Leisure Isle Lodge is located on a small island in Knysna Lagoon. This small and charming boutique hotel offers only eleven rooms that are all decorated differently and either have ocean view or garden view (to the swimming pool). Amenities like mini bar, hair dryer, ceiling fan or heating for the cold winter months are all available.

The lodge offers a cozy restaurant. Meals can also be enjoyed outside on the terrace, fantastic ocean views included.

Knysna is a town on the Garden Route built on the shores of a large lagoon.

The Lagoon, more accurately defined as an estuary, has five fresh water rivers flowing in from the surrounding Outeniqua Mountains meeting with the surge of sea water from the Indian Ocean through the mighty headlands – known as the 'Knysna Heads' - the grand sandstone cliffs towering above the entrance to the Knysna Lagoon.

Leisure Island is an island in Knysna Lagoon and is reached via a bridge. The lodge itself is positioned on Leisure Isle’s idyllic Bollard Bay Beach. Plettenberg is only a thirty-minute drive away, Port Elizabeth approx. a 2.5 hour drive.

The hotel will advise on boat trips and other activities in the area. Some of the best golf courts in South Africa are close by (Knysna Golf Club, Simola, Pezula, Plettenberg Bay Country Club, Goose Valley, and many more are located around George, e.g. Fancourt).

Two dramatic sea cliffs guard the entrance to the lagoon from the ocean. The Eastern Head has a lookout with spectacular views of the lagoon, Leisure Isle and Knysna. The Western Head is primarily a privately owned nature reserve reached only by ferry – Featherbed Nature Reserve. Four-hour excursions depart daily from the Knysna Waterfront.

Oysters are a regional delicacy and the locals celebrate the fact with a 10-day Oyster Festival, which takes place here in July.

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8702 Zollikon
Zurich, Switzerland


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