Five Elements Africa

Saunas & cold plunges in Flic en Flac

Flic en Flac is volume: big hotels, apartment blocks and a long public beach. Almost everything we build here is shared, and shared water in the tropics is a hygiene problem before it is anything else.

Flic en Flac, Mauritius

Shared water, warm climate

Circulation, cartridge filtration and an ozone or UV stage are mandatory, plus a rinse shower at the entry point and a cleaning schedule with a name against it. Without those a shared tub here needs the water changed weekly and still will not be pleasant.

Throughput at the evening peak

Hotel guests arrive at the wet area in a ninety-minute window after the beach. Two plunge positions per eight sauna seats keeps the circuit moving, and we size on that peak rather than on occupancy.

Sheltered, which shows in the price

The west coast is the lee side for most cyclone tracks, so anchorage here is a lighter case than the east. It is still designed and still signed where exposure warrants.

Questions

Flic en Flac: what people ask

How often will we change the water?

Monthly with proper treatment and a rinse point, weekly without.

Is the west coast cheaper to build on?

Slightly — the anchorage case is lighter. The marine specification does not change.

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