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Fly into Zanzibar's Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ), then it's about a 60-minute (≈45 km) road transfer up to the north-east coast, the resort arranges airport transfers on request.
Rooms run from Deluxe (Double or Twin, ~37 m², king canopy bed, walk-in shower, garden or sea view) up to the roomier Junior Suites and beach villas, the sea-view rooms and the Junior Suite Sea View are the ones guests single out, with reviewers repeatedly calling the ocean outlook breathtaking, families tend toward connecting Deluxe rooms or the suites that sleep two adults and two children, for the best of it ask for a sea-facing upper room. Worth knowing: the east coast has big tidal swings, so deep beach swimming is tide-dependent and the pools fill the gap.
Five restaurants and three bars on an all-inclusive basis, a main buffet alongside à la carte venues and a sushi bar, with beach and pool bars pouring house soft drinks, beers, wines and spirits, plus dedicated kids' meals and evening entertainment.
Beachwear and reef-safe sunscreen, a hat and light breathable cottons, a cover-up for shoulders and knees when leaving the resort for villages or Stone Town, water shoes for the reef flat at low tide, insect repellent for dusk, and a light layer for the air-conditioning and breezy evenings.
Check the tide table, low tide pulls the sea far out across the reef flat (lovely to walk, less so for swimming, hence the pools), book the à la carte restaurants ahead as they fill up, note the resort is completely cashless so everything goes on your room, and use the BLUE Guides to set up Spice Island excursions, with Stone Town and snorkelling off Mnemba the standout day trips.
The resort is eco-certified and was refurbished in 2020 with more efficient water and energy systems, and as a TUI BLUE property it sits within TUI's wider sustainability framework and TUI Care Foundation community initiatives on the island, sourcing locally where it can.
