10 Best Tanzania Hotels

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Discover outstanding African hospitality with our guide to the 10 Best Tanzania Hotels, curated by the World Travel Awards. From sophisticated city properties and elegant boutique retreats to luxurious hotels providing gateways to the country's legendary safari destinations, Tanzania offers exceptional accommodation for every journey. Combining warm service, distinctive design, excellent dining, and memorable surroundings, these outstanding hotels provide comfortable and stylish bases for exploring spectacular wildlife reserves, vibrant cities, dramatic landscapes, and the remarkable cultural heritage of this extraordinary East African destination.

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Today’s Best Tanzania

Hotel Experience

Gran Meliá Arusha

Gran Meliá Arusha is one of Tanzania’s standout luxury hotels, set amid beautifully landscaped gardens and coffee plantations with Mount Meru providing a dramatic backdrop. The hotel combines spacious rooms and suites with refined dining, a spa, swimming pool and elegant social spaces, making it a strong choice for both leisure and business travellers. Its location in Arusha also makes it an excellent luxury base before or after a safari through northern Tanzania.


Its reputation was reinforced at the World Travel Awards 2025, where Gran Meliá Arusha won Tanzania’s Leading Business Hotel 2025, Tanzania’s Leading Hotel 2025 and Tanzania’s Leading Hotel Suite 2025.

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10 Best Hotels

Gran Meliá Arusha

Arusha

Dar es Salaam Serena Hotel

Dar es Salaam

Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam, The Kilimanjaro

Dar es Salaam

Sea Cliff Hotel

Dar es Salaam

The Oyster Bay Hotel

Dar es Salaam

Mount Meru Hotel, Arusha

Arusha

Palace Hotel Arusha

Arusha

Johari Rotana Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam

Four Points by Sheraton Dar es Salaam New Africa

Arusha

The Slipway Hotel

Dar es Salaam

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