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La Perle Rare is a beautiful hotel. The bedroom was beautiful and immaculate. The bathroom felt luxurious. The Belgian owner was super helpful in helping me to arrange daytrips and transport to/from the airport. The rest of the staff were also very friendly and welcoming. It's only a 5-10 minute walk from the hotel to the beach and the main road of restaurants. But be warned - tourists don't tend to swim at this beach because the water is dirty. My negative comments don't relate to La Perle Rare - they relate to Nosy Be in general, but not sure where else I can capture them to warn others. Nosy Be (as well as several other areas across Madagascar, sadly) is full of white European men - mostly French and Italian - who visit for s*x tourism. Old, unattractive, white European men. Who sit in lines at bars and oogle the local 'women' (often under 18 - so often children) and choose their prey. Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, so they exploit this by paying for cheap s*x from those desperate to make ends meet. I thought I was seeing things, but a bit of Google research confirmed my suspicions. Including a UN report titled 'Madagascar: UN rights expert calls for greater efforts to tackle child s*xual exploitation'. I felt disgusted and ashamed to be a fellow white European. The amount of child pr*stitution is awful. It's undeniably a beautiful island, but I won't be going back there in a hurry as the uncomfortable feeling of being there was pretty intense.

Very nice place with very nice staff. Beautiful run with are conditioning and fridge. I recommend

Good idea but lacks in execution. The only positives for me are the front desk staff and comfortable bed. On the negatives, the rooms are too dark and stuffy (install dimmers instead), cleanliness can be improved upon... some areas were dusty and there were blood stains (guessing mosquito blood) on parts of the mosquito net and bed sheets, the mosquito net had big holes, mosquito repellent spray was not available, shower inadequate.

It was super noisy (loudest music I ever experienced) by the nearby night clubs till 2:30am, with no sleep and waking up early to do excursion. I was super tired due to lack of sleep that I had to cut my paid tour activities.

What a wonderful stay. The staff was very friendly and went above and beyond to welcome. The facility is new and clean. The food was very good.

3 night booking. I arrived at about 9pm on the first night after a long and tiring journey, but my room was not ready. I had to wait about 30 minutes whilst staff went to get towels and soap, as well as a floor-standing fan - there was a fan already in the room but it was broken with the guard cover on the floor. I asked about a room safe, and after a short wait 2 staff members came back in to the room carrying a large, shoddy looking wooden stand and a room safe. The safe was in a terrible condition and looked like it was about 50 years old. There was an a/c unit in the room but it was broken and not working. The internet was extremely slow (avg 20kbps!) and the towels supplied were cheap, paper thin & smelt terrible. There was no seat on the toilet bowl - seriously, how could any hotel offer a room to visitors that had no seat on the toilet bowl! The power went off for 2 or 3 hours at about 6am during the first morning which meant no electricity for the fan, making the room very hot and uncomfortable. Why was there no back-up generator? Also that first morning there was a problem with the water supply for the bathroom, I contacted staff and after a short wait the problem was resolved. That night the water supply went off again, but this time they were unable to fix it so they brought 2 buckets of cold water and a cup into the room for me to use to get washed! The next morning the water supply was still off. At this point I had had enough and decided to check out.