A traditional house, a 3-floored building which was at one time a tea house, hence it’s name: Beyt al Chai – The Stone Town Inn.

The exceptional location of this boutique hotel offers the whole Stone Town on a silver platter to its guests.

A wealthy Arab merchant originally built this fabulous old building. In the years that followed, the square in front of Beyt al Chai became frequented by the European residents of the town. (There are several theories as to why the square is called Kelele (which in Swahili's means 'noise') one of them being that it is after the dogs of the Europeans residents of the square that barked so much)