Breezes Beach Club & Spa
Breezes Beach Club & Spa is an intimate place that receives consistently good reviews and is often fully booked...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kahembe’S Guest House
Just across the large field in front of the bus stand, this good place has twin- and double-bedded rooms (the singles have one large-ish double bed) with reliable hot-water showers and TV...
Balamaga Bed & Breakfast
Out of town in the Balamaga Hill area above the port, just past Walkgard and Kolping Bukoba hotels, with four spacious, comfortable rooms (two self-contained and two sharing a bathroom), gardens, cable TV and meals.
Plantation Lodge
A genteel place with spacious, well-appointed cottages set in expansive green grounds, large verandas with views over the hills, a crackling fireplace and a cosy, highland ambience. It’s west of Karatu and about 2km north of the main road.
Outpost Lodge
The Outpost, in a leafy residential area has a few dorm-style rooms in an old two-storey house, plus small and pleasant detached garden bungalows scattered around the lawns. All have mosquito nets and TV, and there’s a restaurant and a tiny gym.
Tent With A View Safari Lodge
For a secluded tropical getaway, this wonderful and recommended luxury camp is the place to come, with raised treehouse-style bandas tucked away among the coconut groves just outside the Saadani National Park’s northern boundary on a lovely...
Zanzibar Coffee House Hotel
This small, new, good-value boutique-style hotel above the eponymous coffee house in Hurumzi has just eight rooms, most spacious, some with bathroom and all decorated with Zanzibari beds and décor...
Karama Lodge
Karama, on a forested hillside in the Suye Hill area just south of town, offers proximity to both nature and the town centre...
Harbour View Suites
Well-equipped, centrally located business travellers’ studio apartments with views over the city or the harbour. Some rooms have mosquito nets, and all have modern furnishings, wi-fi and a kitchenette...