Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel

3.0 star property
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Outdoor pool, pool umbrellas, pool loungers
Garden
Aerial view
Bungalow, Balcony, Oceanfront
In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, free WiFi

Reviews

8.8 out of 10

Excellent

Popular amenities

  • Hot tub
    Hot tub
  • Bar
    Bar
  • Pool
    Pool
  • Room service
    Room service
  • Breakfast included
    Breakfast included
  • Laundry
    Laundry

Explore the area

Map
Kibigija Beach, Jambiani
  • Jambiani Beach
    2 min walk
  • Kuza Cave
    17 min walk
  • Kite Centre Zanzibar
    4 min drive
  • Zanzibar (ZNZ-Zanzibar Intl.)
    101 min drive

Room options

Standard Bungalow, Patio, Oceanfront

  • 18 sq m
  • Ocean view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

Standard Triple Room, Patio, Pool View

  • 28 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

Family Room, Patio, Pool View

  • 36 sq m
  • Sleeps 5
  • 2 Queen Beds and 1 Twin Bed

Family Room, Patio, Pool View

  • 36 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Queen Beds

Bungalow, Balcony, Oceanfront

  • 30 sq m
  • Ocean view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

Standard Triple Room, 3 Single Beds, Patio, Pool View

  • 28 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Twin Beds

Deluxe Double Room

  • 20 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

Deluxe Triple Room

  • 25 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

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About the area

Jambiani

When you stay at Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel in Jambiani, you'll be on the beach, a 1-minute drive from Jambiani Beach and 9 minutes from Paje Beach. .This beach lodge is 2.1 mi (3.4 km) from Kite Centre Zanzibar and 2.1 mi (3.4 km) from Kuza Cave.

What's nearby

  • Jambiani Beach - 2 min walk - 0.2 km
  • Kuza Cave - 17 min walk - 1.5 km
  • Kite Centre Zanzibar - 4 min drive - 3.5 km
  • Paje Beach - 32 min drive - 4.4 km
  • Bwejuu Beach - 44 min drive - 7.8 km

Getting around

  • Zanzibar Intl. Airport (ZNZ) - 101 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Mapacha - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Oxygen - ‬7 min drive
  • ‪African Bbq - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Mr. Kahawa - ‬7 min drive
  • ‪Ndame Beach Bar - ‬7 min drive

About this property

Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel

Ocean-view lodge with a beach bar, near Jambiani Beach
Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel offers 11 air-conditioned accommodations, which are accessible via exterior corridors and feature safes and hair dryers. Rooms open to patios. Each accommodation is individually furnished and decorated. This Jambiani lodge provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Bathrooms include showers with rainfall showerheads, and complimentary toiletries. Housekeeping is provided daily.
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

Make yourself at home in one of the 11 individually decorated guestrooms. Rooms have private patios. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature rainfall showerheads and complimentary toiletries.
Enjoy recreational amenities such as an outdoor pool and a spa tub. This lodge also features complimentary wireless internet access, tour/ticket assistance, and a reception hall. Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the area shuttle (surcharge).
Grab a bite to eat at Hotel Restaurant and Bar, a beachfront restaurant where you can enjoy drinks at the bar/lounge, take in the ocean view, and even dine alfresco. You can also stay in and take advantage of the room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the beach bar. A complimentary full breakfast is served daily from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM.
Featured amenities include luggage storage, laundry facilities, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
A complimentary full breakfast is served each morning between 7:30 AM and 9:00 AM.
Hotel Restaurant and Bar - This restaurant is located on the beach. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Room service is available.

Languages

English, Italian, Spanish, Swahili

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site
  • 24-hour return airport shuttle (surcharge)
  • Airport shuttle on request
  • Local area shuttle (surcharge)

Food and drink

  • Free full breakfast available daily 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 beach bar and 1 bar
  • Room service available

Restaurants on site

  • Hotel Restaurant and Bar

Things to do

  • Outdoor pool
  • A hot tub

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities
  • Outdoor pool
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • Front-desk safe
  • Reception hall

Guest services

  • Daily housekeeping
  • Front desk (limited hours)
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Tour/ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Beachfront location
  • Garden
  • Pool sunloungers
  • Pool umbrellas

Spa

  • Massages

Accessibility

  • This property does not have any lifts

More

  • Mosquito nets
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning
  • Bed sheets
  • Ceiling fan

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hairdryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shampoo
  • Shower
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels

More

  • Access via exterior corridors
  • Individually decorated
  • Individually furnished
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: noon; Check-in end time: midnight
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM
Late check-out subject to availability
Late check-out fee: USD 30

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from 9 AM - 8 PM
Front desk staffed during limited hours
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
For more details, please contact the property using the information on the booking confirmation

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Airport shuttle fee: USD 40.00 per person
  • Late check-out fee: USD 30 (subject to availability)
  • Credit card charges are subject to a surcharge

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property

Property is also known as

Sea View Boutique Jambiani
Sea View Boutique Jambiani
Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel
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Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel Lodge
Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel Jambiani
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Sea View Lodge Boutique Hotel Reviews

Reviews

8.8

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 48 out of 95 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 35 out of 95 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 8 out of 95 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 95 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 95 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

7.8/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Ryan

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Really helpful and friendly staff. Perfect location on Jamibiani beach and under 5 mins walking from bars and restaurants along the coast.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Caroline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This property was PARADISE! We had the best 4 days staying here, it was hard to leave. The staff were fantastic and accomodating to our needs. This is a smaller hotel so we enjoyed the peace of admiring the beach right on our doorstep. The food at the restaurant was very good quality, we visited other hotels along the beach but still felt our hotel provided just as good of a job. I noticed many people said the breakfast was boring, we bought massive avocados just along the road from the hotel and enjoyed this with our bteakfast. I really couldn’t fault our experience
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Chris

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great family bungalow in a good location
We had a lovely family bungalow for our 3 night stay and this hotel is in a good location. Donna the masseuse was excellent, and the staff were all very welcoming. The only downside was the restaurant had limited vegetarian options for our daughter and the lighting in the evening didn't make it feel cosy so we ate elsewhere. The Kuza cave is only around 20 minutes walk away and well worth a visit.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Daniel

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Right on a gorgeous beach
Nice clean room. Beach side rooms are a bit small but as there is no reason to stay in the room with the beach a few steps away, it was no issue. Staff was friendly and efficient.
Sunrise
View from my room
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

2/10 Terrible

Braxton

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
The view from the bungalow is nice. The staff are incredibly friendly. The director is horrible, but the regular staff do what they can to make up for it. The food menu is not updated and the restaraunt is out of many items. The bar is not well stocked and when a item is empty it is not replenished because the director is horrible. I still don't know what he is paid to do other than hurt the hotel. I went to a hostel down the beach that was far superior in amenities, food, drink choices and over all feel. Then went to another hostel that was the same and half the price. I can get a single room at a hostel and have a FAR superior experience than at this hotel. Not worth the money with so many amazing places to stay nearby.
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing hotel on the breach.
Everything was amazing, the staff was very accommodating and friendly. The location of the hotel is on the beach, very relaxing. Breakfast could be a little more varied and they could change the menu during the week.
Stayed 6 nights in May 2021

10/10 Excellent

Linda

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Friendly, beautiful resort
Had a great stay at this small boutique stycke resort. Super friendly staff that went the extra mile to help with anything we needed. Great location and beautiful ocean view.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great property. Food was good especially the Tuna Patty and lobster. Sea View was amazing - air worked and door locks, had safe. Nice area . Highly recommend
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Allan

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice for a few days
Spent a few days here with my family. It's a nice lodge with a small pool. Most of the rooms are around the small pool with only a couple facing the sea. It has it's own restaurant that serves good simple food. The staff are friendly and and helpful. It's small and as such feels more intimate than some of the larger places along the beach. The rooms are quite basic, but have what you need. In general, a nice place to stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Mohammed

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Recommend :)
It was nice stay , hope to visit it again
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
On the beach, great views.
Can't complain- we didn't have a room facing the beach but you didn't need one, it was literally only metres away from the beach when we left our room. The breakfast is actually more than it looks! They have an omelette station, fruit, yoghurt, different teas, coffee, hot chocolate, toast butter, cakes and croissant. The beds are really big and comfortable! The hot water doesn't seem to work at night? But that's fine, we showered in the morning/during the day. The food in the restaurant is nice too and is prepared quite quickly! Also the rooms are very clean, they clean it every day. The Italian owner is very nice. I would visit again. :)
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Janet, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Friendly hotel
Staff very friendly and helpful. Room very clean and comfortable. Peaceful and relaxing atmosphere. Food good, service great. Pool clean and warm. Plenty of toiletries and lovely clean towels. Water could have been hotter in the shower. I would definitely stay there again.
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2018

4/10 Poor

Ben, London

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Massively overpriced
This is a 50 dollar a night hotel that charges 105 dollars. We were put in a tiny horrible room that had dangerous stairs. Hotel staff are great and did move us as they moved everyone else who was put in that too . They are working in a hotel with terrible facilities that is way over priced. DO NOT LET THEM PUT YOU IN ROOM 7.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Cute location, but needs plumbing repairs
First impression place is cute, little individual huts on the beach, some facing the pool. Unfortunately, the infrastructure is in dire need of repairs. Our room, had only boiling hot water, no cold water for the shower, they couldn’t repair it; therefore to accommodate the problem they shut the hot water breaker to provide us with water, but by doing so we now had cold showers and this also stopped the water line to the toilet. I had to fill the toilet tank manually every time I flushed. The wifi didn’t work at our hut, it was also very spotty around the front desk. Having said all this, the staff were friendly and nice, it had a beach front restaurant and offered a free breakfast. We found out that the property is under new management, maybe in the future these problems will be fixed.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

Jen, Denver, CO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel on the beach
We chose this hotel to be on the beach and enjoy a pool. The rooms were large as were the bathrooms. Pool was wonderful and right outside the room. The is sand from the lobby to the ocean so the foot washing bowls were great outside the room. The staff was great in sweeping the room out to maintain clean floors throughout the day. We had requested airport transport, but no one was at the airport when our flight landed and we ended up taking a taxi. The food at the on-site restaurant tastes nice, but the waits are excessive. We ended up going off-site for lunch and dinner often so that we weren't waiting more then an hour. Overall stay was great and relaxing.
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

gil, ny ny

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
nice hotel
nice hotel on the beach we like very much, nice pool
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

Michal

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2017

6/10 Okay

Loren

Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
They need to catch up on essential maintenance
The owners have let the maintenance go for too long. It's little things that wouldn't cost much to fix, but they can cause big problems. In particular there were many little holes in the mosquito net over the bed and my wife and I both got bitten (luckily we were taking anti-malarials). And when we unplugged the bedside lamps to plug in our phones, the lamps' plugs fell apart, exposing our hands to the electrical wiring. Also, Farouk (the owner) is charming and chatty with his guests but the way he treats his staff is not the best, and won't get the best out of them though they are all trying hard.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

JJ, Perth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful location, excellent staff, amazing food
It was difficult to get there. We took a hired car from stone town and it took an hour but it was well worth it. I wished I could have stayed longer. The place was so relaxing with sunloungers right at the door of our villa, perfect place to watch the sunrise and laze around, watching the ocean and the locals fishing and harvesting seaweed. We had every meal in the restaurant and the food was amazing, especially the slipper lobster in coconut curry. Pool was clean and beautiful. Staff was polite and attentive, always looking out for you, couldn't fault them.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Chris, Victoria Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best location on Zanzibar for quite relaxing
Hotel is located on a lovely beach, right on the beach on the quite side of the island. Hotel faculties are excellent with great food and drinks at very reasonable prices, a lovely pool, good wifi and staff did everything possible to make our stay comfortable and enjoyable. If I had to pick anything, the beach front rooms are small and a little awkward but I'd stay in the same room again to get that location. We also found there was no need to spend any time in the room unless sleeping because outside was so lovely.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lodge is very nice, staff is good, food is nice even though the portions are small.

10/10 Excellent

Nicolas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely place to stay in jambiani. Very relaxing and attentive staff that made the trip perfect.

10/10 Excellent

Euth-in-Asia, Cairo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Idylic aesthetic, boutique
Of all the places we saw on Jambian beach, this was the most aesthetic. The reception area, the arrangement of the 'villas' the restaurant on the beach edge and especially the flawless pool were exquisite. The service was unmatchable. We had a week in paradise.