Victoria Falls

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Note: under US$20

There are many types of accommodation in Victoria Falls. You can certainly find what you are looking for. Some of the accommodation options are not really in Victoria Falls so be careful, if booking in advance.

Dorm beds from $15 a night. Camping from $8 pp per day.

• Victoria Falls Rest Camp. - Camping $16 per person. Dorm bed $20 - Camping and dorm beds.
• Victoria Falls Backpackers - 357 Gibson Road. ☎ +263 13-42209 - Camping $10 per person. Dorm bed $18 - Camping and dorm beds. has a swimming swimmingpool and internet use.
• Shoestring Backpackers - 12 West drive. ☎ +263 13-40167 - Camping $8 per person. Dorm bed $15 - Camping and dorm beds. It has a somewhat slimy swimming swimmingpool and a self-catering kitchen. It also has a café and a licensed café. It looks very unclean and run down, and they may choose to blast music at full volume outside the plywood door of your dorm until midnight.
• Adventure Lodge - stand 954 corner Pioneer road & Spencer Street ☎ +263 1344520 - Camping US$13 per person. - Camping, swimming pool.

Mid-range

• Amadeus Garden owner managed lodging B&B style two kilometers from the Victoria Falls. Eleven en-suite rooms, swimmingpool and cool garden to relax. Rates per person sharing around $65–70 per day incl breakfast.
• Teak Lodge located within the residential area of Vic Falls less than three kilometers to the Victoria Falls. Prices at $30–50/person per day, coupled with impeccable service and completely furnished in teak wood.
• The Sprayview Hotel motel like accommodation is only 2 km from the Falls used to be about US$100/night.
• The Kingdom Hotel Victoria Falls. This resort is constructed in Disney-esque jungle style. Four-star themed resort, swimming pool, close to falls, from US$150/pp. Family rooms available.

• Drifter Inn Victoria Falls - 20 min by foot from the falls, this simple but quiet inn offers rooms from $50.
• Lorries B and B from $50 - Most rooms are ensuite. Meals are affordable. Lovely swimmingpool and garden with a nice sports café.

• Azambezi River Lodge | ☎ +1-888-790-5264 - A full-featured resort a few kilometers away from the central town. Located right next to the Zambezi river, it's also a departure point for river cruises. Shuttle service available to the falls.
• Ilala Lodge | ☎ +27 21-683-6576 - Quiet elegance with a beautiful colonial veranda for dining. A bit closer to town.
• The Victoria Falls Hotel | 1, Mallett Dr ☎ +263 13 447519 - Built in 1904, this is one of the most romantic hotels in Africa with a faded grand old feeling to it. The Queen Mother herself stayed here when she visited. Views from the manicured lawns out to the railway bridge with the mist from the falls in the distance is surreal.
• Victoria Falls Safari Lodge | ☎ +263 13 43211-20 - Close to the falls, it offers safari-themed elegance, a great casino and an excellent, reasonably-priced, buffet dinner.

Farther afield

• Imbabala Zambezi Safari Lodge sits on a riverside fringe of the mighty Zambezi River where Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia converge. Located 80 km west of Victoria Falls, access is by transfer from Victoria Falls, Livingstone or Kasane. Imbabala offers not only the chance to unwind but also some of the most amazing game viewing and bird watching in the region, in the seclusion of a private National Parks concession. The 12,000 ha concession has 14 km of private Zambezi river frontage and borders the Chobe Forest Reserve, which is renowned for its massive Elephant population. Herds of up to 1500 elephants have been seen on the floodplains below the Lodge.

Stay safe as a Muslim in Victoria Falls

You can expect to be met by tourist police on your arrival in Victoria Falls. They are plentiful around the town and the falls and can be trusted. You can identify them by their yellow vests. Zimbabwe is very keen to keep tourists safe following a period of instability which saw visitors at risk, and tourists on the Zimbabwean side drop dramatically. Sometimes it feels there are more tourist police than tourists.

If you are staying at one of the resorts, it is likely that the guards at the resorts will keep an eye on you on the paths to the falls until you are within site of the tourist police.

Agents are aggressive and desperate and best avoided. They keep a distance from the tourist police and guards. The markets are safe, and the traders there are very polite and keen for your trade.

The path along the side of the river to the Victoria Falls hotel from the falls is not safe to walk after dark.

Travel Next from Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls is located within 100 km of the four corners of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia and thus provides access to all of the countries, but the only point of any note within a reasonable distance to the park is Chobe National Park in Botswana. It is a common destination, and most hotels will be able to book journey on a day safari of one or two days.

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