We were on a whirlwind driving tour after our 2017 Study Abroad – drive from Antsirabe to Tana; next day drop students at Ivato airport for afternoon flight and immediately head back to Antsirabe to start our trip to Kirindy/the Tsingy. So we arrived well after dark to Couleur Café, and found they didn’t have our room reservation! Yikes! But the hotel handled it and put us in a large building (that maybe wasn’t quite ready for prime time) with a living room and a bedroom and a door that didn’t lock leading to a dark hallway and who knows where else – it was only the next day that we realized that this suite was pretty much a whole house and that all of the external doors were locked, so we had the whole space to ourselves. In any case our room was huge! This was important because they also did not have a room for our guide; he joined us in the house sleeping in the living room (no problem since he has been a good friend since 2015). So, the hotel handled the situation completely to our satisfaction.
Overall this hotel is so cute – individual brick bungalows in a garden setting, with bunnies hopping around. We only spent the one night so had only one and dinner and breakfast but we were quite impressed with the food. Dinner was great with two choices of appetizer, main, and dessert – my chicken dish was one of the best meals I had in Madagascar during our nearly six weeks in country in 2017. Breakfast was likewise one of the best of our trip – it included rice and udon noodles, which made my husband and our guide super happy. I see in more recent reviews complaints about breakfast and I hope it has not changed as it was pretty perfect and filling with a lot of variety.
We would definitely stay at Couleur Café again when in Antsirabe. It is a lovely property, the shower was nice and hot, the bed was comfortable and the room was warm. Breakfast and dinner were great. Staff took a difficult situation and made it work for us – you really can’t ask for more whether at home or in Madagascar.