We came here to eat and drink but couldn't leave fast enough! Disgusting dirty entrance to hotel wi very unfriendly bunch of people sitting around! The food urgghhh and I couldn't drink the flat beer! The reason for paying n running out was the toilet -over flowing n filthy ! Hotel management comes from top down n from what others...
I have just come back from Zanzibar – and felt honour bound to write up a fair review – I have read all the others – I apologise in advance for length/sp/grammar, but written in a hurry and to share with you. Here is my experience.
What was good:
We needed a quick 'gap-it' out of Johannesburg desperately in need...
Selected to stay at the safari inn for my first night in dar after over 20 hours of travel and was greeted by a cheap bed, friendly service but terrible terrible shower. Did not see/meet fellow travellers. I would recommend the YMCA over this place. Don't spend more than 15000 tsh from the airport. Happy traveling
We stayed here for 4 nights at the tailend of safari's in Tanzania and Kenya. Unfortunately, our luggage didn't arrive with us when we flew into Zanzibar, yet the staff at Baraza accommodated us, by providing extra robes and shorts and laundered our existing clothes. The GM empathized as he was originally from the Plaza in NYC, so he understand...
so we arrived at Karamba, it was over 40 with the humidity, the rooms aren't air conditioned and there is a ceiling fan that tries unsuccessfully to move air. Our toilet seat was attached with rope, which broke the 2nd day. It did get replaced that day but why wouldn't it have been fixed before our group of 14 got...
Do you know what they charge for a double room? You won't believe if you had seen what we had. A simple equipped cottage, cheap interior and beds of cement for hundreds of US-Dollar.
The best advice I can give you is to stay somewhere else on Zanzibar, there are beautiful accomodations right next on the beach, much better and...