Malagasya Travel GmbH

Everything perfect. Well organised and amazing trips. The whole Malagasya travel team are so lovely guys. I will come back as soon as possible!!!

Individuelle adressatengerechte Planung mit guten Hotels und durchdachten Programm.

I booked a tour with Malagasya travels for 14 days throughout southern Madagascar. We hit some of the major national parks as well as the beach on both sides of the country. The tour was pretty good. I would generally recommend Malagasya travels. I really like that Malagasya travels is a local company, and that's one of the reasons I went with them instead of one of the European companies operating in Madagascar with tours throughout Africa. However the reason I gave them four stars instead of five is because of the following. When booking the trip I was looking at several different companies. I had to make a decision of which company to go with and Malagasya travels would promise to send me an itinerary on a particular day and then send it several days later. By doing this they delayed my decision process on picking a tour company to go with and made the process more stressful. Malagasya travels was not my first choice of tour company to use. In addition to this there were several days on their tour which finished in the middle of the day and for the rest of the day you are left at the hotel. This may be desirable for some travelers who wish to just relax, however for me it was frustrating as I wished to do more activities and not just sit around for the day. To pay thousands of dollars for a trip in a wonderful and beautiful country just to lounge around the hotel was not attractive at all to me and was quite frustrating. However, I am younger and I noticed that a larger portion of the tourists in Madagascar are older and retirees, so to travel in the morning and then have the rest of the day free to relax at the hotel, may be quite desirable. During the tour, I asked my driver to take me to a precious stones store. These stores are common throughout certain parts of Madagascar. The driver took me to a shop, whose owner he knew. Unfortunately this shop was a tremendous scam and the owner of the store massively ripped me off. I was not happy about this or that the driver would even consider taking me to such a scammy place that would rip me off so drastically. I only found this out later on the trip, when I was approached by street peddlers with the exact same items at 1/45 the cost of what the shop sold them to me as. Yes, I was naive but I was also upset that the driver would have a relationship with this owner and bring him customers from his tours, which made me question him. I brought these issues up with Malagasya travels. So good luck with your search for a tour company to use. Malagasya travels was pretty good but less active then some of the other companies in their trips and have delayed responses when communicating with them. But they work hard and you will see and experience many great things if you go with them! Safe travels!