Accommodation in Botswana
Every property we have checked, grouped by the area you will actually be sleeping in.
Where you sleep in Botswana shapes the trip more than it does almost anywhere else, because the type of property usually determines the type of land it sits on, and the land determines what you are allowed to do. Start with the type of stay you want, or jump to the area you will actually be sleeping in.
If you are here for safari accommodation specifically, that is a subset rather than the whole catalogue: of the 638 licensed properties we list, 17 are tented camps, 32 lodges, 7 safari lodges and 0 safari camps, plus a handful of island camps, bush camps and star-bed platforms. The rest — guesthouses, hotels, bed and breakfasts, self-catering and campsites — are the town and corridor stock that gets you to and from them. Both matter, and a Botswana trip normally uses both.
Browse by type
Every type below has properties in it, counted live from the catalogue. We do not list a category we cannot fill.
7 stays
Safari Lodges
Rooms or chalets, a restaurant, a pool and guided activities included.
Browse Safari Lodges
Browse accommodation by area
Seven areas hold everything we list. Each one opens a catalogue page with the properties we have checked, the setting they sit in and how to reach them.
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76 properties
Maun
The Okavango gateway. Riverside lodges and campsites along the Thamalakane, and the airstrip almost every fly-in trip passes through.
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54 properties
Kasane & Chobe
Ten minutes from the Chobe riverfront and within reach of three borders. Riverfront lodges, town hotels and bush camps.
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7 properties
Okavango Delta
Water camps and island lodges reached by light aircraft or mokoro. Small, seasonal, and booked a long way ahead.
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20 properties
Makgadikgadi & Nata
Pan-edge lodges and campsites between Nata and the Boteti, positioned for the zebra migration and the salt pans.
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20 properties
Ghanzi & the Kalahari
Long-distance stopovers on the Trans-Kalahari route and farm-based camps on the way to the Central Kalahari.
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357 properties
Gaborone
Business hotels and lodges in the capital, useful for arrivals, departures and trips into the south-east.
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104 properties
Eastern Botswana
The Tuli Block and the eastern corridor. Mashatu’s red-earth reserve on the Limpopo, the rhino sanctuary at Serowe, and the town hotels along the Francistown road.
Browse by town or gateway
Areas are useful for planning a route; towns are what you actually book. These are the places with enough checked properties to be worth a page of their own, counted live from the catalogue. Remote camps stay filed under their region rather than under the town they fly out of.
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306 properties
Gaborone
Business hotels, residential guesthouses and self-catering apartments in the capital.
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76 properties
Maun
The Okavango gateway: riverside lodges, campsites and guesthouses on the Thamalakane.
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34 properties
Francistown
Highway hotels and residential guesthouses where the A1 meets the roads north.
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29 properties
Kasane
Riverfront lodges on the Chobe and a much larger stock of guesthouses on the Plateau.
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31 properties
Palapye
The halfway stop on the A1 and the turn-off for Serowe and Khama Rhino Sanctuary.
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16 properties
Ghanzi
Town hotels and Kalahari game farms on the Trans-Kalahari route to Namibia.
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14 properties
Serowe
Guesthouses and small hotels below the Serowe hill, the base for Khama Rhino Sanctuary.
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7 properties
Mogoditshane
Guesthouses on Gaborone’s western edge, on the Molepolole road.
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5 properties
Mahalapye
The first substantial A1 stop north of Gaborone, for drivers who left the city late.
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6 properties
Shakawe
River lodges and fishing camps on the Okavango Panhandle, reachable by road.
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19 properties
Kazungula
Hotels and guesthouses at the Zambezi bridge and the four-country border.
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4 properties
Selebi-Phikwe
The eastern copper-belt town and the staging point for the Tuli road.
Smaller places also have their own pages: Lobatse, Kanye, Jwaneng, Letlhakane, Nata, Molepolole, Tlokweng, Mmopane, Ramotswa, Gumare, Kang, Bobonong.
View all locations — every town and region we cover, with live counts
Overnight & stopover stays
Practical places for a first night, a last night, or a break between Botswana’s major driving routes and safari areas. One representative property for each gateway, drawn live from the catalogue.
A few of the properties we have checked
A selection of stays from across our Botswana accommodation catalogue. Open a property guide for location, stay details and the availability route currently available through BTG.
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Safari Lodge · Maun
Island Safari Lodge
A 24-room lodge on a private island reserve on the Thamalakane, off the Shorobe road about 10 km from Maun airport.
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Tented Camp · Maun
Thamo Telele
Nine safari tents and two chalets in a 250-hectare private game reserve on the edge of Maun, with giraffe, horse riding and guided walks.
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Safari Lodge · Chobe and Kasane
Chobe Safari Lodge
An 80-room lodge on the Chobe riverfront at the edge of Kasane, with a campsite and its own boat fleet.
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Lodge · Maun
Thamalakane River Lodge
A riverside lodge 19 km from Maun on the road towards Moremi, with eighteen chalets facing the Thamalakane.
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Guesthouse · Maun
Maun Waterfront Guesthouse
A small owner-run guesthouse on the Thamalakane at Disaneng, about ten minutes from Maun village, with a fire pit and river verandahs.
Plan the rest of your trip
- Parks and reserves — land tenure, permitted activities and the fee structure.
- Destinations — the six regions and their gateway towns.
- Self-drive, safaris and activities, itineraries, travel planning and wildlife and seasons.
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Camping in parks is booked separately from park entry
This trips up more self-drive trips than anything else. Park entry fees and campsite fees are two different transactions. Entry is collected by the wildlife department; the campsite is booked with whoever manages that particular site. There is no single national reservations body in Botswana — no equivalent of a one-stop parks booking service — so a route through several reserves can mean several separate bookings with several organisations.
Two consequences follow. First, in the remoter reserves a confirmed campsite booking is effectively a condition of entry, because there is nowhere else to sleep. Second, peak-season sites in Moremi, Chobe and the Kgalagadi go early; a year ahead is normal advice. Our self-drive and parks and reserves pages cover the mechanics.
How we choose what to list
We are building a broad directory of legitimate traveller accommodation across Botswana. Listings are identified from tourism registers, property and operator sources and supplementary accommodation research, then checked for identity, location and operating evidence before they are published. Inclusion is not a ranking or an endorsement, and absence is not a judgement on a property.
Coverage is deliberately weighted towards the gaps most Botswana sites leave: town accommodation on the driving routes, public and private campsites, guesthouses and community-owned properties, alongside the concession camps that dominate everyone else’s coverage. Where a property’s land status matters — inside a park, in a concession, on community land — we say so, because that determines what you can do there.
What we publish, and what we do not
We are an independent planning site, not a booking engine or a review site, and we would rather be explicit about that than imply more than we know.
- No prices. We publish no rates for any property, and no park or camping fee amounts. Rates change by season and by market, and a stale number is worse than none.
- No availability from us. Any live availability or booking function on this site comes from our booking partner, not from our own research, and reflects that partner’s inventory rather than everything that exists in Botswana.
- No star ratings or scores. We do not rank properties, award stars or aggregate review scores.
- No claim to have stayed anywhere. We describe what a category of accommodation is and where it sits in the land-tenure picture. We do not present ourselves as having visited.
Every listing is checked before it is published. A property is added only once we can confirm who it is and where it actually sits, from sources we can point to. 638 properties are published so far across seven accommodation areas and more than twenty town and gateway pages, and the directory keeps growing. Where the evidence does not hold up, we hold the property back rather than guess.
Ready to look at somewhere specific?
Start with the area you will actually be sleeping in — the seven area pages above hold every property in our Botswana catalogue, each with its own guide and availability route.
Browse Maun accommodation Browse Kasane & Chobe
We do not publish rates or ratings.
Prices change, availability changes, and a star rating from a desk in another country is worth nothing. What we can tell you is what a place is.
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