The Protea Hospitality Group has entered the island paradise of Zanzibar, bringing the exclusive Mbweni Ruins Hotel into the Protea Hotels portfolio.
Protea Hotel Mbweni Ruins is situated on the coastline of Zanzibar seven kilometres from Stone Town and five kilometres from the airport.
Hidden away among the trees is this 13-room hotel with a restaurant, a deck, a pool, beach bar and beach chairs at the ocean’s edge, just a few feet away, ideal for lazing around in the tropical sun.
The Spa at Mbweni is in two beautiful rooms in the old ruins.
Protea Hospitality Group CEO Arthur Gillis says Zanzibar is one of Africa’s most popular leisure travel destinations visited by approximately 170 000 foreign tourists in 2012, which makes it a very attractive proposition from a hospitality point of view.
“And Protea Hotel Mbweni Ruins is the perfect property with which to enter this amazing and historic travel market. It is a beautiful and exclusive hotel with just 13 gorgeous suites furnished island style with elegant canopied beds and carved timber furniture.
Boat cruises and excursions to Chumbe Island are available directly from the hotel's jetty.
The hotel also offers an in-house tour desk service to arrange excursions such as swimming with dolphins, deep-sea fishing, diving, spice tours and Jozani National forest.
For those travellers wanting to stay a little closer to home, there are gorgeous hiking trails around the hotel and the property contains 120 different species of palm trees and more than 30 exotic species of indigenous plants. It is also an ideal bird-watching location.
What are now the Mbweni ruins were built in 1871 and completed in 1877. The chapel at the ruins is currently used for functions and weddings.
“The beachside location is perfect for quiet relaxation, but it is close enough to the historic Stone Town to be extremely convenient so it’s ideally located for our purposes.
“As Protea Hotels has said time and time again, Africa is the future of hospitality and there is room for companies with trusted, recognised brands to expand rapidly.”
Gillis says Protea Hotels will be entering two new markets, Ghana and Rwanda, in 2014, but the company is also currently exploring opportunities in several other African states.
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