Is Greenlight Hotel pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at Greenlight Hotel?

As of Oct 6, 2025, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Greenlight Hotel on Oct 7, 2025 start from ₩70,918, excluding taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at Greenlight Hotel?

Self parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at Greenlight Hotel?

Check-in start time: 11:00 AM; Check-in end time: anytime.

Does Greenlight Hotel provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle. A fee of USD 20 per person applies.

Where is Greenlight Hotel located?

Situated in Dar es Salaam, this hotel is 3 mi (4.9 km) from Ilala Market and within 6 mi (10 km) of University of Dar es Salaam and Tanzania National Stadium. Vijana Mall and Kariakoo Market are also within 6 mi (10 km).

Greenlight Hotel Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

6/10 Okay

Eric

Feb 28, 2024

Liked: Staff & service

This was the closest hotel near the airport with 24 hr front desk and I came in at 12:30. Only complaint was breakfast til 10am and so was checkout but overall for the few hrs I stayed ther it was worth it

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Jan 27, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kuman

Jan 23, 2025

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Toshifumi

Aug 26, 2024

Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Toshifumi

Aug 26, 2024

Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Claudia

Jan 12, 2024

Liked: Staff & service

Das Hotel ist ein bißchen in die Jahre gekommen, es gab kein warmes Wasser in der Dusche. Für eine Nacht zum Flughafen Transfer war es gut. Die Mitarbeiter sind sehr freundlich.

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Frans

Jan 10, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Grootte kamer goed. Douche minder

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Nov 20, 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort

Disliked: Staff & service

Bad experience and customer service

Bad customer service from the start. I booked for two people. There was only one towel, one bottle of water and told that breakfast was only for one. They did not wanted to tell me the wireless password my Fiancé had to assist. I informed the unprofessional person at the desk that I have prove I booked for two and she refused to look at my paperwork and informed me it was in the system. I went for something to eat and when I returned they had corrected their intentional errors. I read before from a review that someone had the same issue and they charged them extra. I was not going to allow that to happen to me. In the morning I checked out and went to another Hotel. I was to stay for 6 nights , but after such bad experience I would not stay even if they offered it for free. I complained through Hotels.com and received a refund for the remaining 5 nights. Will not be booking this Hotel again. Let’s this be a warning TJ those travelling in pairs

Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2021

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Aug 7, 2018

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Awful

WOULD NEVER STAY HERE AGAIN. No wifi in the room. Window above the door, so light from the corridor shines into the room all night. No toilet roll. Soil in the rusty old bath. No shower. Sign on the bathroom door about disposing of used condoms. Lift doesn't stop at the floor correctly, so there's large gap to step up into the lift. Check out took ages as receptionist didn't want to take card payment or issue a tax receipt (but did eventually). Receptionist doesn't speak good English and seems incapable of using a phone or a watch correctly. Booked a pick-up from the airport after the last domestic arrival. Airport was closed, taxi rank empty and had to wait alone in the dark for an hour. Requested a discount for drop-off at the airport the next morning due to the inconvenience caused and was told this wasn't possible. Drive from airport took 50 minutes, not the 20 minutes advertised.

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

6/10 Okay

FA Gerber

Nov 20, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Would rather pay more for something better

Was a struggle to find a cool room for me with a working air conditioner Breakfast is terrible Bed is very comfortable. Will not stay here again.

Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Georg

Oct 22, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

good place

good

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

4/10 Poor

Mzungu, Tanzania

Mar 29, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Not as advertised

Hotel is new and clean. Decorated well. Staff is very friendly. Internet did not work on my floor. I needed the internet because I was there working. No satellite/cable TV access as advertised. jet tub not working. No mini bar in room as advertised. Restaurant service staff is slow. Finally, the price advertised on Expedia was not the price I paid. After booking, the price was shown as higher than advertised.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Dec 30, 2016

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

All around, terrible

Service was terrible, shower was dirty, bathroom was not clean at all and many of things not working, like light, no towels (even after requesting it several times), tub was rusted and molded. Room was hot, A/A was not working appropriately, breakfast not available at the indicated time, and so on. If you can avoid this please, I would recommend you try to find another better one.

6/10 Okay

Peter

Dec 7, 2016

OK for an overnight

Greenlight is a typical transit hotel, with convenience to the airport being the main attraction. I had communicated directly with the hotel regarding transportation from the airport and they said that they would arrange for a taxi to pick us up. However, upon arrival we found that no taxi was waiting for us and had to negotiate a price that ended up being almost twice the price quoted by the hotel. Once we arrived at the hotel and asked about the missing taxi, the front desk staff seemed to be unconcerned, offered no apology or other compensation for the increased fare. Checkout time is quite early, 10 AM. I would stay here again if there were no other options available while transiting through Dar.

6/10 Okay

Kim, Canada

May 12, 2016

First night in Tanzania

We had arrived into Dar es Salaam in the middle of the night and were leaving the next day around noon. The room was nice but bring earplugs as it was very noisy outside at night. The staff was kind and helpful.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Apr 3, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Got the job done!

A good airport hotel alternative, about halfway between the town and the airport. The shower was amazing.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Feb 24, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Ett ok hotell men lite avlägset.

Bra och rent men avlägset och maten var inte alls imponerande.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Feb 24, 2016

Liked: Staff & service

4/10 Poor

Sofia, Stockholm

Feb 21, 2016

Disliked: Room comfort

Clean rooms, really bad breakfast.

We only stayed for one night and arrived in the evening and left in the morning, we picked this hotel to be as close to the airport as possible. It says here that the hotel is 4km away from the airport - it is not, it's 9 km - which lead us to an argument with the taxi driver, but the hotel also confirmed 9km in their brochures they had. The room was fine and it was clean. None of all the outlets in the room worked though so we couldn't charge anything which was annoying as we were leaving for one of the islands the day after. The breakfast was extremely disappointing though, there were ALOT of flies all over the restaurant which was disgusting, the boiled egg I got was bad/old. Basically I only had two plain toasts with nothing on them.

8/10 Good

Katarina, Sweden

Feb 16, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Overnightstay

Very nice staff at the reception and maneger

6/10 Okay

Jason, Littlestone-on-Sea

Jan 14, 2016

Liked: Room comfort

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

OK for a brief stopover between flights

Hotel is about 20 minutes drive from the airport so quite convenient. Driver was there to pick us up from the domestic terminal Food & drink is reasonably priced Deluxe room was tired, particularly the bathroom

6/10 Okay

Fares, Brazil

Jan 10, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good location, great staff

Good location close to airport. Super friendly and helpful staff

2/10 Terrible

Jonas, Gothenburg, Sweden

Jan 10, 2016

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Try to find an alternative !

The only good thing I can say about this hotel is that the transfer worked fine. However transfer is not for free as indicated on Hotels web-page. When order and payment is done the hotel confirmation states that if you stay 3 nights or more the transfer is free - but I doubt anyone has ever stayed here voluntarily for that long. A USD 20 fee (one way) is charged, which was changed when we left to USD 50 for two ways. Restaurant in the hotel lobby is NOT good! AC in the room but only active when you are in the room so it takes an hour to cool the room after return. Power cut for an hour didm´t help much either.

8/10 Good

Merja, Göteborg

Nov 3, 2015

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Trevlig övernattning nära flygplatsen

Personalen var ytterst hjälpsam och försökte verkligen sitt allra bästa att gästerna skulle trivas. Tyvärr deras kortterminal funkade inte och dom var tvungen att köra dig till närmaste automaten. Samma fel överallt i Tanzanien, i andra hotellen, restaurant oxå. Vattentryck i duschen var dålig, men det är kanske inte hotellets fel, kommunal snarast. Ingen oväsen, sov riktigt bra.

6/10 Okay

Valentin, Boulogne-Billancourt

Oct 11, 2015

Disliked: Staff & service

Pour une nuit, en transit...

Nous n'avons passé qu'une nuit dans cet hôtel avant de partir pour un Safari dans le Serengeti. Nous avions programmé un transfert depuis l'aéroport avec le manager, mais personne ne s'est présenté à notre arrivée. Le côté positif de l'hôtel, c'est sa proximité avec l'aéroport. Rien de plus, rien de moins.

Greenlight Hotel

Choose dates to view prices

Photo gallery for Greenlight Hotel

Reviews

Popular amenities

Room options

Check availability for these dates

View all photos for Standard Double Room

Standard Double Room

Highlights

View all photos for Deluxe Double Room

Deluxe Double Room

Highlights

View all photos for Executive Room

Executive Room

Highlights

View all photos for Deluxe Twin Room, Jetted Tub

Deluxe Twin Room, Jetted Tub

Highlights

View all photos for Suite, Sauna

Suite, Sauna

Highlights

You may also like

Dar Es Salaam Serena Hotel

About the neighborhood

What's nearby

Getting around

Restaurants

About this property