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Zanzibar Hotels
The Palms Zanzibar
Located on the peaceful south eastern coast of the island, lying on an untouched beach, The Palms is the ultimate getaway retreat providing a stunning recluse for the discerning traveller. The six private villas are beautifully designed creating an atmosphere of relaxed, understated elegance. It offers all the luxurious comforts and amenities of a five-star resort in an intimate setting with the most personal attention throughout your stay. The Palms is a sanctuary for those in search of tranquillity - a place to stimulate the senses and to experience the very best of the magical island of Zanzibar.
The Palms has six villas, each over 140 square metres with a bedroom, living room, full ensuite bathroom, dressing room, extra room with its own ensuite bathroom and large furnished terrace with views of the Indian Ocean. Each villa features a sophisticated interior composition in all colours of coffee and cream where filmy caramel coloured curtains billow, dark grained polished floors extend and the decor is a unique marriage of colonial grandeur and traditional design. On the veranda, a silk-draped four-poster Zanzibar bed accents a sunken, midnight blue plunge pool with long views of the Indian Ocean.
Location: East Coast
Class: 5-star
Arabian Nights Hotel
Arabian Nights Hotel is the most convenient location among the other neighbouring hotels in the area. It is a short drive from Kizimkazi and Jambiani. Paje is a 40-minute drive from Stone Town and the airport, away from the hustle and bustle.
Arabian Nights offers top quality rooms and a Zanzibar royal style with a blend of western touch. Friendly staff has a vested interest in making sure you are completely satisfied with your stay.
Location: 40 minutes from Stone Town
Class: 3-star
Sau Inn Hotel
Situated at Jambiani on the East Coast, the Sau Inn Hotel is one of the oldest, greatest, and most comfortable hotels you can find in Zanzibar. A swimming pool, and a soft and fine sand beach are some of the special features that differentiates it from others. To make sure customers are satisfied, the hotel has a professionally organized diving service available.
The Sau Inn Hotel has 39 bungalow type rooms, with all facilities available to all customers. The Sau Inn Hotel's restaurant, the Seaside Restaurant, serves a variety of different menus including sea food, continental, and Zanzibar-spiced dishes. The picturesque restaurant is surrounded by a luscious green environment and eye-catching flowers.
Location: Jambiani
Class: 3-star
Michamvi Water Sports Resort
Whether you are looking for a holiday filled with lazy, sun-drenched days and star-studded nights, or one spent on the water of the bay, enjoying the water sport of your choice, Michamvi Water Sports Resort of Zanzibar is your ideal destination. This is a resort which offers a tranquil setting while encouraging fun, easy, casual days of the excitement of activity on the bay as well as inviting loungers beside the beautiful pool. Michamvi Water Sports Resort is an experience well-worth spoiling yourself or the whole family, as a complete break from the grind of a monotnous 9 to 5.
A 20-room hotel, Michamvi Water Sports Resort offers both the personal attention possible in this environment with the professionalism you would expect in a large establishment. A new hotel, rooms are spacious and comfortable with ensuite bathrooms. Air conditioning are in all the rooms which lead onto private balconies, tempting you to lie back and dream your days away.
Location: 68kms from Stone Town
Class: 4-star
Breezes Beach Club & Spa
At Breezes Beach Club & Spa, you will fall in love with Zanzibar, particularly the kind, smiling and gentle staff, the breathtaking beach on the most private and untouched part of Zanzibar, the rich and exotic fabrics, the painstakingly carved furniture, the untouched corals, and whispering palm trees. Breezes has been ranked among the top five resorts in Africa and winner of the "Best Resort in Tanzania" at the World Travel Awards.
All rooms are tastefully decorated in ivory tones, with cotton throws, teak wood finishes, and Zanzibar carvings. Each room is fully air-conditioned, has a refrigerator and personal electronic safe box, and features an ensuite bathroom and hairdryer. For extra comfort, all rooms also have a full third bed functioning as a sofa.
Location: East Coast
Class: 5-star
Ras Michamvi
Welcome to Ras Michamvi - our new beach hotel on Zanzibar's beautiful East coast. Relax at this quiet location, feel the tropical sun and the gentle ocean breeze on your skin, look for shooting stars amongst the thousands of sparkeling dots in the sky at night, enjoy the freshest fish and seafood served at our open restaurant under a large thatched roof, explore the stunning natural wonders of the nearby Jozani Forest-Chwaka Bay Conservation Area - in short: come to Ras Michamvi and discover the magic of Zanzibar!
Our hotel is a little paradise harmoniously set in a large natural area with access to powder-white tropical beaches, gardens, forests and a stunning ocean-front swimming pool. All of our 15 rooms have sea view. They are located in 4 bungalows on a coral rock elevation overlooking the beach and the ocean. Our new and modern bungalows are built of stone and have wooden terraces, makuti-style thatched roofs, air conditioning, ceiling fans, mosquito nets, mini-fridges, en-suite bathrooms with shower, bathtub, cold and hot water. The rooms are very spacious and tastefully furnished in local style. Three bungalows have 4 rooms and one bungalow has 3 rooms only. One room is especially equipped to meet the needs of handicapped guests.
Location: East Coast
Class: 3-star
Karafuu Hotel
Karafuu Hotel is suitable for individual clients, as well as incentive groups. A great importance to the clients service is granted at Karafuu, thus everybody is personally welcomed by the European management. Karafuu won Tanzania's leading hotel in 2007, as well as both Africa's leading resort and Tanzania's leading hotel in 2006.
With a variety of rooms, suites and cottages, all rooms are built under makuti thatch and furnished with traditional Zanzibar furniture. All rooms include a wardrobe, bathroom in Carrara marble, mosquito net, ceiling fan, independent air conditioning, hot and cold running water, hair-dryer, telephone and minibar.
Location: East Coast
Class: 4-star
Kono Kono Beach Villas Zanzibar
"Your home away from Home" is located on the south eastern coast of Zanzibar, these Barefoot Luxurious Villas overlook the stunning beach of Michamvi Kae, only an hours drive away from the Zanzibar International Airport. The property covers 48000 sq metres and more than 40% is under the resort's conservation program, allowing guests to wonder through pathways and marvel from benches at the rarest fauna and flora including wildlife such as Monkeys, local Deer, endemic bird species and supposedly the discreet Zanzibar Leopard, which is believed to be extinct yet... and other animals sharing this natural habitat.
This magnificent property consists of eleven villas that have been designed to provide you with maximum relaxation and offers absolute serenity and rest far away from the hustle and bustle of modern civilization. Every Villa has been roofed with "Makuti" thatch rustic materials and each has its own private plunge pool. You will enjoy an open air bath tub and a spacious bathroom. A well furnished lounge heading to a wide baraza on a patio, enclosed within your private garden.
Location: Michamvi Kae
Class: 4-star
White Rose Beach Water Sports
Completely renovated in 2008, White Rose is situated in Bwejuu in the south eastern coast of the island of Zanzibar, about 50 km from Stonetown airport and easily accessibile, about 50 minutes of transfer, to asphalt roads. Built along a marvelous hilltop overviewing the seaside, it has a splendid view of the India Ocean and of the white fine sandy beach. Being close to the Paje resort, White Rose provides an excellent opportunity that allows you to get to know the splendid people that are occupied in their normal everyday activities.
30 large rooms in which, 16 are "Sea View", 8 "Bungalows" and 6 "Garden" with a makuti roof and are all positioned in the wooded garden and in front on the sea. Every room is furnished in a Zanzibar decor and has a double bed with a mosquito net, a wardrobe and a mirror, a luggage holder, a fan, air conditioning and a telephone. The bungalows also have a living area equipped with a table and chairs, while you can find a large typical "Pili Pili" sofa bed in the garden rooms for 4 people ( in the two double beds) and for one child ( Pili Pili).
Location: Bwejuu, southeastern coast
Class: 3-star
Blue Oyster Hotel
Dreaming under palm trees, the feeling of the sun on your skin; aromas of exotic spices,floating in a completely unknown world. Is that what you imagine when you hear of Zanzibar? Are you searching for something new, undiscovered and untouched? Then there is no need to look any further. The Blue Oyster is a small family-style hotel, directly adjacent to the white sandy beach of Jambiani, picturesquely surrounded by coconut palms.
Our small comfortable hotel (13 rooms) is nicely furnished and offers you full service. Quiet rooms surround a peaceful inner courtyard which are shaded by palm trees. There is always a refreshing sea breeze.
Location: close to Jambiani, 50km from Stone Town
Class: 2-star
Evergreen Bungalows
The Evergreen Bungalows on the East Coast of Zanzibar is a small and relaxed, family run beach hotel, located on the eastern side of the exotic East African island of Zanzibar. Situated in a palm garden direct on the beach, it overlooks the beautiful fine white sands and coconut palms of Bwejuu beach. The atmosphere is intimate and tranquil with spectacular views across the coral reef and the azure Indian Ocean beyond. Enjoy the contrasting colours of the Indian Ocean, the fine powder sand of the palm beach and make your Zanzibar holiday unforgettable in the Evergreen Bungalows.
Our hotel has 14 rooms in 9 bungalows. 5 double storey bungalows direct on the beach offer 9 self contained rooms, each with a different touch. Furthermore there are 3 garden bungalows and a banda with 4 beds. All the rooms have been decorated using local materials to give them a unique Zanzibari feel and come complete with mosquito nets and fresh running water. Coconut wood fixtures and fittings give an exotic feel to the suites. Each bungalow has its own balcony with chairs and a table and all rooms have their own en-suite bathroom.
Location: Bwejuu
Class: 2-star
Paradise Beach Bungalows
Paradise Beach Bungalows offers a quiet, relaxing atmosphere in 10 self-contained bungalows on the shores of the Indian Ocean. The cozy, romantic bungalows are constructed in the traditional method of the village using local materials such as limestone walls, wood beam ceilings and coconut leaf roofs. Traditional hand-carved wooden doors grace the entrance of each bungalow.
The bungalows are furnished in a fusion of Zanzibar antiques, including Bezels beds, and contemporary African decor. All bungalows are self-contained with mosquito nets. Paradise Beach's open-air bar/restaurant offers Japanese home cooking as well as traditional Swahili and European meals.
Location: Bwejuu, 53km from Stone Town
Class: 2-star
Sunrise Hotel
Are you looking for a romantic, casual atmosphere on one of the most beautiful and peaceful beaches in the world? Do you like excellent gourmet food, nice cold drinks, served in a friendly way and with a smile? The Sunrise Hotel Restaurant on the East Coast of Zanzibar has everything to fulfil your desires and make your stay unforgettable. The class, charm and comfort of this unique location ensures you to have one of the peak moments during your stay on the beautiful island of Zanzibar which is only a short flight or boat ride away from Tanzania or Kenya.
Our twelve clean and cool self-contained rooms are simple but comfortable; they are equipped with mosquito nets, air-conditioning and hot/cold water. 2kms North of the typical village of Bwejuu and its friendly inhabitants, you will enjoy to ride a bike on brilliant white beaches, snorkel in the Indian Ocean and admire the live corals, make an excursion to see the dolphins, swim in the safe and clear blue ocean or simply laze around the swimming pool.
Location: 2km north of Bwejuu
Class: 2-star
Hakuna Majiwe Lodge
"Hakuna Majiwe", the local name for the hotel ground, means "place without stones". As individual as its name, this beach hotel has a special atmosphere, being different to other hotels. Set on a fabulous 6 kilometres white-sand palmfringed and desert beach, cooled by the ocean breeze, is the perfect gateway to an exotic african paradise.
The hotel consists of 20 rooms in beach bungalows, facing the ocean. All rooms have ensuite bathrooms with hot water, wardrobe, double or twin beds with mosquitonets, ceiling fans and a spacious verandah. All rooms are big enough for extra beds, perfect for families. The rooms have all been individually designed to offer style, comfort and personality.
Location: Paje, 50km from airport
Class: 3-star
Mount Zion Long Beach Bungalows
Welcome to the Mount Zion Long Beach Bungalows on the East Coast of Zanzibar, Tanzania, East Africa. The hotel consist of eight guestrooms in four stylish bungalows, situated on a small rock just above the beach. All rooms are equipped with mosquito nets, own bathrooms, and ceiling fans keep our guests cool along with the constant breeze on the Indian Ocean. Zanzibarian-style furniture represent Zanzibari traditions in a distinct way. Each guestroom has its own verandah overlooking the tropical garden and the ocean beyond.
Our four new spacious bungalows will make your stay comfortable. All rooms have their own bathroom, big Zanzibarian beds or twin beds, mosquito nets, a cupboard and an own verandah. They are situated on coral rocks just above the beach and surrounded by the lush tropical garden with various fruit trees and beautiful flowers. The bungalows are also suitable for families. For the pure nature-lover we have extraordinary local beach huts. They are featured with beds for two people, mosquito net and electric lights. It shares the bath facilities of the nearby restaurant.
Location: near Jambiani, 1 hour from airport
Class: 2-star
Hotel Casa del Mar
Our hotel has a white sand beach. It is one of only a few beaches in Zanzibar where it is always possibly to swim - during high and during low tide. During low tide the sea forms a natural lagoon and swimming is totally safe. Lying on the beach, you can observe the local fishermen in their wooden boats.
Our 14 rooms are located in two buildings. All rooms have sea view and are tastefully decorated and equipped with East African art and furniture built from eco-friendly local materials. The eight rooms on the ground floor have bathrooms with shower & WC and a private balcony. The six second floor suites are all double-storey with a spacious living room, bathroom and balcony on the first level, and with a king-size futon bed with mosquito net under the thatched roof. For families, additional beds can be placed on the first level. All rooms have ceiling fans.
Location: near Jambiani
Class: 2-star
