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The Royal Livingstone is a colonial-style luxury hotel on the banks of the Zambezi inside Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, with rooms and suites in white riverfront buildings among indigenous trees; wildlife including zebra and giraffe are reported to roam the grounds. It is positioned as the falls' most prestigious address on the Zambia side, with guests getting free, unlimited access to the falls through the hotel's own private entrance.
What sets it apart
The only property on this list with its own private walking entrance directly into the falls' national park.
Who it suits
Travellers wanting the shortest possible walk from bed to the falls, on the Zambia side.
The essentials
| Country | Zambia |
| Where | On the Zambezi River inside Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Livingstone, Zambia — guests have free access to the falls via the hotel's own private entrance, about a 5-minute walk |
| Property type | hotel |
| Rooms | unverified — one source (Scott Dunn) states 174 rooms across 17 colonial-style buildings, another (a Booking.com/TripAdvisor-derived summary) states 173. We report both rather than pick one. |
What it costs
Aggregated pricing (currency-converted from a CAD figure) shows roughly $600–$670/night for Deluxe to King rooms — indicative only, not directly confirmed by us on a live booking page, and the official site returned an access error when we tried to fetch it directly.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs chosen to suggest the kind of setting this property is in. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify exactly where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had stayed there. For pictures of the actual rooms, see the property's own site.