Northern Mozambique
Mooxeleliya (the Makua name translates roughly as, ‘Did you rest well?’) has five simple but spacious, high-ceilinged rooms upstairs and two darker, three…
Must-see hotels in Northern Mozambique
Northern Mozambique
This long-standing, local-style guesthouse has small, clean rooms crowded behind the restaurant-bar area. Each room has one small double bed. While it’s…
Pemba
Kauri isn't technically on Wimbi Beach; it's on Nanhimbe Beach, the continuation of Wimbi to the east. Rooms are set in modern square, orange blocks right…
Northern Mozambique
Just off the main road through town, the Mtima has two classes of room: the basic variety with shared bucket bathroom, and some newer pews with air-con…
Northern Mozambique
Built on the back of Palma's gas boom, this well-appointed new hotel is aimed mainly at business people. Twelve spick-and-span rooms are arranged in smart…
Northern Mozambique
At the far northern end of the beach, nZuwa offers a rustic, undone Mozambique beach paradise where comfort doesn't have to be compromised. It's all palm…
Northern Mozambique
Newly opened in 2016, the Chambo hosts three simple but beautifully sited bamboo bungalows right on the beach beside Lake Niassa. On offer are meals, a…
Northern Mozambique
The butik (boutique) suggestion is probably stretching it, but this relatively new 21-room hotel is a comfortable and functional place to stay in the…
Pemba
Clean, modern rooms (the best are the spacious ‘suites’), none with nets and all with bathroom and TV, are on offer here. It’s at the start of the Wimbi…
Northern Mozambique
A Dutch-Mozambican-run guesthouse with three very characterful rooms that reflect the hybrid personality of Mozambique Island. Rooms are spacious and…
Northern Mozambique
This new Portuguese-owned place in one of Ibo's finest and most lovingly restored mansions opened in late 2016. It offers large, high-ceilinged rooms, a…
Northern Mozambique
Clean, efficient, central and within easy walking distance of the bus stand, this otherwise journeyman hotel is augmented by its excellent restaurant.
Northern Mozambique
One of many small business hotels in Nampula, this place doesn't exactly ooze charm, but it has all the necessities for a relatively comfortable stay.
Northern Mozambique
This new place a couple of kilometres north of the airport has clean, minimalist rooms, a restaurant and the largest and best swimming pool in town.
Northern Mozambique
On the grounds of an old coconut estate, this German-run place has six clean rooms and offers food (US$30 for two meals). Bookings are essential.
Residencial da Universidade Pedagógica
Northern Mozambique
This university accommodation, with 14 simple, secure, good-value rooms, is in a quiet area.
Northern Mozambique
For total cultural immersion, head to this authentic but rough-around-the edges place in Makuti Town, the scruffy neighbourhood of reed houses where the…
Northern Mozambique
This Portuguese-run working farm, dotted with mango and orange groves, is nestled beneath towering Monte Nairucco about 16km west of town. It makes a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Northern Mozambique
Faced with a raft of newer, plusher competition, the Lurio struggles to impress, with bland rooms, an average restaurant and a slightly old-fashioned feel…
Northern Mozambique
Near the park, with several basic, dark rooms (most lacking exterior windows) in the main house and a common area with TV. If you want to stay with the…
Pemba
Your only overnight option in central Pemba won't win any hotel beauty pageants, though rooms are better than the dark reception area suggests. Bank on…
Northern Mozambique
Karibuni is Ibo on a budget, with very basic rooms in local-style thatched huts and space in a small garden to pitch your tent. Meals can be prepared, but…
Northern Mozambique
If the Montebelo hotel's full (often the case), you can usually find digs next door in this plain but light-filed hotel with large rooms and its own…
Northern Mozambique
Directly in the village centre, this place has solar-powered lighting and a row of no-frills, clean rooms. Each has a small double bed. Meals can…
Northern Mozambique
Stay with the locals at this central guesthouse. Rooms are a tad scruffy and dark – and the water might not be piping hot (or hot at all) – but they'll do…
Northern Mozambique
Very basic rooms with double bed, bucket bath, fan and no nets. It’s at the western end of town, two blocks north of the main road.
Northern Mozambique
One of Nampula's scruffier, if cheaper options, this pension (sometimes known as Pensão Africa) is bargain-basement stuff and only worth contemplating if…
Northern Mozambique
Bleak but reliable rooms sharing grubby ablutions. There’s no running water. It’s down from the main junction and Bar Triângulo, and next to Immigration.
Northern Mozambique
A short walk downhill from the transport stand is this basic place with passable rooms sharing facilities. There's usually food available.
