Hotel vs Serviced Apartment in Arusha

Hotels in Arusha vary widely, from large international brands to smaller boutique stays. A serviced apartment offers something different, a fully furnished residence with kitchen, living room and separate bedrooms, kept with hotel grade service.

Space

A standard hotel room in Arusha gives you a bed, a desk and a bathroom. A two bedroom serviced apartment gives you those twice over, plus a living room, a dining table and a kitchen. For anything longer than two nights, that difference stops being a luxury and starts being practical.

Service

Hotels offer reception, restaurant and room service. Serviced apartments offer daily housekeeping, linen changes and a contact who knows your booking. Olive Homes keeps one point of contact per stay rather than a rotating front desk, which usually means fewer repeated explanations.

Cost

• ·One traveller, one night, a hotel is often simplest
• ·Two travellers, three or more nights, the apartment usually costs less per night
• ·A family of four or five, an apartment replaces two hotel rooms
• ·Stays of two weeks or more attract long stay rates that hotels rarely match

Food

Hotels include breakfast and a restaurant. Apartments include a kitchen, which suits early safari departures, special diets, young children and anyone tired of restaurant food by day four. At Olive Homes, breakfast provisioning and a private chef can be arranged when you want both.

Privacy

Apartments have no lobby, no corridor traffic and no shared breakfast room. Guests who value quiet, or who are working, generally notice the difference immediately.

Which to choose

• ·One night transit before a flight, either works, pick on distance
• ·Pre safari and post safari nights, apartment, for repacking space
• ·Family holiday, apartment, without hesitation
• ·Two week work assignment, apartment, for the desk and the kitchen
• ·Conference where the venue is the hotel, the hotel

Olive Homes pairs the privacy of a boutique apartment in Arusha with daily housekeeping, concierge support and secure parking, the considered middle ground between a hotel suite and a vacation rental.