Fancy Fritz B&B

Four guestrooms inside a quietly run B&B on the Atlantic edge of Swakopmund, Fancy Fritz earns a 9.6 guest rating across 122 reviews — an unusually high score for an unstarred property in this German-colonial desert town.

Swakopmund sits where the Namib Sand Sea meets the cold Benguela current, giving it a microclimate far cooler than Namibia's interior. The town's brightly painted Wilhelmine-era facades, the Mole harbour jetty, and the Kristall Galerie mineral museum all fall within a short walk of the address.

The B&B format means a more personal stay than the larger resort hotels along the beachfront. Swakopmund serves as the gateway for quad-biking on the dunes at Dune 7 and for dolphin cruises out of Walvis Bay, fifteen kilometres south.