This hotel is beautiful and has an amazing location however I don't feel it quite offers the right experience to justify the 5* rating. The beach is amazing, perfect white sand and turquoise clear water, gorgeous sunbeds and drinks/food served at your lounger. The people constantly approaching you to sell things all day was very irritating - you can't even walk to the water's edge without being approached by someone, let alone take a walk on the beach. One thing that I found very unusual and quite irritating was that any drinks/food served to your sunlounger had to be signed for each time, despite being all inclusive. Sometimes waiters were calling you out of the sea to sign your "bill" for $0. Halfway through our stay, the waiters were adding a 5% service charge to everything we ordered, and again we had to sign for that each time as well. I found this very strange - I've never been charged service in a 5* all inclusive, that would usually be included in a tip at the end of the stay. The staff were even charging a service fee to re-stock the mini-bar in the room. The rooms were nice and very private, really enjoyed the outdoor shower however the rooms were too small and had very little storage space for suitcases/clothes. Note that the air-con only goes to 24 degrees in order to keep the carbon footprint of the hotel down, but it does offer a cooling system over the bed at night which is more than sufficient. The rooms had great tv and really good films on offer. The food was decent/average - I found it quite bland, the salads were probably the best. The a la carte restaurant/lunch menus were nice however could really benefit from changing the menu, it gets very repetitive especially if you're staying for 2 weeks. The gluten free options were minimal especially at lunch-time and the buffet signs were unreliabile. At one point I noticed that the fried chicken said "GF" and i double checked with the staff and they said that it wasn't and removed the sign. This made me very cautious to eat most things as I wasn't sure if it was really gluten free. I did get foot poisoning during my stay from some bad lobster - I wouldn't know if this was the fault of the hotel or not, could just be bad luck. One of the reasons I really fancied this hotel was because of the yoga options - but it turns out only 1 session is included in your "all-inclusive" and the class was at 330pm - not ideal. They were charging you $30 per session if you wanted to do the 830am class which I thought was very expensive, given the price of the hotel. I felt at least some of the morning yoga sessions should have been included. I'd really recommend doing the daily snorkelling trip to mnemba (extra charge) - you get your own private boat and the snorkelling is incredible. We saw dolphins too and were able to swim with them - amazing! The hotel offer a "sundowners" thing where you watch the sunset and have drinks - they try and charge you $35, but you can just go down there and order d
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