TEMBO HOUSE HOTEL
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Historic hotel located on the waterfront offering rooms with antique furniture and mosaic bathrooms.
The Tembo (Swahili for elephant) is a historic hotel on the waterfront, where the likes of Gandhi and Freddy Mercury have stayed. Strangely, it remains affordable in low season. The lobby is a small museum brimming with antiques, and the rooms are equipped with antique furniture, each one unique (prefer those upstairs). Some have a balcony overlooking one of the two swimming pools or the beach. The restaurant (Indian-style taste and service), with its feet in the sand, could be better. There's also a less expensive modern annex opposite.
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Second, the beach. This place is supposed to have a beach. What it actually has is a small strip of sand on a harbor that is filled with small boats. You can literally see the oil on the surface of the water. The photos the hotel shows you conveniently avoids all the small boats.
Third, we were on an extended trip and packing light; doing laundry as we went. We sent a few items out to be laundered. Three articles of clothing came back ruined. One t-shirt came back with a big oil stain on the front. A pair of shorts had a scorch mark from an iron, and a pair of hiking pants had a burn completely through the fabric from the edge of an iron.
There are MANY places to stay in Zanzibar. This shouldn't be one of your options.
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Get the room over looking the sea!!