Taj Pamodzi Hotel

Lusaka


While not quite in the same league as its opulent hotels in India, Taj Pamodzi is instead more your classy business hotel. But it's a solid choice nevertheless, featuring plush bedding and top-quality amenities, from the slippers to skin-care products and green garden views from its rooms.

A lavish breakfast buffet is served in one of the hotel's restaurants – the other, Steaks & Grills, does candlelit dinner outside with live music most nights – and drinks can be had at the bar accompanied by the tinkling keys of a piano. Guests have access to the full service gym – racquetball anyone? – and spa out back next to a lovely pool and patio area.


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Nearby Lusaka attractions

2. Lusaka National Museum

0.7 MILES

This big square box of a building resembling a Soviet-era Moscow ministry has upstairs galleries displaying exhibits on urban culture and Zambian history…

3. Freedom Statue

0.8 MILES

The Freedom Statue, around the corner from the Lusaka National Museum, is dedicated to freedom fighters and those who lost their lives in the struggle for…

4. Lusaka City Market

1.61 MILES

Fronted by the chaotic and congested eponymously named bus station, as well as a veritable Maginot Line of sidewalk vendors, reaching the entrance to the…

6. Wildlife Discovery Centre

6.58 MILES

On the southern outskirts of town is this elephant nursery set up by Game Rangers International (a Zambian conservationist NGO), which works with rescuing…

7. Munda Wanga Environmental Park

7.64 MILES

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8. Namwandwe Gallery

8.62 MILES

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