Need to know
Rooms
56, including 10 suites.
Check–Out
10am. Earliest check-in, 1pm.
More details
Rates include breakfast and dinner.
Also
Zuri has its own sandy beach, where you can either hide out in a cabana or test your balance during a yoga class atop a stand-up paddleboard.
Hotel closed
The hotel closes every May, reopening on 1 June.
At the hotel
Free WiFi throughout, beach. In rooms: air-conditioning, TV, free bottled water, tea and coffee, and The Seaweed Bath Co products.
Our favourite rooms
Decisions, decisions… Choose between proximity to the pool or proximity to the beach. Even more important: Jacuzzi or no Jacuzzi? Do you overlook the ocean? (A: err, yes). Garden Bungalows can interconnect, but for maximum space, families will love either of the two-bedroom villas.
Poolside
There’s an infinity pool next to Maisha, with several sunloungers to choose from – but you’re steps from sparkly Indian Ocean sands, where the hotel has helpfully set up cabanas with billowy drapes amid the palms.
Spa
Maua Wellness has three treatment rooms and a salon for mani-pedis and humidity-defying blow-dries. You can also book in for honeymoon-friendly couples’ rituals, holistic massages and youth-restoring facials.
Packing tips
Zanzibar is just south of the equator, so the chances are it’s going to be balmy; remember, though, the population is mostly Islamic so a little modesty in your clothing choices won’t go amiss.
Also
Unfortunately, the hotel is not adapted for wheelchair users.
Children
All ages are welcome, but there are no special facilities for mini Smiths.
Sustainability efforts
The chef oversees his own vegetable patch, the bath products are made in Zanzibar and the decor includes things like upcycled glass bottles. There are solar panels, too, and the hotel produces its own bottled water.