Jambiani Villas

Twelve units across three properties. Kaskazini has four two bedroom villas, Katikati has two two bedroom villas and two one bedroom apartments, and Kusini has two three bedroom villas and two one bedroom apartments. The property can hold fifty two guests in all.

Fly into Zanzibar airport, which the property gives as 55 kilometres away and which takes about an hour by road. Airport transfers are not included in the room rate.

Your unit, daily housekeeping, wireless internet, use of your property pool, and breakfast at La Shira restaurant. The half board rate adds dinner each day. The Zanzibar infrastructure tax of 4 US dollars per person per night is paid at the property.

No, and this is the thing to plan around. The tide on this coast runs out as much as a kilometre and a half and comes back in twice a day, so swimming in the sea follows the high tide. The pools are there whatever the water is doing, and the day tide times are posted at reception and at the restaurant.

The property takes children and prices them by the make up of the party rather than by a simple percentage. Our builder cannot price that yet, so children cannot be booked at this property yet.

Breakfast runs from 07:30 to 10:30 at La Shira, the restaurant on the beach at the Katikati property. Lunch and dinner are served there from midday to half past nine. Guests at Kaskazini and Kusini walk about four minutes along the sand, and the property sends a taxi free of charge when the tide is too high for the walk.

Yes. Every villa and apartment has a fully equipped kitchen. Fish is landed on the beach in the morning and there are shops in the village and in Paje.

Yes, both, in every unit. The property publishes the wireless speed as 4 Mb per second, which is fine for messaging and email and will not stream films reliably.

Two nights all year. The property also quotes the turn of the year by request only rather than from its rate sheet, 1 to 5 January in both years and from 22 December in 2026 and from 20 December in 2027, so those nights are not bookable here.

Jambiani is a working Swahili village of about seven thousand people and the island is more than nine in ten Muslim, so cover shoulders and knees away from the beach. The property warns that there are no street lights, so carry a torch after dark. Low tide is when the seaweed farmers are out and it is the best time to walk the beach.

Yes. The reef keeps the lagoon flat and the wind blows from the north from mid December to March and from the south from May to October, with the highest chance of a windy day in July and August. Schools operate in Jambiani and in Paje five kilometres away.

Each unit is sold as a whole, so availability moves in jumps. If the villa you want is taken, your Expert can check the other two properties, which are four hundred metres up or down the same beach.