About 20 kilometres from Port Louis, Grand Baie is one of the most popular resorts in Mauritius. It owes its popularity to the blue sea and to the good facilities. Grand Baie offers facilities for safe swimming, sailing, windsurfing, and water skiing.
 

The town also hosts a variety of fashion and craft shops, hotels, restaurants, and night-clubs. It is the departure point for helicopter excursions, and it provides facilities for deep sea angling, diving, and for boat excursions to the islands to the north of Mauritius: Gunners' Quoin, Flat Island, Round Island, and Serpent Island