Pole Pole Bungalows

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Tanzania, United Republic of

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  5.8 out of 6
total of 7 Ratings
6 Stars
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Judith

Travelled in: December 2025, Rated on 13.01.2026, Booked with Dive & Travel
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Gerd Wellhausen

Travelled in: December 2025, Rated on 19.12.2025, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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A great hotel, luxurious but not pretentious! :-)
Every day at dinner, someone from Mafia Island Diving comes to the table and offers tours. You can book dives, but we also did one:
Chole Island Tour with guide and village tour
Blue Lagoon trip with snorkeling
Kua Ruins with guide
Snorkeling trip to Chole Bay
Lunch BBQ on a sandbank
Sunset Cruise
The trips last several hours, normally cost $40-70 p.p. ... and are free of charge for hotel guests. Only twice were there other guests, the crew always consisted of 3 people, pick-up at high tide at the hotel beach, otherwise by car. This puts the high price of the hotel into perspective!
Food: Top, can compete with Virgin Cocoa. 3 courses at lunchtime, 4 courses in the evening. We always cut back, no one can manage that. The Italian owner thinks large plates with small portions are ridiculous ... :-)
Accommodation: Also great, nothing to complain about. All rooms now have air conditioning and are whisper quiet. The old, negative reviews are from before the renovation.
Staff: 5 stars, they are all warm and reliable!
Any time again.

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Simone Haas

Travelled in: December 2025, Rated on 18.12.2025, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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Claudine

Travelled in: December 2022, Rated on 12.12.2022, Booked with Dive & Travel
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Heinz und Rosmarie

Travelled in: November 2022, Rated on 29.11.2022, Booked with WeDive
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Attentive and competent service. Friendly staff, always clean rooms.

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Stefan und Schubi

Travelled in: November 2022, Rated on 22.11.2022, Booked with WeDive
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Pole Pole Lodge simply sensational. Concerning location, service, food, staff.
Great also the daily excursions, for example Sundowner Sailing tour.


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Familie Levy

Travelled in: October 2021, Rated on 30.03.2022, Booked with WeDive
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We spent 5 nights at the Pole Pole. We found it to be a beautiful, very quiet, natural resort with lots of privacy. The 7 bungalows are lovingly decorated and all have a large terrace with rattan furniture and a daybed, where you can wonderfully relax and linger.
Alex, the hostess, made sure that we felt completely comfortable!
The cuisine is Italian inspired and in the evening there is antipasto, primo, secondo and a dolce.
The beach is very pleasant to lie on, but it is not possible to swim at low tide. At high tide the beach disappears completely. We hardly used it though, because we were often diving or on excursions.
The highlight at Pole Pole is that every evening at "aperitif time", David from Mafia Island Diving comes by and makes various suggestions for dives and excursions the following day. The next day, depending on the tide, you will even be picked up by boat at the hotel beach!!!
The only small downer of the hotel: W-Lan is only available in the small open-air lobby.



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