В ноябре на Занзибаре November in Zanzibar

Stayed for a week in mid-November. At this time the weather is cloudy, but otherwise it would just be fried. Air 28-30 (according to the thermometer on the air conditioner), water - at least 25, where it is shallow - at low tide - warm, I think, up to 30 (according to sensations).
Houses in three or four lines, the farther from the coast - the cheaper. We lived in the furthest.
Everything works fine in the room - air conditioning, fan, refrigerator, plumbing, hair dryer. Cleaning - regularly, good enough. Towels are always fresh. Soap, shampoos, etc. - always available. But that's how it should be in a normal hotel. There is no TV in the room. Bathrooms are not decorated with marble (this is present in the description of the hotel on many sites), ordinary tiles. So do not flatter yourself, there is no luxury.

The main drawback of the hotel, and a very significant one, is the beach. You can swim only after walking 200 meters along a meter-wide concrete path. On the sides of the path - stones with a huge number of sea urchins. Walking there - only in rubber slippers! At low tide, all this is exposed, and at high tide - a beautiful view of the sea and the beach; so if you see a wonderful photo of a beach with azure water - this is a tide, 200 meters along the path into the sea - and you can swim. The water is clear, you can take a mask or glasses, there are fish, hedgehogs, stars, you can see. There are boat dives from the hotel twice a day, but we didn't use it.
The water in the pool - sea, shower - fresh.
Nothing to do outside the gates of the hotel. You can go to the city - 1 hour. Or in the opposite direction - pos. Michamvi (there are several simple hotels and the beaches are normal, without hedgehogs, but a bit small - waist-deep, or a little deeper, maximum chest-deep - 30-40 minutes on foot or by minibus (2 km to the village + 1-2 km to the beach).
The hotel area is well-groomed, green, but not a "tropical garden" (this phrase is present in the description), palm trees, bushes, baobab. Picturesque fountain in front of the entrance. I think that for such an area there are too many houses or too few trees.
Breakfasts and dinners at the hotel do not in any way correspond to the level of 4 *, and even more so 5 *. (The hotel positions itself as 5 * !!! ) And even more so for the price of 254 USD for two per day for a third-line house. You won't go hungry, but the choice is too small. Fruits - two kinds, juices - two, sweets, something meat for breakfast was not every day. For dinner - one kind of meat and fish, maybe instead of meat - chicken. Vegetables - better, a standard set - cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, canapes. But it's still scarce. By the standards of Turkey, Egypt or Southeast Asia - food for 3 *. Disappointingly, there were no daily bottles of water in the room. To the question - why is there no water on the second day? the answer was given - "water on the day of arrival - a gift from the hotel. " The price of water in the hotel is 5 times higher than outside the gate.
Twice a week there were themed dinners with Negro and Maasai dances. Half an hour of screaming, howling, jumping and wiggling.

The staff is normal, there were no problems with the exception of one. But there is no complete certainty, although with a probability of 90 percent I am sure that this happened in this hotel. From the safe was missing (or from hotels on a safari - which I think is unlikely): a 50 dollar bill, a 50 Euro bill, three bills of 10.000 shillings. Since there was no 100% certainty that this happened in Karafu, they did not raise a storm. Be careful and attentive.