Chriz: I didn't go on a tour group. The air tickets and accomodation is about 2K/pax I think when I took it at Natas fair last time. The hotel I stayed was not too fantastic though. Their 4* hotel standard is about our chalet standard only. Mauritius is not too big, only about 3x that of Sg only. I think you can travel on your own but the roads are not easy to drive, coz quite narrow and the local motorists dun give way. What we did is that we joined hotel day tour on 2 days and the rest of the days, we booked a limo and a driver, and planned our own routes. We did some shopping at the capital, and the northern tip, think it's called grande bay or something. There's some boutiques and supermarkets and one word of advice is that buy souveniors from supermart, dun buy from the souvenior shops in town coz they are much much more ex. Oh we also bought coral from an offshore island. If you are going there, try to stay at the eastern shore as the sea is crystal clear at the eastern side. I stayed at the north west, about 15min drive from capital but then the water is not so clear. But the thing is that staying at the west is more accessible to the places of interest, but the jam could be pretty bad in the morn, coz every morn we would need to pass thru the capital where there's this roundabout leading to north, south, east, west. Imagine pple coming from all directions would all come to this junction during the peak hours.