Situated:3 hours out of Tana, on the edge of the Andasibe National Park and the Mitsinjo NGO
Owner/managed: The Izouard Family: 4th Generation French Malagasy
Rooms: 28
Capacity: 80
Languages: French, English, Malagasy
Food: French/Malagasy
Restaurant: 70 pax - excellent food - some of the best we have experienced.
Bonus: Swimming Pool, mini bar, safe, boutique, heaters
Activities: National Park, Private Park, Lemur Island, Horse riding, squash, snooker, cycling, nocturnal walks, petanque, graphite mine, picnic.
Kids: Masses to do! Fishing, board games, playground, television room, swimming, horse riding, ping pong, touch and feel lemurs, canoes ... if your kids are bored here they should not have left home!
Average Price Per Person Per Night:
Gin & Tonic is 7000ar
Tonic 2400ar
THB GM is 4500ar
THB = Three Horse Beer, a popular standard. Ar = Ariary, the local currency.
This is a great hotel. An absolute must if you have a few extra days - the rain forest at Andisabe and Mitsinjo is worth seeing and the song of the Indri is not to be experienced as easily elsewhere.
Family orientated, friendly staff, great surroundings - two nights here are well worthwhile.
In a four hour walk in the reserve we saw five species of lemur.
Any visit to Madagascar
April 2009.
"The guide we had at Vakona was truly awesome and in retrospect we should have spent more time there, where the Lemurs are in their natural habitat and not interfered with. He was like a little walking Google. Point and click and you got the zoological/botanical, French, Malagasy and English name and info. He is largely self educated in English and we were so impressed with his passion for his job."
Marian Rudge June 2010
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See Map with Hotel Markers
"Vakona Forest Lodge was a very nice place to stay for the first two nights. Especially for the kids this was one of the nicest places since there was a pool, a nice playground and of course lemur island close by. To feed the lemurs and let them climb and jump on us was a great experience. Rooms were clean and good equipped and the food was very good as well in the beautiful large restaurant".
Hartwig Laute - Germany, August 2010