City Hotel
Marrakech, Morocco
9.7
Royal Mansour Marrakech
A medina of 53 private riads built by Morocco's finest artisans, where invisible service and museum-grade craft define the country's ultimate stay.
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Region
Africa
Safari lodges, riads and Cape Town style.
21 hotels profiled in Africa
Safari Lodge
Kruger National Park, South Africa
9.6
Singita Lebombo Lodge
Glass-and-steel suites suspended above the N'wanetsi River in a private Kruger concession, pairing avant-garde design with superb game viewing.
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Country House
Nairobi, Kenya
9.5
Giraffe Manor
The 1930s ivy-clad manor in Nairobi's Langata suburb where endangered Rothschild's giraffes join guests for breakfast through the windows.
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City Hotel
Aswan, Egypt
9.3
Sofitel Legend Old Cataract
The 1899 Victorian palace on Aswan's granite bluffs where Agatha Christie's Nile lore was born, its terrace facing Elephantine Island at sunset.
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Safari Lodge
Serengeti, Tanzania
9.3
Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti
A permanent lodge raised on walkways above the central Serengeti plains, with an infinity pool overlooking a waterhole visited daily by elephants.
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City Hotel
Cape Town, South Africa
9.2
The Silo Hotel
A 1920s grain silo reborn above the Zeitz MOCAA museum, its pillowed glass windows framing Table Mountain and the V&A Waterfront.
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City Hotel
Cairo, Egypt
9.2
Marriott Mena House
The 19th-century hunting lodge turned legendary hotel at the foot of the Giza plateau, where the Great Pyramid fills the view from breakfast.
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City Hotel
Marrakech, Morocco
9.1
La Mamounia
Marrakech's legendary 1923 palace hotel, wrapped in centuries-old royal gardens, Art Deco-Moorish interiors and Churchill-era glamour.
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City Hotel
Cape Town, South Africa
9.1
Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel
Cape Town's blush-pink grande dame of 1899, set in nine acres of gardens beneath Table Mountain and famous for its extravagant afternoon tea.
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Resort
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
9.1
The Victoria Falls Hotel
The Edwardian 'grand old lady of the Falls', built in 1904 with lawns aligned on the spray of Victoria Falls and its century-old railway bridge.
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Beach Resort
Diani Beach, Kenya
9.0
Alfajiri Villas
Three staffed private villas on a low cliff above Diani Beach, long regarded as the most exclusive way to end a Kenyan safari on the Indian Ocean.
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City Hotel
Luxor, Egypt
8.9
Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor
The 1907 Nile-front grande dame of Egyptology, where news of Tutankhamun's tomb first electrified the world.
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Resort
Cape Town, South Africa
8.9
The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa
A cliff-side retreat on the Atlantic coast road beyond Camps Bay, wedged between the Twelve Apostles mountain range and the open ocean.
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City Hotel
Nairobi, Kenya
8.7
Fairmont The Norfolk
Nairobi's original hotel, opened in 1904, whose Lord Delamere Terrace has watched over Kenyan history for more than a century.
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Beach Resort
Diani Beach, Kenya
8.7
Kinondo Kwetu
A Swedish family's barefoot boutique retreat on quiet Galu Beach south of Diani, with horses on the sand and an easy house-party spirit.
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City Hotel
Maputo, Mozambique
8.6
Polana Serena Hotel
Maputo's 1922 clifftop grande dame above the Indian Ocean, its white neoclassical wings and gardens restored to Serena polish.
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City Hotel
Alexandria, Egypt
8.5
Steigenberger Cecil Hotel
Alexandria's literary landmark of 1929 on the sweep of the Corniche, immortalised in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
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Beach Resort
Zanzibar, Tanzania
8.5
The Residence Zanzibar
A palm-shaded villa estate on Zanzibar's quiet southwest coast, pairing a kilometre of beach with Swahili-colonial style and gentle rates.
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Resort
Rubane Island, Guinea-Bissau
8.2
Ponta Anchaca
A barefoot island lodge on Rubane in the Bijagós archipelago — Guinea-Bissau's most polished stay, where thatched bungalows meet an untouched Atlantic sandbar.
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City Hotel
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
7.9
Azalaï Hotel 24 de Setembro
Bissau's principal international-standard hotel — the Malian Azalaï group's renovation of the capital's historic 24 de Setembro, with gardens, a proper pool and dependable service.
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City Hotel
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
7.7
Ceiba Hotel Bissau
A contemporary boutique-scale hotel in central Bissau, named for the country's great kapok tree — modern rooms, a rooftop outlook and the city's freshest design.
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