About Moshono Hillside

We warmly welcome you to Moshono Hillside! This hotel is located 5 km east of Arusha City Center, 37 km from Kilimanjaro airport (JRO) and 12 km from Arusha airport (ARK). 

Our facilities are situated on a hillside plot with great views of the skyline and landscape surrounding the eastern parts of Arusha. Here you find a main hotel building as well as a hotel apartment buildings and a Home Stay House.

The boutique hotel concept at Moshono Hillside is especially noticeable in the main hotel building. Here you find a reception and restaurant area on the ground floor, and 11 luxurious hotel rooms on the first and second floor – each with a 12 – 14 m² balcony.

Next to the main building there are 6 top modern 100 – 120 m² hotel apartments – each with a 40 – 60 m² terrace, where 75% is roof covered to protect agains sun and rain. Each unit has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room and a fully equipped kitchen. Each unit has a designated staff member who takes care of laundry, cleaning and other needs. With an extra role-in-bed and a king-size sofa-bed in the living room, each unit can host 7 people.

Outside the main building and apartments there is an outdoor recreational area. Here you can be served from the restaurant ore relax inn comfortable sun-beds, placed next to a big 20 x 8 m swimming pool and a small children’s pool. Next to the pool there is a 90 m² gym, wardrobes, and a spa. Among the other outdoor recreational areas there is a fully furniture rooftop bar and restrooms on top of the main building. Furthermore you find roof top terraces on top of the apartment buildings.

Moshono Hillside is a family project started by two married couples – four people from Africa, Europe, and Asia. As a family system with people from different cultures, we had some inspiring discussions around values and how to comply with them. We are also aware of the basic human needs in a world, where lack of equality seems to create a wide range of challenges. Due to this reality we want our project to benefit staff members, and the surrounding community. With this broadened perspective we agreed to maintain integrity, and to be transparent in al our affairs – and to hold theese values as our guiding principles:

• Equality
• Integrity
• Transparency

We are also aware of the global challenges from burning fossil fuels and the devastating impact it has on our climate. It is a fact that Africa owns 40% of the globe’s potential for solar power yet it only inhabits 1.48% of the global capacity for solar energy (cf. IRENA “Renewable Capacity Statistics”, 2021). With this awareness we want to be a role model for a transition to so-called green energy. According to this desire our hotel rooms- and apartments are supplied with solar heated water. Furthermore we have invested in three solar electricity systems (a total of 80 KW capacity), and want to be fully self-sufficient to cater for our needs of electrical supply.