The Traveller: 24-Hour Room Service: THE SERENA INN, STONE TOWN, ZANZIBAR

From: The Independent - London | Date: November 24, 2001| Author: Lucy Gillmore | Copyright information

"WELCOME HOME." We'd been gone a week, and had only spent a couple of nights at the hotel, but the doorman at the Zanzibar Serena Inn not only remembered our names but also where we'd been. Nudging 7ft, in a flowing yellow coat, white trousers and fez, he looked as though he'd stepped out of the Arabian Nights.

The Zanzibar Serena is a chain hotel but doesn't feel like it; it's also right on the edge of the steamy labyrinth that is Stone Town - but doesn't feel like it. An air of calm...

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