hard, so expect good fish life over coral that is still recovering.
For a full day that snorkels the park and then lands somewhere, the Saint-Anne Marine Park and Moyenne Island Cruise is a catamaran trip with snorkel stops, a Creole lunch and a guided walk among the tortoises on Moyenne, with the landing fee paid. It was $158 on GetYourGuide, rated 4.7 from 580 reviews.
| Charge | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ste Anne Marine Park entry | Rs 200 | Non-residents aged 12 and over, per day. Card only on site (Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, UnionPay) |
| Moyenne landing fee | Not published | Set by the Moyenne Island Foundation; included in some tours |
Checked October 2026 (SPGA visitor information; GetYourGuide).
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Only as a guest of Club Med Seychelles. SPGA, which runs the marine park, says the island is occupied by a hotel and access is restricted, so day trips do not land there. Club Med's own page mentions no day pass. To set foot on an island in the park, book a tour that lands on Moyenne or stops on Cerf.
Ste Anne is about 4 km off the east coast of Mahé, opposite Victoria and Eden Island. It is the largest of the six islands in the Ste Anne Marine National Park, which SPGA puts about 10 minutes by boat from Victoria. Its neighbours in the park are Moyenne, Round Island, Long Island, Cerf and the tiny Ile Cachée.
Yes. Club Med Seychelles opened at the end of March 2021 on Ste Anne, in the former Beachcomber resort, after a €70 million refit. Club Med describes it as the only hotel on the island and sells it as premium all-inclusive. Guests reach it by boat from Mahé, a crossing Travel News put at about 15 minutes.
Yes. SPGA calls Ste Anne one of the most important nesting sites for hawksbill turtles in the granitic islands. Some beaches are restricted during the nesting season, and SPGA lists Grand Anse, Gran Manon, Petit Manon and Anse Cimitière as off-limits. Green turtles also feed in the park's seagrass beds, so you may see one while snorkelling.
French explorer Lazare Picault reached it in 1742, on Saint Anne's day. SPGA says it was the site of the first French settlement in Seychelles in 1770. It later served as a whaling base, and in the Second World War the Royal Marines used it. SPGA says remnants of the cannons can still be found there.
Sainte Anne Marine National Park is a protected area of sea and six islands about 5 km off Mahé, a 10-minute boat ride from Victoria.
Cerf Island (Ile au Cerf) is the second largest island in the Ste Anne Marine Park, about 4 km off Mahé.
You visit Moyenne on a day boat trip from Victoria or Eden Island on Mahé.
For a Moyenne or marine park day, stay on Eden Island: Eden Bleu Hotel is a short walk from the boats.