Bright Star Hotel

We have stayed at this hotel twice. The customer service is FANtASTIC. On our first stay, our flight has arrived earlier but the hotel sent the bus ahead of time , it makes a difference for the group of 15 people. Breakfast was great. Rooms were clean. It is not a Kempinski, but if you wish to experience true African hospitality, african showers special, if you wish to wake up to rooster coco-reekoo every morning, seeing many locals around the corner , this is the right pick ! ( taxi to city center around 4 usd , tuk tuk around 1 USD )

Good food. Made us to go bags for breakfast since we left at 5am. Huge plus

It was a good-enough stay at this place in my "quiet room" (at like about the end of a corridor) with a nice-sized ensuite, a TV (only one or two channels but some good "news channels" available on request) and especially the nice "extra space" of the balcony outside my room (a "common balcony" to share with the nearby rooms but as it was at the time was pretty much only me to use that balcony and looking to the back from "one end" of which being a view of Mount Meru on a clear day). But yes, it was really the food which was the "best part" of staying here with quite a variety of items in my breakfast plate (no buffet but prepared by the staff) and a good number of items to choose from for lunch & dinner ranging from fulfilling dishes to lighter items like soups (no need for me to go out for meals during my stay except for those during the 4-day safari & the lunch on the day-trip day). And yes, apart from a pleasant 8-night stay (three of which on a safari though), my many thanks are for the manager Veronica for the excellent guest service provided by first picking me up at the Bus Station on my arrival late evening then booking the two tours for a "lifetime memory" (a 4-day safari for Tarangire, Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater and a day trip to Materuni Village) and finally waking up very early in the morning to make sure of my timely departure to the Bus Station for my return to Dar es Salaam (and for which she'd also bought the ticket); thanks so much, Veronica, and yes also the ladies in the kitchen for the "nice & filling" meals.

Veronica was fantastic, helping me with all sorts of stuff. The hotel is basic, but then the price is low. Clean, good bed, parking available. Entrance is down a narrow alleyway. There is sign at the junction of the alley and the main road and Google Maps finds the place accurately (unlike plenty of other stuff in Tanzania). Overall, a great deal.

This is a well run hotel that is great value for money. It feels very safe