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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. The staff was magnificent, kind, and attentive. The facilities are new and beautiful. The pool was perfect to relax in and cool off. The location is centrally located, we even walked to and from the airport. They called for transportation to scuba diving and whale shark tours. The food was excellent and plentiful. We ate all our meals there for 6 days. And the staff was wonderful. All 5 of us in our group, after a month of traveling, highly recommend Mafia Dream
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. Location is great, rooms are clean, modern and with all the amenities you might need. The pool was a great addition. Staff is extremely friendly and the dive quipment is brand new! Can't reccomend dive planet enough!
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. Gorgeous setting and fabulous staff! They helped arrange all of our tours, which were phenomenal. Abi was so attentive to our requests and made us feel like we were staying with friends not just guests. I hope to return!
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. We had an amazing stay at Juani beach bungalows. Truly cosy, comfortable, very clean, surrounded by greenery, with direct access to the sea and a super nice walk to the centre of Kilindoni. Food was delicious, staff lovely and Musa himself was an excellent caring and informative host. Most recommended!
Hotel in Kilindoni
Coconut Hotel has a garden, terrace, a restaurant and bar in Kilindoni. This 3-star hotel offers room service, a 24-hour front desk and free WiFi.
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
Set 7.7 km from Rufiji Mafia Kilwa Marine Reserve, kua garden cottage offers accommodation with free WiFi and free private parking. This bed and breakfast provides a bar. Very friendly host making you feel like you are at home
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.
Hotel in Kilindoni
Hotel in Kilindoni
Hotel in Utende
Hotel in Kilindoni
Hotel in Utende
Many families visiting Mafia Island loved staying at Dive Planet Mafia Island, Mafia Dream Hotel and Maisara Mafia Beach Lodge.
There are 24 hotels on Mafia Island you can book on Booking.com.
Travellers who stayed on Mafia Island near Mafia (MFA) have said good things about Mafia Dream Hotel, Maisara Mafia Beach Lodge and Juani beach bungalows.
Couples travelling on Mafia Island 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 on Mafia Island.
The trip from the airport to the marine park is short, easily and comfortably done by tuktuk. The atmosphere in the marine park area is very relaxed. People were genuinly very friendly. I felt perfectly safe exploring the area as a woman traveling alone. If you want to venture outside of the marine park area, check with your lodge for advice. Some villages outside of Utende can be more conservative, so one must maybe take more into consideration the dress code for women for instance if one wish to go there. Snorkeling was great. Visit to the Kua ruins and lagoon was a nice trip. Turtle hatching trip was memorable (long walk to and from that beach though). Swimming with whale sharks is highly recommended(lots of fun!). All the lodges in the marine park are very nice, although some are more luxurious than others. All the budget options seemed very nice to me (I stayed at Big Blu, which was great). What is really nice is that even though you are staying at a budget lodge, you are more than welcome to go to one of the more luxurious ones to have dinner, lunch or drinks. Or even to use their spa. For dinner it is wise to let them know in beforehand that you wish to visit though. Inside the marine park, most of the lodges are very close to each other(walking distance). I had some really relaxing and quiet, but also eventful few days at Mafia island. Highly recommend it to others. If you are looking for a party place, you might want to go somewhere else though. Also, if you prefer easy access to white sandy beaches for kilometers, the west side of the island is better than the marine park area, which is more a mixture of shorter white beaches and mangroves. If you would just want to visit the western side for a day, I know that at least the Ras Mbisi lodge will happily let you visit and use all of their facilities for a whole day for something like 20 dollars.
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.
It is a new hotel, but the best one that we went to in tanzania. The staff is lovely and helped us out werever they could. Would definitly go back if we are at mafia island in the future.
The location is perfect, the staff is great. The diving center is right there and they offer multiple excursions, very comfortable. The meals provided at lunch and dinner were very good. Highly recommended!
Nice and relaxing environment. Very clean, well maintained and very helpfull staff.