Southern Rift Valley
On the lake's southwestern shore, this acacia-shaded site has an ablutions block and (cold) running water. It's a pretty spot and the busiest of the…
Must-see hotels in East Africa
Southwestern Uganda
Friendly and welcoming, Golden Monkey is a decent budget choice with restaurant. It also runs Virunga Adventure Tours, and can arrange trips across Uganda…
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…
Southwestern Uganda
A clean, cheap and straightforward hotel with rooms arranged around a courtyard, and a good little restaurant that makes a useful pit stop for those…
Western Kenya
A solid choice that boasts spacious, quiet and clean rooms with exceptionally helpful management. It’s not quite as God-fearing as it sounds. There’s an…
Southern Rift Valley
This campsite sits just beyond the gate on the way up to the Mt Longonot crater. There’s space to pitch a tent and a toilet and shower block but no…
Malindi
Not as fancy as the name suggests and rather in need of TLC, this resort is handy if you're after all the resort trimmings without the price tag. Most of…
Kenya
About halfway between Voi and Tsavo East National Park's Voi Gate, this simple place has rooms and tents arrayed around a green courtyard. Rooms are large…
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…
Western Kenya
The most inviting super cheapie in town is safe, friendly, clean and has comfortable beds and reliable(ish) hot water. It also has a good bar, restaurant…
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…
Kenya
Cheap hotels proliferate around Voi and this is one of the better places in the heart of town. Rooms are simple and generally clean, but there's a pub…
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,…
Western Kenya
This large hotel block, consisting of new, modern rooms overlooking the town park, is where business types settle in to do important stuff in Kericho. The…
Lake Nakuru National Park
Soysambu Special Campsite, a wilderness campsite with no facilities, is south of the lake beside the Nderit River. As the lake's water levels can vary,…
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…
Lake Nakuru National Park
Naishi Special Campsite, a wilderness campsite with no facilities, is south of the lake beside the Makalia River. As the lake's water levels can vary,…
Southern Rift Valley
Opened in 2010, this fine, expansive property on a rise overlooking the lake remains a popular choice. Most rooms are well-sized, all look towards the…
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…
Southwestern Uganda
On the outskirts of town off the road to Kasese, this modern hotel sits in front of a tiny lake, and is a popular option for business travellers too…
Nairobi
This good-value option is more functional than charming, but it offers clean, colourfully painted rooms with wrought-iron furnishings and mosquito nets in…
Mombasa
The distinctly functional New Daba is one of the cleaner budget options, and handy if you've just arrived on a night bus and need a place to crash. Green…
Mombasa
The style here is a bit Nigerian chic (over-the-top glitzy) and some of the rooms could do with a lick of paint, but there's a lovely rooftop terrace and…
Rweteera Safari Park & Tourist Camping
Southwestern Uganda
Nothing fancy, this place on Lake Nyabikere still gets good feedback, with simple, comfortable tent camping by the lake. Any minibus (USh5000) heading…
Kenya
At 3300m and usually the first night's stop on the Sirimon Route. Campfires are allowed, but you'll have to supply your own firewood. Book through Bantu…
Uganda
Moroto's best hotel has rooms ranging from cheap and fading to smart new cottages. The setting, at the foot of its eponymous mountain, is spectacular…
Southern Rift Valley
This ‘special’ campsite has no services, and besides absolute solitude (those who book it have exclusive use), offers no more ambience than the cheaper…
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…
Kampala
Not many travellers stay in Old Kampala, but this place has become a favourite with aid workers on break from up-country due to its large comfortable…
Kenya
The most comfortable option in Ol Donyo Sabuk, this comfortable KWS banda is a little rundown but excellent value if you've enough people in your party to…
South Coast
This small, cheerful and authentically Kenyan place has a few basic but adequate rooms set behind a busy bar that may as well be sponsored by Tusker, so…
Northern Kenya
The main public campsite is close to the park headquarters. It lacks even the most basic facilities and there are lots of baboons with light fingers…
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…
Kenya
This hotel boasts smart rooms that are polished to within an inch of their lives, and swanky, tiled bathrooms. With three bars and two restaurants, it's…
Uganda
A comfortable, good-value choice with spotless rooms, some with bathtubs. Pricier rooms are worth it, with tons more space. There’s a restaurant and bar…
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…
Dudu Villas & Lamu Backpackers
Lamu Island
This place is as budget as it gets in Shela, with room for several tents inside the large, sandy garden, and several anonymous-looking, fan-cooled dorms…
Tsavo West National Park
This public campsite is at Komboyo, 8km from the Mtito Andei gate. Facilities are basic, so be prepared to be self-sufficient, though there are at least…
Kenya
Utterly unpromising from the outside, this simple place is the pick of the budget options. Rooms have mosquito nets and the central location is ideal,…
Masai Mara
Just north of town and therefore quieter than most, the Lexingtone has tidy, if fairly standard, midrange rooms with mosquito nets and colourful walls to…
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