Must-see hotels in Mozambique

  • Hotel Zambeze

    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…

  • Hotel Moçambicano

    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 …

  • Fatima’s Place

    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.

  • Hotel Miramar

    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…

  • Hotel Maputo

    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…

  • Quality Residencial

    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…

  • Hotel Santa Cruz

    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.

  • Bar-Restaurante Massinga

    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…

  • Pousada Ilha de Moçambique

    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…

  • Pensão 1 de Julho

    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…

  • Pensão Flamingo

    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,…

  • Residencial Safari

    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…

  • Hoyo-Hoyo Residencial

    Maputo

    This solid, no-frills hotel lacks pizzazz, but its 36 small rooms are serviceable and reasonably comfortable, and the ambience is familial.

  • Pensão Azul

    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…

  • Casa de Yasmin

    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…

  • Complexo Vumba

    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…

  • Biques

    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…

  • Ponto Final

    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…

  • Hotel Brasília

    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…

  • Pensão Café do Ibo

    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…

  • Pensão Moderna

    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…

  • Hotel Atlantis

    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.

  • Hotel Lúrio

    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…

  • Sun, Sand & Beach Guesthouse

    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…

  • Centro Social do HCB

    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…

  • Residencial Amy

    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…

  • Pensão Ideal

    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…

  • Residencial Lys

    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…

  • Karibuni

    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…

  • Complexo Hoteleiro Vila Pery

    Mozambique

    Bright paintings give a bit of ambience to this otherwise rather soulless hotel. Rooms – located around a central cement courtyard – are dark, with…

  • Pousada Lichinga

    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…

  • Pensão Martins

    Maputo

    This peach-coloured establishment has a sleepy reception area and bland but mostly spacious rooms in a convenient central location.

  • Rest House Mira Lago

    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…

  • Casa de Dona Chamo

    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…

  • Hotel Nhungué

    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…

  • Residencial do Geptex

    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.

  • Pensão Cruzeiro

    Mozambique

    Bog-standard African resthouse with dark, grubby-looking rooms that do, at least, have running water, air-con and soap.

  • Hotel África II

    Maputo

    Clean, decent-value rooms in a centrally located high-rise. There's also a restaurant.

  • Gorongosa Adventures Campsite

    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…

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