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...
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...
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...
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 is an intimate place that receives consistently good reviews and is often fully booked...
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...
The new Kibo Palace has lovely, well-appointed rooms, a restaurant, and a pool in small, green grounds.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
After being closed for many years, this former government hotel has recently reopened...
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...
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 – 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...
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...
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.
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...
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 (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.
Kirawira, set on a small rise about 90km west of Seronera, is more open and somewhat tamer in feel than Grumeti, with luxurious tents done up in what its advertising describes as the epitome of ‘colonially styled safari luxury’.
Chavda is a quiet, reliable hotel with some period décor and a range of bland, carpeted rooms with TV, telephone and minibar. The rooftop bar and restaurant are open during the high season only.
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