FACTFILE:
The Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa, Zanzibar
SETTING: The resort is situated on 25 acres of subtly landscaped gardens decked with over 1000 palm trees. The bedrooms and cottages are located on rising ground
overlooking verdant gardens, the public areas, the pool, the
palm trees, the beach and the Indian Ocean beyond.
ROOMS: The resort offers a choice of 6 Garden Rooms, 74
Superior Rooms, 24 Club24 Rooms, 6 Junior Suites and 2
Sultan Suites – each with a spacious bedroom, a separate
dressing room, en suite bathroom and a verandah or balcony.
DINING & DRINKS: Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa has a
choice of 5 bars and restaurants - The Makuti Restaurant,
the Pool Bar, the Beach Bar and Restaurant, the Bahari Grill
and the Club24 Restaurant.
RECREATION FACILITIES: The Resort has a Fitness
Centre, Water Sports Centre, Tours and Excursions, SCUBA
Diving, flood lit tennis, beach volleyball, table tennis, snooker
and billiards - and a myriad of table games.
BUSINESS EXTRAS: There are 2 modern conference rooms
– 80 and 40 people capacity. A fully equipped Business Centre.
Various Groups & Incentives.
FAMILY & SPECIAL EVENTS: the resort offers special
wedding and honeymoon facilities. Also available are full day
childcare at the Children’s Club and a separate baby sitter
services.
OTHER FACILITIES: Banqueting, Big Game Fishing, a
Boutique.
LOCATION:
The Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa is located on the east coast of the Zanzibar
Island, in an area known as Kiwengwa. It is less than a leisurely hour's drive
from the Zanzibar International Airport on an all weather tarmac road.
To fly into Zanzibar, visitors take a 45-minutes flight from Nairobi, Kenya,
which is the region’s
largest city with airlinks
to virtually every
major world city.
Precision Air, Kenya Airways (KLM)
and Fly540 fly into Zanzibar daily from Nairobi. Many
other international airlines fly to Dar es Salaam, a city
on the coast of mainland Tanzania, from where you
can take a local flight to the island or choose to cross
over by ferry. The trip by sea last approximately 2
hours. A number of European tour operators also operate
regular weekly charter flights directly to the island.
GPS LOCATION: E 39:22'31.56" # S 5:58'40.18
Rooms and Suites
The resort has 112 rooms, among them a set
of 24 private Club rooms.
The bedrooms and
cottages are located on
rising ground overlooking
verdant gardens, the
public areas, the pool, the
palm trees, the beach and
the Indian Ocean beyond.
Each Room and Suite
comes with a spacious
bedroom, a separate dressing room, en suite bathroom
and a verandah or balcony.
Each is also tastefully
furnished with traditional Zanzibar furniture – including
a large four-poster bed with mosquito nets, a writing bureau, a coffee table and easy chairs.In addition, the
accommodation has split level air conditioners, ceiling fans, satellite TV's, mini-bars, hair dryers, safes and
telephones. Smoke detectors and fire alarms secure the safety of guests
The rooms and suites at the Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa are categorized as follows:
GARDEN ROOMS:
The 6 Garden rooms are located behind the Junior Suites in beautifully
landscaped gardens. They consist of three bungalows, each with 2 en suite
bedrooms.
SUPERIOR ROOMS:
The Superior rooms are bedroom cottages located on rising ground
overlooking verdant gardens, the public areas, the pool, the sparkling white
beach and the azure seas beyond. All the rooms in this category have a sea
view.
CLUB24:
These superb 24 rooms are in an exclusive section of the 25-acre resort and
offer privacy and exclusive service. They came online in July 2007. But, in
order to maintain the warm and un-crowded atmosphere that is so treasured
by the guests at the Hotel, the extension had to be designed in such a way
that it integrated into the hotel without affecting the Bluebay spirit manifest
and well developed over the previous 7 years. This was achieved by creating
a beautiful and intimate development of 24 Club rooms
JUNIOR SUITES:
Extravagant and unmatched! They are expansive in size and a notable
feature, besides the extensive sea facing and view balcony, sunken baths
and seating lounge is a private garden shower!
SULTAN SUITES:
The Sultan Suites are the ultimate beach front accommodation. Each Suite is
approximately 100 sq. metres and is positioned right on the beach in a
private compound and private beach. The suite comes with Butler service.
Dining & Wining:
The Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa has a choice of 5 bars and restaurants.
The Makuti Restaurant:
This is the main dining setting serving breakfast and
dinner over a magnificent view of the modern deck-level swimming pool and
the ocean beyond. The dinners are themed with cyclic menus with 10 different
themes including Indian, Italian, Swahili, Set Menu, BBQ Nyama Choma,
Oriental, Trip around the World, Zanzibar, Seafood Kiwengwa and Gala Dinner
night.
Besides a Resident Band, each themed evening has its own after-dinner entertainment, ranging from Swahili
dancers, Taarab Music, Acrobats, to live performances by a variety of local Zanzibari Bands.
The Pool Bar:
This is the main bar at the resort and the place to while away
the evenings........even the days!. It is located by the swimming pool and
serves a full range of wines, spirits, minerals and fresh juices as well as
specialized coffees. Cocktails before and after dinner happen here. To complete the evening, the
Bar has live band performances for most evenings, until closing time.
Beach Bar and Restaurant:
This is the resort’s romantic, fun-in-the tropics
bar. It is an informal toes-in-the-sand place right on the beach where guests
sip cold drinks or have a meal of seafood specialties, pizza and other light
fares. An impressive Makuti roofed structure protects guests from the mid day
sun. The Beach Bar serves ala carte lunch and popular themed lunch fairs.
The Bahari Grill:
The Bahari Grill is the best Sea-food and Steaks joint on
the island of Zanzibar. It is an exclusive, specialist diner restaurant offering
payable direct Ala Carte menu. It is open in the evenings only and bookings
are necessary.
Honeymooners staying for a minimum of 7 nights at the Bluebay Resort are
accorded a free sea food dinner at this Restaurant.
Club24 Restaurant:
This is the exclusive dining establishment for residents of
lub24 and guests of the 8 Suites at the Resort. The restaurant overlooks the
private swimming pool and Lounge.
Recreation and Sports
Recreation & Water Sports Centre:
The Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa caters to a variety of water sports and recreation
activities. Facilities include Windsurfers, Single and Double Kayaks, Sail Boats, Peddle
Boats, Hobie Cats, Water trampoline and Body Boards.
Tours and Excursions:
At the Concierge Desk across from the desk, a variety of daily tours and excursions
are available. The most popular are the Stone Town Tour, the Spice Tour, the
Jozani Forest Tour, the Dolphin Adventure and the Blue Safaris.
SCUBA Diving:
Our Scuba Centre is the first Five-Star PADI Dive Centre in Zanzibar. Whether you
are an experienced scuba enthusiast or simply in the mood to try something new,
the Dive Centre is well positioned to meet all your diving and snorkeling
requirements.
Big Game Fishing:
We organize big game fishing in the renowned big game fishing grounds on the waters between Zanzibar and
its smaller sibling island, Pemba. Or to the almost untouched waters of Mafia Island and Latham Island further
south.
Sports:
Besides a Fitness Centre featuring a range of modern equipment, the Resort also
provides a flood-lit tennis court with tennis equipment, beach volleyball, bicycles
for a ride in the wide beach, table tennis, snooker and billiards – besides a myriad
of table games such as cards, black gammon and monopoly.
Personal Care Facilities
Boutique:
The Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa operates a well stocked boutique offering
fashion garments and accessories sourced primarily from the East African
region. There is also a general supplies shop offering a wide range of
products from African books to postcards and suntan lotions to toiletries.
The Oasis Spa:
This is the choicest treat of Bluebay Beach Resort and Spa and the toast
of Zanzibar. It is a resplendent tropical island Spa, complete with a
wooden deck, a thatch roof built with palm trees growing up through it
and the splashing water amid an abundance of beautiful exotic plants.
The Oasis is also known for the professional massages that come with the
natural airy sea view overlooking the beach and the turquoise ocean
beyond. For a really memorable experience, ask your therapists to blend
and mix the local spices and fruits right in front of you. All these natural,
aromatic and freshly prepared treatments are famous for their virtues to relax the mind.
Children's Club
For a beautiful holiday with the kids – yet with enough time 'away from
the children' – Bluebay Beach Resorts & Spa provides a Children’s Club for
the little ones of between 3 and 13 years age bracket.
The Club provides days filled with fun activities with both outdoors and
indoors weekly themed programmes. The children are also introduced to
the swahili culture including basic swahili language besides the arts and
crafts lessons.
The Children’s Club is run by highly trained children’s animators most of whom have worked as kindergarten
teachers. In addition, all our staff have undergone specialist first aid training and most have an ear for foreign
languages
We also provide professional Ayah Services – baby sitters - at a nominal charge, either for day time or evening
minding of children.
Business, Incentives and Group Services
Conferences:
Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa boasts of the state-of-the-art Baraza
Conference Room – named after the ‘traditional meeting place’ in
Swahil. It is an 80 sq meters fully air conditioned facility that holds a
maximum of 80 people seated theatre style.
Business Centre:
The Centre is a fully equipped business point providing secretarial services, computers, 24-hour Internet Access,
and Fax and Photocopying Services
Groups & Incentives:
We have a variety of value added incentive frills and extras geared
towards team building, bonding and the sheer ‘spoiling’ of special
groups of guests. With our new addition of the exclusive Club24,
groups can now have their own exclusive hotel-within-a-hotel for all
activities and theme events, uninterrupted and in total privacy.
And we do not stop at the expected: many times we have organized
out-of-the-ordinary special programmes at short notice to meet specific
requirements of our guests. To date, we have hosted group incentives for local enterprises as well a
multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations from all corners of the world.
Weddings & Honeymoons
Weddings:
Every year an average of 30 couples from across the world
choose our two resorts as the setting for their wedding. The
reason is that we know just how stressful wedding
preparations can be for the couple so we make sure the
process is efficient and hassle-free yet as spectacular, fun
and exotic as only a wedding on an idyllic African resort can
be. Ever seen a wedding with a full Maasai warriors’ guard-ofhonour
for the couple?
The Civil wedding ceremonies are conducted on a spot of the couple’s choice within our gardens or the beach -
or even on a wooden deck overlooking the Ocean. Religious Ceremonies require adequate notice for an Anglican
Minister to be at hand.
The certificates issued in our weddings are internationally recognized.
Honeymoons:
Honeymoon at the Bluebay Resort & Spa is worthy of recounting
to the grandchildren several generations down the line. In order
to be part of those memories, we welcome our honeymoon
couples with a bottle of sparkling wine and a bouquet of flowers
upon arrival - and an upgrade to a superior room category where
possible. A couple booked in one of our suites will receive an
‘under the stars’ dinner served either on the verandah of their
room or on the beach with a bottle of wine at dinner, of
course! And a minimum 7-night stay will accorded our couple complimentary dinner at the Bluebay premier
restaurant, the Bahari Restaurant or on the beach, according to the guests' preference.
