General Information

Local accommodation in Tanzania and Kenya will be in tents, mountain huts, hotels or lodges.  All of the prices for our trips are based on two people sharing (of the same sex unless travelling together) a room or tent.

The tented accommodation whilst on one of our treks or walking trips is also mentioned on the Clothing and Equipment page.  You will be camping in relative comfort as all tents we provide are fairly roomy for two people, are of sturdy 3-4 season design with groundsheets that protect from the conditions sometimes experienced higher up.  There are separate dining and kitchen tents and all the equipment needed for the kitchen and meal times is provided.  You will be accompanied by a support crew who will carry bags and equipment, set up camp and cook your meals.  On certain trips, accommodation is in mountain huts, arranged in small dormitory style.  The national parks provide the toilet facilities on the mountains, but they are at best very basic.

There are of course hotels and lodges that we also use during the trips.  Often only used for a night either end of the holiday, the hotels and lodges we use in Arusha, Moshi and Nairobi are not luxury hotels, as the extra cost and benefit is not really worthwhile, when all we really need is a shower and bed for the night.

The hotels that we stay at are mentioned in each trip itinerary, they are all good quality and of a high standard and are perfectly comfortable places to stay, having strong individual characters and are built and decorated in a rustic African style.

The Ilboru Safari Lodge is on the outskirts of Arusha, at the foot of Mt Meru.  It is set in its own large gardens and each room is an individual thatched building with comfortable décor and a large communal swimming pool.  The other main hotels we use in Tanzania are the Impala Hotels in Arusha and Moshi (below the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro).  The Impala Arusha is a modern 'city' hotel with African character, quite lively, very conveniently located on the edge of Arusha town centre, with a good choice of restaurants and a swimming pool.  The Impala Moshi is smaller and is a spacious, open-air hotel with a central swimming pool surrounded by individual rooms in their own separate little buildings.  In Nairobi, we stay at the Boulevard Hotel, which is on the northern outskirts of the city.  It is a pleasant, modern hotel set in its own gardens with a swimming pool, with clean, comfortable rooms, and close enough to the city centre for a shopping or sightseeing trip.

These are the hotels we choose to stay in, but if at the time of booking the hotels are already fully booked we will use another of similar quality.

Electricity in the towns and cities of East Africa is 230-240 V, the power supply is generally reliable, and the most common sockets are the square three-pin UK-type, but some older properties may have round two or three pin sockets.

Please refer to the Tailormade page for any accommodation preferences or queries, such as staying another night to relax after the trek or walk.