Northeastern Tanzania
This large pink edifice is in a quiet location two blocks in from Hospital Rd and behind the easy-to-spot Katani House. It has soulless but acceptable…
Must-see hotels in Tanzania
Western Tanzania
This quiet place west of the centre has tidy rooms with TV and occasional hot water. It’s nothing special, but Mpanda being what it is, Baraka’s rooms are…
Lake Manyara National Park
Shaded Campsite 2, set amid sausage trees and other vegetation near the Endabash River about an hour's drive from the park gate, has relatively new toilet…
Northern Tanzania
The Lutheran Hostel has simple, clean rooms with hot water, and good meals (Tsh10,000). Hostel proceeds go towards a vocational training centre for local…
Northeastern Tanzania
CBA has a quiet setting in a large garden, and clean, modest rooms with mosquito nets that are reasonable value for money. It also has a restaurant. It's…
Northern Tanzania
This place on the main road at the eastern end of town is often busy with overland trucks. Camping facilities are fine, and the rooms are, too, with their…
Nungwi
With simple bungalows and rooms with glass sliding doors in a two-storey block, this is a no-frills joint but makes up for it with its position right on…
Dar es Salaam
This tidy, long-standing establishment has 32 comfortable rooms around a small, quiet pool courtyard on the inland side of the road. Opposite is a…
Nungwi
A simple budget option, right on the beach. Rooms have mosquito nets, fans (some also have have air-con) and a small veranda looking onto a sandy garden,…
Mwanza
This cheery and friendly place has bright and clean rooms, but the hot-water bathrooms, which are very small and not all that inviting, really let the…
Dar es Salaam
Clean, bland, but good-value rooms hidden away in an aesthetically unappealing high-rise close to the Kisutu St bus booking offices. There are no mosquito…
Northern Tanzania
This is one of many local guesthouses lining the dusty streets of the busy Bawani area of Karatu, just south of the main road behind the Bamprass petrol…
Western Tanzania
This simple guesthouse down a tiny alley is a good choice if you want to be right in the centre of town, but it is as no-frills as it gets. The basic,…
Northeastern Tanzania
Mkonge Hotel has a lovely setting on a vast, grassy lawn overlooking the sea, a restaurant and wonderful views, although rooms and service often fall…
Northeastern Tanzania
The old Mlalo mission has a guesthouse with basic rooms (some of which have lovely views), and meals available with advance notice. It's on the edge of…
Western Tanzania
Just past the village and on the lakeshore is the guesthouse of the St Bernard Mission. The small and fairly clean rooms have cold-water-only showers…
Western Tanzania
These no-frills rooms have a good setting on a green lawn sloping down to a hippo-filled river. Check first to be sure the showers and lights are working…
Arusha
This overlander-oriented place has good facilities, including hot showers, a bar-restaurant with cheap meals and a vehicle-repair shop. It’s 25km west of…
Zanzibar Town
Set back from Kelele Sq (near several top-end hotels), this is a quiet and atmospheric choice, with 10 individually designed rooms, all with traditional…
Dar es Salaam
A popular and long-standing travellers haunt in Kisutu, with English-speaking staff, the Safari Inn has 42 rooms, 10 of which are air-conditioned. All…
Northeastern Tanzania
This modern high-rise has a convenient central location and a glitzy exterior, although rooms often fall short of initial expectations. There's a…
Mwanza
This tidy little place down a tiny alley in the town centre offers clean, reliable budget rooms, some with shared bathrooms (Tsh15,000) and most with fans…
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…
Northern Tanzania
Where the road ends and the walking trail to the waterfall begins, this campground has simple amenities but a nice, shady location. There are no cooking…
Tarangire National Park
A bare and unkempt compound 6km before the park gate it may be, but it’s cheaper than camping inside the park, and the showers are warm. Bring your own…
Northern Tanzania
The double rates are a touch overpriced and the rooms are let down by the cheap bedspreads, but this is a generally good deal out here, around 3km from…
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.
Northern Tanzania
Close to Ghorofani, this place has simple campsites, most of which are sheltered with semi-permanent structures made from local wild palm.
Zanzibar Town
In a handy location, just off Kenyatta Rd, this hotel has spacious rooms and bathrooms, but some are surprisingly dark and a little dated.
Lake Manyara National Park
One of two public campsites in the park, Campsite 1 is close to park headquarters and the park gate, with toilet and cold-water shower.
Zanzibar Town
This unpretentious place has bland but reasonably comfortable rooms. Not all have nets or air-conditioning, so choose carefully.
Dar es Salaam
Camping with your own tent is possible on Mbudya with advance arrangement (by calling, or when purchasing your boat ticket).
Nungwi
Safina has simply furnished no-frills bungalows (some with air-con) set around a scruffy garden, just in from the beach.
Mwanza
This is where the big, overland tourist trucks stop. It has a great lakeside location, hot showers and security.
Northeastern Tanzania
Anjela Inn has unappealing, noisy doubles in the main building and larger, quieter rooms in an annex next door, plus meals on order. It’s 10 minutes on…
Mwanza
This hotel is ageing and very tatty, but its shortcomings are easy to overlook if you've just disembarked from a 24-plus-hour haul on the Central Line…
Northeastern Tanzania
There's a basic guesthouse and camping at this local secondary school at the top end of Usangi. If you sleep at the school, you can prepare your own meals…
Northeastern Tanzania
This dilapidated and unsignposted local guesthouse is in Saadani village, just down from the bus stand. It's only worth considering if you have no other…
Dar es Salaam
Located in Ubungo village is this three-storey hotel with basic, serviceable double-bed rooms with mosquito nets, fans (some also have air-con) and en…
Northeastern Tanzania
In a colonial-era building opposite Jamhuri Park, this place is faded and very scruffy, with only the remotest whiff of character. The double-bed rooms…
