Southern Mozambique
Centrally located, Kaya Ka Hina is convenient if you’re trying to catch an early bus or don’t want to drive down to the beach. It has no-frills, clean…
Must-see hotels in Mozambique
Southern Mozambique
This small, sporadically open guesthouse is in an unsignposted private house on the southern edge of Inhambane just before the sports stadium. It has a…
Maputo
In the upper part of town, the long-standing Fatima’s has an outdoor kitchen-bar, a small courtyard garden, a mix of rooms and lots of travel info.
Southern Mozambique
This low-key place is set just back from the beach on a low, vegetated escarpment. Accommodation is in stone-and-thatch chalets scattered around the…
Southern Mozambique
About 300m north of the town centre, past the Catholic church, this place has rows of two- and four-person apartments, plus some larger self-catering…
Mozambique
The Miramar offers cheap but old rooms that look as tired as a backpacker after 10 hours on a jam-packed chapa (minibus). Some rooms have private bathroom…
Southern Mozambique
This place is just behind the dunes on a long beach, with a restaurant, shade and braai (barbecue) facilities available for day visitors, and camping and…
Southern Mozambique
Just inside Massingir Gate and near the dam wall, this simple camp is favoured by transit visitors and those with boats (due to the nearby launching…
Northern Mozambique
Over a decade old and showing it, the Quality is about 1km from the city centre along the Quelimane road, meaning it's handy for most bus departures (the…
Maputo
This new-ish hotel is grey and bland outside and in, but rooms are clean and decent value, and the location is convenient to the baixa and to the…
Maputo
This long-standing place is in the midst of undergoing a facelift. Ask for one of the renovated rooms, which are bland, but fair value for the price.
Southern Mozambique
Partiers will likely enjoy this place. It offers a mix of accommodation, including camping (your tent or theirs), dorm beds, small and simple wooden…
Northern Mozambique
In a pink-walled compound behind an eponymous restaurant lie several double-room rondavels (round huts) of varying degrees of comfort. The restaurant is…
Southern Mozambique
This amenable boutique place is on a small rise at the eastern edge of town. Although it lacks a beachfront (it's on the inland side of the coastal road),…
Southern Mozambique
CFM Lodge is smack in the centre of things, opposite the market and about 100m back from the beach behind Hotel Tofo Mar. Its row of attached rooms come…
Northern Mozambique
In a good setting at the island’s northern tip in the shadow of the fort and opposite a beach, this place has a governmental, utilitarian feel despite a…
Mozambique
The 1st of July is distinctly old-fashioned, or maybe those dusty wooden animal carvings were never in fashion – who knows? Near the old cathedral, this…
Mozambique
On the main road a few blocks west of Millennium BIM, this small-town resthouse-style place is a cut above your average African roadside digs. Simple,…
Southern Mozambique
The long-standing Fatima’s, ever popular and now considerably expanded, has camping, dorm beds and a mix of very basic bungalows and rooms, all on low…
Mozambique
This place is worth checking out if you’re on a budget and the Pink Papaya hostel around the corner is full. Rooms have TV and hot water, and there’s an…
Southern Mozambique
In a fine seaside location (though not all rooms manage to have full sea views), this motel is a throwback to colonial days. It has a restaurant that does…
Southern Mozambique
Blue Anchor Inn has pleasant rooms and cottages in large grounds, and a restaurant. About 50km north of Maputo and about 20km north of Marracuene …
Southern Mozambique
About 400m from the sea along the main road into town and next to the police station, this is basically a dive camp, but with more pampering…
Southern Mozambique
África Tropical has a row of small, tidy rooms facing a tiny garden. Some rooms have a double bed, others a double plus a single; all have fan, net and…
Maputo
This solid, no-frills hotel lacks pizzazz, but its 36 small rooms are serviceable and reasonably comfortable, and the ambience is familial.
Mozambique
If you’re coming from the north and get stuck in Vila Gorongosa, this place – which is not azul (blue) at all, but white with yellow trim – has no-frills…
Southern Mozambique
A long-standing place with large grounds, a beachside restaurant, camp sites (towards the back of the property), and accommodation in small, faded sea…
Northern Mozambique
This family house at the island’s northern end has a quintet of clean but view-less downstairs rooms (each with bathroom and air-con) and a larger…
Northern Mozambique
This place has clean, air-conditioned rooms and is currently favoured by Moçimboa's growing contingent of natural-gas workers. It also has Moçimboa’s best…
Southern Mozambique
The unassuming Nordin’s is at the northern edge of town in a good, shaded location directly on the beach. It has four rustic, dark and rather faded…
Southern Mozambique
This backpackers on the waterfront has simple rooms and dorms, and a rooftop terrace overlooking the bay. It's a five-minute walk from the ferry: turn…
Mozambique
Although it acts primarily as a beach bar and restaurant, ever-popular Biques, set on a breezy rise overlooking Macuti Beach, also offers limited camping…
Southern Mozambique
A collection of rustic self-catering reed chalets on the beach almost at the northwesternmost edge of the Barra Peninsula; once at the main Barra junction…
Northern Mozambique
At the northeastern edge of town, this above-average resthouse has clean, low-ceilinged rooms with flat-screen TVs and mosquito nets. Staff are friendly…
Southern Mozambique
This rather run-down place is redeemed by its lovely setting amid the dunes fringing a spectacular beach. Accommodation is in rustic cottages on the dune…
Southern Mozambique
About 200m north of the town centre, past the Catholic church, Coco Rico has large, well-equipped, eight-person wooden self-catering chalets just back…
Northern Mozambique
With clean if unremarkable rooms, the Brasília is set on improving its standing among the city's newer, bigger competition – it was undergoing…
Southern Mozambique
Just in from the beachfront road, this place is light, bright, airy and clean, with well-appointed, whitewashed stone-and-thatch cottages set in lush,…
Southern Mozambique
This locally run place has eight quite basic but adequate rooms (a mix of twins and doubles) with fans and nets (one with air-con), a small restaurant and…
Northern Mozambique
Clean, quiet, slightly cramped rooms are available in this small private home opposite a coffee plantation. It's about a 10-minute walk from the dhow port…
