Stone Town Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Valentines day - woke up and packed up our stuff to go to Zanzibar for 4 nights. After taxi, ferry and bus we got to our hotel in Nunbwa in the north of the island and got to the most perfect looking setting I've ever been to. Just everything like you'd see in a tourist brochure - crystal clear water, white sand, blue skies - we were goin to lik...

So I've left kenya and travelled down by bus to dar es salam, i tried for the dhow captain down at the old town in mombassa direct to zanzibar, but there was none arriving for a week. so i had to get a bus, pay 100 dollars (for irish people, 50 for all other europeans, i smell a scam!) on the border, and stayed the night in dar es salam, I'm mak...

I am being a total tourist and eating fish and veggies. If I go a long time with out eating chicken, beef, goat and rice I'll be happy. Don't get me wrong; I love the adventure, but my stomach sometimes pays a price. Tonight I enjoyed a spicy Indian veggie dish with naan after a day of walking around the narrow, winding streets getting rather lo...

Day 9 Feb 23 In the morning we met two Russians from Siberia who were staying at our hotel. Looks like they successfully sold some timber or some other natural resource, and decided to explore Africa, not being limited by the budget. Compared to us, they didn't have any specific plans and were just taking different transports to travel from Ugan...

After the riggors of a hard safari we figured we were do some good R&R. When in Tanzania there is only one destination: Zanzibar! We arrived in Stone Town after a short 15 minute hop from Dar. We heard the seas between the mainland and the island were a bit ruff and the ferry ride not all that pleasant with people puking all over the sides and y...

Sarah and i have just spent a week enjoying the finest Zanzibar has to offer. After spending 2 nights in Dar Es Salam (known simply as Dar to the locals) we caught a ferry over the waves to arrive in Zanzibar by evening. The sky was cloudless and even though it was 6pm, the sun was still beating down. Dar was a hectic place, quite built up but w...

From the arid desert of Serengeti & Arusha, we headed southeast towards Dar Es Salaam. Dar is a city of 2 million people. Here we made plans for Zanzibar Island & stayed at a campground on the beach. I met some interesting people that night - gem miners and construction workers originally from Australia and South Africa. We caught a ferry from D...