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Hotel in Kilindoni
Set in Kilindoni, 5.5 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve, Mafia Dream Hotel offers accommodation with an outdoor swimming pool, free private parking, a garden and a shared lounge. Wonderful and very helpful staff. Spacy and very clean rooms. Great pool and a nice restaurant on site.
Hotel in Utende
Set in Utende, 7.6 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve, Dive Planet Mafia Island offers accommodation with an outdoor swimming pool, free private parking, a garden and a terrace. This is a great place to stay if you are planning to dive in Mafia for a view days. The two cosy new bungalows are part of the family run dive center. The staff is extremely welcoming and helpful. The breakfast is yummy and you can also have the option for dinner. I enjoyed the big pool to relax after great dives and the beach is just a stone throw away. Also the dive center and its extremely helpful staff deserves 5 stars!
Hotel in Kilindoni
Situated in Kilindoni, 7.2 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve, Maisara Mafia Beach Lodge features accommodation with a garden, free private parking, a terrace and a restaurant. Beautiful bungalows with a huge garden directly in front of the beach. All the bungalows have a big glass front where you can see the garden and at some locations the beach. Incredibly nice staff - try to help and accommodate wherever they can. Could change the room without problems as I needed AC to be able to sleep (March can be incredibly hot and humid). Even came back to the hotel after diving on the other side of the island. Everything seems a bit rustic as first but you will definitely fall in love with it. There is a really really nice gift shop with handicrafts on site - really nice woman from the village, definitely one to support. The locations to the beach is super close and to the left there are two more hotels you can go for dinner or a drink. People all know each other on Mafia and help you with everything! :) Breakfast is great!
Hotel in Kilindoni
Located in Kilindoni, 7.6 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve, Juani beach bungalows provides accommodation with a garden, free private parking, a terrace and a restaurant. - Mussa, Juani Beach manager, will provide you diferent choices to do as many activities as the island can offer you. All his contacts will be professional and caring with you. - Location could not be better, just by the beach. - Food is not only better than any other around the island but also pricey - Rooms are local-styled made of palms leaves in some cases
Hotel in Utende
Situated in Utende, 7.7 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve, Mafía Island Lodge features accommodation with an outdoor swimming pool, free private parking, a garden and a terrace.
Hotel in Utende
Set in Utende, 6.4 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve, Kivulini Lodge offers accommodation with a garden, free private parking, a restaurant and a bar.
Utende
Boasting garden views, Mafia Island Bungalows offers accommodation with a garden and a balcony, around 6.1 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve. The staff was amazing, very hospitable and took care of everything. Breakfast and dinner was great, they have a really great chef and attentive personnel. They also rented us bikes for free, such that we could drive to the dive shop (~10 minutes by bike). Great and inexpensive stay!
Kilindoni
Kileleni has an outdoor swimming pool, garden, a terrace and bar in Kilindoni. The air-conditioned rooms provide a garden view and come with a desk and free WiFi. The staff are great, making sure we had the best time there. They helped organise trips out around the island putting us at ease. The rooms are spacious with WiFi and air con. The food was good too.
Baleni
With Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve reachable in 6.8 km, Kitu Kiblu offers accommodation, a restaurant, a garden, a terrace and a bar. Some units feature a seating area and/or a balcony. When looking for a genuine, immersive and take it is experience Kitu Kiblu is a great choice to take. We spent a wonderful week there and are enthusiastic of all facilities and people; everything is exactly as described in the profile. Accomodations could be choosene to be more discreet (on the trees) or more common and we strongly suggest the second option; apart from an incredible quality/price ratio the whole experience deserves to be done! We appreciated so much to have shower in the jungle surronded by palm leafs and accept a rope is the door for the toilet (yes, it's true and frankly speaking all is priceless!!!!). All the description look a bit as only for brave and indeed this "return to the basic" is exaclty what I think it should be experienced to understand we don't need that much to feel happy, just go back to the essential and appreciate!!! People have been very friendly and inclusive and did their best to let us feel welcomed and help for local activities.
Kilindoni
Set within 6.6 km of Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve in Kilindoni, Mgeni Homestay features accommodation with seating area. Ally was extremely helpful from the moment we booked accommodation online. He was not only very responsive via WhatsApp but also gave us the right contact to organise a ferry ride to Mafia Island. We arrived at the homestay after 11pm but Ally and the housekeeper, Bunda, were there to welcome us nonetheless. The homestay is very simple but it was clean and comfortable with water and electricity at all times. Despite the heat in November, the powerful fan kept our room cool and kept mosquitoes away at night and we always had a good night’s sleep. Bunda made us a great breakfast every morning that kept us full most of the day, and he always cooked early for us so that we could eat before going out to explore the island. Ally helped us organise many activities very easily, such as snorkelling in Chole Bay and hiring a motorbike (boda boda) for the day to drive to the north of the island. The location of the homestay was perfect to have a more local experience as it is a short walk to the local town and market where we ate an affordable dinner every evening, but also walking distance from the beach (outside the marine park). Ally and Bunda’s kindness and hospitality were the highlight of our stay and we are very grateful to have felt so welcome there. Overall, we would highly recommend Mgeni Homestay to anyone looking to explore Mafia Island on a backpacker’s budget and we would go back in a heartbeat.
Hotel in Kilindoni
Hotel in Kilindoni
Hotel in Utende
Hotel in Kilindoni
Hotel in Utende
Hotel in Utende
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Couples travelling in Mafia loved staying at Dive Planet Mafia Island, Mafia Dream Hotel and Maisara Mafia Beach Lodge.
Dive Planet Mafia Island, Mafia Dream Hotel and Maisara Mafia Beach Lodge are some of the popular hotels in Mafia.
There are 24 hotels in Mafia you can book on Booking.com.
Many families visiting Mafia loved staying at Dive Planet Mafia Island, Mafia Dream Hotel and Maisara Mafia Beach Lodge.
Travellers who stayed in Mafia near Mafia (MFA) have said good things about Mafia Dream Hotel, Maisara Mafia Beach Lodge and Juani beach bungalows.
Utende
Meremeta, the founder and owner, as well as his staff are exceptional. You will find big, very clean and comfortable rooms, as well as great food with local prising. Furthermore Meremeta will be making sure you discover the island and miss no possible activities (if you want, he doesn't try to persuade you, no worries). It's by far the best acommodation you're going to have at Mafia Island! We travelled through Tanzania for over a month and we never felt this welcomed and appreciated as with Meremeta.
Fantastic location on the amazing Juani beach - it is hard to understand some statements about Mafia that it would not have great beaches - after six months in Tanzania and going to Pemba, Zanzibar, Dar South etc. I would put Mafia at the top together with Vumawimbi at norther Pemba. The lodge is just on the beach - fishermen and Kilindoni to the north and unspoilt beach with no tourists or lodges to the south. Great lodge for relaxation and good value for money - there is a tendency of quite high prices on Mafia
Kilindoni
I loved this place so much. In five weeks of travel in Tanzania this was the best guesthouse I stayed at. The staff really made it special, especially Omi, Benita and Mohamed. Everything was sparkling-clean, comfortable, the food was good, the manager Hassan was incredibly helpful and made it super easy to book activities all over Mafia (the diving, especially, is incredible!). The vibe is very friendly - you’ll get to know the other guests, and I loved the social-but-still-quiet atmosphere as a solo traveler.
it’s private, spacious and fits well with the nature. The bed is comfortable, staff vas very nice and yummy food. There is a choice of fresh seafood for lunch and dinner and fresh fruits available. Th ask pretty much all what we eaten the whole time and was really delicious. There is also a bar and bed hammocks which was great for relaxing. Hassan the host Organise a whale shark tour for us which we really enjoyed as that was the main reason. for visiting Mafia.
Wonderful staff, excellent beds and a very nice swimming pool. The chef made some very good meals and the room was very spacious and very new. The staff is also very helpful if you want to explore the island. I can highly recommend Mafia Dream Hotel if you are looking for a place at Mafia Island.
staff very nice, food at the restaurant very good, and the facilities were really good as well. The owner was a great person, and he owns several businesses in this island which makes many things easier and smoother.
Nice and relaxing environment. Very clean, well maintained and very helpfull staff.