AHG Waridi Beach Resort & SPA

You stay at AHG Waridi Beach Resort & SPA on the northeast coast of Zanzibar, where the beach is wide and the sand is white. The resort has sixty-two rooms furnished in a contemporary style, some with ocean views. Each room has air conditioning, a refrigerator, and mosquito netting.

The beach has sunbeds and umbrellas; the ocean-view pool is surrounded by greenery. The spa offers massages and treatments, with an indoor pool for cooling off afterward. The kitchen serves Mediterranean dishes and local Zanzibari spices, using ingredients sourced nearby.

Excursions from the resort include visits to Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and spice plantations where nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves grow. Dolphin tours take you to the island’s southern shores by boat; snorkeling trips explore Mnemba’s coral reef. The resort is forty kilometers from Zanzibar’s international airport.

The beach is the reason the resort is here at all — the building faces the water, and the pool looks out over it.