IFA Beach Resort

The location is perfect, directly on the long, nice and pretty calm Jambiani beach. The hotel has a large garden with flowers and palm trees around the pool area. Some sun beds directly on the beach (with a small fence so vendors not walking straight in) Good breakfast. We had a large basic room eith big bed and huge balcony with excellent sea view.

We arrived at noon time. Our Room was old, dirty and poor. We try to change Hotel, but the owner don't agree to give us money back. We anyway cancel our reservation by *********** and loose 50 % of US$ 980 but even if we would loose 100 % we will not stay there. This hotel is simply worse! Please see the picture. The hotel dont serve any alcohol (thr owner is muslim) and you can just buy big bottrls if wather, Cocke and simikar. Wr live the Hotel at the same day. THE PICTURE ON THE WEBSITE AND *********** HOTELD.COM ETC. ARE FAKE! Maybe this picture are 20 years old :-)

Very good hotel with great workers. Very well located in front of the beautiful sea. Thank you for everything !

very very very good staff.outstanding customer service.but the hotel rooms really bad and disgusting.owner should spend money to improve the situation.full mark for the staff and zero for the rooms.pool and sea view very nice.many thanks again for the amazing staff specially Saidi ,Amer,Hagi,Shadida.

Rommene ganske rene, strøm og vann er borte av og til, har ikke safe i rommet. Til frokost kan bare få maks 2 egg ikke mer, vannet må kjøpes til frokost også. Det finnes ikke frokostbuffe, mulig å få 2 egg (kokst, stekt eller omlet) eller panekakke. Servive: de bruker å svare "POLE POLE". Det betyr sakte sakte. Da var service Pole Pole :)

Good property just doesn’t have any amenities at this place.

The room didn’t look anything like in the pictures. Dirty walls, window covered by a cloth and super tiny. Mosquito net doesn’t close completely, pointless. Bathroom smells and Isn’t very clean. No room to put anything in the bathroom (toothbrushes / hair brush etc) and the room is too small to even open a suitcase and leave it open. Next to our outside door, was the sofa where the staff gathered to check/charge their phones and hang out, very unprofessional. We didn’t have WiFi coverage inside our room and needed to go out and sit in that same sofa to use the WiFi. Very unhappy in that room. First evening, we went to the restaurant for dinner, had to wait for over 2,5 hours to get our food (grilled chicken and grilled prawns) Not kidding, we ordered at 19h20 at got our food at 21h55. Pictures of the food are attached. We paid 10 dollars each for a bowl of rice and 1 chicken drumstick/ 4 prawns. Really sad and expensive meal. Left the table hungry. After a first night without any sleep because of the non-working airconditioning, we complained 4 times (including to someone we believe was from management) and they showed us another room. What a difference! Where the first room could barely function as a broom closet, this one was big enough, nice bathroom and sufficient space to move around with 2 people. It even had proper windows! After a final check of the airconditioning (it was working, hooray!), we packed our bags and moved to the other room. It even had proper WiFi coverage. We would like to thank the hotel team for the service of relocating us to a different room. We were able to enjoy our second night. Second evening, we took a short walk (5 min to the right on the beach) to the nearby Passion Boutique hotel for dinner where we had a really nice evening. Suggestion for the hotel management, switch the first room to storage space and maybe put the sofa in that room for the staff to hang out. Not worth the money even though it’s a cheap room. We stayed in other hotels in Zanzibar with comparable prices and the rooms were of significant better quality and much more worth the money. Wanted to take pictures on the swing on the beach, no trace of those except for a swing in the middle of the garden.

We stayed at IFA for the first 4 days after arriving to Tanzania to get acclimatized and to unwind. It's a great place for that: Chill by the pool, walk along the beach, do not much. It is right by the beach, which is great. If you're after more action, this might be the wrong place. There's not that much to do. Only thing everyone recommends is kitesurfing - unfortunately for us the wind wasn't good on the days we stayed here. We booked via bedandtree.com and hence got a good deal (plus a tree was planted in our honor, which feels good). It's not outstanding value for money, but it's not a rip off either, hence the 4 stars: It's (very) good, and does what it's supposed to do, yet not exceptional. If you like, go walk in Jambiani or also in Paje (about 1 hour's walk along the beach), and make sure to walk around the villages itself to get a real glimpse at local Tanzanian life.