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Shoestrings is a long-running budget backpacker lodge in Victoria Falls town, operating since 1997 and part of "The Bayete Collection" since February 2021. It combines dorms, private rooms and dome-tent camping around a bar and pool — the town's classic backpacker base, a 15-minute walk from the falls entrance.
What sets it apart
The widest range of budget bed types on this list — dorms, private rooms and camping — under one long-established roof.
Who it suits
Backpackers and budget travellers, including those wanting to camp.
The essentials
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Where | 12 West Drive, Victoria Falls town, Zimbabwe — 1.2km/15-minute walk from the falls entrance, 500m from the town centre |
| Property type | backpackers lodge |
| Rooms | Two 10-bed mixed dorms, one 6-bed mixed dorm, 7 twin/double rooms, 4 double rooms, 1 family room (sleeps 4), and 22 dome tents with communal ablutions — per the operator's own site. |
What it costs
No current rate is published on the official site (rates available on request). A single 2019 TripAdvisor review mentioned $55 for a dorm bed, but that figure is years out of date and not usable as a current price. No published rate is stated here.
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.