Madagascar

[Member #4366]

Great repport Poupard! You are absolutely right! Mada is the right place for adventures - it is just wild! I had no idea that Majunga was that interesting. When I was in Tana, people only told me that Majunga is hot. I thought they meant the weather, but after reading your comments, I know better (LOL). Girlfriend related costs over there seem even lower than in the places where I've been. The way you describe the scene makes me think of Diego: less hard-core and lots of fun. I'm seriously considering going again, next year and then I won't skip Majunga.

[Chicob]

Great reports, Poupard2000 and Bucanero!

It seems like you had a wonderfull time in Mad. I'd like to ask you a question: did you take anything for malaria (I don't you if it is the correct name in English, but anyway it is the disease that you get with mosquitos) and does it have some influence on your sexuality?

P.S. I know it sounds like a strange question, but there are some medicines (like antibiotics) that have terrible effects on many persons (me included: when I take it, my friend between the legs just doesn't work for some days after I stop the cure!!).

Thank you for you answer,

Chicob

[Poupard2000]

Thank for this great mail Bucanero. I would agree with you on the fact that it is easier and finally cheaper (on a daily cost) to find ladies in Thailand but Madagascar has a wild aspect which is unique.

Let me to share my experience (As Swiss I speak french as a mother language and this is a point to take into account). It was my second trip in Madagascar (I was in october 2002 in Nosy Be and Diego Suarez).

For exchange: in june, we had at the black market 7350 FMG (franc malgache) for one euro. It means that 6500 FMG is one USD.

I was in Madagascar in june 2003 with 2 friends (Joe and JC) and I would like to share my experience about Mahajunga (say Majunga) on the west coast.

Majunga is a relatively big city (150 000 inhabitants) with nice beaches (especially the Grand Pavois) and a colonial architecture. It is a very nice place for holidays and also an interesting place for girls.

Two ways to reach the city: the taxi brousse (or minibus deluxe) for between 100 000 and 250 000 fmg and the plane for 650 000 fmg (which is pretty expansive but Air Madagascar has the monopole and is badly managed).

We stay at the hotel Chez Karon who was not expansive (80 000 fmg) and well located (near beaches). Furthermore the food (try the seafood) is excellent. The boss is chinese and his wife french.

The first day, we have decided to spent time at the Tobany (pronounced Toobani) who is the first pick up place before the opening of discos. It was full with girls mainly black. Clearly professionals but some were very sexy and very friendly. It is necessary to speak French because English is spoken by few people in Madagascar (Mada).

After some discussions with sexy girls, we have decided to not choose a chick and to discover the San Antonio. We have decided to go to this disco at 11 pm /taxi 6000 FMG/. This was the low season and only around 40 girls were there hunting Europeans. Not many whites “vazaha” and girls were doing us large smiles. I found a tall black girl Sabrina who seems very friendly... Quickly, we become closed friends. Another girl comes and tries to convince me that she is a much better girl than Sabrina. Sabrina does not interfer with this surrealist discussion. I do not like this pushy approach and keep on my first choice. To avoid problems, I speak about the price 50 000 FMG /8 USD/ Normal price in Majunga for the whole night. It seems that many girls prefer to not speak about money. This is too professionnal and many girls are not considering themselves as hookers.... but as one night lover. I like this approach. No friends have had problems without speaking about money and just giving the standard amount in the morning.

We are going to the hotel and taking showers. Sabrina has a perfect body but as she has had a child and, as many malgache girls who have been pregnant, she has very soft tits. She gives me long and perfect blow job and then, we fuck in many different positions including my favorite doggy style. I finished in her mouth. Without a noise, she went to the bathroom to wash her mouth.

She has to live in the morning to Tananarive (the main city) to see her son . This will avoid for me any problem taking other girls in her presence.

The following day, we decide to try the Ravinala (pronounced Ravinal) with Serge, a french guy staying at Chez Nono (an hotel near Chez Karon but with low quality rooms). We remark two young girls around 20 years old. One had the Arab type and the other the Indonesian type. I prefer the second one and Serge the first one. My girl named Marie and she comes from Tana. She is Merina the ethnie of Tananarive. She looks really like a polynesian girl. The Arab girl named Zalifa and was the cousine of Marie. They decide to bring us to another club named Mercure Rouge. The Arab girl dances very good the Rock with malgache boys. Not many European in Mercure Rouge but we do not have any problems with Malgache boys. Globally the Malgaches are very friendly people. The only problem was for a frenchman who has been stolen in his room at the hotel Chez Nono.

At 3 am, we go back to the hotel with the two girls. We have never spoken about money. Marie is crazy with sex and we have had two very hot sessions of more than one hour each. I came two times like her. She gave nice blow jobs and kisses with passion. I try anal with her. She let me do but after the first centimeters, it is clearly too painfull for her. I stop the experience and come back in the main road. The morning, we have taken our breakfast together. She likes me and I was proud of this sexy girl. I give her 50 000 FMG and clothes from Paris that I bring with me. She is really very happy of the clothes.

In the evening, I had a Rendez-vous with Marie in Ravinala. Zalifa was there but without Serge, who has left for Tana in the morning (using a minibus). Marie had a bandana and looked like a pretty Pirate girl of Philippines. We decided to go to San Antonio. Zalifa followed us. There, she asked for an expansive /according to local prices/ pizza of 38 000 FMG /5 USD/. I paid but I was a little bit unhappy of this demand from Zalifa who was not my girlfriend. Marie was also surprised by this demand. After this first success, Zalifa asked for money to go back to her home. I gave her 10 000 FMG which was more than necessary. She asked for another 5000 FMG. I refused and left with Marie.

Another hot night with Marie. She was very passionate and I felt me lucky to have found such a girl so quickly. The day after, we have booked a taxi with Joe, one of my two friends to visit the Lac Sacré and the Plage du Grand Pavois. The new girl friend of Joe and Marie were coming with us. We have had marvelous seafood on the Grand Pavois beach. The cost of the taxi for the whole day was 50 000 FMG /8 USD/. Near the Grand pavois is a beautifull red mountain named the Cirque Rouge. It is very nice at the sun set. We have takne a bath on the beach with the girls. There is nobody on the beach and Marie takes a bath completly nude. With the sunset light and the desert beach, it was magic, unique. I came in her pussy in the sea water but just some seconds as a game. I know risky with HIV but it was so unique.

The evening, we have had a dinner with JC my other friend who was living the following day by plane for Nosy Be. We have choosen to stay Chez Karon, one of the best table in Majunga. I have taken a bottle of french wine from Europe. Joe, JC, me and the three malgache girls have a Good bye dinner with fabulous seafood.... lobsters, Camarons and Rocklobsters. We pay 50 000 FMG per person. Another nice night with Marie.

The following day, Marie has to go back at home to take new clothes. I was free in the afternoon and I have seen a girl with nice tits at the bar of Chez Nono (good pick up place in the afternoon). She named Severine and according to Serge, she was a good fucker including backdoor. I take her for a short time of 2 hours. She makes love with passion and she likes anal penetration. I finished in her ass for a global price of 25 000 FMG /3.5 USD/. The night, I had rendez vous with Marie for the dinner Chez Nono and for another hot night. I gave her 75 000 FMG in the morning for her sex performances and her passion.

The following day with Philippe another Frenchman and his girlfriend we were going to a concert of Malgache music in a stadium. There were thousand of people but we were only two Europeans. Entry fee was at 10 000 FMG /1.5 USD/. Childrens were looking us as Martians. The music was very good and everybody was dancing. A cloud of dust pushed by dance peformers was going up above the stadium. Mapuka from Congo is one of the hottest dance and girls are moving their asses franticly.

The night, I had not decided any rendez vous with Marie. I wanted to try another girl. I was looking for Cecile a sexy girl seen at the Tobany, but I can not find her in San Antonio nor in Tobany. Probably she had another customer. In Ravinala, I took Vanessa a pretty girl from Tamatave. Night was good but below Marie. I finished in her mouth.

In the morning, we were taking our breakfast at 9 am when Marie came at the hotel with a young cousine. Well I had two girls. Around the breakfast table but I was really happy to see Marie. I paid the breakfast to Marie and her cousine /10 000 FMG each/ compare with a short time at 25 000 FMG and you will arrive at the conclusion that sex is cheap and food uis expansive in Madagascar.

Vanessa has had the feeling that I had more affinity with Marie. She left with 50 000 FMG and a dress for her young sister (I have taken old clothes from Switzerland). I felt really happy to see Marie. I have decided to buy her books and a french malgache dictionnary because her French was really poor. We spent the two following days together. I was a little bit too generous with her.... 100 000 FMG per night and many gifts. I gave her clothes and a perfume from Paris. I remember this period like an honeymoon......I hjust make one short time with a waitress of the hotel. It has always been a phantasm for me to fuck a waitress. Well done... for 25 000 FMG /3,5 USD/.

But I have to leave for Nosy Be with Jo in order to meet JC and to spent our last week of holidays. In order to save money, we avoid the very expansive local flight and decide to take the weekly boat named Jean Pierre Calloch for a price of 220 000 FMG /30 USD/.

Marie is crying but as she will go to tana I can meet her there before my flight back to Europe. I am really sad for Marie....I give her a banknote of 20 euros ... but new adventures are waiting for me in Nosy Be.

The night on the boat has been tiring despite a relative confort for Madagascar. At the port of Hell Ville, JC and his girlfriend named Elise are waiting us. We are going to our hotel in Ambatoaloaka /pronounced Ambatoolook/.

In the night we have decided to go to the Djembé. A disco in Ambatoaloaka, not far from our hotel. It was packed with girls (mainly blacks or mulatres). Not many vazaha. I choose a very dark girl with big tits. She looks really afrcian and, after Marie, I want to try some real African taste. 20 years old, she named Eliane and she was from Ambilobe. The first night I know that she was a real great choice. One of the best GFE in my life. She has a marvellous body and makes love with a lot of talent. Nice blow jobs. She likes all the positions but has preference for doggy style. She was new in Nosy Be and it seems really true. Europeans living in Nosy Be do not know her. She told me that I was her first European.

I gave her 50 000 fmg every morning and 40 USD the last day. The second day, I knew that I will stay with her and she has decided to move to my hotel with her bag because the taxi was expansive between Hell Ville, where she stays with her aunt and Ambatoaloaka. We have had a whole week together and I have paid the food, the discos and all the out of pocket expenses. She was nice with me. She was really hot always asking to fuck. She wanted to try sodomy but it hurted her and I stop it. Before I have to take the taxi for the airpot of NosyBe she havs given me a last marvellous blow job and she has eaten my the load…. First time for her. She was very sad as me. We have had a marvellous week together.

I should say that GFE are great in Madagascar. Price of girls is lower than anywhere in the world but with food, hotels (expansives for a poor quality), taxis and transport (plane or boat), the daily cost is more expansive than in Thailand.

If possible, the best solution is to go there with somebody who speaks French and have a certain knowledge of the country.

[Member #4366]

madagascar report - august 2003

in august 2003, i spent 3 weeks in madagascar, equally divided over: tananarive, tamatave and diego suarez. here are some impressions:

the trip to madagascar:
this is relatively expensive, even when you travel from europe (as i did). the best option is to go from paris with air france or air madagascar. the ticket price depends on the season, but you should count on at least 1000 euro, return trip. i travelled with air madagascar because it entitles you to a 20% reduction (previously 30%) on domestic flights in madagascar. these domestic flights are also quite expensive, so i would recommend air mad. their service is quite good and their fleet is reasonably well maintained.

the capital antananarivo =tana (where most international flights arrive and depart), is situated on a high plateau (over 2000 meters), so it can get rather chilly at night. a sweater or pullover is recommended here. there are lots of hotels in tana and i think that they are all girl-friendly (perhaps with the exception of the high-end hotels, but that is just a guess). i prefer to spend my money on other things than luxury i do not really need. when i've got a clean room, telephone, a good bed, hot water and laundry service, i'm fine. and you can find this in almost any mid-class hotel in tana. in any case, it is a good idea to look in and under the bed before you move into a room. in one place i was staying, i was plagued by bed bugs. no problem after i moved to another room, though. speaking of bugs, madagascar probably houses the largest cockroaches on this earth, so beware when you go to budget hotels. tana looks beautiful on first sight, with lots of characteristic brick houses on hillsides and many people selling things in the streets. but the traffic is murder and there seem to be no rules. white foreigners are constantly plagued by peddlers, touts and very insistent beggars. this is especially true in the downtown area and on the stairs leading to the upper town. unfortunately, you cannot avoid these areas when you are looking for female company. the place is also not very safe at night, so it is better to take a taxi after sunset. violent robbery seems to be less than a few years ago, but it is still quite risky to walk around at night in tana. by the way, watch out for luggage thieves at the airport. carry your own stuff and do not trust anyone! hotel rooms are also usually not safe. i kept my valuables in the hotel safe, but my sunglasses and some other small items were stolen from my room.

in tana (and in madagascar in general) one can distinguish between 3 types of girls:

1. the 'good' girls. when you see them in the street, they are most of the time accompanied by one or more male family members. they usually cannot be approached unless you've got a date through a marriage agency or when you already know another member of the family. unfortunately, these girls are among the most beautiful in the country: slim, fair skin, long black hair, euro/asian features. they also tend to work for air mad, banks and expensive shops. obviously upper-class material.

2. bar girls. they are also very easy to recognise. first of all of course by their natural habitat: the bars and discos. in tana, you can find most of them in the glacier bar (downtown) in the late afternoon and in the evening and in the disco indra at night. other popular discos are pandora and le bus. most of these girls (i would say 95%) are black, and this while in tana the average population is more asian than black. their success in getting clients can be measured by the weight of the gold they are wearing. they've all got a mobile phone and their first question to you is usually: "massage?" they only prey on foreign guys. most of them are young (early 20s) and often quite attractive if you like t&a (which i do). they are clearly professionals and do not get jealous when you decide on another girl the next day. but they'll also leave you without hesitation when a better opportunity (i.e. more generous looking male) presents itself. i had really good times with some of these girls. they'll do anything you ask them to do and they'll even do it with a lot of enthusiasm. well, at least i never had anything to complain about in that area. but it is a good idea to negotiate with them on the price first. they will not ask for money upfront, but if you give them what they consider not enough, afterwards, then it is trouble. the usual tariff in tana for bar girls is between 100k and 175k fmg (= 15-25 euro) for lt. they will usually not accept less than 100k fmg, but sometimes, they'll expect more than 175k, as i found out. i gave one girl 150k to 'help her with her expenses', but she started to b*tch and said that she should have at least 50 euro (which is more than 2 times the normal tariff). first i refused, but then she started to shout and threatened to tell her 'cousin'. i had seen the guy the night before, so i gave her the 50 euro and showed her the way out. in the doorway, she even had the nerve to ask for additional 'taxi money' (which she didn't get, of course). well, that was a lesson i had to pay for, i suppose: better negotiate first than pay double later. later, i heard that she got another guy to buy her a new mobile phone (150 euro) also for just one night of fun.…

3. street girls. this is the vast majority of the girls in tana (and also in the other towns). they are usually poor and dressed in less fancy clothes than the bar girls. they do not have (much) jewellery or mobile phones. in tana, most are of mixed race (african/asian). in the coastal towns, most are black or mulattas. they are much less direct than the bar girls and often rather shy. you have to take the initiative, because they won't. their french is often not very good, but it is the only foreign language they do speak. forget about english. you have to 'charm' them a bit (in french: 'draguer'), but it is without risk: you can be sure that they are very much willing to go with you. but you have to speak french to get something going with these girls. they are also the best gfe material: most of them will be happy to stay with you for your entire vacations in madagascar. well, most bar girls will also be prepared to do this, but you'll need a (much) bigger budget. the place to find the 'street girls' is obviously in the street. they do not go to the bars or discos (unless you invite them in), but can often be found in the streets around the bars and discos. in tana, the streets around the disco 'indra' are in the evening and early night full of them. yes, they are waiting for customers, both local and foreign guys, but they are less hardcore than the bar girls. beware of **** girls in this category - there are quite a lot of them around and, as a foreigner, you are in danger when being with them (although they'll tell you that it is o.k.). always ask for their id (carnet) and inspect it carefully. i noticed that some hotels do not even check the girls' id when you invite them in. they will never ask for money upfront, but of course they expect you to give them something afterwards. locals and foreign expats living there usually give them about 50k fmg (7-8 euro) lt and some taxi money, but from foreign tourists, they'll expect twice that amount. still a good deal when compared with other parts of the world. the street girls are, in my experience, more traditional than the bar girls. they are not always willing to do anything you ask them to. on 3 different occasions, i had girls that refused to do a blowjob, not even a covered one. even when i offered 'something extra', they absolutely refused to go down on me. it seems to be a big taboo (fady) in their culture to do this. possibly the same with anal, but i did not ask it as it is not my thing. but most girls won't refuse a blowjob, so it is better to ask them first (in a discreet way) if they are willing to do it. another thing: most girls won't insist on condom use. even many of the bar girls do not seem to consider this necessary. in most cases, i had to take the initiative. hopefully, this will change soon because i heard that vds are rampant in madagascar with aids sharply on the rise. when i was in diego, there was a massive aids awareness campaign going on, with groups of young people shouting and singing about it in public places.

my second stop was tamatave, which is a rather big town on the eastern coast of the island. the climate can be really suffocating over there, especially in the southern summer season, so it is better to look for a hotel room with airco. all hotels (as far as i could find out) are girl-friendly. prices are a little bit lower than in tana, but nothing is really cheap (like in south-east asia). there is not much to do in tamatave, except from 'girl-hopping'. the beach is heavily polluted and you can't swim in the ocean because it is infested with sharks. there are no interesting national parks or other attractions around. well, that leaves the nocturnal life. honestly, i found it also a bit disappointing. there is one disco that is open every night: queens club, which is next to the hotel plage. lots of girls here, starting from about 8pm. but the whole scene is rather hardcore. these girls are all bar girls (as mentioned above) and they are only there to make money. no gfe material here. there are 3 or 4 other discos in town, which open from thursday until sunday. but most of them are really dead. the only other popular one is the disco of hotel neptune (together with hotel sharon, the most upmarket hotel of tamatave). there you may even find the occasional 'good girl', although the vast majority consists of the bar girls of queens club, looking for more affluent customers. i recognised most of them from an earlier visit to queens club. street girls in tamatave can mainly be found after 8 pm along the waterfront. don't walk alone there at night! at daytime, you can also often find girls on the beach, especially under the palm trees close to the neptune hotel. but at daytime, they are even more timid than at night. they will never approach you but sit down within viewing distance and wait for you to make the first move.

when you are in tamatave, do not give the bar girls more than 100k fmg (15 euro) lt. they'll probably start asking for more, but they'll be really happy with 100k. negotiate first! with street girls you can go as low as 50k (7-8 euro), but the prettier ones will expect 75k at least. locals can even get pussy for 25k fmg, as i've been told by a local guy (but i suppose that this is for st only).

tamatave has a predominantly black population and most working girls over there are also black. occasionally, you can find a 'metisse' (mixed) indian or chinese girl.

diego suarez was my last and best experience in madagascar. it is a charming, busy town with a nice (warm and dry) climate and a lot of attractions both in town as well as around it. there are a few amazing national parks you can visit and the whole area around the bay is just beautiful. several agencies organise excursions. quite expensive to go on your own, but a much better deal when you manage to team up with a few other guys. diego is also a nice town for a leisure stroll in the streets. but the best thing about diego is the urban wildlife. in my personal experience, the girls had a less professional and more playful attitude than in tana or tamatave. at least, when i was in town, i met a wild bunch of merry girls who just seemed to have a lot of fun, hanging out with tourist boyfriends, drinking, dancing and whoring. there seemed less competition between them than in the other two towns i visited. when you are looking for a gfe, diego may be the best choice (possibly along with nosy be, which i didn't visit, but which got good references from other travellers i met). in diego, the main place to go (when looking for girls) is the nouvel hotel, from about 11pm. if you need company before that time, you may try your luck at the vahinee bar (near hotel colbert) or at the libertalia (snack)bar. when i was in diego, these places were rather dead most of the time, but it is possible that the girls where hanging out elsewhere. if you like nightlife, there is also the tropicana nightclub, but the party there only really starts after 1am. i haven't been there, because every time, i could very well make my choice at the nouvel hotel. i would not recommend this hotel for renting a room (very noisy), but it is a great place to drink, dance and pick up girls. almost all guys going there are tourists or expats and girl:guy ratio is higher than 5:1. most girls are very good looking. they are for the major part black or mulattas, even in this town, but here you may also come across the occasional 'arab' type. they are mixed blood, but still a lot lighter than the majority of the girls around. unfortunately, they are very popular with tourists. the ones i saw where always occupied by, mainly french, guys, who keep them for the whole duration of their sojourn in town. you have to be lucky to find one that is not engaged. i wasn't that lucky, but i didn't have anything to complain about with the other girls. in diego, i found the distinction between bar girls and street girls less obvious than in the other two towns. well, the mobile phone is a giveaway, in any case (too expensive for 'normal' girls).

there is no beach in diego but you can take a 30min taxi ride to ramena beach (bad road!), which is the beach closest to town. i did not find it very clean and it is full of touts and peddlers. there are some girls too, offering 'massage'. i found none of them very attractive, but perhaps i wasn't lucky. in my opinion, it is better to invite a girl from diego over to go with you to ramena beach. most will be very pleased to go with you as this invitation sort of 'books' them with you for the next round. it is possible to rent a room in ramena, even if you only use it for a couple of hours. better even, why not invite 2 girls to come with you? i saw a middle-aged french guy on the beach with three(!) very cute young girls and they were all over him, constantly. well, the girls don't have much better to do during daytime anyway.

diego was great, but there are still a few down sides. first of all, it is hard to find a good-value hotel room, especially in the tourist season (dec-march and jul-aug). making reservations is a good idea because there are not many rooms of an acceptable standard around and those available tend to fill up very quickly. the price-quality ratio is also much worse than in other places in madagascar. for a barely middle class hotel room, i paid double what i had to pay for a comparable room in tamatave. i think that this situation will only get worse as diego is bound to get very popular (again) among french speaking tourists - after a slack period, which was due to political troubles, last year. another down side (for those not speaking french) is that nobody speaks any other foreign language than french. not even hotel or bank personnel know english and certainly not the girls. tana is already tough if you do not speak french, but in the provincial towns you would really have a hard time. this more so because in madagascar things are not so well organised (to put it mildly), so you have to ask around a lot to find your way and to arrange the simplest things.

summarizing, madagascar was a nice experience and i'm glad i tried it. but it is not the best destination if you only go for sexual adventures. then brazil or thailand will give you more 'bang for the buck'. it is true that you don't pay a lot for the malgache girls (well, most of them), but when you add up the total cost of the trip and then divide by the number of girls you did, you will probably come to the conclusion that you can get a better deal elsewhere. also, when you are not too fond of black girls and when you don't speak french, it may be a better idea to go elsewhere. but if you visit madagascar both to see the magnificent nature and to go crazy with some wild, uninhabited girls, then you are bound to like it.

[Pedro Chilli]

Thanks for the swift reply Labadi.

Well it looks like an old dog will have to learn some new tricks. I have purchased a French phrase book. Already I have learnt - Combien? - which I expect to use frequently. I plan to go to Mada in early March to miss the rainy season. Any other non French speakers out there fancy a bit of an adventure?

[Chicob]

Hi Labadi, thanks for the useful info.

Directly on the site of airfrance I found a ticket to Tana at the end of December for about € 1050 -1100 from Paris (I don't know the exact price becouse I paid 1307, but I had to add the ticket from Granada where I live). Airmadagascar is more expensive.
By the way, I'd like to ask you some more questions: the info you had about Ste. Marie was about scuba diving or girls? Which places did you visit? How did you travel inside Madagascar?

Thanks a lot,

Chicob

[Labadi]

Hi Pedro Chili !

Madagascar is different. Many people expecially outside Tana (and girls !) even don't speak french. Without french you may enter the airport and the big hotels - but that's it.

[Pedro Chilli]

Hello to everyone on the Madagascar forum.

Does anyone know if it possible to have a good time in Madagascar without speaking French. I was educated in Africa and French was never an option. I have travelled and punted in many African countires such as Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania, but English is widely understood by all the girls in these countries.

[Labadi]

hi o****,

anal sex is a very difficult thing in africa - i never found a girl who really liked it.

condoms? sorry, you should insist on that (there is not only hiv, but many other std which can make you very unhappy). some girls will probably do it - but for my part: i want to have fun for many years without the need of looking for doctors every day. but that's only my vision of life perhaps.

[Opebo]

Labadi,

I haven't actually been to Madagascar yet. I just want to go! I have been pricing flights through Travelocity. I was wondering - do the girls there insist upon condoms? And is anal sex available easily?

[Labadi]

hi o**** !

the colbert is a good deal. you can get a room via internet for i think about 100 €. in comparison with the price level in europe, this is really worth the price - it's even a good deal. you can find many cheaper hotels - but colbert has style and it's centrally located near 2 interesting night clubs.

to bring a girl is no problem. be shure, that she is 18 years old and has an id. the girls has to leave her id at the reception, that's it. no money at all, but i felt, the employees are a little bit recerved thereafter. on most of the days (only daytime and early evening), you can find some nice girls in the lobby. try maria, she is very pretty and has beautiful and very long hair.

i haven't been in nosy be. most visitors i met, liked more ste. marie. i went to some other places, much less touristic, but more interesting for me.

o**** - how much did you pay for the flight?

[SeniorCitizen]

I had my son with me and he is an avid fish fancier. His comment was that every fish he ever wanted to buy was on the reefs off the shore a little soouth of the town itself. It's about a 45 minute flight from Tana or a 2 day drive.

[Leo]

Hey Sr. Citizen,

Always looking to mix the hobby with some daytime scuba... when you say excellent scuba - could you draw a comparison to some other place - The Keys... Bahamas... Cayman (now that's excellent)? Indonessia... some part of Austraila?

Thanks!

[SeniorCitizen]

The Colbert is on the expensive side, but clean and has the best restaurant in Tana. I found Scuba diving at Tulear to be exceptional.

[Chicob]

Hi Labadi,

I made it. I bought a ticket to Madagascar for the end of december and I have two more questions for you: in Tana I thought to stay at Colbert hotel at least for a few days: are there problems to take a girl in the room, are they going to overcharge me?
Second: did you visit other places? I thought to go to Nosy Be to do some scuba: did you visit it, do you have good informations about this place (in particular night life and girls) or any other suggestion.

Thanks a lot for answering,

Chicob