Elevated and crafted along an idyllic island beach, The Manta Resort offers privacy, romance, adventure, and water sports on East Africa's finest island sanctuary. The resort is focused around a large open planned relaxing area that welcomes you to the sea. Life on Pemba revolves around the ocean tides, and as the day progresses you will witness the ever changing colours and shades of blue and green as the tide ebbs and flows.

Accommodation
Sea Front Villas: - Six newly built luxury sea front villas. These air- conditioned villas are spacious and private, with a centred king size bed and large en-suite bathroom. A secluded sun terrace faces a spectacular ocean sunset.

Garden Rooms: - Two pairs make up the four garden rooms with views of the sea between the foliage. One of the two pairs has an interconnecting door which makes it an excellent choice for families or larger groups. The Garden Rooms are air conditioned with a king size four oster bed and private makuti thatch covered terrace. The “Barazza” lounger can be used as a third bed, and a fourth single bed can be added on request. Hot and cold water showers are provided in the en-suite bathroom.

The Village: - The brand new cottages is affordable accommadation. They are nicely set in the gardens with wooden floors, mosquito net covered king size beds, lamu floored en-suite bathrooms, and a makuti-thatched verandah – all with views overlooking the Pemba channel.

Restaurant Bar
A mouth-watering variety of the largest, freshest locally caught fish and seafood you have ever seen awaits you. Most meals are served on the main building verandah to ensure the evening setting is romantic. For a lifetime experience ask for the 'Sandbank' dinner – you will be taken to a wide sandbank off-shore that appears at low tide, there you will be served a seafood platter and will be left to enjoy your own company. Perfect for honeymooners. The well stocked bar serves drinks all day on the beach and throughout the resort. And you can sample the delicious fruit platter.

Beach Lounge
See the tide come and go while sipping away the day with a Voodoo Juice in one hand, your feet buried in the warm sand, and a soft breeze cooling your skin. The music is composed by the breaking waves and accompanied with occasional whale song in season - and all with a view to die for.

The bartenders specialise in a wide variety of sun downers and cocktails and will spoil you with fruit drinks and cocktails from the freshest handpicked island mango, lime, lemon, pineapple, and coconuts blended with a touch of rum to create uniquely smooth and refreshing drinks.

Kipepeo Spa
Breath in. Leave everyday worries behind you focus on You for a change. Settle down and open up your senses. The Kipepeo Spa welcomes you to a stressless environment, with a warm breeze from the Indian ocean sweeping across the room. Give yourself the time settle down and reflect. Breath out. Embrace a new pace.

Couples Sanctuary - for Newly weds
In celebration of a newly wed's first vacation together, the Honeymoon Package includes a bottle of sparkling wine, a romantic candlelit beach dinner; soothing massages in the Kipepeo Spa, and a private evening of star gazing.

Package includes:
* Accommodation for seven nights
* Private Sandbank or Beach dinner depending on tides
* Private star gazing under the Milky Way
* 2spa treatments, 1 per person at the Kipepeo Spa
* Roundtrip flights (Zanzibar/Pemba - Pemba/Zanzibar)
* Roundtrip airport transfers on Pemba
* Full board

Pemba Crown Hotel, is located on Pemba Island near Zanzibar island is a relatively new hotel. Pemba Crown Hotel is located at the center of Wete town overlooking the central market and a walking distance to the sea port.

The Hotel has 15 rooms:
* all self contained
* air conditions
* hot water.

Other Services Provided by the hotel include:
* Transportation to and from the Airport and all the sea ports
* Air and sea ticket bookings
* Country side tours
* Trips to the beach
* Arrange motorbikes hire
* Boat trip to the islands
* Arrange diving packages with specialised diving centers

In the far north of Pemba, a new concept in adventure and hospitality has been created. After eight years of operating in Chake Chake, the capital of Pemba, 'Swahili Divers' has moved its operation to an idyllic spot on the beach close to the village of Makangale. This resort is called "Kervan Saray Beach". It is the first new hotel to open in Pemba in 8 years.

Kervan Saray Beach (KSB) boasts Pemba's most experienced and competent dive centre. 'Swahili Divers' know the reefs like no one else. Famous for diving the whole of Pemba, they are a PADI 5*. It is an unpretentious dive resort where non divers are made very welcome.

Eco Tourism
Every night that you spend in KSB you make an involuntary donation to the local community of $3. This money is used to develop the local community. The money is used to repair houses, repair schools, give educational courses, provide small scholarships to the local community and provide an "ambulance" service in emergency.

KSB may seem like a hotel, but it is in effect a moving, living, eco friendly development program. Having started in 1999, and been owner-operated since that time, we know where not to invest, and we know where people make mistakes. Kervan Saray Beach was built using coral blocks and paste and grass from the Island of Pemba. The re-enforcing bar came from Dar es Salaam and the paint from Tanga. All of these items came by dhow. The carbon footprint of a dhow is limited to the fire that the crew use to warm their food at night when at sea. Indeed, some of the wooden poles were landed right on the beach. The rest came by bullock cart (and a few trucks) from the nearest town, (Konde).

Now almost all the dry goods, vegetables and beer come by dhow. Water is heated using a bush solar system. Where possible inverters and batteries are used. Solar Electricity is being investigated at this time. Staff walk to work or use bicycles, gas cylinders are moved by ox cart. Where engines are used, they have retrofitted Turbocharged Direct injection Diesel engines to the Landrovers. These engines were imported from Great Britain and come up to the highest European pollution controls. All fast boats have been retrofitted with four stroke engines from the UK that also comply to European emissions controls. KSB is the only dive centre in Pemba that uses 4 stroke engines and the eco-friendly Direct injection engines in their Landrovers.

Rooms
Rooms are exceptionally simple, built using only local materials with thatched roofs. Each room has:
a double bed and a single bed
an attached washroom.
a shower that provides lukewarm water that is solar heated using an African Village system. On cloudy days the water is cool.

Dining
Mzee Ali, is the resident cook who is adept at cooking on charcoal and with the limited resources that Pemba once had. Happily the markets in Pemba are now bustling with fresh produce from the Usambara Mountains on mainland Tanzania. Meat ranges from locally sourced products to imported meat from around the globe. Fish varies from season to season. This is all line caught and dependant upon the luck of our local fishermen. The catch of the day comes by during a surface interval.

Kervan Saray Beach offers you a set four course nightly menu. This includes salads, fruits, desserts, and of course a daily vegetarian option. Please be aware that due to local conditions, some items are seasonal.

Electricity
The resort is so remote that it is off the National Power Grid. Electricity is provided by generator from 6pm to 6 am in the rooms, and in the office during the day. Guests are very welcome to use a large bank of plugs to recharge laptops, satellite phones and digital cameras. Where possible inverters and batteries are used.

Connectivity
There is satellite and radio phones that can be used to call out for the appropriate fee. There is a computer dedicated for guest use, which is connected to Satellite internet. The connection is of medium speed, associated with a VSAT connection. (128KB shared). This is available for use for a small fee.