Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
tion and guides for walking tours of town and excursions, including visits to a local family
and homestays. Profits go to support the work of the craft centre.
Sai Villa
GUESTHOUSE $$
( 0786-757757;
www.saivilla.net
;
off Kenyatta Dr, Gangilonga Area; r
Tsh90,000-120,000; ) This private residence has 10 comfortable guest rooms and a
good restaurant. See under Eating for directions.
Ruco Guest House
HOSTEL $
(Bankers' Academy; 026-270 2407; Uhuru Ave; s/d Tsh16,000/20,000; ) Set in a
former school, and as staid as its former name (Bankers' Academy) would suggest, Ruco
has cleanish but soulless rooms, most with hot water, and an institutional ambience. It's on
the main road at the northern end of town. There's no food.
Isimila Hotel
HOTEL $
( 026-270 1194; Uhuru Ave; s/d Tsh16,000/20,000; ) Some things never change and
this hotel is one of them, looking almost the same as it did nearly a decade ago and offering
about the same prices. Rooms (all with bathroom and some with nets) are long past their
prime, but fair value, and there's a restaurant. It's past the Ruco Guest House at the north-
ern end of town.
Central Lodge Hotel
GUESTHOUSE $
(Uhuru Ave; d Tsh15,000-20,000, tr Tsh30,000) This place offers quiet, no-frills, centrally
located rooms with bathrooms around a small garden. The front rooms facing the garden
are spacious; smaller rooms are in the row behind. It's just behind Iringa Info, entered
through the small alley lined with vendors.
MR Hotel
HOTEL $
( 026-270 2779;
www.mrhotel.co.tz
;
Mkwawa Rd; s/d from Tsh30,000/40,000; ) This
multistorey business travellers' hotel directly next to the bus station has faded rooms (no
nets) and a restaurant. It's worth a look if you arrive late at the bus station.
EATING
Hasty Tasty Too
TANZANIAN, EUROPEAN $
