Must-see hotels in Southern Highlands

  • Heritage Cottage

    Southern Highlands

    This hotel has modern, clean rooms with TV (some with minifridge), a popular bar-restaurant, a large lawn area behind, and a playground for children. It’s…

  • Alizeti Hostel

    Southern Highlands

    A popular and sociable budget option with self-catering facilities near the centre of town. It offers board games, hammocks, an honesty bar and mountain…

  • Msosa Campsite

    Southern Highlands

    This bush campsite offers nothing but a shower, a toilet, firewood and wilderness walks. It's on the Msosa River, and is a good contact for arranging…

  • Rivervalley Campsite

    Southern Highlands

    The expansive Rivervalley Campsite has a lovely setting on the Little Ruaha River. Breakfast and lunch can be arranged. Children between three and 11…

  • Karibuni Centre

    Southern Highlands

    This quiet mission-run place is in a small, enclosed compound where you can also pitch a tent. Most rooms have bathrooms, and there’s a restaurant…

  • Landmark Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    Spacious, good-value rooms, all with TV and hot water, a small lawn where it’s sometimes permitted to pitch a tent, and a slow but good restaurant…

  • Bustani ya Mungu

    Southern Highlands

    This small place has clean rooms overlooking a tiny garden, and meals on order. Go uphill (south) from the bus stand for about 100m to the signposted turn…

  • Shinkansen Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    This small compound has double- and twin-bedded rooms (some with interior windows only) accessed via an imposing Japanese-style entry gate and a well…

  • Anglican Church Hostel

    Southern Highlands

    This long-standing hostel has no-frills rooms (some sharing a bathroom) set around a courtyard in a quiet area just off the main road. Food is usually…

  • Super Eden Motel

    Southern Highlands

    This local guesthouse has small double-bedded rooms and a larger family room with one double and two twin beds. Meals can be arranged, as can buckets of…

  • OK Hotels 92

    Southern Highlands

    Small but decent rooms with variable hot water. From the bus stand, head uphill 400m past the market, take the second right (watch for the sign for the…

  • Hill View Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    This friendly and flashy 25-room establishment has a quiet location and modern, comfortable rooms. The more expensive ones have Jacuzzi-like bathtubs, and…

  • FM Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    This large, soulless multistorey place bills itself as Njombe’s sleekest option, with modern rooms boasting nets and TV. Some face the highway, with views…

  • Matema Beach View Lutheran Centre

    Southern Highlands

    Rooms at this place – in brick bandas on or just back from the beach – are no frills, although the local ambience is agreeable. It serves a simple…

  • Mwambasa Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    Mwambasa is a local-style guesthouse that is slated to be knocked down when the road is expanded. Until this happens (and it probably won't happen for…

  • Kyela Beach Resort

    Southern Highlands

    If you have your own transport, this is a good bet, with 18 simple but pleasant, well-ventilated rooms (windows on both walls) set around a garden…

  • Udzungwa Mountain View Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    This straightforward hotel, under the same management as Genesis Motel in Mikumi, has 16 simple, somewhat cramped rooms in a shady compound, and a…

  • Mala Green Campsite Park

    Southern Highlands

    About 3km from the border, and about 2km off the main road, this small, green spot offers rooms in basic bungalows, a camping area and meals with advance…

  • Tungamalenga Lodge & Campsite

    Southern Highlands

    This long-standing place, about 15km from the park gate and close to the bus stand, has a small garden for camping, basic but tidy rooms in double-storey…

  • Lug Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    Basic, clean rooms with TVs and squat toilets that do for an overnight if you get stuck at the border. There's no food. Lug Lodge is on the north side of…

  • Sofia Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    A cheerful and basic hotel in the heart of town, with hot water, fans and wi-fi. Some of the rooms have no windows, but these do tend to be quieter. It's…

  • DM Motel

    Southern Highlands

    Clean rooms with a large bed (no same-gender sharing permitted) and meals on request. Thefts have been reported, so be careful with your belongings. It’s…

  • Joseph's

    Southern Highlands

    Simple and utterly idyllic, Joseph's place consists of a scattering of simple thatched huts on the lakeshore. He will cook up a plain meal of fish, rice…

  • Mikumi Park Special Campsite

    Mikumi National Park

    This park campsite is located near Choga Wale in the north of the park; be especially careful eating and storing food here as there are likely to be…

  • Sai Villa

    Southern Highlands

    This private residence has 10 comfortable modern, if uninspired, guest rooms and a good restaurant serving excellent Indian food. A sociable weekend spot…

  • Sombrero Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    Tidy, good-value, no-frills rooms in a convenient, central location, with a small restaurant downstairs. Offers a gentle welcome to the colonial centre of…

  • Neema Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    Basic rooms, basic meals and a pleasant setting overlooking the lake. Turn left just before the bridge as you enter town on the road from Mbinga.

  • Mikumi Park Campsite

    Mikumi National Park

    Of the park's four ordinary campsites, the one closest to the park headquarters is reasonably well equipped with toilet facilities and a shower.

  • St Benadetta Guest House

    Southern Highlands

    This two-storey church-run place is set on a small rise overlooking the lake. It has simple rooms, a pleasant garden and meals on order.

  • Sativa's Midland Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    An acceptable and clean town-centre option, Sativa's has reasonable facilities, and a decent restaurant and bar are around the corner.

  • Mbega Resort

    Southern Highlands

    Simple, clean rooms and meals with a garden setting. It's along the main road before the tarmac begins.

  • Genesis Motel

    Southern Highlands

    The functional Genesis, on the highway 2.5km east of the Ifakara junction, has small, closely spaced rooms (ask for a newer one), a restaurant and an…

  • Landmark at Lake Nyasa

    Southern Highlands

    The new brick bandas constructed by this Tanzanian chain are comfortable enough, but little has been done to make them blend with the stunning natural…