Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Golden Tulip Dar Es Salaam
Overlooking the ocean in a beautiful setting on a low cliff, this laid-back place – a favourite with conference groups – is just south of Sea Cliff Hotel...
Ocean Paradise Resort
An agreeable choice if you’re seeking a resort, with accommodation in spacious, round bungalows, a raised restaurant with commanding views over the water, large, green gardens dotted with palms and sloping down to the beach and a huge swimming pool...
Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp
A 16-tent camp – each tent with two double beds and views – and an excellent location about 45km north of Seronera, convenient also to the central Serengeti wildlife circuits.
Breezes Beach Club & Spa
Breezes Beach Club & Spa is an intimate place that receives consistently good reviews and is often fully booked...
Best Western Coral Beach Hotel
A quiet, often overlooked boutique hotel catering to business travellers, with large and comfortable rooms – though many don’t have views – in a secluded location near the northern end of Msasani Peninsula...
Kibo Palace Hotel
The new Kibo Palace has lovely, well-appointed rooms, a restaurant, and a pool in small, green grounds.
Sea Cliff Hotel
Sea Cliff has an excellent, breezy setting overlooking the ocean at the northern tip of Msasani Peninsula, although the standard rooms don’t always live up to expectations...
New Dodoma Hotel
The former Railway Hotel, now completely renovated and Dodoma’s most upmarket option, has a large inner courtyard, pleasant, good-value rooms – the suites face the main street and are noisier than the standard rooms – and a very good Chinese restaur...
Kinasi Lodge
This is another fine choice, with 14 stone-and-thatch cottages set around a long, manicured hillside sloping down to Chole Bay, Moroccan-influenced décor – at its most attractive in the evening, when the grounds are lit by small lanterns – a genteel...
Melia Zanzibar
Worth a mention simply because of its considerable presence at the luxury end of the market. Rooms and services are upmarket and there are several pools, including a 60m infinity pool as well as smaller private infinity pools.
Ras Nungwi Beach Hotel
This attractive, upmarket place has a low-key ambience, airy sea-view chalets nestled on a hillside overlooking the sea, and less expensive ‘garden-view’ rooms in the main lodge, plus a huge and very comfortable and well-appointed suite...
Kunduchi Beach Hotel And Resort
After being closed for many years, this former government hotel has recently reopened...
Mbweni Ruins Hotel Zanzibar
Mbweni is a quiet, genteel establishment set in lovely, expansive and lushly vegetated gardens about 5km from town, and several kilometres off the airport road...
Protea Hotel Courtyard Dar Es Salaam
Comfortable, modern rooms around a small courtyard, with the better (brighter) ones on the upper level. There’s a restaurant, a business centre, wi-fi and efficient staff. It’s 1km south of Selander Bridge...
Smiles Beach Hotel
Smiles – on the eastern edge of Nungwi centre – has well-maintained and well-appointed rooms in two-storey tile-roofed cottages overlooking a manicured lawn and a nice patch of beach...
Holiday Inn Dar Es Salaam City Center
This is a pleasant, popular and solid-value place, with modern rooms and the standard amenities, including TV, telephone and a business centre that’s open until 10pm...
Bluebay Beach Resort And Spa
The nicest of the large resorts along the Kiwengwa coastline, with a more subdued atmosphere than its neighbours. Rooms have two large beds and all the amenities, and the grounds are expansive, green and serene.
Oliver's Camp
A 16-bed upmarket camp notable for its fine location near Silale – the only area in the park where walking safaris are permitted.
Sayari Camp
This 16-bed previously mobile camp is now permanently based on the south side of the Mara River – well placed for the migration from about July to November.
236 Hurumzi
Formerly Emerson & Green, but now operating under a new name and without Emerson, this Zanzibar institution is in two adjacent historic buildings that have been completely restored along the lines of an Arabian Nights fantasy and are fu...
Lake Manyara Serena Safari
Straightforward raised makuti-shaded double tents around a central dining and pool area and a raised sundowner deck with fine views towards the lake. Cultural walks can be arranged.
The Arusha Hotel
The Arusha Hotel (formerly the New Arusha Hotel) has been completely renovated and is a recommended central choice in this category. Rooms are of a high standard, there’s a restaurant with a daily lunch buffet (US$12), and expansive gardens behind.