What a visitor's money does in Seychelles: every guide rated from very cheap to very expensive, cheapest first, then the things that cost travellers money without buying anything — the ATM, the taxi, the SIM.
Seychellois Rupee (SCR) · 1 EUR = 16.8 SCR · 1 USD = 14.6 SCR
Anything sold to visitors — hotels, guesthouses, ferries, car hire, dive boats — is priced in euros or dollars and paid by card. Rupees are for buses, shops, markets and takeaway, and a small amount goes a long way. Change what you need and no more; rupees are hard to sell back.
Avoid: the single machine on La Digue, which empties, changing rupees back at the end
Use: Absa, MCB, Nouvobanq, Seychelles Commercial Bank
Almost everything a visitor buys is priced in euros or dollars and paid by card, so the rupees are only for buses, shops and takeaway. Draw a small amount in Victoria or at the airport and do not carry a week of it around.
From the airport: Mahé airport to Beau Vallon €20–30 by taxi
Creole cooking, and better than the resort menus suggest: grilled fish with a chilli, lime and ginger sauce, octopus curry in coconut milk, breadfruit chips, and ladob for pudding. The takeaway stalls at the Beau Vallon beach market on Wednesday evening are the cheapest good meal in the country.
The cost rating is this site's own, for a visitor, from the guides' authors and the corrections readers send in. The general rules — the conversion prompt, shoulder season, the airport taxi — are in budget travel tips.
