Hotel Lakana

Location: Hotel Lakana is located on the west coast of the island Sainte Marie, 4 km away from the airport. The hotel is directly by the sea.

How to get here: You can take a short 50-min flight from Antananarivo to Sainte Marie (SMS) or, alternatively, you can take a long 7-hour bus ride to Tamatave and then continue to Mahambo for another 3 hours, where you can take a ferry the next morning. The ferry takes around 3,5 hours. Once landed, take a 20 min road transfer to the hotel. 

Structure: Hotel Lakana has 6 overwater bungalows and 9 wooden beach bungalows facing the sea. They are equipped with air fans. The overwater bungalows have private bathrooms, but these are 20 m away from the room. The land-based bungalows and have private bathrooms. There is hot and cold water. The on-site restaurant, considered one of the best on the island, offers a varied international and Malagasy cuisine, mostly based on fish and seafood. The hotel has electricity 24 hours a day and the beds are equipped with mosquito nets.

Why staying here: The quality of a dream beach holiday here is truly underrated. Sainte Marie is lush, wild and tropical. There is no mass tourism here. In the south-west of Sainte Marie you cannot swim in the sea because of sea urchins! Some hotels have a peer that leads you further away from the beach to avoid them.