Luxury Hotels & 5 Star Hotels in Tanzania & Zanzibar

Home to shining, white beaches, thronged and culturally rich port cities, and the green-blue expanse of its safari wilderness, Tanzania and Zanzibar play host to a truly vast range of luxury, boutique and 5* hotels. From wilderness lodges to beach side villas.

If you come for the animals, you need an appropriate place to stay. Across the Serengeti, you’ll find gorgeous Lamai Lodge – set into the side of a verdant Kopje (dome-shaped hill), in an otherwise remote and untouched part of this national park. Heart-pumping game viewing in the bush can be offset with relaxing evenings around the pool and campfire. Its proximity to the Mara River ensure that it is a busy thoroughfare for the animal life who lay claim to this corner of the wide world. Lamai sets the bar for the understated chic and easygoing luxury that you can expect from Tanzania’s 5* hotels and lodges.

Zanzibar, blushing with craggy, bright coral and shady palms, is synonymous with luxury comfort. After stalking the wildlife on the Serengeti, its 5* hotels offer the ideal place to settle back and relax – particularly at the end of a luxurious Black Tomato honeymoon. This ‘islands of magic’ offer up everything from luxury, palm-shaded beach side boutiques, to historic hotels set amid the colonial architecture of endlessly fascinating Stone Town. On the original spice island, Zanzibar itself, can be found the gorgeous hot spot of The Residence – set amid 32 hectares of palm tree plantation, and only yards from the sparkling sea. Spa treatments and a luxury, private pool complete the look. Lodges and retreats on this balmy island are dotted among thatched villas and dramatic, rocky beaches where fishermen take breaks among the breakwaters. The key, on Zanzibar, is to simply settle back.