Day 1 – 2
Put the flight first
If it has to move, the rest of the trip is still open to move it into. This is the single most useful thing you can do when you plan a tour in Mauritius around an aircraft.
Four flights, one page
Mauritius helicopter tour: the four bookings, side by side
A Mauritius helicopter tour is sold here in four versions, and the gap between them is bigger than most people expect: $860 for the scenic flight with hotel transfers, $1,519 for the forty minutes over the Underwater Waterfall, $3,995 for the private version of that, and $6,500 to charter the aircraft for a scenic outing. Between them the four carry 109 reviews. This page lays out what each listing actually says, what the durations mean, and which one answers which question.
Quick answer
The short answer. A Mauritius helicopter tour starts at $860 on the scenic listing, which includes hotel transfers and holds 102 reviews at 4.6 — the only three-figure review count among the flights. If you are here for the Underwater Waterfall, that is a separate booking at $1,519 for forty minutes. Private charters run $3,995 and $6,500.
The four flights at a glance
- Helicopter listings here
- Fourtwo scenic, two over the illusion
- Lowest fare
- $860hotel transfers in the listing title
- Highest fare
- $6,500private charter, no reviews yet
- Shortest listing
- 40 minutes$1,519
- Longest listing
- 3 hoursthe outing, transfers included
- Reviews across the four
- 109102 of them on one listing
- Island days on this site
- Ten listings$54 to $141
- Reviews on those island days
- 9,854the ground and the water, not the air
What is actually on offer
Four listings, and one of them has the reviews
Four listings, 109 reviews between them, and 102 of those sit on one of the four.
Every Mauritius helicopter tour bookable through this site is in the table further down, and the shape of the thing is simple. Two listings are scenic flights, sold on the sites of the island and the volcanic landscape. Two are sold on the Underwater Waterfall off Le Morne. One of each pair is private.
A helicopter flight in Mauritius looks like one product until you read the review counts, and then a Mauritius helicopter trip stops looking like a single product. The scenic flight has 102 reviews at 4.6. The shared flight over the illusion has 5 reviews at 5.0. The private flight over the illusion has two reviews. The private charter has none yet, which is why you will not find a score beside it anywhere on this page.
For scale: the ten island days on this site — catamarans, a speedboat, two private road tours, a hike and a kayak expedition — carry 9,854 reviews between them. The air is the small, expensive end of what Mauritius sells, and it is honest to say so before you read a price.
One line each
The four flights, in the order of the table
One Mauritius helicopter tour per line, straight from the listing descriptions and the live figures beside them.
- Mauritius: Scenic Helicopter Flight with Hotel Transfers — $860
Three hours as an outing, hotel transfers both ways, and a description about the emblematic sites of the island and landscapes sculpted by ancient volcanic activity. 102 reviews at 4.6, the strongest evidence of the four.
- Mauritius: Underwater Waterfall Helicopter Tour — $1,519
Forty minutes, sold for the optical illusion of sand and silt off Le Morne that reads as water pouring into the ocean. 5 reviews at 5.0 — a score standing on five people.
- Mauritius: Private Underwater Waterfall Helicopter Tour — $3,995
Fifteen to forty-five minutes, private, naming the Underwater Waterfall, the Chamarel Coloured Earths and the island’s waterfalls. Two reviews, which is too few to call either way.
- Mauritius: Private Helicopter Flight Experience — $6,500
The private charter. Its description is word for word the description of the scenic flight, so the difference on paper is that you have the aircraft to yourselves. No reviews yet, so no rating is quoted for it here.
Getting on board
Transfers, meeting points and what the listings say
A Mauritius helicopter tour is easy to book and harder to get to. Only one of the four names transport in its title: the scenic flight, which says hotel transfers. The other three say nothing about how you reach the aircraft, so this page says nothing either — check it on the listing page before you pay, because it changes what a Mauritius tour plan has to allow for.
The same honesty applies to food. If you need a Mauritius tour with veg food, the island listings name a BBQ lunch or an included lunch but not the menu behind it, and the flights name no meal at all. Ask at booking rather than assuming.
Every trip, current fare
The four flights, priced
Every Mauritius helicopter tour on this site, with the live fare beside it. Cost per hour is worked out only where the listing carries a duration in minutes; the two three-hour outings include hotel transfers, so an hourly figure for them would be a fiction.
| Flight | Length | Price | What is included | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritius: Scenic Helicopter Flight with Hotel TransfersHotel transfers both ways | $860 | Hotel transfers both ways | — | 4.6 · 102 | |
| Mauritius: Underwater Waterfall Helicopter TourForty minutes over the illusion | 40 min | $1,519 | Forty minutes over the illusion | $2278.50 | 5 · 5 |
| Mauritius: Private Underwater Waterfall Helicopter TourPrivate, you choose the length | 15 - 45m | $3,995 | Private, you choose the length | — | 3.1 · 2 |
| Mauritius: Private Helicopter Flight ExperiencePrivate charter of the aircraft | $6,500 | Private charter of the aircraft | — | New |
Reading the durations
What «three hours» means on these listings
The scenic flight and the private charter are both marked three hours. That is the outing, with the hotel transfers the first listing names in its own title, and not three hours in the air. The two Underwater Waterfall listings are measured in minutes instead: forty, and fifteen to forty-five.
This matters when you are comparing what a Mauritius helicopter tour costs by the hour against what a tour of Mauritius on the ground costs by the hour. Forty minutes at $1,519 is a different kind of purchase from a seven-hour private road day at $110, and the table above puts both ways of counting in front of you rather than choosing one.
There is no Mauritius city tour in this selection, either. The island days head for the south-west, the east-coast lagoon and the mountains; nothing here is a walking morning through a town.
What each listing states
Four flights, four sets of words
Only what the listing itself says. Blank means the listing does not state it.
| Flight | Fare | Length | What the listing states |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scenic, shared | $860 | 3 h | Hotel transfers both ways; emblematic sites and volcanic landscapes |
| Underwater Waterfall, shared | $1,519 | 40 min | The optical illusion off the coast, best viewed from above |
| Underwater Waterfall, private | $3,995 | 15 – 45 min | The illusion, the Chamarel Coloured Earths and the island’s waterfalls |
| Scenic, private | $6,500 | 3 h | The same description as the shared scenic flight, flown privately |
The flight people actually search for — what the illusion is, and what it is not.
The Underwater Waterfall, honestly→Side by side
Which flight answers which question, and the verdict
Four listings, four different questions, and the fares are what separate one Mauritius helicopter tour from the next.
You want the island from the air and you want evidence. The scenic flight at $860 is the only helicopter listing here with a three-figure review count, and its title carries the hotel transfers.
You want the Underwater Waterfall. Then it is $1,519 for forty minutes, because the scenic listings do not name the illusion.
You want the aircraft to yourselves. $3,995 over the illusion with two reviews, or $6,500 for the private scenic charter, which has no reviews yet. Book either for the privacy; neither has a score to lean on.
Verdict. For most people the answer is the $860 scenic flight: it costs the least of the four, it includes the transfers, and 102 reviews at 4.6 is the only real evidence in the air on this site. Pay the step up to $1,519 when the illusion is the specific thing you came for, and treat the two private listings as what they are — a private tour of Mauritius by air, priced accordingly.
Timing
Where a flight belongs in the week
Nothing here forecasts anything. It is about where a Mauritius helicopter tour fits in a trip otherwise built from six- and seven-hour days on the ground.
An open morning
Half a day at most
Forty minutes, or three hours door to door with the transfers. Neither version eats the day, so an afternoon on the lagoon still fits.
Beside a seven-hour day
Possible, not comfortable
The island days run six to seven hours and the private road tours seven to seven and a half. Stacking a flight on the same date leaves you no slack at all.
Final morning
Do not
A booking that moves on your last day is a booking you lose. Leave the final morning for packing and the drive to the airport.
Before you pay
Five things people get wrong here
All five come from reading four listings as though they were one product.
- Treating the four as interchangeable
They are not. Two are scenic, two are sold on the illusion, and the descriptions differ in what they name. The gap between the lowest fare here and the highest is large.
- Reading three hours as flying time
On the two scenic listings, three hours is the outing including hotel transfers. The flights measured in minutes are the two over the Underwater Waterfall.
- Expecting a private boat tour of Mauritius in this set
None of the boat days here is sold as private. The two listings that say private on the water are not boats at all — they are the private flights, and the two private road days are driven.
- Judging a listing with two reviews
Two reviews, or none at all on the private charter, is not evidence. If the score matters to you, the $860 listing is the one with 102 of them.
- Booking the flight for the last day
There is no second slot behind it, and that is the one scheduling mistake that cannot be fixed from the island.
Checklist
Six lines before you book a flight
Each takes a few seconds and each has cost somebody a booking.
- Decide scenic or illusion
Only two of the four name the Underwater Waterfall.
- Read the duration in context
Three hours is the outing; forty minutes is the flight.
- Check the transfers
One listing of the four says hotel transfers in its title.
- Look at the review count
102, 5, two and none — in that order.
- Compare against the ground
A private road day of seven hours is $110.
- Book it early in the trip
Keep your last morning clear of it.
Book direct
All four flights, with live fares
Every Mauritius helicopter tour bookable here, in one place. The scenic flight at $860 with hotel transfers and 102 reviews at 4.6; forty minutes over the illusion at $1,519; and the two private listings at $3,995 and $6,500. Fares and ratings are read off the live listings.
Our top pick102 reviews
Mauritius: Scenic Helicopter Flight with Hotel Transfers
★ 4.6 · 102 reviews
- 3h, Hotel transfers both ways
- Hotel pickup included
- Small group
- Free cancellation
$860
Check availability→ 
40 min5 reviews
40 minMauritius: Underwater Waterfall Helicopter Tour
★ 5 · 5 reviews
- 40m, Forty minutes over the illusion
- Skip the line
- Small group
- Free cancellation
$1,519$2278.50 / hour
Check availability→ 
15 - 45m2 reviews
15 - 45mMauritius: Private Underwater Waterfall Helicopter Tour
★ 3.1 · 2 reviews
- 15-45m, Private, you choose the length
- Hotel pickup included
- Skip the line
- Free cancellation
$3,995
Check availability→ 
New listingNo reviews yet
Mauritius: Private Helicopter Flight Experience
- 3h, Private charter of the aircraft
- Hotel pickup included
- Private group
- Free cancellation
$6,500
Check availability→ Common questions
Mauritius helicopter flights, answered
How much is a Mauritius helicopter tour?
The four listings here run $860, $1,519, $3,995 and $6,500. The lowest of those is the scenic flight, which includes hotel transfers and carries 102 reviews at 4.6.
How long is a Mauritius helicopter tour?
Forty minutes on the shared Underwater Waterfall listing and fifteen to forty-five minutes on the private one. The two scenic listings are marked three hours, which is the whole outing including hotel transfers rather than time in the air.
Which Mauritius helicopter tour flies over the Underwater Waterfall?
Two of the four name it: the shared flight at $1,519 and the private flight at $3,995. The two scenic listings do not mention it in their descriptions.
Is a private helicopter flight worth it in Mauritius?
It buys you the aircraft to yourselves and nothing else that the listings state. The private charter at $6,500 has the same description as the shared scenic flight and no reviews yet, so there is no rating to weigh it by.
What is included in a Mauritius helicopter tour?
Only what each listing names. The scenic flight names hotel transfers both ways; the Underwater Waterfall listings name the sites they fly over. Meals are not named on any of the four, so take nothing else as included.
Is a helicopter flight better value than an island day?
They are not the same purchase. The ten island days here are priced between $54 and $141, and carry 9,854 reviews between them; the four flights carry 109. Fly for the view from above, and book the ground days for the hours.
Go deeper
More on helicopter rides over Mauritius
Underwater Waterfall
Underwater Waterfall
The illusion, and the two flights that show it.
ChamarelChamarel
The Seven Coloured Earths and the falls below.
Ile aux CerfsIle aux Cerfs
The catamaran days on the east lagoon.
South tourSouth tour
The private days through the south-west.
WaterfallsWaterfalls
The real waterfalls of the island, and the one that is not.
