Faraja's Orphanage Reviews

On landing you will have best view of mt kilimanjaro for safaris on norghern circuit that the place for your plane to land

Small and clean airport, arrival area is very not very huge, funding restroom is tricky, it's in one level below ground, you can exchange ur currency here, usually airport gives you best rates. Departure area you will find shops.

this small airport is adiscret place which is efficiently functioning: when you leave good shopping very sweet items to buy as well as on arrival I had good services .better to get visa on arrival (# daytime)
taxi drivers who brought me safely towards my international-meeting group on the road -the driver communicated well I didn't waste time.

This small airport is a discreet place that worked surprisingly efficiently: if you want to do some quick shopping for little things on departure, it has nice items to buy, on arrival I had good experiences with taxi drivers, whom you have to approach accordingly + who sure me to my international one Bring a meeting group to a main thoroughfare where I was expected. the driver communicated and arranged everything without any problems.
I and my group did not waste any time with it, because it is very expensive to travel in the country in minibuses, it usually takes forever ..

Small airport. Lots of people to take a visa ($ 50 per person) when landing long-haul flights

The land of my parent..... Its where I belong !!
Mount Kilimanjaro the roof of Africa !!

The airport is small, but it has the advantage of being close to Arusha and Moshi.

No delays, nice restaurant/ bar to wait in under the sky

It is so popular that I want to know how to process visa issuance and immigration processing into this system. I am afraid that I am afraid, but I do not work very hard, I greet each other with greetings and greet each other .. It is a painful time. Please take a visa at the Tanzania Embassy in Korea

4 stars for the food, which was nice! 1 star for the airport as such..

The airport is ridiculously unorganized. The security check is pretty much non existent, the immigration offices are extremely slow.

Let me just elaborate the immigration process as an example:

1. First you have to apply for a visa. (3 clerks for 300+ arriving passengers)
2. Once you receive your visa you may go to the next window to pay it. (USD - Cash only!)
3. After paying you may go get the visa that was just handed to you checked again and stamped on your passport.

Basic airport - very bad experience at the immigration counter. Officials kept on delaying the stamping process and were in hopes of getting a bribe. Disappointing start to what would be an unforgettable trip.

You must go with time because sometimes passport controls are cumbersome. Very few facilities in the terminal. The taxi to Arusha is about 50 dollars and you will have to haggle out the price.

Free reliable wifi here. Open and airy. Shops open 24/7.

This airport serves the visitors who wants to visit Mt. Kilimanjaro, Moshi, Arusha, Lake Manyara, Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, etc.,
Clean, good, small and best located for foreign visitors, but the Visa officers are not kind to visitors lengthy process and behaving like tourist agents.

Little airport. Expansion works in progress. Friendly personnel. At arrival you need to fill in your own entrance application for visa, so you need a pen! At departure same work btw.

Small international airport for tourists.
This will be your gateway for Tourists heading to Ngorongoro and to climb Kilimanjaro.
There is an ATM outside.
This airport was getting renovated when I visited, however did have functioning toilets (clean) and a food court.
There is an ATM outside
Getting a VISA will take sometime and for US citizens $100 USD and others $50 USD.
If you can, get your VISA prior to landing Sawa Sawa?

Pleasant little airport in the middle of the Tanzanian plain.

The airport is in the middle of nowhere and is small, but it works. They actually have WiFi and places to eat.

Could not have been any better. Very polite and very helpful.

small airport but the area will fill your memory and your eyes with the magic of this place

Very small airport but very efficient and fast. Also has free unlimited wifi.

What a good n nice place i love& i wish i would be a pilot one day.Napenda sana

Getaway to Arusha and Moshi townds plus the Serengeti, Ngorongoro

Warning. Do not arrive more than 5 seconds early for your flight unless you want to be oppressed endlessly by announcements requesting that you don't check valuable items, you don't carry luggage for strangers, you don't carry aerosols, and so on... for seriously ever. Without a break. Without a non-annoying interlude music. Without a place to hide (maybe bathrooms?).

Beautiful and stunning views of mount Kilimanjaro from the airport as well as on board. Wow! I can't forget Kilimanjaro and Arusha.

One, sometimes 2 customs/immigration officials on for departures. Even the 1 official that was there let through an entire sports team, talking for ages about nothing to do with their passports making all tourists wait up to 1 hour with only 20 people in the line. Totally unacceptable and certainly not helping with tourism. We will not be back to Tanzania specifically because the departure (& even arrivals) immigration had unacceptable wait times. If you want tourists to return, this will need to be significantly improved.

I have stopped there several times but I never went ashore. It is very popular with hikers.

Nice and relaxed but very backwards in organization, no pens to fill out the non official looking entry and exit paperwork. WiFi non existent. The security clearance was very higgildy piggildy. No proper signage on gates for which flights are up coming however it s so quiet here you shouldn t get lost.

Beautiful International Airport.. welcome to see the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro and good services from workers.

It's about the size of this international airport. Arrival hall really feels like a local bus terminal. Visa is $ 50. Somewhere in the airport, someone keeps picking up luggage. It's all for the tip, so you can say decisively.

Each package car is in the parking lot and there are small mobile shops behind it. They sell drinks and sell USIM. If you can't buy something here, stop by because you can't do anything throughout the trip. Of course you won't see this review ...

I didn't see any shops at the arrival hall, but there is a souvenir shop at the departure hall. The cheapest deals on your trip to Tanzania are sold here. Big impact safari animal illustration is also sold here. What if you sell this at the departure hall ... Masai tribe blanket is the cheapest to sell for $ 10. If you ask me on the side of the road, you will save 45 $. You can pick up some coffee beans and tea in the departure hall. The card will be charged, but not in USD.

When I exit this airport, luggage checking people asked bribe. I thought they were Tax collectors but they were not. I asked for receipt for paying 70,000TZS, however they denied.

Beware the corrupt Tanzanian Revenue agency baggage check on arrival! This is an additional mandatory bag scan after customs, at which point we were detained for 2 hours and extorted for over 40% of the value of goods that we had brought in to donate to an orphanage ($80 on under $200 of goods). They forced us to exchange US dollars to Tanzanian schillings, and we did see the customs agents splitting the cash amongst each other and pocketing it. Multiple other groups were help up for similar reasons, and local people held up were able to negotiate lower bribes to the agents. It would have been more courteous to simply pickpocket us, rather than holding us up for 2 hours. Sadly an unfortunate representation of the corruption issues still rampant in the Tanzanian government. Don t let this discourage you from visiting this incredible country, just take measures to ensure you are not a target. Next time we would simply donate cash to the orphanage we support, and that way they can stimulate the local economy as well.

On departure, we went up to the Tanzanite VIP lounge included with our tickets to find it quite dirty, unairconditioned and 15 degrees hotter than the rest of the airport and quite run down.

Arrivals was fine and streamlined. Departures has no WC in check-in area until after Customs check point. Business lounge has wifi with NO connection, WC are poorly maintained and very sad food selection.

Small airport, enough for the amount of daily flights they receive. The wait to enter the country and obtain the visa became more than endless. Although then this pace is maintained within the country, so do not throw it in the face of the aviation base itself.

Ame likes so much this huge transporter respects other taxis of the taxi are quiet

Wonderful airport, clean and tidy. People were very friendly anx helpful. Not very big airport snd i love the fact that you can see a majectic kilimanjaro mountain rising behind it. Loved it.

Like time mashine from begining of 20 century - everything is made manually (no computers) and very slowly . No air conditioner and no ventilation!

Totally scenic setting for an airport. Services and stores inside are also convenient. Less check in and security counters.

Small airport but well connected to the rest of the world. Also, immigration process is working good e.g. for VOA. During departure, after international gate there's only one restaurant but I can get rice with beef and vegetables.

Bad airport. Long line for customs checks when you land. Zero services inside. Monitors don't even work to check departure, check in flights
Maybe arusha airport is better

It's an International Airport that looks very cozy. Small but attractive and good looking.

Forgot to carry my yellow fever immunization card but i was well handled. I was given a jab because the one I had was expiring in December 2019

Beautiful airport in Tanzania a place where you can view mount Kilimanjaro and mount Meru

Nice comfortable airport. 45 minutes from Moshi ($ 40) without traffic (8:45 flight). Inside open cafeteria where you can smoke. Wifi fast and free.

a very ugly experience
my suitcase was broken up by security
I had coffee with in double bags both bags cut up
and laid back open on both sides
my photos on SD cards were gone no safari pictures I have now30
pictures 1300 are gone
I got the suitcase 6 days after returning home

Was superb and took all Health precautions necessarily

To many who have visited during renovation would complain about the heat or else. KIA (Kilimanjaro International Airport) is one of good and nice airports in East Africa.

A small cute airport with an alleged view of Kilimangaro. We saw nothing, it was overcast.

Small airport in Tanzania. Ethiopian airline is the specialist for arriving at Kilimanjaro Airport.

When entering the country, we hardly had any problems, but other people without online visas sometimes had to wait a long time.
On the journey to Zanzibar, however, there were some problems.
People are arbitrarily and incomprehensibly taken objects. For example, lighters, although there is a smoking lounge in the gate area and some, but not all, were allowed to take their lighter there.

The staff has little idea and only very vague information, no one could really tell us how long we have to wait approximately for our delayed flight. We also did not find out about the delay until the gate, although it was already determined long before, according to the staff.
The following free meals were forever in the wait and the waiters were very rude.

Pluses:
+ good, free internet or wifi
+ surprisingly cheap souvenirs and other products
+ clean and well-kept toilets

Very small airport and clear airport.
On arrival about 15 minutes waiting for a visa.
Toilets for African conditions kept clean.

We need more ATM's, and responsible police officers, beautiful airport

Slow to enter if you need a visa and check in was also very slow. Everything else is fine.

Very slow service at visa desk and totally disorganised