Dhow Inn Boutique Hotel

Perfect location , beautifull beach.A great holliday because of the great staff of the Dhow inn. So friendly, helpful and attentive!There is a small private beach for the guests. Where they serve your drinks and food. The room was simple modern,light and clean. If something was not ok, they immediately solve it. The food is good and you can also eat à la carte if you prefer . We will come back next year! Special thanks for the staff of the restaurant/bar (Issa,Leonard, Deus, Tuamaini, Salmin and all the others!!! ) Hakuna matata , a sante sana!!

I highly recommend this hotel, the staff was really very nice and helpful. The food and drinks was very good, I appreciate the sushi restaurant. Everything was clean, wifi was working fast. Thank you and I will definitely come back. See you soon

This hotel needs to seriously rethink itself, at least as as far as my experience is concerned. We had a six day stay, half board in a second floor room with a private pool. It certainly looks good on the outside and the pools and beach are wonderful, but… The pool is a gimmick, maybe fun for kids to splash around in but far to small for use by adults. The hotel decided to do some work on the roof over the terrace and pool while I was enjoying my book seated on the terrace. I had to flee as it rained muck and water from the intervention rendering the terrace and the pool unusable. I expected these to be cleaned once they had finished, but this did not happen and needed a trip to the front desk to resolve. The roof still leaks when it rains, so the terrace is basically unusable. In fact with one downpour the room was almost flooded as the drain was blocked and the water accumulated. Next day, the pool was still dirty. Then the air conditioning in our room decided to malfunction, very likely due to the episode of the previous day, pouring water over our open suitcase just underneath. OK, my fault for leaving it there, but we had to go find housekeeping and maintenance guy to fix and clean. The room itself while spacious, is not aging well. But while I have to admit, these are not daily occurrences, its pretty annoying especially when no apology was forthcoming. More frequent issues relate to the quasi inexistant internet, which when it did function was certainly not high speed. Also, the meals while adequate were not particularly appealing or varied. That said, we thoroughly enjoyed our grilled seafood platter for lunch, which of course was outside our meal plan. The housekeeping and bar staff are all very pleasant but have a tendency to forget things. The nightly turn down service with the anti mosquito spray showed up too late for us each night, While the beach is a short walk away from the hotel, the path is littered with rubbish and shards from broken bottles. It must be said this land is not actually owned by the hotel, but it has to be crossed and best not bare footed. My last gripe relates to the 5% surcharge that they impose for payment by credit card…

We spent 9 nights in DhowInn and we really enjoyed our stay in hotel and generell in Zanzibar!The room 404 was clean 10 steps from a great pool , long enough for length swimming what a really appreciated. The breakfast and dinner was a really good combination of different delicious local freshly prepared foods., for lunch we ordered many times the fresh prepared sushi’s (it took time till we got the food but it was worth it). We also enjoyed 3 times 35min massages in the hotel Spa - really nice ! The amazing turquoise white powder beach is couple steps away from hotel with many opportunities for activities . We booked directly in hotel a couple of really interesting and well organized trips . Our guide was Rhamadan and we highly appreciate his guiding qualities and a very friendly and uncomplicated way to show us the true beauty of the island ! We had a wonderful experience with his guiding . In generell we had a very good experience with hotels stuff ! I can highly recommend the stay in DhowInn.

We were picked by the Dhow Inn driver at the airport to the hotel. I do accord warm reservation, we received from the receptionist. The hotel is well lighted both inside rooms and outside. The only challenge we had was the type of meal selection they had. They were more strict to orders, this could not allow us, an extra different food from the menu.

Fantastic staff We have spent a week in this wonderful hotel heron Zanzibar. The staff has been amazing and we have been treated with nothing but smiles and helpfulness. The hotel is right next to the beach and you have fantastic views from the balcony in the dining area. It’s clean and comfortable and we are happy to have visited the hotel.