Highlights of Madagascar

Customer Reviews

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  Lydia

  · July 18th, 2024
  The travel times are not correct. You should always add plus 25%, then it's fine. Otherwise everything was as described. I had a good guide, group and time.
  

  G Adventures commented on this review

  Thank you for your review and beautiful photos, Lydia! We have passed on the feedback concerning drive times to our product team to update. We hope to welcome you on another journey in the near future!
  
  Trip date: June 2024
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  Rupinder

  · June 24th, 2024
  I enjoyed the tour. Tour guide could have done a better job in terms of communication and time management.
  

  G Adventures commented on this review

  Hi Rupinder. Many thanks for the four star review. I am glad that you enjoyed the tour, but it looks like we could have done better in terms of communication and time management. We'll pass this along to operations.
  Trip date: June 2024
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  Alessandra

  · December 20th, 2023
  Madagascar is an amazing country to explore. The planeterra project is amazing and I loved my G for good moment. As well what they are planning to do for the kids in Ranohira is just amazing. The driver and the guide were both great. These are the reasons this tour made it to 3 stars. All the rest needs to be improved. The itinerary needs an update of the driving hours and the must have equipment. Hicking boots should be a must and gloves that do cover the hand palms should be compulsory. We did mostly walk out of paths and we had to touch a lot of trees in order to go up and down in the forest, Many of us were bitten by unknow insects while holding on trunks. And no, we had no other options than to grab for a tree trunk to be able to go up or don't fall down. I am absolutely fine with simple hotels and hostels but on this tour something really went wrong. It felt like the hotels were giving the GAdventure clients for granted and did not put any effort in welcoming us. Maybe it was because it was the end of the season and they felt like there was no point in fixing broken items or cleaning. Not working showers, leaking sinks, missing mosquito nets, mosquito nets with holes or very dirty, dirty towels, clogged drains, a collection of dead bugs under the bed or items forgotten by previous guests, not closing toilet doors (with not closing I mean that the door was there but there was nothing to fix it and we slept with a wide open door. I don't mind sharing a room with someone I don't know but I do expect to have a toilet door.) All of it? Unfortunately not. During the first dinner at the hotel money was taken out of my bag. In the last hotel we had bed bugs. My roommate got a skin infection that had to be treated with antibiotics, the doctor confirmed that the bed bugs must have had contact with an infected animal. Half of the group had diarrhea during the homestay. You urgently need to give them a food & water safety lesson. A bucket of water used to wash hands after using the toilets was used as drinking water. We were touching the water with our dirty hand to scoop the water out and they were using the same scoop and the same water for drinking. It takes time to boil water on fire and just heat it up does not kill bacteria. The water needs to boil to be safe but the coffee and tea they were serving were never boiling hot. I was cooling down my feet after I got burned and the owner got mad at me telling me that they drink out of the scoop I was using. I could not have imagined that they would drink out of a bucket with a scoop that everyone was using to wash hands after going to toilet. The owner of the hostel / homestay did beg for money in a penetrating way. I was glad to leave from that place after he clearly said that he needs the money for a second building to expand the hostel to be able to have more guests. He said so many things that did not correspond to what seemed to happen in the village.As he said that his grandmother is 120 year old I was kind of done.
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  G Adventures commented on this review

  Hi Alessandra Thanks for your review and for you valuable feedback. We are glad to hear that you enjoyed Madagascar and the Planeterra project and G for Good moment. I was sorry to hear there were other elements of your trip that did not meet... Show more
  Trip date: December 2023
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  Marie pier

  · November 15th, 2023
  Overall was a good tour ! Just read well ! You will not see the baobab avenue! There only 3 meals inc'ude in all the tour so its add on the budget !!! The restaureant we went were kind of expansive ! ( still ok for sure but if you were tight on a budget it male a big difference) Otherwise i really enjoy my tour and the time spend in the home stay this is the real higtlight of the tour for me ! The ceo was nice and the driver amazingly good we all feel really safe ! Most of the activity are walking tour ! So if you dont like to walk this is not for you ! But you will see a lot of lemurs! most hotels only have one power outlet so provide a double usb port. I loved my tour and can recommand it for sure !
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  G Adventures commented on this review

  H Marie Pier, Thanks for the review. I'm glad you enjoyed your trip, but I appreciate you highlighting these points. Honest guest feedback is always so helpful and I will send your comments to our product team so that they can consider them as they work... Show more
  Trip date: October 2023
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  Gabriela

  · October 28th, 2023
  The trip was ok. Some of the real Highlight were not in the intinerary. These could be visited in the future tours. The distances were to long. We spendet too much time in the bus, so that we practicaly didnt see the cities we arrived. It would be may be a good Idia to start early in order to be able to explore on ouer selbst a little bit. We also headed only to the Restaurants in the Hotels. I was missing the experience of eating out for dinner (exception 1 night in Ifaty and the farewell dinner in Tana). Our CEO was a nice person and hat the potential of becomming a good guide. Though he was very unexperienced. I think G-Adventures should invest a bit of time or respurces couching the CEOs before they get the responsobility of leading a Group.
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  G Adventures commented on this review

  Hi Gabriela, Thanks for your feedback. It sounds like this trip was not up to our usual high standards. I'm sorry to hear this. You raise some good points and we will be sure to send this over to our product an operations teams for review purposes. We... Show more
  Trip date: October 2023
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  Jess

  · August 21st, 2023
  Madagascar was so so much more than I imagined. It wouldn't have been the same though without Rhiana our guide who is an absolute credit to G. The wildlife on this island is like nowhere else, standing underneath Indri calling is a sound that took our breathe away. Drive days were very long consider adding an extra hour or 2 to long drives due to conditions. As a Jane Goodall tour perhaps some of the main park walks should have been included rather than extra, but if you want to see wildlife each walk is worth putting your boots on for (you do want to have boots or very sturdy shoes)
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  G Adventures commented on this review

  Hi Jess, Thank you for your feedback! Our world deserves more you.
  
  Trip date: April 2023
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  Nahman

  · July 31st, 2023
  The tour was very good, but the country is very intense with really bad roads and poor population. It would have been nicer if the daily stops could have been after less time sitting on the bus, and the accommodation would have been more in par with what we are accustom to in the West
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  G Adventures commented on this review

  We are so happy to hear that you enjoyed your adventure with us. We hope to see you on another G Adventure again soon.
  Trip date: July 2023
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  Dragomir

  · May 19th, 2023
  It was an amazing experience and our guide was incredible, always there to help us dive into the nature and culture of Madagascar.
  

  G Adventures commented on this review

  Hi Dragomir - It's nice to hear that you enjoyed your time with us in Madagascar. Our world deserves more you!
  Trip date: April 2023
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  Celine Gilain

  · June 17th, 2022
  amazing view of the country. great organisation. incredible staff (CEO, bus driver, local guides). the community guesthouse in fiadanana was amazing with the visit of the healer, the band coming to play at night and the visit of the school. the soa zara tree planting project is definitely a great experience for tourists to actively participate in improving life. I do recommand these two projects (improving school and tree planting) become planeterra projects.
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  Trip date: February 2022

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  Yordan Yordanov

  · June 22nd, 2022
  Riana was an excellent tour guide. The trip was a proper adventure. I had a great time.
  Trip date: February 2022

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