Lazy Lagoon Island in Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania. Picture: Instagram
As part of efforts to promote intra-Africa travel and make luxury travel more accessible to African travellers, Foxes Safari Camps announced that it has introduced a new rate for SADC citizens.
According to the hotel group, SADC citizens and permanent residents can now stay at Lazy Lagoon Island Lodge and Mikumi National Park starting at $765 (R13 527) a person for five nights.
Lazy Lagoon Island Lodge is a 9km private island situated along the Swahili Coast within the Zanzibar channel.
The Fox family began building the lodge in 1992 and completed it in 2000, sourcing their building materials from the family farm in the Mufindi Highlands.
“Guests often like to finish off their safari holiday, spent at one of the Foxes Safari Camps in Tanzania’s southern and western national parks, with a few days by the ocean.
“At Lazy Lagoon Island Lodge, restful beach days can be interspersed with water activities, day trips to desolate sandbars, and the lesser-visited historic sites of Bagamoyo and 13th-Century Kaole Ruins, along Tanzania’s Swahili coastline,” said the hotel group.
For those looking to experience the island life in Zanzibar, Foxes Safari Camps also said life at the lodge is deliberately slow, intentionally channelling the “pole pole” lifestyle, a Swahili phrase meaningx“slow slow”.
“This encourages guests to connect with the true meaning of island living, with a little bit of help from the pool-side loungers, beachfront salas, al fresco reading room, and leisure areas for a round of snooker or darts,” said the group.
Their collection of 12 A-frame, en-suite bandas feature an airy loft with two twin beds ideal for families travelling with children and an upstairs balcony with unobstructed ocean views.
The downstairs area, with its double or twin beds, leads out onto a spacious wooden deck with a hanging daybed - and the beach a few steps away.