Gassy Country House

Only 4 minutes from the airport.|A safe haven from the recent unrest in the centre of Antananarivo.|Small hotel with a swimming pool close to the airport.|The hotel has its own transport and driver. We had to be at the airport by 4am. |No worries about roads being blocked .|On the day of the curfew the manager was brilliant getting us up to date information and contacting our Madagascan tour operator.|Can't recommend the staff highly enough. Staff spoke good English.

Just loved this place. From the wide wooden staircase to the rooms with a good sized balcony. Lovely swimming pool, nice outdoor sitting area and good food. Delightful and quiet

Don’t bother !!!!|Room that I was assigned had a toilet that didn’t flush, twice I had to get maintenance. |Cold showers. |Breakfast, roll, pancakes, yoghourt and eggs. I didn’t have eggs and was refused a second roll. Seriously!!!|Service is extremely slow. |There must be better options in the area close to the airport than this place.

Really solid option for a stay away from the city buzz. It’s a beautiful villa with plenty of amazing trees and plants, good food options, and very helpful staff. The pool is not very clean, but for the price, this place is a good bargain.

Situated around 5 minutes drive from Ivato Airport this is handy for pre and post tour nights. We had a few days pre and post tour here. It is not in town so not convenient if you wanted to have a wander around the city, however there is a nice pool area should you wish to just rest.||||Rooms were furnished well with plenty of room and seating on two additional sofa beds. There was a balcony overlooking the pool area. No tea/coffee or drinking water provided in room.||||However, there is a dog that continually barked in the evening on all 4 nights that we stayed on our second visit (3 weeks later) it was as if it was the other side of the wall, really loud. Staff were aware but didn’t seem bothered.||||Electric and therefore wifi can be erratic as there are regular power outages in the City, the advertised hours are until 10pm in the evenings.||||They do exchange money here, but we had to wait until the morning when the boss was in to do it. The rate was on par with the airport.||||They take credit cards (provided the wifi is working) – but omitted to tell us, until we were paying the bill, that there is a 4% charge added to the bill for this. As a result we paid cash but were then left short of local cash. NB this seems to be the normal procedure in the country if you are actually able to use a credit card.||||The bar staff were friendly however, when they run out of stock they leave the empty bottle on the shelf and don’t reorder or go and buy another – the gin ran out and there wasn’t a lot of choice left for 2 nights. The wine was awful. As a non beer drinker this was an issue for me.||||There was a menu in the room showing a reasonable selection of food available from the kitchen, hereby comes the problem, they refused to cook any of it for us when we ordered it in the restaurant – they would only cook what was on the daily menu board – 3 options!! So why put such a work of fiction in the rooms to upset guests when they could not order from it (we tried on 3 separate occasions on our two visits to the hotel).||||On our second day we had a tour booked leaving at 8am, we went for breakfast at 7am (the opening time) to find no staff, the cook finally wandered in at 7.25am, giving us little time to order and eat our breakfast pre the tour. No one was bothered. Basically some staff training is required here and meals should not be reliant upon one person, guests have paid for a service!||||On our post tour stay we had a complete day at the hotel due to an early morning flight, so we sat by the pool after breakfast only to be invaded by a local school which took over the pool with children splashing and shouting. There were at this time quite a few guests in a similar situation to us sat around the pool, unable to use the facilities that we had paid for!||||As commendable as it may be to let the local kids use the pool, this should be done at a time when the paying guests are not using it – ie 8am to 9am - at this point the guests would be in breakfast and not inconvenienced.

Only 5 minutes from the airport which is very convenient. We had a delightfully decorated room with comfortable beds, and a welcome balcony. The restaurant was spacious but service was slow and a similar menu every day. The large pool area was fine and we enjoyed swimming there, though it was a little on the cold side. The WIFI was spasmodic and weak, but generally useable. We spoke twice with the manage, who was extremely helpful, particularly as the general staff had little English. He arranged a day trip out with a hotel driver and car. The roads outside the hotel are safe during the day, but very basic, and use at night best avoided.

Good rooms but have some issue in water in my room

Stayed here twice during a trip around Madagascar because it is so convenient to the main airport in Ivato. Rooms are very nice, and the grounds are really lovely. There is a pool and a nice dining room area. Lots of space to sit and read or relax. The wifi worked on our first visit, but they made a change to the login process and it didn't work as well the next time. Easy to walk off the property, heading left up to the street, and left again to the main road to buy water or other items.