Corail Noir Hotel

Unfortunately, we can only discourage you from staying at this hotel. We stayed here for a total of five nights and were looking forward to a relaxing stay with great service. Regrettably, we were very disappointed and have never felt so badly taken advantage of. The rooms and complex are very nicely kept - but unfortunately the pool is hardly usable and there is no proper beach at the complex. For the private beach you have to take a boat to a neighboring island. In addition, the hotel generally focuses on Italian and French guests - English-speaking guests are much less well treated here. The choice of dinner must be made in the morning, whereby a 3-course menu is provided. This is basically okay in order to avoid wastage. However, my wife and I usually only chose one main course (and in exceptional cases also a dessert) - but we were still charged the price for all three courses, which we found more than impertinent - especially when this order is already placed in the morning. What struck us as unacceptable, however, was the way the airport transfer was organized. The day before our departure we ordered a transfer to the airport: we were told that this would cost 100,000 Ariary. At check-out, however, we were then charged 236,000 Ariary without any explanation. When asked about this, we were only told that there was no way of knowing what had happened the day before. There has also been no response to a subsequent email to date (two weeks ago). It is very shocking that the hotel is trying to profit from its guests in such a malicious way and unfortunately leaves us with a very bad impression. Even though we are normally convinced that hotels and restaurants are a matter of personal taste and can appeal to different people in different ways, we are convinced that such behavior cannot be excused in any way - which is why we have decided to leave a this review in order to spare other guests such a terrible experience.

There are good points and bad points... Firstly, The staff were very friendly and they tried their best. The location is really good. The upkeep is good although could do with some improvement. The garden pool and rooms are excellent. The bed was very comfy. We were offered an upgrade and immediately regretted it. As the bed was not as comfy and the bedding very old and worn. The new room had bugs which kept biting us at night. They weren't mosquitos so maybe fleas or bed bugs. The main pool got cleaned whilst we were there but within days it was building up.with mould again. Dinner way too late on occasions we only ate after 8.30. The food was generally OK. Mostly Italian food. They do need to cover food as flies tended to sit on the food. Especially the morning fruit. The chocolate tart caused a great amusement with the staff and guests as it was so hard you couldn't even cut it ... but a new dessert was brought out. The maitre de was excellent and had a great sense of humour. Food hygiene and handling needs some attention as one staff member put his hands into the bowl of nuts and ate some to taste them then served them onto plates with his hands without washing hands etc. No English translations and Google translate didn't always work but the staff tried their best. Very italian based hotel. If an Italian group was in we were pushed aside and had to fit in with their requirements. We couldn't book or get into excursions. The private beach wasn't raked and was full of sandflies. The massage therapists were incredible - big thumbs up. The hotel could do with offering smaller change as we only had large value money. Thus tipped too much when out and about. The hotel transfer was terrible.. the first car seemed to have transmission problems and the return car had to be pushed started and then stalled along our route. It also had a loose wheel we feared for our lives. This is a point as we had booked excursions with a different company and their vehicle was air conned and its upkeep.was great . The transfers should be better.