• Private Beach

    Private Reserved Beach

  • Junior Suite

    Superior Junior Suite Twin

  • Bar

    Sunset Bar

  • Spa

    Spa

  • room exterior

    Rooms Exterior

  • Room

    Room

  • Restaurant

    Restaurant

  • Resort by Night

    Resort by Night

  • Villa
  • Villa
  • Villa

    Prestige Villa

  • Junior Suite

    Prestige Junior Suite

  • Pool

    Pool and Ocean

  • Infinity Pool

    Infinity Pool

  • Beach

    Beach

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The Hotel Riu Palace Zanzibar is located on Nungwi Beach, a beautiful white-sand beach with crystalline waters that will make you feel like you're truly in paradise. This resort in Zanzibar, Tanzania, offers free WiFi and the exclusive amenities of RIU Hotels & Resorts to make your holiday an unforgettable experience.

The rooms at this hotel in Zanzibar are notable for their design and spaciousness. In all of them, you'll have free WiFi, air conditioning, satellite TV, a minibar, and a balcony or terrace. Plus, the hotel has villas with private pools for those who want a stay in total luxury.

At the Hotel Riu Palace Zanzibar you can enjoy a refreshing dip in the pool with sea views, relax under the sun in a lounge chair, or go to the beach thanks to the direct access from the hotel. When it comes to gastronomy, you have the main restaurant for enjoying buffet breakfasts with show-cooking stations, and two theme restaurants that serve exquisite dishes. And if you want to sample the best snacks and appetisers, in the bars of this resort in Zanzibar the staff will be happy to serve you.

Fun and relaxation are guaranteed during your holiday in this paradise. Thanks to our entertainment programmes, you can enjoy activities and live shows and music. At at the spa of the Hotel Riu Palace Zanzibar, we offer the best services and treatments so that you can go home from your holiday totally renewed. Likewise, the most athletic guests have the gym to practise their favourite activities, a tennis court, and also the option of enjoying aquatic sports like windsurfing and snorkelling.

Hotel Riu Palace In Nungwi Room Types


 
Luxury Junior Suite (74 Units)

Your grand and spacious accommodations have a private ocean view balcony to delight in the expansive surrounds of the property. The ultimate place to hide away.

Specifications:

45 sqm, with private balcony of 12 sqm and spacious bathroom, featuring a practical and innovative dressing room

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Prestige Junior Suite (13 Units)

Our special Prestige Junior Suites are purposely located in the most panoramic corners of the resort, offering the guests extra living space, larger terraces and magnificent views over the Indian Ocean.

Specifications:

51 sqm with private balcony, private terrace, of 12 sqm and spacious bathroom, opportunely located in the area adjacent to the Hideaway Spa and in the most panoramic and strategic corners of the Resort.

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Luxury Superior Junior Suite (7 Units)

The Superior Junior Suites are discerning and expansive accommodations set in the exclusive privileged area, adjacent to the spa with direct access to the reserved beaches. In every Superior Junior Suite you can enjoy the spectacular Indian Ocean views from sunrise to sunset, directly from your private terrace and balcony.

Specifications:

54 sqm with private balcony, private terrace, of 12 sqm and spacious bathroom, opportunely located in the area adjacent to the Hideaway Spa and in the most panoramic and strategic corners of the Resort.

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Luxury Jacuzzi Suite (2 Units)

Double the pleasure and twice the fun. Feel emboldened by luxury in the surrounds of secluded gardens from your capacious Luxury Jacuzzi Suite. Sweeping views of the Indian Ocean abound from your private terrace and sumptuous living room. While away the afternoon from the intimacy of your private Jacuzzi, sipping on champagne before dinner.

Specifications:

90 sqm, 1 or 2 bathrooms with Jacuzzi and a balcony of 34 sqm. Accommodating up to 3 or 4 guests with a large sofa bed located in the separate, spacious living room.

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Prestige Beach Villa (3 Units)

Wake up from a sweet slumber in your own private beach villa, where breath-taking, panoramic views of the African waters stretch out before you. Cool down from the heat of the Zanzibari sun with a leisurely dip in your outdoor private pool, or sunbathe on the sundeck in a state of idyllic rapture.

Specifications:

90 sqm, 2 bathrooms, private infinity pool (5 x 2m x 1.25m deep), covered balcony and terrace of 160 sqm. Accommodating up to 3 or 4 guests with a large sofa bed located in the separate, spacious living room.

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Presidential Ocean Front Villa (1 Units)

For truly discerning guests, only the absolute best is to be expected. Delight in this sprawling three-suite villa just moments before the white sand beach, enveloped by lush, tropical gardens. The Presidential Villa features expansive living and dining areas and two spectacular outdoor shower rooms, decorated in fine mosaic. Unique room arrangements include three individual suites, each of them suitable for couples, families and groups of friends. The Presidential Villa unifies spacious surrounds with ultimate privacy to accommodate an extensive array of needs.

Specifications:

320 sqm with a large private pool (10 x 5m x 1.25m deep), Jacuzzi (2.5 x 2.5m), kitchenette and private terrace of 160 sqm. The three suites can be booked as separate units or all together.

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Twin room/Interconnecting rooms

In total we have seven interconnecting pairs, of which six are junior and one is superior. Of the seven pairs, one twin connects to one king.

Therefore:

• Junior Suites: 6 Interconnecting Pairs (6 Twins connected to 6 Kings)
• Superior Suites: 1 Interconnecting Pair (1 Twin connected to 1 King)
• Number of Guest rooms with sofa beds, which can be used as Twin as well
• Luxury Junior Suites – 7
• Prestige Junior Suites – 11
• Superior Junior Suites – 7
• Jacuzzi Suites – 2
• Prestige Villa -3
• Presidential – 1

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Hotel Riu Palace In Nungwi Facilities


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Aqua Restaurant

The main restaurant is located overlooking the beach and features both indoor air-conditioned and al fresco dining. A lavish buffet is available for breakfast, lunch and dinner, making the most of Zanzibar’s abundant tropical fruit and vegetables, the myriad range of spices and herbs on offer and the delicious local fresh fish and seafood. Live cooking stations offer freshly made pizza and pasta as well as Asian wok-fried dishes that are cooked to order. On some evenings, themed buffets are served under the African sky by the swimming pool.

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Ishi-Teppanyaki

With its clean lines and refined décor, Ishi features the best of Oriental cuisine, including the freshest of sushi and sashimi and a teppanyaki counter at which to dine and watch the chef at work. The art of the teppanyaki chef is on show, involving the use of a variety of culinary skills with great precision. Ishi-Teppanyaki is located next to Aqua Restaurant and is open for dinner.

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The Carnivorus & more

Specialising in exotic meats cooked to order over charcoal, “Carnivorus and More” offers a taste of all things African. A variety of meats are prepared including springbok, ostrich, impala, crocodile and wildebeest. The culinary journey takes you across the plains of the Serengeti further into Africa and includes a diverse range of dishes. Open for dinner, “Carnivorus and More” is not just for meat-lovers – a range of interesting fish and vegetarian alternatives are also available.

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Sunset Bar

Open throughout the day and late into the evening, Sunset Bar is located adjacent to the swimming pool and offers a comprehensive beverage selection including exotic Zanzibari-inspired cocktails. A sumptuous afternoon tea is served here daily, accompanied by a range of Tanzanian loose leaf teas and herbal infusions. A snack menu is also available around the swimming pool at lunch time.

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Horizon Terrace Cigar & Shisha Lounge

Situated above Sunset Bar, Horizon Lounge is the perfect place to watch the sun setting over the island of Tumbatu. Featuring a relaxed environment and welcoming couches, the Lounge offers an excellent selection of cigars, shishas, wines and spirits.

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The Makuti Beach Bar

Offering a much-needed escape from the midday heat, the Beach Bar is the ideal location to enjoy a refreshing cocktail or cold drink. A snack menu is also available over the lunch period for those who can’t face leaving the beach…

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Pasta & Pizza Corner

Special live cooking of fresh pasta “al dente”

Wood oven Italian pizzeria for snacks lunch and dinners.

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Sports & Leisure

Tour & Excursions

A Tour & Excursions Office is available by the living area on the beach. Visits can be arranged to Stone Town, the vibrant cultural heart of Zanzibar and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Other trips include “Safari Blue”, offering lunch on a beautiful sandbank; trips to the Jozani Natural Forest Reserve, home to the rare Red Colobus Monkey; tours to the Spice Plantations to discover the history of Zanzibar, based on the trade of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper and many other spices; visits to Prison Island, just off Stone Town, ideal for snorkelling and host to giant turtles originating from the Seychelles; cultural trips to ruins of Persian baths and Omani palaces, in various locations on the island.

Diving School

Diving and snorkelling in Zanzibar is amongst the most spectacular in the world with stunning coral reefs and species recorded off Zanzibar’s coast includes frequent sightings of turtles and dolphins, as well as occasional sightings of humpback whales and whale sharks. Our 20+ dive sites offer variety and adventure for beginners trying scuba for the first time as well as for the more experienced divers. Among the most beautiful sites we recommend Tumbatu and Mwana Mwana just 10 minutes boat drive from our Resort, and Mnemba Atoll, just 30 minutes away and a whole underwater world to discover…Our International team of professionals provide snorkelling, scuba diving and a full range of PADI courses.

Our team of professionals located next to the swimming pool offers many water activities for the adventurous traveller. Discover the worlds of kite surfing, snorkelling, scuba diving and a full range of PADI courses, as well as other less rigorous pursuits. The diverse aquatic life off Zanzibar’s coast includes frequent sightings of turtles and dolphins, as well as occasional sightings of humpback whales and whale sharks. The island’s magnificent 20+ dive sites offer variety and adventure for beginners trying scuba for the first time, as well as for the more experienced divers.

Kite Surfing School

Kitesurfing attracts novices and athletes from surg and windsurg.Imagine looking across the North shorefeeling the wind, wakeboard speed, surg skill and the unbelievable freedom of paragliding all in harmony amidst the wind and waves in Zanzibar.

Our team of professionals located next to the swimming pool offers many water activities for the adventurous traveller. Discover the worlds of kite surfing, snorkelling, scuba diving and a full range of PADI courses, as well as other less rigorous pursuits. The diverse aquatic life off Zanzibar’s coast includes frequent sightings of turtles and dolphins, as well as occasional sightings of humpback whales and whale sharks. The island’s magnificent 20+ dive sites offer variety and adventure for beginners trying scuba for the first time, as well as for the more experienced divers.

Deep-sea Fishing

Book your deep sea fishing experience while relaxing at Hideaway of Nungwi Resort & Spa!

The Indian Ocean is famous for excellent game fishing as well as variety of fish such as “Barracuda, Wahoo, Dorado, Striped Marlin, Yellow Fin Tuna, King Fish, Mackerel Tuna, Skipjack, and Bonito etc.” Besides these species of large game fish, other tropical game fish “Swordfish and Sail Fish”.

Throughout all year the fishing lovers are fortunate in having superb fishing, especially from September to early December and February to April.

In addition, when the Kaskazi (north east monsoon) blows, the billfish arrive in great numbers. There are two very definite seasons, the Yellowfin Tuna season, which runs from August through to the end of October, and the Marlin season, which runs from December to mid-March.

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Spa

Indulge yourself in the tranquility of our state of the art Hideaway Spa. Our reenergising and relaxing body treatments, steam bath, and fully equipped fitness center will lead both your body and mind on a journey of inner and outer peace, tranquility and complete relaxation. Hideaway Spa Is a unique facility where excellence, luxury and satisfaction are our main priority. We offer a full range of spa services tailored to your own needs.

Come and enjoy a relaxing massage with our Thai, Balinese and Indonesian massage therapists. Selected oil and fine products will make your stay at Hideaway of Nungwi Resort & Spa even more unforgettable.

The Hideaway Spa offers a Jacuzzi pool where to Relax before and / after the treatments, steambath and a beauty center. Private changing rooms and toilets. An Air-conditioned Fitness center with Technogym® equipment and personal trainers available at extra charge.

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Kids Club

At Hideaway of Nungwi, we appreciate the importance of quality family time.

We’re also committed to ensuring that you can relax, secure in the knowledge that the children are having as great a holiday as you are. With this in mind, from the minute you arrive we will keep you children entertained. Hide & Seek offers a professionally trained team of staff to ensure the utmost safety and security of children from 4 to 12 years of age, with a full, action-packed list of activities including cooking and “mocktail” lessons. In suite babysitting is available at extra charge.

Family accommodation

We can arrange for adjoining rooms for the accommodation of families. We can also provide additional beds and cots.

Children’s meals

All our meals are generous buffet-styled presentations with something to suit everyone. High-chairs can be provided, as can baby-friendly food. We are also delighted to offer slightly earlier children’s meals (as early as 12 noon and 6.30 pm) tailored to suit your children.

Children’s entertainment

We have a separate children’s pool adjacent to the main pool. Our international animation team offers every day a wide entertainment program.

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Hotel Riu Palace In Nungwi Similar Resorts


At a glance

  • Located on the north west coast of Zanzibar on a spectacular white beach
  • Spoiled-for-choice dining options with 4 restaurants & 3 bars plus all inclusive dining concept
  • Cigar & Sisha Lounge and a Tea Room offers varying relaxing experiences for all tastes
  • Member of The Leading Hotels of the World
  • Wide selection of accommodation options ideal of couples, families and friends

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