Pole Pole Lodge

The Pole Pole Resort at Mafia Island’s Marine Park is a small and intimate lodge consisting of just seven bungalows and offers personal attention and service.

Pole Pole is located in the Utende area of Mafia Island in a shady, breezy spot facing the sea and looking over at the islands of Chole, Juani and Jibondo.

The lodge is owned and run by a young Italian couple, Massimo and Katia, who have spent the last several years designing and building the resort. The roomy bungalows with wide verandas looking on to the sea are built entirely out of wood and raised on stilts to ensure the maximum comfort for the guests.

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Departs Board Room Airport Airline Price Price Extra
0 nts 3nts night
01Sep11-19Dec11 Full Board Bungalow Suite NA Coastal Air €919 €229
20Dec11-10Jan12 Full Board Bungalow Suite NA Coastal Air €1,029 €269
11Jan12-31Mar12 Full Board Bungalow Suite NA Coastal Air €1,009 €259
01Jun12-31 Jul12 Full Board Bungalow Suite NA Coastal Air €1,009 €259
01Aug12-31Aug12 Full Board Bungalow Suite NA Coastal Air €1,109 €289
01Sep12-19Dec12 Full Board Bungalow Suite NA Coastal Air €1,009 €259
20Dec12-10Jan13 Full Board Bungalow Suite NA Coastal Air €1,109 €289
PRICES include shared charter flight Dar/Mafia/Dar; return local airport transfers, 3 nights Full Board accommodation at Pole Pole Resort in Family Bungalow Suite, Daily Excursions in Chole Bay & Marine Park Fees.
For other dates or durations, please call for your tailor made quote.

Rooms & Accommodation

  • 7 spacious Bungalows with personalised fixtures and fittings. The floors are made out of hard woods (afrormosia - one of the rarest and valued tropical woods), the furniture from mahogany and the door and window frames from doussi. Bathrooms have double washbasins, king-size showers, bidets and toilets

Hotel Activities

  • Pole Pole offers all guests daily excursions including boat trips in traditional sailing dhows, a dive centre for Scuba enthusiasts and fantastic snorkelling for those who prefer to stay on the surface.
  • Free day trips are organised to three destinations in Chole Bay, the island’s main attraction - Maweni - Coral rocks emerging from the bay surrounded by an extremely interesting reef which can be reached even by less expert swimmers.
  • Trips to Chole Island, the oldest, still inhabited settlement in the archipelago, with the ruins of some Arab buildings used by the Germans during the First World War. The island is covered by extremely varied lush vegetation. Among the island’s curiosities are a number of trees containing colonies of Comoro bats, a protected species of fruit eating "flying foxes"
  • You can visit a shipyard where traditional construction methods are still used to build dhows, the typical East African sailing boat.

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