This chic, 35 room boutique hotel located on the northern tip of the Island, blends elegant, contemporary design with traditional Zanzibari features to create a unique cool and relaxing environment. Set in a lush, tropical garden with direct access to the white powder beaches and warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the Z hotel has been finished to a high specification by an international team of architects and interior designers: each room has floor to ceiling glass doors leading onto a balcony which looks out across the crystal blue Ocean with all rooms featuring LCD TVs, DSTV cable television, WiFi and Philippe Starck furniture.

The hotel offers à la carte, alfresco dining in our main restaurant ‘Saruche’, along with Asian-fusion tapas and sharing platters in ‘Cinnamon’, our cocktail bar, where you can also find our exclusive list of mouth watering cocktails.

Z Hotel brings together design elements from around the world to set a new standard for hotel luxury in Africa. Our guest rooms and suites boast a number of features as standard which are usually associated with the top boutique hotels of London and New York.

The cool, contemporary rooms are available in 6 designs: Deluxe Garden View, Deluxe Sea View, , Interconnecting Rooms, Roof-Top Suite, Ocean Front Cottages with private decks over the sea and for the ultimate in opulence, there’s our 100 sq metre Z Suite with 2 terraces and outdoor jacuzzi.

Our guest rooms have all been beautifully decorated and feature Travertine Marble floors imported from Turkey, Italian designer bathroom suites, crisp cotton bed linen from Egypt, sumptuous fabrics from India and bespoke furniture exclusive to the Z Hotel made from locally sourced coconut wood.

Each bedroom has French doors, set in floor to ceiling glass which lead onto a private balcony with views over our landscaped tropical garden and out across the crystal blue waters of the Indian Ocean to the magnificent Zanzibari sunset on the distant horizon.

Welcome to the Z hotel…boutique on the beach