Itineraries
How to spend your days in Zanzibar
Ready-made plans for a whole stay, ordered around the tides and the driving. Take one as it is, or tell us what to change.
Where to start
A plan beats a list of tours
Most people arrive with a list of things they want to see and no sense of how they fit together. Zanzibar is small, but the driving adds up and the boat trips follow the tide, so the order of your days makes more difference than which tours are on the list.
These are the plans we build for guests, written out in full. They are free to use, whether you book with us or not.
5 daysFamily week
5 days in Zanzibar with children
Tortoises, monkeys, a spice farm and a sandbank, spaced out so nobody melts down on day three. Built around short journeys and real rest days.
- Stone Town coast
- Your hotel
- Centre and south
- Stone Town coast
7 daysOne week
7 days in Zanzibar
The classic first week. Town, reefs, forest and one long day on a dhow, ordered so you are never crossing the island twice in a day.
- Stone Town
- Stone Town coast
- North-east
- Centre and south
- South-west
7 daysHoneymoon
7 romantic days in Zanzibar
Sunsets from a dhow, a sandbank with nobody on it, and three days with nothing booked. A honeymoon week that leaves room for the honeymoon.
- Stone Town
- North-east
- Your hotel
- Centre and south
- Stone Town coast
More plans are on the way for shorter stays, honeymoons and families. In the meantime, tell us how long you have and we will write one for you.
How it works
Take a plan, then make it yours
01
Start from a plan
Pick the itinerary closest to the length of your stay. Each one is ordered so you are not crossing the island twice in a day.
02
Tell us what to change
Your arrival time, your hotel, what you would rather skip. We move the days around your trip, not the other way round.
03
We confirm and run it
One price for the whole stay, one local team for every day, and the exact times confirmed as the tides and weather settle.
Already priced
Or book a ready-made package
If you would rather not assemble the days yourself, our multi-day packages bundle the transfers, boats and guiding into one price per person.
4 daysAll-inclusiveUltimate Zanzibar Ocean Adventure
Four days of the island's best water: Mnemba, Safari Blue, Nakupenda, Prison Island, sea turtles and a sunset cruise.
3 daysAll-inclusiveZanzibar Marine Explorer
Three ocean-focused days: Mnemba Atoll snorkelling, the full Safari Blue, and a sunset dhow cruise.
4 days / 3 nightsAll-inclusiveUltimate Zanzibar Paradise Experience
History, spice, marine life and sandbanks: Stone Town, spice farm, Prison Island, Nakupenda, Safari Blue, Mnemba and a sunset cruise.
Tell us how long you have
Send your dates and where you are staying. We will write the plan around you and price it in one go.