Verani Beach Lodge

Fabulous location, delicious food and great scuba diving center! We went to Pemba last January to do our open water 20 scuba certification. We had Mike as an instructor. he was a fantastic teacher and passionate and he was very serious about safety. The dives sites are great. coral was in fantastic condition. We had a blast! As for the resort, it is very quiet. Restaurant offer good and copious food at a reasonable price. The room are a bit rustic but comfortable. And you really don’t go to Pemba to stay in your room right? Overall a fantastic experience well worth the efforts to go there. Would visit again!

We had a great time there! Everyone is really really nice, helpful and friendly! The nature is really beautiful, amazing sunsets and nights full of stars! The food is delicious and the dives were great! I have only good things to say! Mike, Jennipher and all, thank you for the amazing time!

We had a great diving holiday!!! The place itself is really remote and perfect to calm down and relax. The room was absolutely spacious and comfortable. The staff is very helpful and the food is amazing. We enjoyed the daily diving trips as well as relaxing on the sun deck with a beer. Mike is an excellent host and a very knowledgeable dive instructor who focuses on safety first and plans the dive trips according to everyone’s level. Diving conditions around Pemba are stunning! There are places for every diver: beautiful coral gardens with colorful fish live (especially for divers and macro fotographers who love nudibranches, leave fish and stuff like that) starting from 5 meters but also steep walls with currents, large fish like potato groupers, napoleons, tuna, stingrays, eaglerays etc. which offer some nice drift diving. Visibility was amazing all the time and the surface interval took place on one of the beautiful sandy beaches nearby the dive site which was an excellent way to recover and have a coffee, some fruits and a pice of cake. Offering world class diving conditions like that, it‘s only a matter of time until this place will get more and more recognized by the diving community all around the globe.

Mike and his team are really welcoming and supportive! They are providing amazingly professional dives - they are passionate divers by heart themselves and you could feel that. The water has an amazing visibility. Between two dives there’s a break with coffee, cake and fruits at a beautiful beach! The food there is amazing. Really nice chef cooks amazing food for lunch and dinner! I just have to say, that the shower water was a bit salty. All in all I highly recommend a stay at this place!

I did not sleep at the Lodge but I took Diving lessons. Mike is an amazing instructor, he spent a lot of extra time teaching me how to dive as I was very scared at first. His patience and his passion for the sea helped me get in the Open Water. A big thanks to him for an unbelievable experience! I would highly recommend to dive with Mike.