Good: Nice looking room (suite in a new building) and hotel area, lots of beautiful plants and small animals, decent beach and swimming pool; free upgrade from bungalow to a suite on low season; strong feeling of security - protected entrance, every driver picking up guests has to sign in guest book; worker present during taxi price negotiation to ensure we will not be scammed; helpful reception lady and one guy at the bar (only ones speaking good english); also very nice and helpful worker of local travel agency Flash Tour present in the hotel Bad: Food in every possible way! In low season only a la carte but with very limited options: no avocado, no beef, no shrimp/prawns, no skewers. Mostly boring european-like cuisine availlable. Breakfast on first day - almost empty and unapetizing „buffet”. On the next days - only omelette/eggs and bread. NOTHING more! Lunch and dinner - very limited options and most of them not tasty. Quality of the ingredients was poor, most dishes tasteless and /or oily. The bar made us cocktails with no alcohol and OPENLY tested if we noticed - this happened a few times. This is straight up fraud! Another problem: rain. Of course in the rain season it rains, but water completely flooded the hotel (even 20cm of water on the walkways outside) and got into our room almost every day (1 meter wide puddle in the middle of the room) due to faulty construction. Also, the hotel has its own merchant selling souvenirs. He was intrusive and made inapropriate comments to white female guest! A lot of staff (3-6 people at the bar, 2 at the restaurant, 2-3 kitchen, 2 reception + a lot of maintenance staff) but despite of that - very slow and incomplete service, poor english. On the last day of our stay - suddenly the waitresses started to be intrusively polite and openly ask for tips. Overall feeling: we were treated like money piggies, not interesting if we don’t tip. This applies to the locals in general. Sadly, the people here behave desperately and intrusively to get money and often try to scam you with double prices in shops or taxi. You can’t have a peaceful walk on the beach or chill on the sunbeds without being constantly interrupted by someone trying to sell you something. The nature of the Zanzibar island is beautiful but we left exhausted by all the intrusive interactions and feeling abused by the local people.
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