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Lake Manyara Hotel: Luxury Accomodation overlooking Lake Manyara
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    • jackfruit
  • Updated By jackfruit on January 12, 2004
    • Lake Manyara Hotel - Lake Manyara National Park
    Lake Manyara Hotel
    by jackfruit
    This is a wonderful safari hotel built during the days of Nyerere and is still holding up! Spacious rooms with roomy balconies. Buffet style breakfast and dinner. Decor is african and very nicely done! Hotel has a small giftstore with some unique items. But we found that some local stores on the way (between the hotel and the National Park) had a better selection of african souveniers and far less pricier!

    The hotel boasts nicely landscaped gardens, pool and an outdoor patio. Great views of Lake Manyara and the Rift Valley. You will see plenty of baboons all over the hotel grounds! Most nights, the hotel has free after-dinner shows by local artists (music or dance) in the patio area.

  • Theme: Hotel
  • Price: US$40-80    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
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    Lake Manyara Hotel: great views
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    • tompt
  • Updated By tompt on November 6, 2004
    • view on the lake from 600 meters higher - Lake Manyara National Park
    view on the lake from 600
    meters higher
    by tompt
    From the Lake Manyara Hotel you have a great view over Lake Manyara. The Lake is at the bottom of the escarpment. From every room (there are 100 rooms) you can see the lake. The rooms are clean and equiped with a mosquitonet, which is no luxury with all the water in the neighbourhood.
    The food is good, and usually served in buffetstyle.

    In the Lake Manyara National Park there is plenty of wildlife. A gamedrive in the park is ofcourse a must.

  • Theme: Hotel
  • Phone: +255 27 254 4595 (reservations)
  • Website: http://www.hotelsandlodges-tanzania.com/manyara.cfm
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    Lake Manyara Campsite: Manyara's campsite
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    • PeteG
  • By PeteG on November 10, 2007
    • The campsite is beside the main road, but it is secure and gated and has 24 hour a day security. It is a small site possibly 60 metres by 150 metres in size, but has pretty decent facilities. At our last visit in June 2006 it had a new shower and toilet block which were a big improvement on the previous ones!

    The is a small souvenier shop in the site and a bar. The bar is nice and serves well chilled beers! You can also charge your batteries for cameras etc there.

    The plus point of the site is its swimming pool. It is not big, maybe 10 metres in length, but it is clean and well looked after and just what you need after a days travel or safari.

  • Theme: Campground
  • Price: less than US$20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: least expensive
  • Address: Main road about a mile before the park entrance.
  • Directions: On the main road from Arusha, on the left as you get to Manyara
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    Lake Manyara Serena: Friendly, lovely setting, activites at hotel
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  • By munsonline on May 11, 2008
    • I have stayed here twice and found everything wonderful. Attentive staff, very helpful, beautiful setting. You can walk on paths near the hote. An elephant drank out of the pool while we were there. It came up the STEEP mountain from the park. Amazing. Baboons around here. I saw the gardens where they grow food for the hotel. The hotel helps the locals with their water supply. Fairly expensive, drinks are costly, but consistent as all Serena's are. Would stay there again, definately.

  • Theme: Hotel
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: Near the park
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    Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
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    • sarahandgareth
  • Updated By sarahandgareth on September 9, 2005
    • Lake Manyara cabin - Lake Manyara National Park
    Lake Manyara cabin
    by sarahandgareth
    Although less distinctive than Gibb's Farm, not far away, the Serena is still an excellent upmarket option. The Serena group has high-quality accommodations scattered across Tanzania, close to all of the major tourist destinations. The Lake Manyara Serena overlooks the lake, glinting in the distance down in the valley; this was the view that greeted us when we walked out of our room, and the soundtrack of birds was quite extraordinary. Walking up to the restaurant/bar area, we were besieged by all manner of birdlife, setting the stage for our visit to Lake Manyara National Park.

    The food - which, as in most safari places, was all inclusive - was excellent, with a fabulous dessert buffet and a good wine list (considering that we were staying at a place where most guests have plenty of money, the prices seemed good, too).

    Like many lodges, Serena is quite insulated from the outside world, but as a relaxing, high-quality chain it's hard to beat. The beds, too, were the biggest we've ever seen!

  • Theme: Bed and Breakfast
  • Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/tanzania/lakemanyara/home.htm
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    Lake Manyara Lodge: With a view on the Lake
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    • Myndo
  • By Myndo on December 13, 2004
    • Pool at Lake Manyara Lodge - Lake Manyara National Park
    Pool at Lake Manyara
    Lodge
    by Myndo
    Lake Manyara Lodge:
    Not actually in the National Park, but outside and up: on the rim of the "mountain"-peak next to it.

    This Lodge is not as luxurious equipped as the others we were in (it is also not a Sopa Lodge) , and the food is more simple made, but the swimmingpool is worth trying..

    The view over the land beneath is magnificient. Often you can see whole flocks of birds circling in the air over the Lake.

  • Theme: Hotel
  • Comparison: about average
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    Lake Manyara Serena Lodge: Great view!
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    • croatia2006
  • Updated By croatia2006 on January 30, 2007
    • Lodge's swimming pool, what a view! - Lake Manyara National Park
    Lodge's swimming pool, what a
    view!
    by croatia2006
    Nice, kind of typical, Serena lodge near Lake Manyara National Park.

    Best part is the swimming pool area - the pool is situated just on the edge of the valley escarpment, looking down the park+lake.

    See the photo (sorry, there was some mist...)

    The hotel also organized a performance of traditional african dances by the pool, which was touristic but entertaining after game drive.

  • Theme: Hotel
  • Address: Postal address: P.O. Box 2551, Arusha
  • Phone: (255 027) 2 539160/1/2/5
  • Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/tanzania/lakemanyara/home.asp
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    Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge: Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
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    • laetitiad
  • By laetitiad on February 11, 2005
    • view from the lodge - Lake Manyara National Park
    view from the lodge
    by laetitiad
    Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge is beautiful hotel (like all the serena lodges). It's located 15 minutes from Lake Manyara national Parks and has a beautiful view.

    beautiful pool with wonderful view, very nice surrounding

  • Theme: Hotel
  • Price: US$120-180    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: more expensive than average
  • Phone: (255-027) 2 539160/1/2/5
  • Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/tanzania/lakemanyara/contact.htm
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    Gibbs Farm
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    • sarahandgareth
  • Updated By sarahandgareth on September 9, 2005
    • View from Gibbs Farm lawn - Lake Manyara National Park
    View from Gibbs Farm lawn
    by sarahandgareth, 2 more photos
    Halfway between Lake Manyara and the Ngorongoro Crater, Gibbs Farm is a place you won't want to leave. Not even in search of the Big Five wild animals!

    Once you leave the main road at Karatu It's a 5 mile drive along a dusty road, and we wondered just what we were getting into. The moment we pulled into the driveway, however, we realized that we had landed somewhere special: we sipped drinks while looking down the valley, listening to an incredible array of birdlife.

    Next morning, we explored their huge fruit and vegetable farm - with the produce used exclusively in the guest house and by the farm employees. They focus on fresh, in-season ingredients, so we saw, among other things, lots of avocadoes (they were so ripe we heard them clanging off the roofs of the the guest rooms on occasion!).

    The coffee, grown on the farm and roasted fresh daily, is incredible - as is all of the food (we had dinner and breakfast). The menu is fixed each day, but is guaranteed to be of high quality, and the wine is very fairly priced.

    The generator stops every evening around ten, which encourages an early bedtime, and in the cool weather, someone comes around offering hot coals to put in the heating stove in each room!

  • Theme: Bed and Breakfast
  • Website: http://www.gibbsfarm.net/
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