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'''Melissa Express offers scheduled boat transfer between [[Toamasina]] (Tamatave), [[Sainte-Marie]] and [[Maroantsetra]]. The company has two fiberglass boats, each fitting about 60 passengers.'''
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The boat from Maroantsetra to Toamasina goes each Friday and Monday and the price for a ticket is 180,000 Ariary per person (in 2015). The price inludes a 4-hour car transfer to [[Soanierana Ivongo]], a small town 163km north along the RN5, from where the Melissa Express leaves. <HTML5video type="youtube" width="600" height="338">URFIF_EkGeM</HTML5video> Usually passengers are told to come around midnight to the boat, but one shouldn't be surprised if the departure is delayed until 2am. [[Hotel Concorde]] at the [[taxi-brousse]] station offers simple clean rooms where one can rest until the final departure. The Melissa Express takes about 8 hours to Maroantsetra with a stop in [[Mananara]].
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'''Ticket office in Toamasina'''<br>
Phone: +261 (032) 4474303 (mobile) and +261 (033) 1873272 (mobile)<br>
Email: [mailto:melissaexpress1@gmail.com melissaexpress1@gmail.com] - English mails however seem to disappear in the spam folder<br>
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