Hotels
Dar es Salaam
The hotels below have been grouped into four different pricing categories:
$$$$ (over TSh 200,000)
$$$ (TSh 65,000 to TSh 200,000)
$$ (TSh 12,500 to TSh 65,000)
$ (up to TSh 12,500)
The above rates are per person in a double room. They include taxes but not breakfast.
Recommended hotels
Movenpick Royal Palm Hotel
Dar es Salaam's most upmarket hotel is centrally located in pleasant, leafy grounds. It has most amenities, including a large swimming pool, fitness and business centres, several restaurants and a café. Luxurious rooms are comfortable and service is exemplary.
Ohio Street
Tel: (022) 211 2416.
Website: www.movenpick-hotels.com
Price: $$$$
Peacock Hotel
A central hotel that mainly caters to businessmen, this building is ugly to look at, but the staff is friendly and the hotel has all the facilities you would expect of a mid-range hotel, including a restaurant and café.
Bibi Titi Mohamed Road
Tel: (022) 212 0334 or 211 4071.
Website: www.peacock-hotel.co.tz
Price: $$$
Q Bar and Guest House
North of the city centre, towards Msasani Peninsula, this good-value venue has substantial, spotless rooms in addition to a four-bed budget dorm. There is a dining room where food is available and a lively bar that occasionally hosts live music.
Corner Haile Selassie Road at Msasani Road
Tel: (022) 260 2150.
Price: $$-$$$
Safari Inn
Very popular with travellers, this cheap and cheerful place set down an alley on the western edge of Dar es Salaam is a good bet for those on a budget. Rooms have fans rather than air conditioning and are sprayed with insecticide every evening.
Libya Street
Tel: (022) 211 9104.
Price: $$
YMCA
Basic dorm rooms with shared bathrooms at reasonable rates are available in this simple hostel. Rooms come with mosquito nets and there is a canteen on the premises. Just around the corner on Maktaba Street is the marginally noisier YWCA.
Upanga Road
Tel: (022) 213 5457.
Price: $
$$$$ (over TSh 200,000)
$$$ (TSh 65,000 to TSh 200,000)
$$ (TSh 12,500 to TSh 65,000)
$ (up to TSh 12,500)
The above rates are per person in a double room. They include taxes but not breakfast.
Recommended hotels
Movenpick Royal Palm Hotel
Dar es Salaam's most upmarket hotel is centrally located in pleasant, leafy grounds. It has most amenities, including a large swimming pool, fitness and business centres, several restaurants and a café. Luxurious rooms are comfortable and service is exemplary.
Ohio Street
Tel: (022) 211 2416.
Website: www.movenpick-hotels.com
Price: $$$$
Peacock Hotel
A central hotel that mainly caters to businessmen, this building is ugly to look at, but the staff is friendly and the hotel has all the facilities you would expect of a mid-range hotel, including a restaurant and café.
Bibi Titi Mohamed Road
Tel: (022) 212 0334 or 211 4071.
Website: www.peacock-hotel.co.tz
Price: $$$
Q Bar and Guest House
North of the city centre, towards Msasani Peninsula, this good-value venue has substantial, spotless rooms in addition to a four-bed budget dorm. There is a dining room where food is available and a lively bar that occasionally hosts live music.
Corner Haile Selassie Road at Msasani Road
Tel: (022) 260 2150.
Price: $$-$$$
Safari Inn
Very popular with travellers, this cheap and cheerful place set down an alley on the western edge of Dar es Salaam is a good bet for those on a budget. Rooms have fans rather than air conditioning and are sprayed with insecticide every evening.
Libya Street
Tel: (022) 211 9104.
Price: $$
YMCA
Basic dorm rooms with shared bathrooms at reasonable rates are available in this simple hostel. Rooms come with mosquito nets and there is a canteen on the premises. Just around the corner on Maktaba Street is the marginally noisier YWCA.
Upanga Road
Tel: (022) 213 5457.
Price: $
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