Sultan Sands Island Resort

Place is great and the staff is super friendly and helpful. Food and drinks are good, there is plenty of activities and you feel extra safe.
The only drawback is massive amount of tourists from Russia, who don’t understand a word in English and don’t really care about anything as they scream, interrupt and argue. Hopefully after the pandemic Russians will some other destination as it is really a shame to lose such a quiet and nice place

I felt like home. Great and supporting team. Too many guests from Russia, but location, Food, services are Perfect. Will be back

Unforgettable holidays! At Sultan Sands, my husband and I spent 2 weeks of December. We got a room (Bahari – 1st floor) with an amazing ocean view. Room cleaned twice every day, in the evening additionally sprayed with insects. Service – from waiters, cleaning ladies, barmans, gardeners, etc. – all incredibly helpful, always smiling. The Manager is also constantly present in the hotel and takes care of the guests’ well-being. Top notch food. Every day something different and everything is delicious. Private hotel beach, with sun loungers (+ mattresses and towels) easily available during the day. Beautiful white public beach in front of the hotel – only negative is a lots of locals offering magnets and tours. Amazing tides of the ocean – possibility to walk more than 2 kilometers deep into the ocean – water shoes necessary. Single animations during the day (football, volleyball), peace and quiet allowing for a pleasant rest. Live music and shows in the evenings. For Christmas, additional attractions and a gala dinner were prepared. Paradise! We definitely recommend it!

It’s a greate place to stay & experience Zanzibar… Tasty Food within European standards , friendly stuff, everything works…You don’t want to leave it anymore 🏝️

Lovely resort on a fabulous white sand beach

Sultan Sands is located in Kiwengwa, next to the beach. Kiwengwa country side is just outside the hotel. Sultan Sands is connected to another hotel – BlueBay. Both hotels are cooperating, there is possibility to walk from one to another without going ‘outside’. From airport, it’s about 1 hour of driving. Hotel is huge with beautiful garden (so green!) – there are many places for walk.

We had a room in Baobab section with pool and ocean view. African standard is different than European or American one, but these rooms look very nice and spacious. There is a huge king size bed with mosquito net, TV, safe, small shelves for stuff and place for luggage. Bathroom is huge with nice stoned shower. I was in many hotels across the globe and the weakest point of the hotel is usually the housekeeping. In Sultan Sands, housekeeping is doing really good job. Rooms are clean, there is no dust or insects inside. Housekeeping always comes twice: first in the morning/afternoon for general cleaning and closing mosquito net, and second during dinner to open mosquito net and spray for insects.

All meals are being served in one restaurant. Breakfast 07:00 – 10:30. Lunch 12:30 – 14:30. Dinner 19:30 – xx:xx (don’t remember). There is a huge variety of meals and different cuisines – African, Indian, Italian, sea food, fish, etc. Anything you will take, you won’t regret. Just keep in mind that the food is not spicy, even if they put some chili inside – it still won’t be spicy so don’t worry. Everything is very tasty and well flavored. You have to try soups and fish from grill ! From time to time there is theme dinner night like Indian evening.

There are three bars (the one in Baobab section was closed). They are open from 10:00. Huge congrats and big thanks to the bar staff. They are doing their job with passion and huge commitment can be seen on every step. All drinks are being made in your eyes, they are looking after every detail. There is a huge variety of drinks but also of cocktails (non-alco). They are so good, so tasty, so refreshing! Some people were saying that they won’t give you more than one – it’s not true. It all depends how you behave, if you are rude… I didn’t observe such a thing.

Pool is ok, looks deep (up to 2m) and huge enough. I cannot say more because due to healthy issues, I didn’t try it out. Water in pool is not coming from ocean, it doesn’t contain chlorine as well. It looks like it’s a tap water but maybe I’m wrong.

Beach is so beautiful. It’s wide, sand comes from coral and it’s easily accessible. There are huge tides. In the morning and afternoon, deep is around 30cm almost 500m from the hotel. After the lunch and evening, water comes directly to the hotel’s stairs. Shoes to the water are mandatory because of jellyfish and sea urchins.

Check-out us at 10:00. All-inclusive is finishing at 14:30 so when lunch is finished. There is a possibility for late checkout. It costs 50 USD per room, and it’s only a room (up to 17:00), all-inclusive services still finishes at 14:30. Lunch is the last meal in last day. When you buy in shops in the hotel, you can pay immediately or during check-out. Everything in the hotel is being sold in US Dollars. However it’s worth to buy some tanzanian shillings to use it in local stores outside the hotel. Watch out – hotel is converting money only in one way: USD to TZS.

Sultan Sands contains two gates. There are guards at the gates as well as at the beach. Beaches are safe but don’t go out after sunset. Despite the fact that Zanzibar people are happy, cheerful and friendly, you can have mixed feeling outside the hotel. When you are leaving the hotel, you are being asked why you are leaving and what’s your room number – for your safety. There are no so many tourists walking around in Kiwengwa, everyone is offering you something.

Sultan Sands is a very good proposition for short as well as longer stay. It’s very good hotel with perfect quality-price ratio. Everyone from the hotel personnel is very friendly, always saying ‘jumbo’. Do I recommend? Of course!

Good food, Great mood and service, The Best Hotel Manager in whole Zanzibar and maybe in Africa.

Fantastic place! Loved the food, the staff.. Everything. Definitely recommend it!

Nice, but ones you step on the beach you can’t get rid of bums.

Clean environment, staffs are kindand friendly, tasty meals.

Very nice located hotel with excellent access to the sea and really nice staff. Huge congratulations to manager, who’s keeping every guest happy and solves every problem immediately. Food is fresh, with great variety of fruit, meats and vegetable. Room is filled with everything You wish to have in Zanzibar, tiny minus for water (low pressure in the shower- but it is problem of Zanzibar, not hotel itself).

I visited this resort with my family to have lunch at their restaurant. Unfortunately I was met with a stand offish and welcoming staff who insisted that we paid a minimum charge BEFORE we ate. Obviously we went to another restaurant. Terrible experience … dont waste your time.

Property and location are both great. Really enjoyed our stay. All staff and bar tenders were amazing. Dass really went out of his way to ensure our stay was extra amazing.

My partner and I want to book this hotel. But, we have a urgent question….
Who stayed in a room with 2 Queen side beds instead of 1 big single bed?
My question for you: is it posible to join 2 beds togheter to make it 1 big bed?

Thank you so much!