VOI Kiwengwa Resort
Bravo Club Kiwengwa, Kiwengwa 2703 Tanzania
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#26 of 69 resorts in Zanzibar Island
Location
4.3
Cleanliness
4.1
Service
4.2
Value
3.8
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Located on one of Zanzibar’s most iconic beaches, the VOI Kiwengwa Resort is a tropical paradise, equipped with all amenities. The wooden structure, furnished in traditional style, makes this magnificent Resort fit harmoniously into the environment and will help to create the right atmosphere for your holiday on this enchanting island.
The Resort has an exotic tropical garden that stretches to the beach. Exposed to the Ocean, the movement of the tides here is clearly visible and greatly influences the landscape, which changes continuously according to the moon phases. A natural spectacle not to be missed.
Let your days pass slowly, following the African rhythms dictated by the earth, the sun, the moon and the sea. After all, you are on vacation!
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Property amenities
Wifi
Pool
Fitness Center with Gym / Workout Room
Bar / lounge
Beach
Hiking
Babysitting
Children Activities (Kid / Family Friendly)
Paid wifi
Pool / beach towels
Outdoor pool
Fitness classes
Restaurant
Breakfast available
Breakfast buffet
Kid-friendly buffet
Snack bar
Swimup bar
Poolside bar
Snorkeling
Aerobics
Darts
Entertainment staff
Evening entertainment
Table tennis
Kids club
Pets Allowed ( Dog / Pet Friendly )
Airport transportation
Banquet room
Spa
Facial treatments
Massage
Concierge
Gift shop
Mosquito net
Shops
Sun loungers / beach chairs
Sun umbrellas
Infirmary
24-hour front desk
Laundry service
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Air conditioning
Housekeeping
Private balcony
Safe
Private bathrooms
Minibar
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Hair dryer
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Ocean view
Non-smoking rooms
Family rooms
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Family
Park View
Languages Spoken
English, German, Italian
Location
Bravo Club Kiwengwa, Kiwengwa 2703 Tanzania
VOI Kiwengwa Resort
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
Grade: 76 out of 100
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Few days ago, I came back from this beautiful place, and I would like to share my thoughts. First of all, I have read a lot of reviews before choosing it, and some of them were quite negative and I can’t agree with them. So, I will try to give my view of some concerns. ROOMS: I’ve received a room on the 2nd floor with an Ocean view. Rooms are cozy with comfortable beds and a quite big bathroom. They are cleaned every day by the kind staff. Air conditioning works well, which is important as there is pretty hot. FOOD: This is the thing I was worried about the most. But it turned out that it was not necessary. This hotel offers delicious food. For a breakfast there are sweet rolls, pancakes, French toasts, eggs in any form, cereals, yoghurt, ham, cheese, and a lot of fruits. One thing which is missing is a bigger variety of bread as there are only toasts. The bigger variety of food was during lunch and supper. This hotel offers delicious pasta, pizza, sushi, a lot of different fishes, meat, and burgers, there are also local meals and veggies. I also recommend trying their desserts and fruits (especially pineapple!). Restaurant is served by kind, friendly and helpful staff. I always had a table booked by one of the waiters. So, to sum up, food is really tasty here. BEACH: Beautiful wide beach with fine sand. For me it was the best beach comparing to other hotels nearby. Ocean is really warm – water was like 30 degrees. Sunbeds are under palm trees which gives the great vibe. During relax you can listen to the music thanks to the Bravo animators. From this point I would like to say thank you to Ali – the best worker. He always cares about guests, bring them mattresses, makes sure if everything is okay. He is really kind and always smiling man. He also brings and prepares coconuts! Ali – Asante! Really good job. POOL: The pool is quite small, but it’s good to cool of when the Ocean is too warm. I’ve read that the water is salty, but I don’t think so. The water in the pool is sweet. The pool is 130 cm at its deepest point. GARDENS: Spectacular view in every part of the hotel. Beautiful palm trees, banana trees and other plants making this place magical. There are also a lot of different species of animals – colorful birds, lizards, monkeys. I feel relaxed during the walk. Magical place. LOBBY & BEACH BARS: As well in lobby as well at the beach, drinks are served in paper cups. It didn’t bother me as I have been in a lot of different places when such situations happened, and what is more at the Lobby bar you can ask to get drink in glass, so there is no problem. All drinks are tasty. They are served by the best staff! Especially by Mariam and Martha. These two were so kind to everyone, always smiling and entering into small talks. When I came at the bar, I’ve always had my drinks already prepared. Mariam, Martha – Asante! You’re the best! ENTERTAINMENT: The entertainment is provided by the animators from Bravo. Animations are in English, Italian and French. They take place two times a day at the beach – at 10 AM and 15 AM. There are a lot of sport activities, dance lessons and mini games. I recommend trying to play the beach tennis tournament – it was pretty fun. At the evening there are performances at the lobby bar or in the theatre. Animators are friendly, ready to help and funny. Special thanks to Lisa and Erika for making my holidays unforgettable, and of course thanks to Jack which is unbeaten at the beach tennis! Thanks guys! Marchello:). STAFF: As I said above, everyone at the VOI Kiwengwa Resort is awesome. Everyone is making fun of everything. Staff is experienced and kind. And as was mentioned, special thanks to Mariam, Martha and Ali. TRIPS: This is not related to the hotel, but I would like to share it here. I was on a trip to Stone Town, Spice Farm and the Prison Island. This trip was organized by the local tour guide. I would like to recommend trips with him – you can find him on the Facebook “Arek na Zanzibarze”. He has knowledge about all the places visited. The trips are organized in Polish. I was also on a trip into the ocean. I saw beautiful and colorful fishes, starfishes and great reef! Such trips are organized by the locals at the beach – I was on this trip with Captain Ali. To sum up, the hotel is spectacular. Beautiful beach, palm trees, gardens and the best staff! Thank you, VOI Kiwengwa, for having me! It certainly wasn't the last time!!!…
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Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Traveled with friends
Room Tip: Possibility of late check out one day before leaving. Highly recommend to go on a trip with local...
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The best 11 days of November, good food, beautiful view from the room, close to the beach, animations that make every day more interesting. Bravo club was perfect conducted everyday. I recommend to everyone.
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Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Absolutely amazing experience from start to finish. Staff were all so friendly and accommodating. Delicious meals. Great entertainment. Hotel absolutely fantastic, stunning beachfront location, beach and pool just beautiful. Rooms very spacious. We had a brilliant holiday, wouldn’t hesitate to recommend and would go back in a heart beat.
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Date of stay: July 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
Room Tip: Take some useful gifts for local schoolchildren eg pens, pencils, notebooks
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The staff was great all very friendly, the food was good you could always found something you liked. The room wasn’t good there was lots of ants and you could spray yourself to get rid of them but they were always back and the room didn’t smell good. The gym wasn’t open, i was very disappointed because it was in the website. The garden, beach and swimming pool was very nice.
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Date of stay: September 2023Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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We've stayed in VOI Kiwengwa Resort for 5 nights. PROS: - Service was great: reception, dinning area, pool area, cleaning, gardening... all of them were always kind, polite and willing to help you if you needed assistance - Nice pool CONS: - Impossible to get into the sea without being stopped by the "Masai" people or some others. This was very annyoing. - As before, impossible to walk near the sea without being stopped / followed by the "Masai" people. Every attempt of saying "enough" or saying that you don't have money with you, will be ignored. Not even that, if they finally don't get anything from you, you will be insulted. - If you are not Italian, you will feel little bit displaced. Mostly 90% of the activities are focused on the italian community. In addition, if you want to join a group activity to do some sightseeing, will not be possible as it is only offered to Italian people / speakers. All in all, I regret to say that we will not visit Kiwengwa area nor VOI Kiwengwa Hotel again due to the cons mentioned before. If you are someone looking for peace and relax this will be definitely not your place. Be also aware that this is starting to be a common feeling around the island, as our local stone town guide shared with us. Looks like you need to book a hotel with private security if you are looking for some peace.…
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Date of stay: September 2023Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Jo J wrote a review Aug 2023
The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom5 contributions6 helpful votes
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This hotel is beautiful - the buildings, gardens , pool, restaurant and rooms are really well presented and in my opinion even better than it looks in photos! We were really impressed with the quality of the food - the buffet had so much variety and something for everyone and the quality of the food was great. We never felt like we were eating the same thing every night. Staff are lovely and extremely helpful with everything - on our last day check out was at 10am but we were not being picked up until 6pm, so the hotel offered us another room from 4pm to shower and freshen up before leaving which meant we could have another day on the beach! A really lovely thing I have not experienced in other hotels. There were some entertainment options in the evenings but I think more to do would have been nice - e.g pool tables, table tennis etc. there is only one bar to sit in during the evening so it felt a bit repetitive after a week. This is not the hotels fault but something else to be aware of is the beach sellers too. We were quite overwhelmed with the number of locals (both in traditional dress and plains clothes) who stand on the beach in front of sunbeds trying to sell things constantly - you cannot walk in or out of the sea without them approaching for a conversation and then eventually selling something. We found it harassing and really quite annoying when trying to relax. I think they would be along all the hotels on this coastline stripso if you didn’t want i would suggest staying somewhere with a private beach.…
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Date of stay: August 2023Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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The bed is uncomfortable , we couldn’t sleep well, they prioritize Italian people, first two days when we were there - was awful food, then when Italian arrived everything changed and the food was delicious, also they had better tables with beautiful decorations (blue) the rest people hadn’t. Also polish and other nationalities have worse rooms than italian people, the localization worse, even the soap in micro powder, the toilet paper that was in the worst condition, we changed room after 2 days because they had to speak with Filipe (owner or manager- Italiano), And the room was much more Better - another soap, paper, little bottles with shower gel etc. To sum up hotel is very good but the thing that Italian people are there treated better than others… not nice
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Date of stay: July 2023Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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I can always tell you that we were the most satisfied with this super and wonderful hotel with warm and welcoming people!!! we were accommodated starting from June 25 and until July 3, 2023!!! I had a warm welcome!!! we had 2 separate rooms in which everything was clean and impeccable!! at this hotel, everything is at a high level, I didn't even see the difference between 4 and 5 stars!!! super clean beach!!! the beach boys clean the beach daily and make it super clean!! the food is very tasty, varied and every day there is another food on the menu, seafood, fish, fruits, desserts, pizza, pasta, I don't think there was any tourist staying here who said that he had nothing to eat!! absolutely all the staff are kind, starting with the gentlemen at the reception and up to the boy who lays out the sunbeds on the beach!!! I stayed in Dubai, in the Maldives in different categories and 5 stars and 4, but I want to say that this hotel impressed me and I allowed myself to give 10 minutes and write this review for those who may want to come here but have some are you afraid, maybe it's not good? maybe it's not clean? maybe it's not safe? maybe it's raining all day? maybe the beach is dirty? maybe the ocean is receding and there is no more water on the shore ❤️😂 I want to assure you that everything here is at the best level!! it's absolutely everything!!! you will not regret it if you choose this particular hotel!!! don't be afraid of Kiwengwa, it's a great location !!!…
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Date of stay: July 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
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I will start from a big issue. Hotel is offering your own safe in the safe room that is nearby reception, in hotel lobby. Unfortunatelly ALL KEYS FITS ALL SAFES! BEWARE OF YOUR BELONGINGS BECAUSE ANYONE CAN ACCESS IT! There is no safes in the room. Now lets make a list: Pros: -Staff is fantastic, always smiling when spoken to, always helpful, always kind. Great people. Special greetings to Emi! -Beautiful garden -Palm trees on the beach! This one was actually what one of the reasons I've choosen this hotel. Love it. -Tasty food, good quality products, well made -Overall cleanness -Spacious rooms Cons: -Issue with safes as described above -One, non heated pool, no pool bar (not a big issue, but still) -Low variety of food. Not many things to choose from. -I've tried to grab a snack from a snackbar once and I've been said that I need to make a reservation prior to that. What's the reason for snack bar tho? No idea. If you're hungry and currently it's not time for brekfest, dinner or supper - then sorry bro/sis but you will need to wait. -There is no umbrellas anywhere on hotel property. If you're counting on hiding yourself from sun under one near pool or beach, unfortunatelly there is none. -Not many drinks to choose from for all-inclusive (6, 7?) -Air-condition only in rooms -Rooms have poor light. It's still pretty dark when you turn on all lights. -Internet is disconnecting every 5 minutes and you need to log in again -No telephone in room to call reception if any issues occure -No minibar…
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Date of stay: June 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
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Great place where you can truly relax and get away from it all. The resort is well maintained and calm (even tough it’s a big one you don’t get the feeling of overcrowded place). The food is great and the beach is amazingly beautiful. You will enjoy the long walks by the ocean if you manage to ignore the too pushy at times locals. People are very friendly in general. Special thanks to Filippo and the Chef.
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Date of stay: February 2023Trip type: Traveled with friends
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PRICE RANGE
$156 - $237 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
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LOCATION
TanzaniaZanzibar ArchipelagoZanzibar IslandKiwengwa
NUMBER OF ROOMS
200
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Frequently Asked Questions about VOI Kiwengwa Resort
Which popular attractions are close to VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Nearby attractions include Kiwengwa Beach (0.1 miles), Datch Excursions Zanzibar! (0.1 miles), and Coco Tours & Safaris (0.1 miles).
What are some of the property amenities at VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include a swimup bar, a pool, and an on-site restaurant.
Which room amenities are available at VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Top room amenities include a minibar, air conditioning, and a mosquito net.
What food & drink options are available at VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Guests can enjoy a swimup bar, an on-site restaurant, and a lounge during their stay.
What are some restaurants close to VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Conveniently located restaurants include La Base JungleKite, Moby Dick Restaurant & Beach Bar, and SI BurgerS.
Are there opportunities to exercise at VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Yes, guests have access to a pool, a fitness center, and fitness classes during their stay.
Does VOI Kiwengwa Resort have airport transportation?
Yes, VOI Kiwengwa Resort offers airport transportation for guests. We recommend calling ahead to confirm details.
Are pets allowed at VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Yes, pets are typically allowed, but it's always best to call ahead to confirm.
Which languages are spoken by the staff at VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
The staff speaks multiple languages, including English, German, and Italian.
Are there any historical sites close to VOI Kiwengwa Resort?
Many travelers enjoy visiting Datch Excursions Zanzibar! (0.1 miles).
Does VOI Kiwengwa Resort have any great views?
Yes, guests often enjoy the ocean view available here.