Konokono Beach Resort and Isaraya Over Water Villa

I am conflicted about this stay. This being our 6th vacation on Zanzibar, and island we have fallen in love with and her people. The pro are as follows. Beautiful Situation Beach is gorgeous Staff were friendly and attentive Food was great Rooms are clean and well proportioned with clean linen and fresh towels The cons are. The hotel needs maintenance, the thatching and beams in the rooms are rotting. The septic tank near the dining area omitted a pungent aroma quite often There are no working fridges in the rooms, spoke to the manager who promised to attend to it, but in over a weeks stay nothing materialised. There is a beach bar about 300m down the beach that plays music for their sunset party that plays until 22h00 at a very disturbing volume (saying that, if you can’t beat them, join them!) The lunch menu is very overpriced for what it offers, we went to the above mentioned beach bar for lunch on those days we stayed in the area. As a family of grandparents, parents and child we did enjoy our stay. Would I recommend Konokono, I don’t think so as there are so many options on the island. To grow their clients and encourage return quest the will need to do some serious maintenance.

Staff was good. The beach was amazing. Not a 5 star quality hotel and not as expected. We left early and booked another hotel. The slew of issues like the shower not draining, the porch door not closing fully, the fridge not working, the WIFI not working, the terrible turn down service, the fuse tripping, the private plunge pool was dirty, and the food wasn't great,.. we could deal with. The tipping point was the AC barely worked, we had it on blast with the celling fan on and the room was still uncomfortably hot. In addition the resort next door had music BLASTING, with deep base that could be heard in our room all the way across the water. Sure they turned it down around 8:30pm, but people are visiting from all over the world in different time zones. It was not the relaxing, luxury experience we hoped. They have let the hotel run down. And the manager did not seem to care.

Beautiful hotel aesthetic and rooms very spacious and clean. We stayed in the garden view villa and it was lovely. However food is not good, service is slow it takes forever to get your food and lots of items from menu are always unavailable. The hotel is in the middle of nowhere which is good for privacy and relaxing but do keep that in mind. Hotel taxi is pricey. Lots of animals eg monkeys hang around in the gardens.

Awesome place!

It is wonderful get away.

This hotel was at a price point that I thought okay we will get there and be in paradise and not want to leave. Unfortunately the place does look very beautiful but our sink faucets weren’t fixed to the countertops, our toilets only worked sometimes (maybe 50% of the time it flushed), the wait staff at the restaurant ignored us most of the time, it was the first place we stayed during our 3 weeks in Tanzania that didn’t spray for mosquitoes and didn't have bed nets. We got eaten up. Road to hotel was so brutal not every taxi could even get to us to pick us up. Considering price it was a huge let down and far away from everything due to the speed you have to drive on the terrible road. Power and WiFi blinked on and off a dozen times a day.

I loved this property it was exactly what I expected and more beautiful, peaceful and most importantly safe. I spent my birthday there and had the best time of my life. The staff are the sweetest and the service is just perfect. Definitely would recommend

I had the most beautiful experience. When I arrived, the manager surprised my husband and I with a free upgrade, an over the water Villa! The villa is amazing, the service overall at the resort is A . Very friendly staff, beautiful resort, excellent food and great experience. Hospitality had been the best I had. I love the fact that the staff and manager did everything possible to make our stay enjoyable.

We had an absolutely heavenly stay. We were in one of the 5 over the water villas and it was paradise. The villas are spacious with private veranda with a plunge pool and steps going down to the water. The water is so clear we felt as though we were on an aquarium. There is a beautiful private dining pavilion where we had all our meals. Lovely food and the staff couldn't do enough for us. We would certainly stay here again.

The toilet in my villa did not work. All inclusive does not mean all inclusive at this "resort". The food was atrocious and there were few options. All around boring with a filthy beach