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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.'''

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]].