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Saunas & cold plunges in Beau Vallon

Beau Vallon is the busiest stretch of coast in the country — hotels, guesthouses and villas packed along one long north-west facing bay — and most of our work here is commercial.

Beau Vallon, Seychelles

Phased around occupancy

A Beau Vallon property full through the European winter cannot lose rooms to a building site. We phase by room behind screens, agree noise windows in writing before starting, and work the shoulder months where the calendar allows.

Where a hotel wants a suite open by high season we work backwards from that date including shipping, rather than forwards from the deposit.

North-west exposure and the monsoon

This bay faces the north-west monsoon directly. Between roughly December and March the wind and swell come straight in, which affects where plant can sit and how a deck is fixed down. We site enclosures out of the direct salt spray and fix everything for uplift rather than for gravity alone.

Duplicated plant and island spares

A spa full in January cannot close because a generator scaled. Critical items duplicated, isolation on each room, and a spares kit with part numbers on the property. Mahé is the easiest place in the country to get a part and it is still two days at best.

Questions

Beau Vallon: what people ask

Can you work during high season?

Phased by room behind screens, yes. Shoulder months are faster and cheaper.

How many plunge positions for a hotel?

Two per eight sauna seats at the evening peak, which here is the ninety minutes after sunset.

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