Where to stay on safari in Tanzania: Here's a secret: where you sleep decides what you see before breakfast.

This isn't a booking list. It's a guide to the areas we'd put you in and the kinds of places you can stay in each one: what the location gives you, what it costs you, and who it suits. Your shortlist of named camps comes with your itinerary. Why wait? Because availability decides it, and we'd rather get it right than get it early.