Highland Bungalows

The owners are called Britta and Albert. Albert made an extremely inappropriate pass at me through no fault of my own - Britta saw it and literally threw me and my 9 year old daughter out of her hotel out of rage and jealousy. Leaving me stranded with my child, alone, in Africa. One of the most traumatising experiences of my life. Please, be warned. Britta is also an illegal immigrant in Zanzibar. She does not posses a work visa.

Very successful stay in a place with a very large (and used!) potential. Great room, clean and spacious. Clean and sufficiently large swimming pool, with ~10 sunbeds, right next door. The residential part is separated from the public part with a restaurant with very tasty dishes and nice service. Prices in the restaurant, compared to other places, more than acceptable. Modest, but in my opinion sufficient breakfast included in the room price. The facility is located on a fairly busy street, but in my opinion you'll absolutely don't feel it. The beach in Nungwi is 8-10 minutes walk. I absolutely recommend :)

Really great place: clean and comfortable room, beatiful garden with a lot of plants and swimming pool, reasonably good WiFi, very good breakfast - you can choose between several options (fruits, eggs, sausages, jam and butter, pancakes, coffee or tea, fresh juices) or take them all :) short walk ~10 minutes to Nungwi beach. Host allowed us to check in earlier and even to check out later + we get a bonus breakfast. Disliked · Road to the beach isn't very nice (but it is safe at day or night) and you can pick a taxi if you wish. Sometimes late night noise coming from disco in the neighborhood.

We spent 6 nights at Highland Bungalow, and in our opinion, it was the best place we had in Sansibar.Reasons are the good food and cocktails to a moderate price, the cold water swimming pool,the nice room and, very important, the very friendly and helpful owner, Britta…. Sometimes, the music from the club in the neighbourhood was a little bit to loud, but that‘s Africa….

Avoid this place. Rooms vary in standard, our friends' was basic but fine, whereas ours had dirty marks on the wall, some questionable electrical safety, 3 sockets not working, leaking sink in the bathroom. The shower is powerful and hot but when put on the holder it just shoots at the ceiling so must be held in your hand. Beds comfortable enough. The pool itself is nice but the pool area is a bit tired with dirty tiles and burst covers on the sun loungers. Breakfast is made fresh to order, average but does the job. Strangely you need to pay to have water at breakfast?! The location is much further from the beach than stated on listing. 15 minutes according to Google Maps but the roads are dirt tracks full of holes, mud and puddles so it takes much longer. The local area is quiet during the day but seems to be a party place for locals at night. The icing on the cake is that the hotel bar plays nightclub level music till 3 or 4am every night. The owner of the bar was extremely unhelpful and rude when we asked for it to be turned down. He told us just to check out if we didn't like it but unfortunately we had already paid for our whole stay. Nightmare.

Such a nice place for stay. We Will Come here again for sure. Rooms are clean,service is nice. Plase is queit and romantic. Swiming pool is Very clean and nice. Also garden is amazing!!!! Such a nice place for stay. Miroslav