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Rooftop bars · Kiponda, Stone Town
The rooftop Tea House of a restored 19th-century Swahili mansion, serving Swahili high tea, lunch and dinner above the roofs of Stone Town, with the Secret Garden restaurant in the courtyard below. Twelve rooms, carved doors and a view straight to the minarets.
Sunset from this roof is the classic Stone Town view, and the hotel is small enough that staff will simply tell you whether a dog is acceptable.
Emerson Spice publishes no pet policy; the rooftop is reached by steep, narrow stairs and dinner service is tight, so a dog is unlikely to be welcomed upstairs. The Secret Garden courtyard below is the more plausible spot, and only after asking. Source: the hotel's own site, which documents the Tea House and Secret Garden but says nothing about pets. Confidence: low on dogs.
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