Zanzibar Palace Update

A stay in our hotel in Stone Town is the perfect start for all major tours and trips. Take a Spice Tour which is just 15 minutes by car from our hotel, a trip to Prison Island and see the turtles, a city tour to see all the culture, historical buildings in the Unesco World Heritage Site of Stone Town. We can arrange all these and other trips for our guests.

You might already know that there is an electricity problem until the 21st of February 2010 on Zanzibar. We have a generator that is capable of running 24 hours a day. We are running it almost the full day, except for about 1 hour for necessary maintenance on the generator. We have constantly enough water in the hotel. So we have an almost normal situation for all our guests.

Many other places in Stone Town are also equipped with backup generators and therefore the situation is relatively normal in the hotels, restaurants and many shops (tourist places).

All above facilities are always available, so it is not specially for the current situation only! Zanzibar and mainland are frequently hit by power and water outage, so we have had taken our precautions for much longer already.

We remind you that we have a new manager and chef de cuisine as well. His name is Gilbert van Lee originating from Belgium. Gilbert serves the finest fresh seafood that you can find on the Island in our private restaurant. Daily we have a special Tonight’s Dinner choose, with specially selected wines. The main courses vary from Jumbo Prawns, Red Snapper, Barracuda and Marlin to the famous 1kg up to 2.5 kg Char grilled Lobster. Although we mainly serve seafood, vegetarians will find their dinner with us too and meat is also available; a good example is our fine Carpaccio of Springbok as starter.