B4 Beach Club

In the room

The experience

B4 is a beach club on Paje beach, on the south-east coast of Zanzibar where the reef sits two kilometres out and the lagoon goes flat at low tide, which is why this is the island's kitesurf village. The club describes itself in four words, "Beach, Bar, Burger and Beats", and keeps to one rule: electronic music only. Niko Schwind, Nicone, Stereo Express and Philip Bader have all played the sand here, and the party nights are Saturdays, with the music leaning to techno and deep house, plus a Tuesday session with the Summer Dream crew.

The club is also a small compound: B4 Beds has twelve bungalows, each named after an electronic artist; B4 Kitesurf runs lessons off the same beach; there is a spa, a laundry called Brain Wash and a gym. You can, in other words, arrive on a Friday and not leave the sand until the following week.

The year has two winds. Kaskazi blows from the north from mid-December to mid-March at twelve to sixteen knots; Kuzi comes up from the south from June to mid-October, stronger, fifteen to eighteen. Those are the kite seasons and the busy seasons, and the dancefloor follows the wind.

Matt Renton, who makes Sonic Paths, has danced here, and calls it the best place he knows to dance.