Paradise (La Gemma Del Est (Zanzibar, Tanzania))

Member Name: cawatkins10

Product:	La Gemma Del Est (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Date:	13/07/09 (28 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Beautiful hotel, clean with food a plenty calm and relaxing

Disadvantages: Might be a bit quiet for some people

This hotel is absolute paradise! We very much enjoyed our time here, the beach is powder white sands with clear blue seas. There is also a sea water pool with swim up bar, and snack bar by the pool where you can get snacks all day (this also turns into a pizza restaurant in the evening)
We mostly ate at the main restaurant which served a buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner. This restaurant was enormous with various stations serving pasta, various Indian dishes, salad, fruit, meat, fish, vegetables and dessert. Each station changed what they served every night so there was always something different to eat. There was also a bar and seating area outside here with a man playing the piano in the evenings which was nice.
The Pizza restaurant at the beach snack bar was also very good, but a word of warning, make sure you wear mosquito repellent...
The room (No 129) was fantastic with huge bed and air conditioning controls. We had a number of powercuts while we were there (around 4 in all) which we found odd as this is supposed to be a luxurious hotel but they weren't too intrusive.
There was a bar at the end of the Jetty with a fish restaurant and shishka bar which weren't included in the AI, the bar was also were they held the evening entertainment which I have to say was pretty poor. For this reason we felt that our five days was enough as there wasn't much entertainment in the evening and during the day there wasn't much to do except lie by the pool and read your book.
I would say that this hotel is right for anyone who loves a beach resort holiday but perhaps not any good for anyone that likes to keep busy and have things to do while they are away.
First written for tripadvisor under username c2watkins

Summary: Wonderful if you want to relax by the beach