Very good resort for a low price. The staff was magnificent. So friendly and helpful. The food was excellent. And the cleaning was the best i ever seen. And i have stayed at numerous resorts, hotels and Airbnb:s in all continents.

Stayed in February 2025

Electricity shut down very often, even if only for a few minutes. Maybe a better generator should be installed.

Very nice and modern hotel with all facilities. Friendly and professional staff. The food was good and varied regularly. Great location in Paje and beach front.

Stayed in January 2025

Firstly I didn’t like the fact that for the 5 star hotel the food was poor. I am a vegetarian and almost every day I had to eat pizza as mostly salad was with meat , fish and sea food. Not enough fruits for breakfast. The choice of food in general is not too good and I hope they will improve that in the future . Another thing is that at the property we can see a lot of animals - which is perfectly fine for me as they don’t bother me but staff were rude to them and didn’t allow us to feed them or give them water which in this condition is not humane!! If you like to have animals around please allow people to take care of them. They don’t do anything bad to anyone so we should treat them with respect and kindness. We experience the day where members of staff were throwing stones at them!!! Thirdly- builders and maintenance team who was doing some work were very loud during the day so you can hear a lot of noise.

What I likes about the hotel was the fact that hotel is close to the beach… In the room you can find comfortable bed , TV and specious shower and you can enjoy a lot of nice activities during the day and night - organised by great animation team - JUNIOR AND SHABBY are doing an amazing job !!!! Staff are friendly but not all of them and you can enjoy drinks and cocktails if you have all inclusive option available. Music around the hotel for sure improve the vibe!! You can enjoy the view as the ocean looks incredible!!!!! It was my second time in Zanzibar and Paje definitely ticked the box. If you are looking more for quiet place you should choose Kiwengwa or Matemwe.

Stayed in June 2024

The access to the hotel is not clean and easy. Actually it is pretty difficult to find out hotel main entrance.

The kindness of the entire SBH Monica staff. Always helpful and always willing to assist. Facilities are extremely good. Food (breakfast and dinner) was also very good, tasty and well presented.

Stayed in April 2024

Nothing

Location, resort, staff, rooms

Stayed in February 2024

Their in-house pharmacy is a rip off, over charged for regular medication by a lot. Was not happy

Location right on the beach

Stayed in February 2024

All meals were low quality esp the breakfast. The staff is not knowledgeable at all, despite being friendly they were very slow and non effective. Pool is not up to 5 star hotel standards. Very frequent power cuts and low water pressure in the shower.

Location, spacious rooms, price.

Stayed in January 2024

The breakfast (terrible..), the management of the hotel, clearly not at a level of a 5 stars hotel

The location, the room, the bed, the spa

Stayed in January 2024

Dinner did not have much variety if you did not eat seafood.

Breakfast was good and the location was good. The staff members are awesome and other parts of the hotel were still under construction. The rooms were superb and the white sand beach was beautiful and awesome to walk on. I could visit this resort again definitely.

Stayed in August 2023

I would expect bit better quality and choice of food (especially for dinners) and definitely better drinks (AI). The availability of pool/beach towels…really 20 USD deposit per pc required…even when You are AI?

The ocean view + the beach, freshly equiped and spacious rooms, new venues, large relaxing zone/beach/pool side, a lot of sunbeds. Proper restaurant service.

Stayed in September 2023

The mixed drinks were really, really bad, and the bartenders were pretty rude. They were also out of a lot of the alcohol/ingredients, so most of the time when we asked for a cocktail or smoothie they just said “no”. It was very odd, and kind of a rip off considering everything we were asking for was listed on the menu (and supposedly included as part of the all-inclusive package).

The hotel is beautiful, really top-notch on a great beach. The rooms are very nice. The food is also awesome — just be aware that you might as well go ahead and purchase the all-inclusive when you book because the cost of dining at the hotel without all-inclusive is insanely high. The front desk and dining staff are also really friendly!

Stayed in September 2023

The cats and the monkey; despite a huge notice by the property requesting guests to not feed these animals, other guests did, and as a result the animals tended to create commotion around other guests, including myself. Also there’s some automatic adjustment on the hot water at the shower, this was not cool as one needs a warm shower after the heat and that hectic itinerary.

I loved the location, the property is right on the beach. The staff is super amazing, Hussein and team are really amazing and exceptional. They helped me with organising my activities and were always available to help. It really was heaven on earth, it felt so much like home.

Stayed in August 2023

The hot water doesn’t last more than 3 minutes and the internet in the room is very intermittent and annoying.

Mostly the food was good. Accommodation was just brilliant.

Stayed in August 2023

1. The hotel isn’t fully ready yet and you can be disturbed by ongoing construction on site. Also, you can feel the fresh construction smell in the room. 2. Service is quite poor: not always having drinking water in the room, missing towels, not able to show prices for spa, not replying on bookingcom. Also, I wish to have an iron in the room but it’s not really important. 3. Breakfast isn’t really tasty although options are enough, no coffee machine. I’m happy I didn’t take all inclusive or half-board.

1. Rooms look exactly like in photos. Nice interior and exterior, new modern furniture, AC, mosquitos net, shampoo/gel/cream 2. Security on the entrance from the beach, so strangers can’t enter 3. Transport from/to airport $50

Stayed in August 2023

The internet connection wasn’t stable at al in my room. Lucky in the rest of the resort it was. I told the staff and they said that people where working on it. Unfortunately it could not get fixed during my stay.

The location is perfect! The staff is very nice and they always try to help where it is needed. Every morning at the breakfast you have different kind of option that changes every day.

Stayed in July 2023

WiFi had major issues throughout the trip. Didn’t work in the rooms and was often down for large portions of the day.

Great pool, great location, very comprehensive

Stayed in July 2023

The staff would clean up not empty my dustbins The bathroom is not well levelled , water remains back after shower, the restaurant has cats very disturbing during eating, they should do something about it. I hated the fact during dinning in my partner had to remove his cap. It’s a leisure place not ruling place what to wear and not too

The environment and pictures are true , refreshing outside

Stayed in April 2025

There were numerous continuous power cuts throughout the day - sometimes up to 15 in one day. We also had an issue where the management confirmed we could refund an extra day we had added due to flight changes but then had to cancel due to further flight changes - but when we tried to do this, they then denied they’d said we could do that.

The property is beautiful and situated on the beach. The bar and food selection under all inclusive was great.

Stayed in January 2025

Better food

good location right nest to the beach

Stayed in December 2024

N/A

Spacious, modern, clean

Stayed in March 2024

Clearly rushed to open, lots of unfinished items, from plastering of the walls to doors poorly closing. Shower provides minimal (30 liter) hot water, that’s not enough. Noise in room from doors ‘slamming’ nearby. This hotel is focused on Polish all inclusive customers so it’s buffet food that leaves much to be desired for. Breakfast is decent but we were very disappointed with the dinner so we changed our half board to breakfast only (thank you). The drinks are very pricey compared to the Zanzibar price level. There’s a ‘disco’ every evening giving noise in the rooms. We were happy to leave.

Good location just south of Paje, so you can walk to nice restaurants and coffee places nearby. Big and comfortable bed and good AC. Fresh water everyday.

Stayed in February 2024

Not a property issue but the beach ‘boys’/ locals - I know it’s an issue in Zanzibar but as a solo woman I don’t like being harrassed when walking from hotel beach into the sea - they did get the hint quickly though

Clean, modern and not overly crowded / large

Stayed in October 2023

Great location, very friendly staff, clean and comfortable rooms, very good food, highly recommended

Stayed in October 2023

The hotel doesn’t offer a good value for money. The food is terrible and super expensive, specially considering the low quality. The drinks are also pretty bad. I do recommend not stay in this hotel. I moved hotel in the middle of my holidays and the gap difference is huge.

The location, front-beach hotel in a very nice beach to learn Kite Surf

Stayed in August 2023