Palm trees against a dusk sky on the Zanzibar coast

An anchorage on the spice coast

Time keeps
a slower tide here.

A small house of stone and thatch above the sand on Zanzibar's north-east coast — run at the pace of the water outside.

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Coral-stone hotel corridor with archways

Room types across the house — every one of them set to face the water.

01 The house

Not a resort.
A held breath above the water.

Maya Hotel sits on the sand at Kiwengwa — a small, stone-and-thatch house on the north-east coast of Zanzibar. We keep the house small on purpose. One beach, one table, one tide.

18Rooms & suites

1Private beach

2Tables & bars

We came for four nights and stayed nine. Nobody here ever once tried to sell us anything — they just kept quietly getting the tide times right.

— A. Whitfield, Ocean Suite, September 2025

rooms.
One tide table.

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Time keepsa slower tide here.

Not a resort.A held breath above the water.

rooms.One tide table.

Time keeps
a slower tide here.

Not a resort.
A held breath above the water.

rooms.
One tide table.