Park Hyatt Zanzibar

It’s 5 star for a reason. Possibly the most beautiful hotel I’ve stayed in. Staff is amazing, rooms are beyoooond and you can’t beat the view of the Indian Ocean from just about every area. The spa? Omg. Just get here.

The hotel and staff were superb. The hotel is professionally run and a joy to visit. I must mention Mr. Hussein El Ammar who quite frankly delivered a service above and beyond. His level of professionalism is an example to all who wish to work in the travel industry.

In the heart of the stone town ! The service here is good and friendly the room is clean and design good. We really love the design there ! It combines local style with Middle East culture . Very recommend to stay

Excellent hotel, superb location, room and staff were very helpful. Perfect place to explore Stone Town and Prison Island from.

Perched just behind the beach in the beautiful in beautiful Stone Town tree-lined Kelele Square the Park Hyatt emits its quiet, fragrant presence. This elegant hotel needs no bright lights or wide-eyed attendants. It need not rival the better known Serena Hotel next door or the Tembo House hotel round the corner. The Park Hyatt assures its clients of its promise to deliver European-standard 5 star hospitality inside its traditional architecture and cultivated gardens. My room looked out over the bay towards the mainland. Fishermen in their dhows bobbed up and down on the turquoise water which lapped against the white sand of the public beach below. It's hard to believe you are staying so close to the tourist drag of Shangani Street, the busy commercial port with its frenetic fish market and the condensed, narrow streets of old Stone Town. At The Park Hyatt you float in the air-conditioned, traditionally beamed high-ceiling'ed walk ways of the hotel. No sense of the dust, heat, din and clamour of the town here. The food is pretty good. Breakfast is fun to encounter. Masai warriors parade outside on the patio assuring the nervous that no one enters uninvited. A stall with fresh coconuts is manned by the cheeriest of gentlemen. He can bearly contain his excitement when a guest asks for one of his decapitated coconuts to drink the chilled milk inside. He literally bounces around the breakfast area filling the atmosphere with hope for the day. The breakfast bar is pretty good. I would have liked more variety of fresh fruit and less stodgy, sweet white bread. You can chose also from a menu of cooked breakfasts. I had the dosas on day 1. Absolutely delicious! The bar and restaurant are openly day. We tried out the bar food and its was ok. More salads would have been welcome but we all thought the lamb biryani is to die for. The coffee isn't bad and the nutty apple pie and vanilla ice cream was delicious. The service is a little slow and I did spend a bit of time watching rather inefficient activity behind the bar. We had to call for a waiter on several occasions and it seemed to take an age for some simple cold drinks to arrive. But when they did the staff were so warm it was hard to get stroppy. Some of the female staff seemed a little moody at times and one of my party, who perhaps has a few more preferences than your average guest, inspired some 'looks' and a sense of forced patience from one particular young waitress. However, all in all the staff are warm and pretty eager to please. The rooms are spacious and clean, a little tired in places, but all is forgiven when you draw back the curtains on a spectacular view across the bay. In the evening a male singer would play on the patio, murdering some perfectly decent pop songs. We grinned and bore it until the chap would hang up his guitar and head home around 8.45pm. I suppose we all have our own ideas about how we want to spend an evening in a beautiful hotel in Zanzibar. Mine just didn't include listening to George Michael songs sung in poor baritone! If you find yourself in Zanzibar with a generous budget then swing by the Park Hyatt, cool down, dust yourself off and order yourself a Stoney Tangawizi ginger beer on ice. A definite return is on my horizon.