Velvet Garden Restaurant
restaurant — 209 Pearl Street
Trap score: 55/100 (orange)
Velvet Garden Restaurant is a Restaurant popular with visitors; check recent reports before you go.
Location: Zanzibar
Reports (8)
- overcharge (severity 4/5) — 2025-09: They doubled the price once the bill arrived — a classic tourist overcharge.
- other (severity 3/5) — 2025-08: Felt genuinely unsafe here after dark; aggressive touts followed us for blocks.
- taxi_meter (severity 5/5) — 2025-07: Menu had no prices; the final total was absurd and they got hostile when questioned.
- taxi_meter (severity 3/5) — 2025-04: What was advertised online looked nothing like the room we actually got.
- bait_switch (severity 3/5) — 2024-12: Card skimmer suspected; my account was charged twice within the hour.
- overcharge (severity 1/5) — 2024-10: Currency-exchange sleight of hand — got short-changed and they denied it.
- taxi_meter (severity 5/5) — 2024-11: Advertised as authentic; sold mass-produced fakes at luxury prices.
- unsafe (severity 1/5) — 2024-07: Fake police approached asking for ID and then a 'fine' paid in cash.