Zambia
Open year-round, Nkondo offers a comfortable self-catering option with safari tents with attached bathroom. There's a common kitchen to cook up meals. It…
Must-see hotels in Zambia, Malawi & Mozambique
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…
Southern Mozambique
This place has rather soulless, albeit spacious, rooms (no nets), most with the main window opening on to a hallway rather than to outside. It’s located…
Mozambique
This small, well-located guesthouse, just back from the beach and up from Clube Náutico, has a handful of comfortable, mostly spacious rooms, some with…
Mozambique
This pleasant place in the town centre has clean, comfortable twin-bed rooms set in large, manicured grounds. All rooms have fridge, window screens and…
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…
Mozambique
Ideal? This place might live up to its name if you're on a shoestring and are happy with a flat bed with few embellishments. There's a small attached…
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…
Mozambique
Bright paintings give a bit of ambience to this otherwise rather soulless hotel. Rooms – located around a central cement courtyard – are dark, with…
Zambia
Set in an open area, the campsite at Kabwe features views over the floodplain where sitatunga wander by. It has flush toilets, outdoor hot showers and an…
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…
Maputo
This peach-coloured establishment has a sleepy reception area and bland but mostly spacious rooms in a convenient central location.
Southern Mozambique
This centrally located hotel has simple, mostly clean and mostly spacious rooms with TV and hot water. There's no food on site, but several eateries are…
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…
Zambia
The newest campsite in the park is more open then the others and looks out to grassy plains. It's close to the big tree, Fibwe Hide and hence is a popular…
Mozambique
Just back from the river, and just off the N103, Hotel Nhungué has unexciting but spacious rooms set around a courtyard. All come with air-con and chunky,…
Zambia
Camping at the orphanage is an option for those travelling with a tent, and rates include access to its fully equipped self-catering kitchen plus hot…
Villa das Arábias Boutique Hotel
Maputo
The serviceable rooms at the conveniently central Villa das Arábias have bright-red doors with faux-Arab decor. Note that some rooms have interior windows…
Zambia
At Lake Waka-Waka accommodation is in the form of a small community campsite with basic bucket showers, barbecues and long-drop toilets. Bring your own…
Southern Mozambique
This very basic campsite is located at Limpopo National Park's Mapai gate. It has hot-water showers; otherwise you'll need to be self-sufficient.
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.
Mozambique
Bog-standard African resthouse with dark, grubby-looking rooms that do, at least, have running water, air-con and soap.
Maputo
Clean, decent-value rooms in a centrally located high-rise. There's also a restaurant.
Zambia
This enterprise run by the local Kunda people gives tourists the opportunity to visit a real rural Zambian village while helping the local community. Four…
Malawi
This campsite is ideally located in the lee of a valley amid a giant gum- and cedar-tree clearing. In late 2016 it was showing signs of not being well…
Malawi
Crouching low against the river, this plastic-flower-accented digs has beige '70s couches in reception and feels as though it was built for an event that…
Malawi
Cool, rough-and-ready rooms are found in this beachside backpacker joint about 2km from the main road. Hammock flop, get to know the locals, kayak (US$30…
Malawi
This 111-room behemoth does its best to banish a lingering feeling of faded grandeur, with rooms in blocks overlooking riverside gardens shaded by palms…
Zambia
The former Zambezi Breezers has been rebadged as Wagtail River Club, but it's the exact same place. It still boasts a wonderful grassy spot overlooking…
Malawi
Shire Camp's faded bamboo-and-brick cabanas in varying states of repair have tiled floors, fans, hot-water bathrooms and netted breeze vents. The three…
Southern Mozambique
This very basic backpackers has a tranquil lagoon-side setting, camping and a few rustic, thatched bungalows. There’s a braai (barbecue) area, a communal…
Malawi
In the skirts of Mt Mulanje, this old red-brick trusty has 55 basic rooms with amazing views of the towering massif. Rooms are small and musty, with…
Malawi
Go for a superior or executive room at this motel-style set-up, in a peaceful location east of town (en route to Nkhata Bay). Rooms are a little…
Zambia
Offering a relaxed atmosphere, the well-maintained Chimwemwe Lodge is set on a manicured lawn with roaming farm birds. It offers good value, clean…
Mozambique
About 9km outside the main gate, and 500m off the park access road, is this unsignposted, unnamed campsite, which works as an option if you arrive after…
Malawi
Accommodation here ranges from standard and executive rooms to self-catering flats, and the saltwater pool (and attached hot tub!) looks out across the…
Zambia
Sitting on Cabana Beach, this place has a pretty good location but the rooms are small and have very basic bathrooms. Camping is an affordable option for…
Southern Mozambique
Maxixe Camping, just south of the jetty, has a scruffy, enclosed campground directly on the EN1 and overlooking the bay that's worth considering if you're…
