Places to stay, from budget guesthouses and boutique hotels to large international properties, grouped by area and style.
143 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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A large five-star hotel in Zamalek built around a 19th-century khedivial palace, with gardens, a pool, a spa with hammams and many restaurants.
View details — Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayyam CasinoHotel
A boutique guesthouse in two restored medina houses with fifteen individually designed rooms, run as a social enterprise that reinvests in the old city.
View details — Dar Ben GacemHotel
A boutique hotel of 41 individually designed rooms near the Koutoubia, with three pools, a large roof terrace with bar and restaurant, a spa and an art collection.
View details — El FennHotel
Privately owned 15-room hotel on Hurumzi Street with antique-style rooms, some with open-air baths, and a rooftop restaurant with sunset views over the old town.
View details — Emerson on HurumziHotel
A 174-room, four-star hotel at Azikiwe Street and Sokoine Drive, on the site of the city's oldest hotel, with harbour views, an outdoor pool and a 24-hour grill.
View details — Four Points by Sheraton Dar es Salaam New AfricaHotel
A four-star boutique hotel in leafy Kiyovu with 28 rooms, a solar-heated saltwater pool, yoga deck, gym and the Heaven and Fusion restaurants.
View details — Heaven Boutique HotelHotel
A 16-room boutique hotel in a 1930s Art Deco mansion in the city centre, a Relais & Châteaux member since 2018, with a small spa and the Le Jasmine restaurant.
View details — Hotel Le DogeHotel
A large upscale hotel on Independence Avenue next to the National Theatre, with a lagoon-style pool in gardens, a 24-hour gym and easy access to central sights.
View details — Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel AccraHotel
Seafront hotel on the Corniche Ouest, formerly the Radisson Blu, with 234 rooms, an infinity pool and a direct link to the Sea Plaza shopping mall.
View details — Noom Hotel Dakar Sea PlazaHotel
A 30-room boutique hotel at BluCabana in Mabushi with Scandinavian-inspired design, private balconies, an outdoor pool and a fitness centre, listed in the Michelin Guide.
View details — Nordic HotelHotel
A family-run 21-room hotel in the former home of a prominent Fassi family, with the Eden restaurant, a bar, a cooking school and a hammam.
View details — Palais AmaniHotel
On the edge of the Lagos Lagoon in Victoria Island, the Radisson Blu Anchorage has 170 rooms, an infinity pool and a terrace bar and grill with water views.
View details — Radisson Blu Anchorage HotelHotel
Business hotel in the Kazanchis district with 212 rooms, a French-inspired restaurant, a rooftop terrace bar, a Tomoca cafe and a day spa.
View details — Radisson Blu Hotel, Addis AbabaHotel
Nairobi's oldest hotel, founded in 1902 and home to the Thorn Tree Café, offering five-star rooms in the heart of the central business district.
View details — Sarova StanleyHotel
One of Uganda's oldest hotels, built in the 1920s on Nile Avenue and named after the explorer John Hanning Speke, with 50 rooms and several restaurants.
View details — Speke HotelHotel
A Nile-front resort on the East Bank with two heated pools, a felucca dock and rooms ranging from city-view classics to a 150-square-metre Royal Suite.
View details — Steigenberger Resort AchtiHotel
In the restored former South African Reserve Bank and Temple Chambers buildings on Wale Street, Taj Cape Town is a five-star hotel with 176 rooms and Indian dining.
View details — Taj Cape TownHotel
Teremok is a small five-star boutique lodge on Marine Drive in Umhlanga, with eight individually designed suites, a spa and a pool set among palms and milkwood trees.
View details — Teremok Boutique Hotel & SpaHotel
The Peech is a boutique hotel set in gardens in Melrose, with classic and luxury rooms, suites and a villa, free secure parking and The Pot Luck Club restaurant.
View details — The Peech HotelHotel
Boutique hotel built around a heritage house on the Am Weinberg Estate in Klein Windhoek, with courtyard and loft rooms and a Sky Lounge overlooking the valley.
View details — The Weinberg Windhoek