I will be here in a few days, so if anyone wants any information on anything, let me know.

To begin with, I will give you a pleasant summary of how difficult it is to get to.

When I started looking at Miavana, I was told that they were working with Airlink to have flights available to Nosy Be twice a week as of September, but this then fell through. So this means there is only one flight a week to Nosy Be from Joburg, where you fly in on a Sunday and leave on the next Sunday. You are then also paying $5000 for helicopter transfers (vs $1400 from Diego Suarez). We only booked 4 nights, so we instead decided to do JNB > TNR, stay the night, then TNR > SVB > DIE at 6am the next day. Strangely on the way back the flight is direct from DIE > TNR.

We booked to return on the Sunday, as the flight leaves at 2:45pm, whereas every other day it's around 9am, and therefore it gave us a pleasant final day. Yet just a few days ago, I get an email from Expedia saying our flights were now at 9am. Then just 24 hours later they were changed to 11am, and our departing flight was moved to 20 minutes earlier. Air Madagascar's dedication to punctuality is not to be admired, so who knows what time we will actually arrive or leave. Even though our departure is only 4 hours earlier than expected, I still perceived it as ruining our last day, so we decided to extend by a night and do 5 nights instead. Miavana took over our flights and managed to move them for free for us.