Uroa Bay Beach Resort

This place is a resort with a club arrangement. Meaning bus loads of tourists are coming from time to time and enjoy an animation program throughout their stay. For an indvidual traveler the ambiance encountered is therefore not convincing. Beaches in Zanzibar are public. Apparently therfore they built a stone wall fence to separate Hotel premises from the main beach? You can see this wall only on a few pictures of their gallery only. The nice beach you see there is only visible through low tide. During flood the beach disappears. The place offers two restaurants one with buffet only option. 20 Dollars per adult and 10 for children. The other restaurant is a la card. But in both cases the price is way too high for the food quality. Close to the resort are no options for self-supply. The restaurants in the next village are just as expensive. Those guys know the prices in the hotel too. Staff seems to be recruted from local communities - most do not speak sufficient english and communicating orders was indeed very difficult. Sometimes behaviour was not adequate. Otherwise the site has all exotic atmosphere - trees, plants - and can possibly be relaxing if you accept the flaws mentioned above.

Lovely hotel on arrival with lovely clean grounds and great swimming pool, Unfortunately the rooms and food didn't live up to expectations. we had a lovely large family room which should have been perfect, but. 1) the beds were rock hard 2) there were millipedes everywhere. (I understand that they will come under the doors, but I found a dead one in the same place for 2 days) 3) the safe didn't work and took 2 days to fix 4) the towels were threadbare and the edges were all frayed - simple to put right, but I shouldn't have had to complain 5) the curtains looked dirty, ragged and hung off - again a simple and cheap solutions that would have made the rooms so much nicer 6) There was a terrible smell in the bedroom, I think it was from newly oiled wooded wardrobes. As a result I didn't dare put any of my clothes in them. I asked for airfreshener, but only got it on the 2nd attempt when I asked the cleaning staff. Reception didn't do anything.