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HOTEL REVIEWS - PEMBA BEACH MOCAMBIQUE AFRICA
Pemba Beach is a 4-star resort hotel on the mainland in northern Mozambique. The hotel has 60 air-conditioned en-suite sea-facing rooms, with either private balconies or terraces. In addition, the hotel has 8 double-storey, 2-bedroomed, self-catering villas which can accommodate 6 guests. All villas are sea-facing, air-conditioned with en-suite bath / shower and additional guest bathroom with shower only, a fully equipped kitchen and are fully serviced. Facilities include a restaurant and infinity swimming pool. Activities include fishing, motorized watersports, cruises, kayaks, and much more.
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Just got back from two weeks in the Pemba Beach Hotel. Right now, the hotel is undergoing major construction, but is in a lovely location.
What's Great:
The main pool area is beautiful
Best available hotel in Pemba
Right next to my favorite orphanage
Mozambican wait staff are incredibly nice and friendly
The beach is beautiful at high tide
There's a small but great children's area in the main pool
The staff was really great with our kids: all the buffet food was free for our kids.
What's Not Great:
The villas and Club Naval are in the middle of a construction zone.
Construction workers will be your constant companions at the villas and club naval
You will cross 'hard hat needed' signs, cement mixers, and huge troops of diligent Mozambicans on your way to breakfast, lunch and dinner from the villas
You may encounter jack hammering and tile cutting early in the morning at the villas
The villas are badly in need of an update (missing light switches, screen doors, broken laundry facilities, etc.)
The language gap is substantial: we did not meet a single employee (up to the General Manager) who spoke English as a first language. For Mozambicans, English is a third language, and this shows: you WILL need to speak some Portuguese to get what you want at this hotel.
For the hotel quality, the food and accommodations are brutally expensive: we paid $270 / night plus $20 / person / meal for 3 star accommodations.
There's no gym or spa (which we expected for a hotel billed as "5 star")
Pool cleaning is considered a black art, not a science by the pool people. We witnessed a number of days of cloudy greenness. Yeek.
Food is shipped up from SA, and due to the buffet style of serving (same exact meal every morning and night) got a little boring during our long visit.
Overall, we had a great time. If we'd been told of the construction, and had the hotel pitched as a '3 star' hotel with slightly more reasonable prices, this would have been a 4/
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