Does Sunshine Marine Lodge have a pool?

Yes, this property has 3 outdoor pools and a children's pool.

Is Sunshine Marine Lodge pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

Self parking and extended parking are free at this property.

What time is check-in at Sunshine Marine Lodge?

Check-in start time: noon; Check-in end time: anytime. A fee applies for early check-in (subject to availability).

What time is check-out at Sunshine Marine Lodge?

Check-out is at 10 AM. Late check-out is available for a fee.

Does Sunshine Marine Lodge provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle that runs on request. A fee of USD 60 per vehicle applies.

Where is Sunshine Marine Lodge located?

Situated by the ocean, this spa hotel is 10.6 mi (17.1 km) from Kiwengwa Beach and 20.2 mi (32.4 km) from Kendwa Beach.

Sunshine Marine Lodge Reviews, Deals & Photos 2026

10/10 Excellent

Erica

12 October 2025

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Lovely stay- great quiet spot with amazing views and friendly and attentive staff. Great scuba diving!

Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Dina

30 June 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Peaceful oasis

We had an amazing stay at Sunshine Marine Lodge. The staff were all incredibly helpful and friendly. The reception team helped with arranging tours and activities - we especially loved the tour of Stone Town! The hotel also offers transfer services from the airport, which was really convenient. The resort itself is beautiful and peaceful. The food was also great, especially the fresh fruit at breakfast and the daily specials for lunch and dinner. Cannot recommend this stay enough!

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Leon

18 October 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Awesome quiet place!

Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Dorte

22 April 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Perfect relaxing holiday

Relaxing holiday. All staff smiling, very friendly and service minded. Excellent team. The food was excellent, perhaps a bit expensive, but very tasty and beautifully served. Special thanks to the waiter Daniel who was really making a difference. We tried yoga and the yoga instructor Anna was really good, Stayed in the ocean view bungalow. The only thing which I recommend is a new madras as it was a bit used.

Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Ada

11 July 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The place is very nice Food is Amazing great for a cupples retret! You will anjoy your stay if its a relaxing mode!

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Mette

30 July 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Peaceful location

Beautiful and very peaceful stay. Friendly staff. Snorkeling trips organized every day. Bus to small nearby beach several times a day. Nice variety in food menu that changes every day. Would definitely stay here again.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

George

29 April 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The propertynwas beautiful, the room was spacioua and incredible balcony. The distance from town and expense to get there and back ( over an hour $160 rtn)was the only drawback.

Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Julie

10 September 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Honeymoon

Awesome time at the Sunshine! Great food, impecable service, a peaceful place to enjoy Zanzibar. The hotel is beautiful and offers many services (spa, free yoga classes, diving school inside the hotel). We had an amazing time and we wished to have stayed longer. Everyone at the Sunshine helped us to enjoy this moment so Kudos to everyone!!

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

sarah

25 July 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The best part of the hotel is the staff—warm, friendly, wonderful and willing to go ABOVE AND BEYOND to make our stay wonderful. The location is far away from hustle and bustle of beaches like Nungwi. No one is trying to sell you anything here. The view from the pools is lovely and the dramatic rise and fall of the tide made for fun little adventures. The dive shop was handy and lovely. The snorkeling and diving at Mnemba were just 20 minute away and great. To note: there isn’t a swimmable beach in front of the hotel. For this, you wait until low tide and walk north to Muyuni or bike there…well worth it for the sandbar, starfish, and swimming. We are so thankful to Sunshine Marine Lodge team for sharing their beautiful space and smiles with us!

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Uta

6 May 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Extremly isolated. No possibility to eat outside (without Taxi). Daily power cuts, some of which lasted a long time. No air conditioning and no WLAN during this time. Bar and restaurant also affected. The staff are very keen to maintain European standards, but are overzealous. Every plate is cleared away in a hurry, regardless of whether your partner is still eating or whether you want to keep your plate to have a snack. Hotel pool was not cleaned separately in the morning. As a result, there were lots of dead insects floating in the pool.

Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2024

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

7 January 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Would never choose again

At first glance it looks as if this hotel is a quite calm luxurious hotel. But after staying here for 5days I would not say that luxury is the correct word. All in all we had 5 cockroaches (apart from other critters) in our room at different times. After the first night we told the reception and got the reply that they would try to fix it but that they really can’t because the hotel is located in a very green area. They sprayed a lot of bug spray in our room hoping that it would solve the issue at hand. Well, it didn’t. The door to the room had a glitch of maybe 3-4 cm at the bottom, that was the critter highway 1 to our room, the doors to the terrace where the same, a huge whole that just was another entrance for bugs of all sorts to enter our room. The room also had the bathroom window (not really a window, patterned holes in the wall with insect nets for coverage.) that was straight towards the stairs that other guest used to get to their rooms. So whenever you needed to go, you had to check so there wasn’t anyone outside that could peek in or just hear the sounds that can happen during a visit to the restroom. Furthermore the hotel did not comunicate well, as an example, we were away on a trip all morning and back at the hotel at 12:30, a lot of time for the staff to clean. But they came and wanted to clean the room exactly when we got back and needed to change clothes. They had so much time to do this, but chose the worst possible time.

Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

10 September 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The staff at Sunshine went above and beyond the call of duty to make our stay there wonderful. We especially would like to acknowledge Hamida, Rosemary and Daniel. Everyone there was great and always had a smile waiting for you. Service was top notch and their restaurant deserves a michelin star.

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Heike

19 June 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Man kann die sunshine marine lodge nur weiterempfehlen, man bekommt jeden Tag Wasser a und Kaffee - und Teebeutel, Wasserkocher vorhanden. Die Betten werden abends Mückensicher gemacht, das Menü für den ganzen Tag bekommt man aufs Handy mit den Ebbe und Flutdaten außerdem die Tagestemperaturen, fanden wir sehr gut!

Stayed 8 nights in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

28 December 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Le séjour était top. L’inconvénient est la literie. Le matelas est très dure et pas de climatisation dans la chambre c’est compliqué.

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Simon

19 November 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Like paradise

Amazing. Great service, nice lodge and exceptionel location. Like paradise :)

Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2021

6/10 Okay

Agnès

21 September 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Bel hôtel mais

Très bel hôtel et accueil charmant mais il est complètement isolé , pas de plage . Une voiture est obligatoire, Sinon obligées de manger au restaurant ou les prix sont prohibitifs . La journée est calme , voir trop calme et la nuit bruyante . Il n’y a pas de fenêtres , uniquement des persiennes , donc la nuit bruits des autres touristes et des singes

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

30 June 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Buen servicio

Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2021

8/10 Good

Georg

10 February 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Empfehlenswert

Die Lodge liegt wunderschön am Meer, Strand gibts beim Partnerhotel per kostenlosem Shuttle. Komfortabel, Küche recht gut

Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2021

10/10 Excellent

Carolyn

3 March 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Amazing views, pools, food and service. Very relaxing private paradise!

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Chris, Charlottesville

18 February 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Loved the rain-shower-head in the shower. Loved the view from the balcony. Loved everything.

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

17 November 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

We stayed at this property to go scuba diving. Our room was beautiful, the pool was clean, the food was good and well priced and the staff were very friendly and professional. We had a great time and recommend this property to anyone!

Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

29 October 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

This is such a fancy resort and even though the beach is not right by the hotel they have shuttles that will take you to the private beach whenever you want. the private beach is just amazing as it’s so deserted!

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Hans

4 September 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Kleinschalige mooie lodge op prachtige locatie. Ideaal gesitueerd tegenover Mnemba Island, een duik en snorkelparadjs. Heerlijk eten, mooie huisjes en uiterst vriendelijke staf.

Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Tom

1 April 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Very enjoyable stay at Sunshine Marine Lodge!

My wife and I chose to stay here because of the on-site Scuba Diving shop (Dive Point Zanzibar), and really enjoyed our 5-night stay. The property is located about 90 minutes from the airport, and a one-way private transfer/taxi arranged through the hotel costs $60 USD. We opted for the "half board" option which includes breakfast and dinner each day. Breakfast includes a continental style breakfast, but you can also have eggs/omelettes cooked-to-order, along with African pancakes (like a thick crepe). For dinner you can choose from the "Catch of the Day", or from a limited 4-course menu that changes daily. All in all, we were very happy with the quality, and quantity of the meals. The rooms were spacious and comfortable (we opted for the seaside bungalow, and had a beautiful/close view right from our room and porch - well worth the extra $. The property grounds are nice, quiet, there are three separate pools on-site, and a nice bar and restaurant. They also offer free yoga classes on Monday, Wednesdays, & Fridays, and you can snorkel right in front of the property during high tide (there are big tide swings here, so at low tide, there is not enough water to snorkel). We were very pleased with the overall service at the resort, however the restaurant staff/waiters do not seem to be very motivated, or have not been trained well on how to provide excellent service. DivePoint (scuba shop) is excellent, really nice to have on-site, and we loved our 7 dives with them!!!

Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

6 February 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Un havre de paix ! hôtel très accueillant, isolé sur un site magnifique. Ici pas besoin de clim, des ventilateurs font très bien leur office, d'autant que les bungalows sont orientés de façon à ce que le vent des marées ventile doucement les chambre. Le centre de plongée situé dans l'établissement est simplement parfait !

Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2019

Sunshine Marine Lodge

Choose dates to view prices

Photo gallery for Sunshine Marine Lodge

Reviews

Popular amenities

Room options

Check availability for these dates

View all photos for Ocean Front Suite

Ocean Front Suite

Highlights

View all photos for Family Suite with Partial Ocean View

Family Suite with Partial Ocean View

Highlights

View all photos for Deluxe Ocean Front Suite

Deluxe Ocean Front Suite

Highlights

View all photos for Deluxe Suite, Garden View

Deluxe Suite, Garden View

Highlights

View all photos for Family Suite, Garden View

Family Suite, Garden View

Highlights

View all photos for Garden Suite

Garden Suite

Highlights

View all photos for Suite with Ocean View

Suite with Ocean View

Highlights

About the neighborhood

What's nearby

Getting around

Restaurants

About this property