We left The Z shortly after mid day and headed north to call in at the new Hilton Doubletree - a large development on the site of Nungwi Beach Village, the final resort on the northern tip of the Island.
They have built four blocks of rooms each with beautifully crafted local furniture and views out to the Ocean. We were suitably impressed and where you often find the international branded hotels can leave you feeling you could be anywhere in the world, this property had a distinct Zanzibari feel.
Though the hotel is in its final stages of completion, the staff were lovely and we had a beach front table for lunch and a really tasty beef & aubergine pizza – a new one on me and one I’ll be repeating when I get home along with upside down banana caramel cake from Olakira & spiced corgette soup from Echo Beach!
After lunch we headed to Ras Nungwi where we managed to get the last five minutes of sunshine on the beach and both promptly fell asleep. We awoke for dinner and saw a patter emerging of Sleep, Eat, Hotel Inspection, Eat, Drive, Hotel Inspection, sleep, Eat , Sleep and back to the beginning again. When visiting hotels which we didn’t have time to stay at it was only polite to at least stay for lunch. October 2009 is going down in Tarquin & Susie history as the best fed month of our lives!
Ras Nungwi was lovely and catered for an older crowd than the The Z Hotel with a much more subdued vibe and a place where most seemed to be fed and in bed by 9.30 – ourselves included.
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