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This hotel is an absolute paradise, the best hotel in Zanzibar. Everything fits together. The hotel has its own Spice farm, an amazing pool, its own beach. There are several restaurants and the cuisine is excellent. Simply perfect. Definitely recommend it, it's worth it.

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