Ellavita Cottages — Hotel in Unguja

Our stay at Ellavita Cottages on 9/9/2025, was truly unsettling. We arrived at 4 p.m. to find the place completely abandoned. We were let in by two men off the street who said were not staff and who showed us a room that smelled incredibly musty, as if nobody entered in months. After viewing several other rooms, all in the same state, they confirmed no one else was staying there and manager was away.|The rooms lacked working locks or safe boxes, no staff were present and, with strangers freely coming and going, we felt unsafe. We left and found a good hotel nearby. This place gave us the creeps. I feel completely fooled by the few glowing reviews this place has — and honestly wonder if...

Awful, avoid at any cost! This is the worst accomodation ever and they shouldn't have licence to sell this. Awful smell, smell of moisture and dust. moisture smell is so hard that you can't sleep at night, noises everywhere during the night. Towels and sheets are dirty, bugs and moscito everywhere, not good moscito nets. Breakfast is bad, bad service, you have to ask for toilet paper and towel. The water in the toilet didn't work. This accomodation will ruin your vacation, it's...

Terrible accommodations. Ants in the room, no toilet paper. Host kept harassing us for extra money for air conditioning and then wrote us a bad review on Air BnB because she thought we left it running all day while we were at the beach (we were in the room doing work on the laptops, so yes, it was running). Basically, just don’t stay here, it’s not worth the stress. Worst place we’ve ever stayed...