The places we book
We own no lodges; we choose them. Every one of the 46 places here is named in one of our 48 itineraries, so this is not a brochure of everything in Tanzania, it is where our guests actually sleep. Each page says what the place is, why we use it, and which trips stay there.
Three-star lodges and permanent tented camps: en suite, hot water, good food, the standard our green-season prices assume.
Four-star: bigger rooms, a pool, a view from the bed. The step up most of our guests take for the Serengeti nights.
The famous names and the small camps with a private plunge pool. Priced on request, and worth asking.
The mainland safaris quote each lodge or similar: the green-season price assumes that property or one of the same standard, and swaps happen when a camp is full or has moved with the herds. We tell you the exact lodge in the proposal, before you pay anything.
Stone Town
Where every Zanzibar trip starts: the old town, fifteen minutes from the airport.
The beaches
Nungwi in the north, Mangapwani on the west coast, Jambiani and Marumbi in the east.
Sea Cliff Resort & Spa
Cliffs, coves, a golf course and a spa on the west coast, twenty five minutes from Stone Town.
One of our trips sleeps here
Reef & Beach Resort
A small all-inclusive resort on the white sand of the east coast at Jambiani.
One of our trips sleeps here
Paradise Beach Resort
A small, quiet all-inclusive at Marumbi on the east coast, with the reef lagoon in front.
One of our trips sleeps here
Smiles Beach Hotel
On the beach at Nungwi, the north tip, the one coast that swims at every tide.
One of our trips sleeps hereArusha
The first and last night of every mainland safari, between Kilimanjaro airport and the parks.
Ngare Sero Mountain Lodge
A 1905 German farmhouse in forest at Usa River, with a spring-fed lake, colobus monkeys and Kilimanjaro airport twenty minutes away.
32 of our trips sleep here
Gran Melia Arusha
The five-star hotel on the edge of Arusha, with Mount Meru over the coffee fields.
6 of our trips sleep here
Arusha Coffee Lodge
Plantation houses on a working coffee estate on the edge of Arusha.
One of our trips sleeps here
Karibu Heritage House
A small, family-run guesthouse in Arusha for the nights between flights.
One of our trips sleeps here
Olerai Lodge
A small garden lodge outside Arusha, on the way to the parks.
One of our trips sleeps hereMoshi
Under Kilimanjaro, forty minutes from the airport and on the road east to Mkomazi.
West Kilimanjaro
Maasai rangeland under the mountain, for the walking and riding days.
Tarangire
Camps and lodges on the park's edge and at Lake Burunge, an hour from the gate.
Tarangire Elephant Springs
Stone cottages and a pool near the park gate, with a spring the elephants visit.
One of our trips sleeps here
The Whisper Tarangire
A small, quiet lodge in the Tarangire area for the long three-night stays.
One of our trips sleeps here
Conserve Safari Tarangire
A tented camp on the edge of the park for the last Tarangire days of the long immersive safari.
One of our trips sleeps here
Lake Burunge Baobab Tented Lodge
Tents among the baobabs above Lake Burunge, on Tarangire's western edge.
One of our trips sleeps here
Burunge Tented Lodge
A tented lodge on Lake Burunge, the base for a full day in Tarangire and the road to the crater.
2 of our trips sleep here
Nyikani Tarangire Camp
A permanent tented camp near the park, simple, well run and close to the gate.
2 of our trips sleep hereLake Manyara
Below the Rift wall at Mto wa Mbu, the usual base for Tarangire and the crater.
Africa Safari Lake Manyara
A lodge with a pool below the Rift wall at Mto wa Mbu, the base for Tarangire, the crater and the lake.
2 of our trips sleep here
Sound of Silence Lake Manyara
A tented lodge near Mto wa Mbu, the standard base for the crater on our green-season prices.
24 of our trips sleep here
Manyara's Secret
A few villas on the Rift escarpment above the lake, each with its own pool.
One of our trips sleeps hereKaratu
Coffee farms in the highlands, twenty minutes from the crater gate.
Gibb's Farm
A 1929 coffee farm in the crater highlands, cottages in gardens and food from its own fields.
One of our trips sleeps here
Tloma Lodge
Cottages on a coffee farm at Karatu, with a pool and the highlands around it.
3 of our trips sleep here
Kitela Lodge
A boutique lodge on a coffee plantation at Karatu, with a pool, a spa and the crater gate close by.
One of our trips sleeps here
Marera Mountain View Lodge
Cottages above Karatu with the valley below and the crater highlands across it.
2 of our trips sleep hereNgorongoro
On the crater rim itself, for the early descent.
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
On the crater rim, built of stone and covered in creepers, every room facing the crater floor.
2 of our trips sleep here
Lions Paw Camp
A small tented camp on the crater rim by the Lemala descent road, for the earliest crater morning.
One of our trips sleeps here
Ang'ata Ngorongoro Camp
A simple, warm tented camp on the crater rim, unfenced, the descent road minutes away.
3 of our trips sleep hereSerengeti
Central and eastern Serengeti around Seronera, and the Ikoma edge to the west.
Africa Safari Serengeti Ikoma
Just outside the Ikoma gate, with a pool, and walks and night drives that the park itself does not allow.
2 of our trips sleep here
Sound of Silence Serengeti
A permanent tented lodge in the central Serengeti, the standard our green-season Serengeti nights assume.
11 of our trips sleep here
Serengeti Plains Camp
A tented camp placed for the eastern plains and their cheetah.
One of our trips sleeps here
Lemala Nanyukie
Tented suites with private plunge pools in the eastern Serengeti, open all year.
One of our trips sleeps here
Awali Serengeti
A tented camp in the central Serengeti with the Seronera circuits close by.
6 of our trips sleep here
The Singing Grass
A tented camp on the central plains, named for the sound of the wind in the grass.
2 of our trips sleep here
Lahia Tented Lodge
Tents on a hill near Seronera, with a pool and the plain in every direction.
One of our trips sleeps hereWestern Corridor
The Grumeti side, for the migration in May and June.
Ndutu
The southern plains, for the calving season from December to March.
Ndutu Safari Lodge
Stone cottages on the edge of Lake Ndutu since 1967, genets in the bar at night.
2 of our trips sleep here
Ndutu Kati Kati
A seasonal mobile camp at Ndutu, pitched for the calving months and gone by April.
One of our trips sleeps here
Nyikani Migration Camp, Ndutu
The Ndutu season of Nyikani's mobile camp, December to March, among the calving herds.
2 of our trips sleep hereNorthern Serengeti
Kogatende and the Mara river, for the crossings from July to October.
Karibu Serengeti River Camp
A tented camp in the north for the Mara river crossings.
One of our trips sleeps here
Nyikani Migration Camp, Kogatende
The northern season of Nyikani's mobile camp, near the Mara river for the crossings.
2 of our trips sleep hereLake Natron
Under the volcano, four hours of rough road from Arusha.
Mkomazi
The quiet park under the Pare mountains, east of Moshi.
Ruaha
Tanzania's largest park, reached by bush plane.
Gombe
The chimpanzee forest on Lake Tanganyika.
Where the beds are
Sixteen areas between the Indian Ocean and Lake Tanganyika. Tap a pin for what happens there.
- 1Stone Town
- 2Nungwi
- 3Arusha
- 4Moshi
- 5West Kilimanjaro
- 6Tarangire
- 7Lake Manyara
- 8Karatu
- 9Ngorongoro Crater
- 10Serengeti
- 11Western Corridor
- 12Ndutu
- 13Northern Serengeti
- 14Lake Natron
- 15Mkomazi
- 16Ruaha
- 17Gombe
Three rules for a bed
A camp on the crater rim beats a grander one an hour away, because the crater at dawn is the point. We pick for where the morning starts.
Only 41 of these pages show the property itself so far; the rest show the area and say so. Lodge photos are added as the lodges send them, never borrowed from the internet.
Every lodge here can be swapped up or down. Tell us what matters, a pool, a view, a price, and the proposal changes with the exact figure next to it.
A lodge in mind that is not here? We book more than we list. Ask.
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