Isla Bonita Zanzibar Beach Resort

The hotel is situated in a peaceful and quiet place, right next to the beach. All windows overlooking the beach and ocean. Food very good, lots of fish and seafood. The service was fantastic and very helpful. I highly recommend it.Nice pool. The perfect place to organize birthdays, engagements and weddings. I highly, highly recommend this place.

Where to start. The location in the middle of a lovely quiet village where you are welcomed with a smile. On arrival the entire team was waiting for us with lovely refreshing juice. We were assigned to a sparkling clean room in a matter of minutes. Spacious room with amazing ocean view. The face of the hotel is a beautiful Elizabeth. There was nothing better than Elizabeth's smile when we came for breakfast or dinner. This was the most welcoming thing to see first. Thank you to the restaurant team Elizabeth, Luiz, Rahma, Gladness this place wouldn't be the same without you. The food was so good. Freshly baked bread rolls or bread sticks 🤤 the selection during our 2 weeks stay was so good. There was no option to be hungry. Endrick, Ayubu and Fatuma are amazing. The housekeeping. These beautiful ladies worked so hard every day to make sure the room was sparkling clean. Aisha, Huzyma and Grace your work was hugely appreciated. Mustafa your entire team is amazing. Please take care of them. Thinking of you all and hope to meet again. Sending greetings from my Julie as well Hakuna Matata

We had a horrible experience at this hotel. It was poorly managed during our stay, which was during low season. Their only redeeming qualities are that the breakfast was good, the hotel is clean and they hung up balloons for my Mom's birthday. The acting manager, who is not from Zanzibar, tried to bamboozle us. His quote for taxis and archipelago experiences was $20 - $30 more than the island's going rates! I'm from South Africa so I'm no stranger to power outages, but we arrived to no electricity at Isla Bonita at 1pm. And we were the only 2 guests at the entire hotel. I'm sure if you're coming here on your honeymoon or romantic getaway, this would have been ideal, but as I was travelling with my gregarious mother for her 70th birthday, this made us feel down in the dumps. With the heavy rain, we couldn't explore the Matemwe beach either. So we were stuck in a hotel room with no air con, no WiFi, no lights and no TV. It felt like a colossal waste of money for an important trip on Day 1. The manager assured us that the power would come on in an hours' time (so around 3pm) and that they had a generator, which would run the entire night. After sitting without power until 6pm, I had to WhatsApp him to ask for candles/light. The power only kicked in at 10pm, and yet still there was no WiFi nor TV. So we had NO power from 1pm to 10pm. I couldn't pay by card due to their card machine issues and he shouted across the courtyard, "MAYBE IT'S YOUR CARD!" It wasn't, as I used this card for our entire trip in Zanzibar. But that should give a glimpse into the kind of person he is. He was also rude to our driver. The next night (around 2am) the power went off again. At 8am in the morning, I messaged the manager to ask what was going on and he said that it was out of his control and that the entire island had been affected. I said that when we were in Stone Town the previous day, and that that the entire part had electricity and generators, and 20 minutes after my message - Isla Bonita's generator kicked in! Such inconsistent lies. I notified Bookings.com and checked us out immediately. I paid in cash for the 2 nights that we stayed and the taxi from the airport. The manager changed his attitude and suddenly became very humble and talkative, asking us not to give a bad review. There is no sense of customer service at this place. From personal experience, I felt that we were treated this way because we are 2 women. Don't waste your money here. Rather go to Stone Town during Zanzibar's low season and have a trip that's worthwhile & shows a true reflection of this beautiful place and its warm people.

A ‘motel’ on a quiet part of Matemwe beach in front of the village. Clean, simple room, nice pool, basic facilities, but all functional. Ridiculous waiting time for meals though - 2.5 hours - and several mistakes in the orders. No alcohol, but they can get beer for you. Breakfast was okay.

First time visitor to Zanzibar. My perferance for hotel stay is normally a 5* hotel, but I was late booking for the half term holidays. ISLA bonita was not 5* however the hotel manager was so accommadating with my needs and requests that I would 100% stay at this hotel again, the staff are willing to help and make your stay a great experience. What more can you ask for is that the hotel is on the beach. The pool was a nice size. If your looking for a holiday to chill and relax this is the hotel is for you. It Is a dry hotel but nobody stops you from drinking your own drinks you have brought in. Also less than 5min walk there is also a hotel close buy that is not dry. They also accommadate the best they can with any dietary requirements. Till my next visit.

Our family had an amazing stay at the Isla Bonita, we stayed for two weeks and loved every minute. It's a beautiful/peaceful location and the staff were all ncredibly helpful going the extra mile to make our stay enjoyable. Would defo recommend and would love to revisit someday soon ❤