Mozambique
Tete's grand old dame is a bit long in the tooth these days, although it still seems to act as the city's nexus. Some of the rooms are a little on the…
Mozambique
Tete's grand old dame is a bit long in the tooth these days, although it still seems to act as the city's nexus. Some of the rooms are a little on the…
Maputo
This large, long-standing hotel offers decent budget value for money. Rooms are slightly musty and nothing fancy (it's worth paying a bit more for 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.
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…
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…
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 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.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mozambique
The inaptly named Moderna isn't exactly a bastion of shining modernity these days, but it still serves as a good budget bet, with adequate rooms, most…
Maputo
Unexciting but clean and fair-value rooms in a three-story building in an unexciting but reasonably convenient location. There's also a restaurant.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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,…
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…
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.
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…