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Azao Resort & Spa

Pongwe, Kati

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Dining service availableNo need to go out for meals! This accommodation provides a restaurant.

Suitable for your business tripStay productive with business facilities.

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3.9/5

GoodFrom 20 reviews

5.0/51 Sep 2025

ira • Couple Trip

View over Indian Ocean was magnificent, but no beach was disappointing.

5.0/511 Aug 2019

Verified traveler • Family Trip

מלון משגע ויפה נקי ומסודר ברמה גבוהה רמת שרות הצוות אין דברים כאלה מומלץ בחום

5.0/515 Oct 2017

Verified traveler

Bonne expérience. Personnel sympathique. Quelques difficultés sur la gestion des factures. Mais un accueil au top.

4.8/511 Feb 2022

Once we passed through check-in, we fell in love with this location, but our travel agency did not give us the proper voucher. The dinner was excellent, and the service was outstanding. The staff was incredibly welcoming, and the meals were fantastic. They met every request, and when our flight was mutated an hour earlier than anticipated, the front desk located our driver and dispatched him an hour earlier. The pool and pool bar were both interesting. At the beach, the sand was silty and felt like mud, reaching to our ankles. The mud was buried under the rocks. However, our buddies informed me that it was far nicer at low tide. We went scuba diving, and it was great fun. The room was on the water, with lovely sunrises. The ac worked, and the excellent showers and beds were both excellent.

4.6/57 Jul 2023

The view from our room is amazing, but when we asked for the garden view room, they gave us a room with an ocean view. I don't like food, but the staff is great. The private beach has a nice warm water pool. No facilities on-site.

4.6/519 Feb 2023

The resort is beautiful, but the staff made this a memorable stay! We had an early diving trip and they made us boxed breakfast and coffee. One of our party celebrated a birthday and the chef made and decorated a cake. Fantastic! The food was very good and plentiful. We had a late flight and ass. Mar cleaned and made our room available. Very rare. The resort, especially the pool, is very relaxing, but the staff made it special.

4.6/517 Jan 2022

Excellent resort with amazing staff, a very nice place to relax with top-notch rooms and service, food is great, I love the variety. The location was great with lots of trees, the beach was beautiful and had fine sand.

4.4/51 Jun 2023

We had a wonderful family holiday thanks to the people caring for this place and the visitors like us. The rooms are cleaned twice a day. Beds are equipped with nets to keep insects away. Beautiful music by the pool. All clean and tidy. Thank you for all you. We will come back for another experience in this paradise.

4.0/510 Dec 2018

Verified traveler

Nice Hotel. Great Value. Friendly staff. Big and clean rooms

4.0/52 Mar 2018

Julie

Azao resort is a nice hotel but be aware, there is no beach. If your plan is to relax by the pool, this is a great resort. If you plan to swim in the ocean and relax on the beach, this might not be the best option. We were aware of it, but kinf of hope we could go swim. It was not possible during our stay. we ended up moving to another hotel. However, the resort is nice, in the nature, it's calm, the rooms are spacious and clean. The staff is extremey friendly and always ready to help. The pool is big, well maintained. We opted for the all inclusive and it was a good idea as the resort is isolated. There is not much around and if you end up paying for food at the hotel, it can be a bit expensive. The resort is quite big, there is a jetté where you can go for a drink after dinner. It's fine. Food wasgood. I feel I got what I paid for. It wasn't very expensive compared to other options, so got what I paid for. At low tide, we could go explore the beach (rocks, crabs, etc). We enjoyed it, but after a few days, we felt it was time to move elsewhere. My recommendation would be to spend a few days and move to another part of the hotel.

4.0/523 Jan 2018

Dodi

sehr gutes Essen, schöne und leckere Coctails, sauber, nett Service, es gibt ein einzige Probleme mit dem Hotel, dass es kein Strand hat. Das SwimmingPool ist doch schön, aber wir wolltem auf jedem Fall am Meer auch baden, was das Hotel leider nicht erlaubt. Am besten Strände sind ca. 1 Stunde weg, und man muss Taxi dazu bezahlen.

4.0/55 Jan 2018

Remy

Had a fabulous stay at Azao. The only thing we were a bit disappointed by was the lack of beach and nothing in walking distance. It seems like many people never leave the resort, which is not exactly my style of travel. Otherwise, incredible staff! Kevin, Rose, Elizabeth and Farhat were so kind to us during our stay. Nice rooms! Food was varied (would have liked more local food- now it’s only one night per week). I had no idea it was owned by Hilton. Apparently they have plans to renovate. I just hope they don’t change the staff or add a ton more rooms- the size was nice as it was not too crowded nor too desolate.

4.0/52 Jan 2018

Freddan

Friendly and helpful staff and management. Clean and high "Zanzibar standard" on all facilities. Food was awesome for adults and teenagers. Atmosphere around pool-area was relaxing and promoting meetings with other guest and the helpful bartenders. Would recommend this resort to all my friends!

4.0/516 Jul 2017

Anjan • Family Trip

Excellent hotel at the price. Newly built and ticks most of the boxes except for a little slow service which needs a lot of improvement. Will definitely go back and try the private villas.

4.0/524 Feb 2016

Anna • Family Trip

Vi var de enda gästerna på hotellet vilket gjorde att det kändes ödsligt. Mycket var slut i restaurangen och frukosten var begränsad. Serviceinriktad personal som uppgraderade våra rum och lät oss checka ut sent.

3.0/523 Jun 2018

Verified traveler

I had to think long an hard as to wheter I'd reccomend this hotel. This is a great hotel for families and couples. The pool is great and the food is good. Take advantage of the free bikes. We stayed in a beautiful oceanview bungalow but we had issues with the water working properly so we had to relocate to a villa without a view. I feel like the staff is a little lazy and there was a disconnect. The spa was under construction. I was pleasantly surprised when the staff surprised me with a birthday cake

3.0/53 Mar 2018

Verified traveler

Ho soggiornato all'Azao per 7 notti con 3 amiche, la permanenza in hotel è stata piacevole, posto molto tranquillo, indicato per chi come noi voleva rilassarsi. Forse persino troppo tranquillo però, alla sera dopo cena mancava qualsiasi tipo di intrattenimento ( musica, spettacoli o altro) per cui dopo cena non si poteva fare altro che andare subito a dormire, eventualmente con l'unica possibilità di bere qualcosa al bellissimo bar sul mare, collegato all'hotel da una passerella, molto suggestivo però appunto al meno un po di musica sarebbe stata piacevole. Personale cortese ma con tempistiche troppo lunghe nel rispondere alle nostre esigenze, nota negativa il mare impraticabile. Fondo in parte sabbioso simile a fango, ci si sprofonda dentro fino alla caviglia ed é impossibile camminare e la restante parte rocciosa molto tagliente, con la bassa mare impossibile quasi entrare. Ci siamo dovute spostare ogni giorno per cercare il mare bello. Cibo ok

3.0/58 Dec 2017

Serge • Couple Trip

They have a restaurant where you can have lunch with extraordinary poor and expensive food. 20$ buffet lunch / person which does not include many options to eat.For 4 days we paid 320 euro for food (2 persons)!!! That given that we do not ate three meals a day there and barely managed to choose something to eat in the restaurant. Unfortunately, you will not pay on the spot( you ll sign a paper), but at the end will surely cause different issues how it happened to us, to ask for 400€ instead of 300€.We asked for explain as why do we have to pay 400€ and they showed us some paper we would have signed, with alcohol and cocktails consumed, but unfortunately for them they were not our signatures and we did not consume any alcohol during that period;If you want do any extra activities try to met a local guy. In the hotel prices are crazy. They asked as 500 $ for 2 persons for Dauphins tour + jozani, and we pays 75$ with a local guy.I still have so many negatives points about you guys, but I don’t want lose all my days writing about this resort

2.0/531 Dec 2018

asaf • Couple Trip

No beach access.

1.0/58 Jan 2018

sergio • Family Trip

We bought a 3 bedroom villa with pool and garden view. Garden view is like a wild Bush that they don’t take care per 1month with a lot of insects and frogs and a lot of lizards. The way to go to the room is so so bad that the guy that bring our luggage broke 2 luggage wheels bringing them. When we arrive in the room. At lobby hotel after one hour in a cab they didn’t offer us nothing to drink and a lot of unnecessary paper to fill out. Really I never saw this. Very incompetent people working there. Even English she cannot talk. When we arrive in the room. The pool was really really dirty. Look at pictures green with a gutter from the roof and a lot of tiles falling them. I didn’t believe in this. Special note Hilton bought this hotel. Do they know that they are waiting for guests with all of those problems? One room was upstairs and the bathroom was in another floor with a dangerous stairs to go. And the villa is like a building that we share the pool. Rooms small and completely separated. Where did you saw a villa like this in a 4 star hotel ? Staying with kids is completely insane in a place like this. After 1 hour they give us another room with a pool falling out the tiles but that look clean and a roof gutter. Then they put 2 chair beds for the kids for spend that night. Stay away from azao resort. Very disappointed. You need to check the stars and downgrade it. Maybe it’s only for local people.

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Swimming Pool

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Fitness Center

Spa

Airport Transfer

Restaurant

Sea View

Luggage Storage

Meeting Facilities

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Sports & Recreation

Snorkeling

Garden

Table Tennis

Diving

Fitness Facilities

On Private Beach

Outdoor Pool

Children's Pool

Public Facilities

Restaurant

Parking (Free)

Hotel Services

Laundry Service/Dry Cleaning

Luggage Storage

Multilingual Staff

Concierge Services

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Smoking Area

Business Facilities

Meeting Rooms

Health & Beauty

Spa

Steam Room

In-room Facilities

Patio or terrace

Transportation

Airport Transfer (Surcharge)

Tours/Ticket Assistance

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Free WiFi

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Uroa to Pongwe Road, Ndudu village, Pongwe, North region, TZ

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Accommodation Rules

Check-in Procedure

Check-in2:00 PM-6:00 PM

Check-out12:00

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit, and outdoor lighting
This property has outdoor spaces, such as balconies, patios, terraces which may not be suitable for children; if you have concerns, we recommend contacting the property prior to your arrival to confirm they can accommodate you in a suitable room

The front desk is open daily from 7:00 AM - 11:00 PM. The front desk is staffed during limited hours. Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools.

Want to check in early? Fill out the Special Requests form on the booking page.

More Policies

Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Children 6 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.

About Azao Resort & Spa

Azao Resort & Spa Location
With a stay at Azao Resort & Spa in Pongwe, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Kiwengwa Beach and Pongwe Beach. This beach hotel is 28.3 mi (45.6 km) from Nungwi Beach and 27.9 mi (45 km) from Kendwa Beach.

Azao Resort & Spa Facility and Service
Relax and unwind with massages, body treatments, and facials. You can soak up the sun at the private beach or enjoy other recreational amenities including a health club and an outdoor pool. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless internet access, concierge services, and wedding services. Getting to the surf and sand is a breeze with the beach shuttle (surcharge).

Azao Resort & Spa Rooms
Stay in one of 49 guestrooms featuring LCD televisions. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and bidets.

Restaurant and Cafe
Satisfy your appetite for lunch or dinner at Palma Court Restaurant, a restaurant which specializes in international cuisine, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Relax with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge or the poolside bar.

Room Type and Price

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 - Tue, 11 Aug 2026 (1 night)

1 Room, 1 Adult, 0 Children