First trip to Tanzania. Any Dar Es Salaam hotel recommendations?

[jnelson]

Sea Cliff in both 2009 and 2015!! Nice and safe!! Great little store near by to get a few odds and ends. Only bad thing was the heavy, hairy dude in a thong by the pool!!!!!!!!!

 

[Skshyk]

Atta boy! I will be in the reserve on Aug 10-21. My focus is on 2 buffalo and also have availability for hippo, wildebeest, hartebeest, waterbuck, zebra, warthog, impala and duiker I believe. How bout you?

Lion, buffalo, hippo and plains game with Game trackers. They mentioned they will book a room for me Sea cliff sure looks nice I will have to ask them if that will work.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

I always stay at Hyatt Regency.

 

[BigGame]

I will say I have stayed at both the Sea Cliff and Blue Sapphire and without question the Sea Cliff is an amazing place to stay. The Blue Sapphire was fine for me with a super late arrival into Dar and early morning charter out of terminal 1. With the Sea Cliff being on the Indian Ocean and in a beautiful part of the city it is absolutely wonderful. Cannot speak to downtown Dar and will be interested to hear what others say, but I look forward to my Sea Cliff G&T and stay every year!

+1 Sea Cliff Hotel

 

[BigGame]

The Sea Cliff Hotel has a sister hotel in Zanzibar just outside of Stone Town that is absolutely stunning. If you have an extra couple of days (before/after the hunt) it's worth the trip. It eclipses the Dar es Salam hotel.

Most people fly there but I wanted to experience the ferry. It leaves throughout the day and there are multiple status for tickets. I would purchase the the second or third highest price seats. They also use a seperate building in the terminal and it makes a huge difference in the experience. Fair warning, I was told flying is the best and its really not that expensive.