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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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