Getting around · Zanzibar
Ultimate luxuryandBeyond Mnemba Island
Private-island bandas · 12 bandas, one of them for a family · Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Tier
- Ultimate luxury
- Style
- Private-island bandas
- Size
- 12 bandas, one of them for a family
- Region
- Zanzibar
- Nearest airstrip
- Zanzibar
A sand island of about a kilometre and a half off Zanzibar's north-eastern tip with nobody on it but guests and the team looking after them — twelve palm-thatched bandas just above the tideline, and reef a few strokes out.
andBeyond Mnemba Island lies a short boat ride off the north-east corner of Unguja, small enough to walk round in well under an hour and closed to anyone not staying. Twelve bandas, one of them set up for a family, sit under palm thatch behind the beach, and guest numbers top out somewhere in the mid-twenties, so it never feels shared. The atoll's reef is the draw — snorkelling and diving straight off the sand, turtles coming ashore to nest in season — and a redesign running through 2026 adds a wellness banda with treatment rooms and a deck for yoga.
Flying in
The nearest airstrip is Zanzibar. See the real fly-in routes and how the rest of the region connects on the Getting Around map.
Open the fly-in mapEach Wildtouch safari is quoted individually — rates depend on your dates, the camps you choose and how it all links together. Wildtouch prices the whole journey, not a per-night sticker.
Safaris that visit Zanzibar
andBeyond Mnemba Island sits in Zanzibar. These are the routes we run through it — each one rebuilt around you, with your choice of camp.
Other places to stay nearby
Elewana Kilindi Zanzibar
Fifteen white domed pavilions scattered through a large garden above the Kendwa sand on the north-west coast, each with plunge pools of its own and no neighbour in sight.
Ultimate luxuryThe Residence Zanzibar
Sixty-six villas, every one with a pool of its own, spread across a thirty-two-hectare estate on the quiet south-western coast — with the Kizimkazi dolphin boats about twenty minutes down the road.
LuxuryZuri Zanzibar
A design-led garden resort on the Kendwa sand where the sea does not retreat at low tide — fifty-five separate bungalows, suites and villas threaded through planted spice gardens.
LuxuryBaraza Resort & Spa
Thirty villas on the Bwejuu sand, worked in a Swahili idiom of carved plaster, arched openings and antique brass, run all-inclusive — the most ornamental of the east-coast resorts.
LuxuryMatemwe Lodge
Twelve chalets on the north-eastern shore looking straight across at Mnemba — about half an hour by boat to the atoll's reef, which is why divers and snorkellers choose this stretch of coast.
LuxuryChumbe Island Coral Park
Seven off-grid bandas on a small island west of Unguja, inside a coral sanctuary privately managed since 1994 — fourteen guests at a time, and the reef is the entire point.
ClassicEmerson Spice
Eleven rooms in a restored nineteenth-century merchant's house in the middle of Stone Town, with a rooftop tea house that has become one of the better tables on the island.