Blue Oyster Hotel

Eighteen, split between sea view rooms on the upper floors and simpler garden view rooms around the courtyard. The hotel also has a private villa with three double rooms for up to six guests.

Directly on the beach in Jambiani, a fishing village on the south east coast of Zanzibar. The hotel puts it at about fifty kilometres and an hour and a half by road from Zanzibar airport and from Stone Town.

Yes. Jambiani sits on a wide lagoon, and at low tide the sea draws back across a reef flat where women from the village farm seaweed. At high tide it comes right up to the beach, and the hotel now has its own pool for the hours in between.

The room and breakfast each morning, Wi Fi, the pool and the beach loungers. Dinner can be added as half board at 30 US dollars per person per day, and lunch is ordered from the menu.

No, by choice. Every room has a ceiling fan and mosquito net, and the buildings face the sea breeze. Hot water comes from solar heaters.

The hotel welcomes families and keeps a baby cot and high chair. We are not yet able to price a child in the rooms here, so children cannot be booked at this hotel yet. In the villa children are included in the villa price.

A private villa with three double rooms, two bathrooms, a living room, a fully equipped kitchen and a large balcony facing the sea, priced as a whole for up to six guests.

Swim and walk the lagoon at low tide, take a massage from women from the village, and book trips with Kemi Tours, the local operator the hotel works with, for trips across the island.

It has been run by the same family since 1999 and was one of the first hotels on Zanzibar certified by Responsible Tourism Tanzania. It recycles grey water on its gardens, composts, grows food on its own farm and works closely with the village.

Tanzania requires inbound travel insurance for every visitor from 1 October 2026, 44 US dollars per adult, bought online before you fly. Your Expert will remind you when you book.