Relais des Plateaux & Spa– Ivato International Airport

The first room we were given was dark and gloomy and with no privacy, we complained and were given another one which was better. Why couldn’t they have given us that one to start with? Blocks of rooms around pretty grounds. We enjoyed our afternoon and night there. The swimming pool has tables and chairs and loungers around it, making a pleasant place to sit, also a little sitting out area outside our room on the ground floor. Dinner was good apart from a rather dull local speciality chicken dish, and an attractively designed restaurant . We didn’t eat breakfast as we left very early. It is just off a busy, bustly street if you fancy a short walk.

10 min from the airport you enter an oasis of calm. Friendly welcome, early check in available, room simple but clean, nice gardens, pool and good food in the restaurant. Everybody is really friendly! Great place to stay for a few days, better than Antanarivo city centre!

This is a good place to stay if you need to be near the airport. It is a large complex. As the name suggests French is spoken (and not much English). We were on the first floor and there was no lift. The room was spacious though we noted the dead mossie squashed on the bathroom mirror. At breakfast we found several plates already empty and not being replaced but the bread was fresh and good.

Excellent hotel and restaurant The hotel rooms are clean and comfortable. Water and kettles provided. Staff are excellent and well trained and the good is all delicious with plenty of choice. The swimming pool is well maintained. Would highlyrecommend

We stayed there on three occasions over the holiday. We never had a mosquito net. While they say they spray the room, it was not quite enough. That’s where we got bitten. Another of our tour group had a room with a mosquito net, with mosquitos happily buzzing around inside it. Unlike other hotels, they had no coils for burning / plug in anti mossie devices. The food was good, the service very slow. Reception fairly chaotic and slow. Only some spoke English. On the other hand, when I asked them to print out my return boarding pass, it was quick and efficient. Maybe luck with who you got on reception. Many would not be happy to walk outside of the hotel. Our tour guide did not recommend it.

With an Air France flight arriving at midnight, and a Air Mada flight the next day at 18h, I chose this hotel 1) near the airport 2) with a pool for a relaxing day near the airport, figuring (correctly) that waking up late in the morning & getting to the airport in time for the flight to Tamatave, there would be no time for visiting the capital. Our experience with Air Mada was worse than expected: our flight was postponed until the following day. I immediately reserved for another night (unfortunately at no price reduction considering they did not have to pay Booking's commission). The receptionist then helped me work out a plan for the unexpected day in town: I needed to change money, get a sim card, wanted to visite Digue, the craft market, and the Queen's palace. Her solution was to get me a very good chauffeur-guide within half an hour at a fair rate. He knew where to go and how to get everywhere, in spite of the Antananarivo roads & population thereon, including carts, tuktuk, pousse-pousse, taxi-brousse, trucks, cars ... and of course millions of people on foot. We had waited a long time at the airport for the shuttle on arrival (we were the last to leave the airport) but returning was perfectly planned at 4:30 am for a 7am flight. Unfortunately the box breakfast was not even close to the standard of the delicious buffet at normal hours. The restaurant, btw, was one of the best of our trip through Madagascar.