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MBWENI RUINS HOTEL Accommodation and Excursions
Availability I Special Offers I Accommodation I Excursions I Bustani Spa I Mbweni Jetty
Mbweni Birds I Nature Trail I Gardens Guide I Weddings I Electronic Brochure
Bar-Laundry Prices I Location
The hotel is on a sheltered west coast beach just south of Zanzibar Stone Town.
It is 6km (10 minutes' drive) from the town and 4km (5 minutes' drive) from the Airport.
Link to Mbweni Ruins Hotel Room plan and description of Rooms
Mbweni offers thirteen air-conditioned suites, each furnished in distinctive Zanzibari style. Each suite has easy access to the swimming pool and secluded beach.
The Baobab Suite is perfect for honeymoons, and for that extra special treat.
Baobab Suite Bathroom
This spacious suite, complete with king-sized fourposter bed, has its own rooftop terrace with spectacular views over the ocean, the ruins and the garden,
which is vibrant with the colour and scent of frangipani, hibiscus and oleander. The furnishings are in Zanzibar style, fit for a Sultan!
All of the rooms are air-conditioned, with ceiling fans.
They have lockup safes and a tray with tea and coffee-making items.
All have verandas with views over the Gardens, Pool and Ocean, except for Suite Four - a family room with a bigger main bedroom,
which still has a lovely sea view.
Room 4 main bedroom, with extra large space - there is a fridge, a writing desk, tea and coffee-making equipment.
There is a separate bedroom with a single Zanzibar bed.
There are two other family suites - with twin bunkbeds in the extra bedroom. (Rooms 8 and 12).
They both have verandas overlooking the gardens, pool and ocean.
All of the rooms have a wrting desk - sometimes with a separate entrance hall.
The furnishings complete the rooms, in Swahili style.
Spice Tour
Visit gardens and farms in the centre of the Island where more than 40 species
of banana are grown. You will see and taste the spices, tropical fruits
and medicinal plants of Tanzania.
The clove, which made Zanzibar famous,
is not a fruit but the dried bud of the clove flower.
Black pepper
is a climber, clambering over host bushes and trees
of other species, while vanilla is an orchid.
City tour
A car and guide will take you on a tour of the Stone Town, taking in the
outstanding features including the Old Fort, the House of Wonders, the Palace Museum
and the Anglican Cathedral, built on the site of the former Slave Market.
You may visit the fruit market and wander through the narrow streets of the old City.
Using local tour operators, w e offer many exciting activities including dhow trips to the islets and sandbanks opposite the hotel, swimming, fishing, diving, snorkelling,
a nature trail and visits to see the spice plantations, stone town and to swim with dolphins.
These Zanzibar tours can easily be arranged by our reception staff after you arrive in Zanzibar.
Traditional Dhow trip to the Islands
Spend a wonderful day
on a traditional wooden dhow sailing to some of
the small islands
off the Stone Town.
The reef here is home to a profusion
of colourful fish,birds and other marine life including the Zanzibar Butterfly Fish
- Chaetodon zanzibarians,
Pincushion Starfish, octopus, giant clam and lobster.
You will have a seafood barbecue lunch on shore and snorkel and sunbathe
before returning to Stone Town or to the hotel.
Want to get married in Zanzibar? We can arrange everything for you
at Mbweni Ruins Hotel:
