Meliks

Superb place on the beach

the location by the beach was very useful. the common areas have a good view on the sea.

First, the room description and the related pictures didn’t match with reality: the front beach bungalow does not face the sea with its balcony as the photos would like to show: indeed the room doesn’t even have a balcony. When we called the owner about the issue he just tried to make excuses about it without even trying to fix it. Moreover the room was dirty and in four days, staff never showed up to clean it. there are no clear option for breakfast and the staff doesn’t give any explanation of the food offer. Overall we enjoyed our days in Jambiani but we would have appreciated more honesty and respect from the beginning.

Perfect location with a private beach and a specious room. Nice bathroom standard. The breakfasts were good, but nothing special, also other meals served by the onsite bar were good. The staff was helpful in arranging tours and taxis.

Main dissapointment - the room was rather dirty from the moment when we checked in. Only in that hotel (we were in 4 on Zanzibar) we have found cackroches in the room! The staff tried to kill them by using anti-insect spry, but it was unsuccessful - just a few minutes later we found another cockroach! Also ants and lizard were in the room. The room was not cleaned everyday what was a standard in other hotels. Other thing is that the room was not soundproof enough. I heard everything what was going outside and inside the building. A few times I have experienced situations, when the staff expected more money for meals ordered in the onsite bar although in the menu prices were lower (e.g. the sandwich price was 20k TZS in the menu and the waiter expected 30k).

Meliks' location is quite amazing and the staff are very good and helpful. The room is good - but that is if you get the room you aimed for...

...we were quite disappointed by our experience as the room we booked was not the room we had. Probably a problem of displaying the correct information between Meliks and Booking but we were eventually the ones suffering from it. The managers made their best efforts to provide another room, but 3 rooms in 5 nights was a bit too much to really enjoy and rest. A mistake in the payment that was fixed days after returning home (and it was fixed - so no complain about that) didn't help in keeping the best memory.

The hotel is located on the beach so the view is beautiful. The staff are super friendly and always there to help. The fois was simple but excellent. The room was spacious, clean and well appointed.

We liked everything. No problems encountered.