Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
6.0
Service:
7.0
Cleanliness:
7.0
Food:
6.0
Amenities:
6.0
Was there in February 2011.
At 5 * this hotel can only pull out in Africa.
In Egypt, such a hotel is a maximum of four.
In general, the pros and cons:
The territory is clean, green, bunches of coconuts hang right above the paths and in a strong wind they can fall on the head of an unwary vacationer - then you will have to rest in a local hospital.
3 restaurants - main, Masai and sea.
In all 3, a typical African attitude to hygiene - cutlery is laid out right on the tables, toothpicks in a slide, no one knows what paper napkins are - it remains to brush the ants off the table and you can enjoy dinner.
However, the food is quite tolerable, it is difficult to stay hungry.
Here, by the way, a small note about our tours. agencies.
The managers there do not really understand what they are selling, and therefore they offer half board (breakfast and dinner).
The trouble is that the nearest relatively decent restaurant is 2 kilometers along the coast on foot and, therefore, you have to eat in the restaurants of the same hotel, so All inclusive is more profitable. And the restaurants near the hotel are in such a state and are served by such karkalygs that it’s scary to buy a sealed bottle of water there, let alone eat something.
The staff is friendly, sometimes, in an effort to please, a little annoying - for some reason, in a restaurant, the waitresses forcefully take your plate away from you and carry it to your table themselves - or 5 people who put your room in order during the day - but strictly in turn.
The hotel does a good business on the water - a 0.5 liter bottle costs $ 1.5 - again, the result of the fact that there is nothing nearby. By the way, drinks are not included in the All inclusive.
The beach is clean with white sand.
The entrance to the water - along a concrete path of 100 meters - a step to the right, a step to the left - you ran into a sea urchin, you limp the rest of your vacation - they lie there like mines in a wind sapper at the most difficult level.
After 100 meters you come to an empty space, where there are no hedgehogs, corals or fish - like in a pool, only the bottom is sandy.
The hotel has a dive club - the guys are cool, the equipment is decent, the diving is boring - not the Red Sea - the visibility is 10-15 meters, there are few fish, corals are scarce - you should not follow the marketing descriptions of diving in Zanzibar.
There are almost no Russians in the hotel - for example, I was alone, mostly Italians and Germans.
A separate song - electricity!
It always turns off after lunch for 2-3 hours and several times during the day - live as you want. But really - why does the hotel need electricity, if everything is on the beach and by the pool ? ? ?
There is a safe in the room, but it did not work - on the first day they told me - tomorrow we will bring another one - tomorrow it stretched for 5 days and never came. The money was in a bag closed with an ordinary zipper - nothing was missing.
In general - in my opinion, the hotel is expensive for the service provided and boring. Yes, and far away - You can find a closer vacation more interesting and cheaper. But if you are drawn to the exotic, you can survive there.
Yes, and another point regarding Zanzibar in principle - it is difficult to fly out of there, flights are delayed by 4-5 hours easily, so try to plan a connection with a large gap, otherwise you risk being late for the next plane.
At 5 * this hotel can only pull out in Africa.
In Egypt, such a hotel is a maximum of four.
In general, the pros and cons:
The territory is clean, green, bunches of coconuts hang right above the paths and in a strong wind they can fall on the head of an unwary vacationer - then you will have to rest in a local hospital.
3 restaurants - main, Masai and sea.
In all 3, a typical African attitude to hygiene - cutlery is laid out right on the tables, toothpicks in a slide, no one knows what paper napkins are - it remains to brush the ants off the table and you can enjoy dinner.
However, the food is quite tolerable, it is difficult to stay hungry.
Here, by the way, a small note about our tours. agencies.
The managers there do not really understand what they are selling, and therefore they offer half board (breakfast and dinner).
The trouble is that the nearest relatively decent restaurant is 2 kilometers along the coast on foot and, therefore, you have to eat in the restaurants of the same hotel, so All inclusive is more profitable. And the restaurants near the hotel are in such a state and are served by such karkalygs that it’s scary to buy a sealed bottle of water there, let alone eat something.
The staff is friendly, sometimes, in an effort to please, a little annoying - for some reason, in a restaurant, the waitresses forcefully take your plate away from you and carry it to your table themselves - or 5 people who put your room in order during the day - but strictly in turn.
The hotel does a good business on the water - a 0.5 liter bottle costs $ 1.5 - again, the result of the fact that there is nothing nearby. By the way, drinks are not included in the All inclusive.
The beach is clean with white sand.
The entrance to the water - along a concrete path of 100 meters - a step to the right, a step to the left - you ran into a sea urchin, you limp the rest of your vacation - they lie there like mines in a wind sapper at the most difficult level.
After 100 meters you come to an empty space, where there are no hedgehogs, corals or fish - like in a pool, only the bottom is sandy.
The hotel has a dive club - the guys are cool, the equipment is decent, the diving is boring - not the Red Sea - the visibility is 10-15 meters, there are few fish, corals are scarce - you should not follow the marketing descriptions of diving in Zanzibar.
There are almost no Russians in the hotel - for example, I was alone, mostly Italians and Germans.
A separate song - electricity!
It always turns off after lunch for 2-3 hours and several times during the day - live as you want. But really - why does the hotel need electricity, if everything is on the beach and by the pool ? ? ?
There is a safe in the room, but it did not work - on the first day they told me - tomorrow we will bring another one - tomorrow it stretched for 5 days and never came. The money was in a bag closed with an ordinary zipper - nothing was missing.
In general - in my opinion, the hotel is expensive for the service provided and boring. Yes, and far away - You can find a closer vacation more interesting and cheaper. But if you are drawn to the exotic, you can survive there.
Yes, and another point regarding Zanzibar in principle - it is difficult to fly out of there, flights are delayed by 4-5 hours easily, so try to plan a connection with a large gap, otherwise you risk being late for the next plane.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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