Zanzibar Pearl Boutique Hotel & Villas — Hotel in Unguja

READ all bad comments before you book they are all true. The place is located on a nice beach, but it ends there. Overpriced and misleading presentation of what is offered. They have 3 rooms advertised as “Superior suit Ocean front” which cannot be called rooms as usually a room has 4 walls, doors and windows. These rooms do not have those elements. They are dangerous to people as instead of windows on the doors they have cover blinds with a lot of open spaces, instead of full walls you get an exotic stick to stick wall again with hundreds open spaces. Besides a lot of wind from the sea you also get all kinds of animals inside these bungalows, and this is dangerous in Africa. If i wanted a to feel as if am sleeping on the beach I would take a bungalow or a tent for 40-50 usd. This place is dangerous and with all their arrogance they are telling me that the net around the bed will protect us, well guess what happens to this net when all the wind comes in constantly. We had a mosquito inside the bed, a few ants and spiders. The worst of all booking.com EU based company allows them to mislead the customers with false presentations of their facilities. On that i will deal with the right authorities in EU, as we all have our rights as customers which shall be protected. On the hotel, after a night in this health hazardous facility they put us in, they wanted to give us another room. Well no thanks, for a few hundred usd that you refused to return, you wont ruin my holiday and neither will booking.com. But be sure that you will not continue to sell this dangerous rooms as “Superior Suits” if i have to i will sue booking.com on this until all the facilities in those rooms are properly described on their webpage. Guys read well and if you value your time and money just chose another place. Besides the above, the restaurant while looking nice is very slow, i had to go myself to the bar at least 4 time to call them on things. Most of their rooms don’t have Air Conditions so be careful on that too. Whats most worrying they deleted my review from booking.com when the pictures speak...

I spent 5 nights here in early April. I had nothing but top notch service the whole time. The staff were very friendly and genuinely caring. Joshua the resort manager would make it a point to genuinely check in on guests everyday. Nothing was an issue for him. Breakfast buffet starts at 0730, but I needed to be out of the hotel by 7 am, so he had breakfast ready for me at 0645 everyday. I inquired about lobster and he had some by dinnertime. I needed to check out a bit later as my flight was at 9 pm. Done.

The hotel grounds are nicely manicured. Nice pool. Direct access to the beach. Beach lounge chairs and parasols.

Just a five minute walk and you're at a beach hut restaurant.

The rooms are aptly decorated, clean and good (and hot) water temperature.

They have a daily evening turn down service where the

Power goes out on the island. It's not a hotel issue. It happens. It's a tropical island. It went out twice everyday. Most times for a few minutes up to ten. If it goes out for longer, you can ask them to turn on the generator. A portable battery bank helps in these scenarios.

Also, Zanzibar has a unique tide system. At one point of the day, the water starts from 50 meters away from the hotel beach entrance, then a few hours later the water is almost reaching hotel grounds. Not a hotel issue. This happens all over the island. Just something to keep in mind.

Highly recommended. Thank you...

Oh my gosh, we are so so so disappointed. My husband and I are here right now for our 35th and 36th birthdays (tomorrow and day after). We arrived a few hours ago and we are absolutely miserable. This hotel was picked by a travel company so we trusted that it was a good place but boy were we wrong! They don't even provide one glass of drinking water with any meal, have to pay 2$ for 2 glasses of water. They tell you not to drink tap water (understandable in these countries) but the 5 other hotels we stayed at on this trip have provided adequate water to stay hydrated. It's just my husband and me and we don't have a drop of water. This place is in the middle of nowhere, nothing close by. The rooms are totally open (slats for doors and open bathroom walls) so our room is buzzing with mosquitos, but the main Italian lady had the audacity to say "oh but it's not so much because of the wind from the ocean" 🤦🏻‍♀️ Please don't come here. This place is expensive as heck. Places close by are a third of the price cheaper and provide free bottled water daily. I know I sound like I'm ranting but water is so basic 🥺 We are absolutely miserable and have no way to rectify...