Toamasina

By plane

• Air Austral from Saint-Denis de la Reunion.

(You can use Air Austral to go via Reunion and Mauritius to Nosy Be.)

• Air Madagascar & Tsaradia airlines Avenue De Independence. from Antananarivo and Sainte-Marie.
• Madagasikara Airways from Antananarivo and Sainte-Marie.

By car

• From Antananarivo to Toamasina is 355 km, which takes six hours by car.

By bus

• Cotisse Transport to and from Antananarivo, (9 hours) 7 trips a day. from 20,000Ar. Clean buses with free wifi.

By boat

Canal des Pangalanes. There are overnight trips on this amazing man-made and natural canal that effectively extends half way down the east coast of Madagascar. Ask at the Hotel Joffre or the travel agents nearby. The boat service is run by a French man who only runs services when there is sufficient clientele.

Banks & ATMs

• BFV-SG. Avenue De L'Independance. 24 hour ATMs take most international cards.
• MCB. Boulevard Joffre. 24 hour ATM takes most international cards.
• BOMI.Boulevard Joffre. ATMs take only Visa card.
• BOA. Boulevard Augagneur. ATMs take only Visa card.
• BNI. Boulevard Joffre. 24 hour ATMs take Mastercard and Visa card.

Supermarkets

• Shoprite supermarket

  address: Fokontany 23/41
  Large supermarket chain part of Shoprite South Africa. lowest prices of the big supermarket chains in Madagascar.

• Score supermarkets

  address: Boulevard Augagneur
  There are two score supermarkets in Toamasina.

• Leader Price Supermarket

  address: Rue Flacourt
  many imported goods from France. Higher prices. good quality.
• Supermaki has two stores in toamasina. Ankirihiry and Morafeno.

Budget

• LA Terrasse Bar and restaurant. Good priced food and drinks.

Mid-range

Splurge

• Sarkis Bar

  address: Boulevard De La Liberation

• Queens Disco & bar

  address: Boulevard De La Liberation
  Sells pizza. Free wifi.

Budget

• Hotel Plage

  phone: +261-20-5332090
  address: Boulevard De La Liberation
  Large double room with own bathroom 35,000Ar. near many bars and a 5 minute walk to the beach.

• Melville HotelA 60 room hotel on the Melville Boulevard. Air conditioning and hot water available. from (25,000-65,000) Ar per night). cable TV. Free Wifi. Only thing is it is far from downtown.

• Centre Lambahoany

  address: Boulevard da la Liberte 12-47
  Single/double room with own bathroom.

• Hotel Les Flamboyants

  phone: +261 032-71-09351, +261 034-78-74595
  address: Rue de La Liberation.
  Nice size clean air con double room with own hot water bathroom. Balcony over looking the city. Cable TV. Free Wifi 60.000Ar also has fan double rooms for 45,000Ar.

• JRJ Hotel

  phone: +261 034-6814074
  address: En Face De L'eglise Fjkm Betela Bazarikely
  Air con double room with hot water bathroom. Cable TV. Wifi. From 41,000Ar. Fan double with own bathroom 31,000Ar.

• Hotel Mahatoky

  address: Immeuble Mahatoky, Boulevard De La Liberte 12/13
  Clean double rooms with or without own bathroom 20,000/25,000. Has nets in all rooms.

Mid-range

• Hotel Joffre

  phone: +261 20 53-323-90
  address: 18 Bd Joffre,
  Hotel Joffre is an excellent mid-range hotel. Classic old-style fully renovated hotel in downtown with excellent French restaurant. Try to get the 1st floor rooms - the top floor rooms get very hot through sun on the roof.

Splurge

• Telma (next to the post office) Avenue De Independent. has good 4G internet. 12Gb of data cost 75,000Ar good for 30days.most hotels now have free wifi.

• Antananarivo
• Reunion