Best Experience so far in tanzania - 🙏🏼 Great hotel very close to Kilimanjaro airport, I can recommend the hotel with a clear conscience! Everything is very clean and the guest is treated welcome, very friendly and... read more helpful🥰, the breakfast was the best here and also the food is very good! They are also flexible with special requests

  RECOMMENDED! - We always choose Planet Lodge, Kilimanjaro airport location, for a stay at the end of our safari. The rooms are very nice, the grounds are impressively and beautifully landscaped... read more and the staff are all very welcoming and friendly. A free transfer is provided to/from Kilimanjaro airport.
Day rooms are available if you want a room to relax in, grab a meal at the restaurant, a shower, and a rest, before your homeward bound flight.

  Perfect and Beautiful Location - The lodge is conveniently located. The facility is gorgeous, the rooms are very spacious and have everything you need. The food is excellent with a lot of variety.... read more The grounds feature an amazing garden of plants, vegetations, and birds which can also be viewed from the room balconies. The people that work there are very nice and efficient. We took advantage of the laundry services after our Kilimanjaro hike which was very good and at a great price. Highly recommended.

  Convenient and comfortable - We stayed here one night as it was close to the airport for our morning flight. Staff were friendly and helpful. Our room was spacious and comfortable. ... read more Bathroom was large with lots of hot water. The lavatory was not properly fixed to the wall, and the manager was pleased to be informed so he could arrange for the maintenance. Dinner was good and breakfast was superb. The early morning shuttle to the airport was timely. We enjoyed our short stay.

  Overall a always a pleasant stay here, nice facilities and clean property. Lots of positives to list, things we liked: really nice clean pool and good quality pool towels; nice... read more shower with good pressure, hot water doesn't take very long so little water wastage in a watter sensitive area (shower mixer would be better option to reduce even further time wasting trying to get the right temp, just a suggestion!), modern safety box, good AC for those hot and humid days, TV and channels are standard for a 3star property, good free wifi connectiity, we liked the flip-flops in the room thought it was quirky as opposed to the normal slippers - it's more of a flip-flop-type property so it works, figuratively not pretending to be a 'slipper property' :), fresh fruit at breakfast really tasty. So a lot going for it really!

Things we thought we work or things we thought weren't nice to experience at all: $15 for a very average pizza we thought is simply too expensive, if you are accustomed to an 'international standard pizza' this simply doesn't cut it; not a fan of of the standard 3-course meal for $50pp, leaving any other options quite expensive even for internal standards - not sure why things are so expensive here, there's no need for it (?). Breakfast was included which was great otherwise $12pp if for some reason you book room only. The so-called 'beef' sausages aren't worth it in today's standard, it's highly processed and pink on colour (??), this shouldn't be the case with great butchery (Meat King) available in Arusha. Eggs were fine good yellow yolk (not underfed white yolk), bacon OK, a bit chewy the back bacon but very little fat which was great. Ironically coffee not great at all with great local Tanzanian coffee - way too strong and don't think anyone tasted before offering it, asked for a bit of milk in my coffee but got masala spicy tea instead which was some weird spicy caffeine taste, anyway not an issue just didn't drink it. Not a ran of the 'homemade' cost-saving yogurt, just not what I considequality yogurt but might be fine others. Good pastry offering of you like baked goods, nice fresh juice though.

In summary. Great overnight property with nice facilities and kind staff trying their best to accommodate your every need which is really lovely, can't fault the people at all, they make for a great East African experience. Only reservations is food quality and pricing - it's simply too expensive for what you get, that's a Management component and if they get that right and get a bit more tomorrow grips with international standards I think they have a busier restaurant and/or even higher occupancies. Location is great to Airport proximity.

Oh and John the driver need uniform of sorts, confusing when some random man collects our luggage and puts it into his car, he's a nice guy though but needs some sort of identification perhaps.

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  Nice hotel near Kigali airport - Great hotel if you are passing through Kigali. Simple accommodations but nice, clean and very kind and helpful staff. Our server at dinner was Tegemea and he was wonderful! So... read more nice and attentive. My husband and I got massages upon arrival that were great. I did deep tissue with Scola and it really hit the spot she did a great job!!

  Wonderful Place to Kick Off Our Safari! - We had a wonderful time staying at airport planet lodge before our safari! They took such wonderful care of us and all of the staff was so kind. Husnah especially... read more made our stay special and made sure that we had everything we needed during our stay! 10/10 would recommend!

  Amazing Experience! - I visited Airport Planet lodge twice in a 2 week time frame. The visits were amazing! The private and secure accommodations were so nice and relaxing. I... read more stayed here prior to and after a Kilimanjaro hike. Both rooms that I stayed in were well appointed and comfortable. The restaurant for all 3 meal periods was great! Good quality and service, by Usnah, David and Kelvin! It was nice to relax by the pool and also the lounge area close to the bar. I took advantage of the laundry service after my hike to get nice clean and fresh clothes to take home. Front desk staff, Eva and Julian, were very accommodating. The transport from/to the airport was much appreciated and it was only 10-15 minutes to the lodge. I slept very well on both stays... Cannot recommend this lodge enough!