This creative burst of liberal personality is one of the best hotels south of Tana, and it just keeps getting better. Dario and Valerio, the young Italian owners who have made this place their life’s work, have crafted a selection of warmly eclectic bungalows, set in a playful yard of political art contained by a fence of enormous crayons.
There's a stone tower with reading room and sweeping views, too, and the suites and bungalows are fabulous value. All of this on a beautiful beach and with strong ties to the local community.
The dynamic bar within is a fusion of revolutionary and hip, with Che Guevara looking on while you sip a deadly rum drink from an enormous green coconut. Apart from understanding the science of cool, these boys know how to cook. The spectacular ever-changing menu (mains Ar30,000), a mixture of Italian and Malagasy, is precisely what's missing in hotels three times the price, and there's a wood-fired pizza oven. The problem is that word has spread and people are staying for weeks if not months. So book ahead and be careful of that Molotov cocktail. English spoken.