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The Bazaruto Archipelago from the air — white sandbars and turquoise channels

Mozambique holiday packages.

Five trips, compared, with the price on the page.

Five ways to shape a Mozambique holiday — islands, two-centre, family, diving, honeymoon — with the actual numbers behind each one. We build the trip ourselves, in Mozambique, by the people who run it.

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A Mozambique holiday package — sold elsewhere as a Mozambique travel package or vacation package — is a pre-arranged trip along the Mozambican coast that bundles accommodation, transfers and activities into one booking — most often 7 to 14 nights built around Vilanculos and the Bazaruto Archipelago, with Tofo added for whale sharks and diving. Below are the five we build most often, each with a real starting price per person.

Every other page on this search hides the price behind a form. Ours are on the page, and they’re the same rates we charge people who walk into our office in Vilanculos.

Last reviewed: August 2026.

Compare at a glance

Five packages, side by side.

PackageNightsWhereBest forFrom, per person
Islands & Beach7VilanculosA first visit$1,050
Two-Centre10Vilanculos + TofoSeeing both coasts$1,500
Family Coast7VilanculosKids under 12$1,050
Divers’ Trip10Tofo + VilanculosCertified divers$1,500
Honeymoon7Bazaruto or BenguerraCouples$2,800

Starting prices are per person and cover accommodation, food, local transport and activities, using the mid-range band from our trip cost guide ($150–250 per day; the honeymoon row uses the premium band at $400+). International flights are not included — add roughly $1,500–3,000 per person from Europe, $400–800 from South Africa. Under-10s pay half on our day trips. We quote in US dollars and in meticais (MT) — whichever you choose, the rate is locked when you confirm.

Five shapes

The trips people actually ask for.

7 nights · Vilanculos

Islands & Beach.

From $1,050 per person · 7 nights

The one most first-timers want. Base yourself in Vilanculos, and spend the week going out to the archipelago and back — a full island day, a shorter snorkel day, the dunes at sunset, and a dhow sail on your last evening.

Activities at our published rates: Bazaruto & Benguerra $120 · snorkelling $110 · Red Dunes $40 · sunset dhow $40.

  1. Day 1 Arrive in Vilanculos — airport pickup, and the first proper look at the archipelago sitting out on the horizon
  2. Day 2 Bazaruto & Benguerra — white dunes off the beach, snorkelling, lunch cooked on the sand
  3. Day 3 The town and the kitchen — the market and the yards where dhows are still built by hand, then a cooking lesson: matapa, piri-piri, coconut rice
  4. Day 4 Magaruque — the closest island, a lagoon shallow enough to stand in
  5. Day 5 A day off — sleep in, swim, or ride on the beach
  6. Day 6 Red dunes at sunset, then sail home by dhow in the dark
  7. Day 7 Fly out

The longer, day-by-day version: 7-day Mozambique itinerary.

10 nights · Vilanculos + Tofo

Two-Centre.

From $1,500 per person · 10 nights

The islands in the north, the ocean wildlife in the south. Five nights in Vilanculos for the archipelago, then the coast road down to Tofo for whale sharks and diving. Two very different weeks stitched into one trip.

Vilanculos to Tofo transfer $190 per private car · Tofo whale sharks $60 · Tofo diving $130.

  1. Day 1 Arrive in Vilanculos
  2. Day 2 Bazaruto & Benguerra
  3. Day 3 Santa Carolina — Paradise Island, and the shell of a 1950s Art Deco hotel
  4. Day 4 The town, the dhow yards, and a cooking lesson
  5. Day 5 Red dunes and a sunset sail
  6. Day 6 South to Tofo — about five hours down the EN1
  7. Day 7 Whale sharks — a snorkel ocean safari
  8. Day 8 Diving, or Tofinho and the surf
  9. Day 9 Inhambane — the old Portuguese port, and the dhow across the bay
  10. Day 10 Fly out from Inhambane

The longer, day-by-day version: 10-day Mozambique itinerary.

7 nights · Vilanculos

Family Coast.

From $1,050 per person · 7 nights · under-10s half price on day trips

Built so nobody is trapped on a long crossing. Shorter boat days to the closest island, a natural pool shallow enough to stand in, quad tracks and dunes on the land days. Children under 10 pay half on every day trip.

Magaruque $110 (kids $55) · fishing with the fishermen $35 · see the family guide.

  1. Day 1 Arrive, settle in, and get on the beach
  2. Day 2 Magaruque — the gentlest island day, snorkel straight off the sand
  3. Day 3 Fishing with the fishermen at dawn — or a lie-in, your call
  4. Day 4 Red dunes and the quad tracks behind town
  5. Day 5 Bazaruto & Benguerra for confident young swimmers
  6. Day 6 A day off — horses on the beach, then dinner round a bonfire in the sand
  7. Day 7 Fly out

10 nights · Tofo + Vilanculos

Divers’ Trip.

From $1,500 per person · 10 nights · dives charged at the rates below

Tofo for the big animals and the manta cleaning stations, Vilanculos for the reef inside a marine park that has been protected since 1971. Whale sharks are here year-round in both, which is rarer than most dive destinations admit.

Vilanculos diving $170 · Tofo diving $130 · where to dive in Mozambique.

  1. Day 1 Land at Inhambane, transfer to Tofo
  2. Day 2 Tofo diving — Manta Reef
  3. Day 3 Tofo diving — Office Reef and the cleaning stations
  4. Day 4 Whale sharks — year-round here
  5. Day 5 Surface day — Tofinho, or nothing at all
  6. Day 6 North to Vilanculos
  7. Day 7 Vilanculos diving — Two Mile Reef, inside the marine park
  8. Day 8 A second Bazaruto dive day
  9. Day 9 Santa Carolina, or a free day
  10. Day 10 Fly out

7 nights · Bazaruto or Benguerra

Honeymoon.

From $2,800 per person · 7 nights · island lodges from $7,000

A private-island lodge, a sandbar lunch with nobody else in the photo, and a dhow at sunset with just the two of you. The luxury tier here costs 30–60% less than the Mauritius or Seychelles equivalent.

Lodges and sample itineraries on our Mozambique honeymoon guide.

  1. Day 1 Land in Vilanculos, then across to the island lodge by private boat transfer
  2. Day 2 Settle in — the beach, the reef, and nowhere to be
  3. Day 3 A sandbar lunch, just the two of you
  4. Day 4 Snorkelling over the seagrass channel where the dugongs are
  5. Day 5 A private dhow at sunset
  6. Day 6 A last day on the island
  7. Day 7 Boat back, and fly out

However long you have

Or none of the above.

These five are starting points, not a catalogue. Most trips we build borrow from two of them. Send your dates and what you care about most, and we’ll shape it around that.

Day-by-day examples: 7 days · 10 days · 14 days.

Or build your own

What a day costs, by tier.

A seven-night Mozambique holiday costs between $350 and $7,000+ per person depending on where you sleep, and international flights sit on top of all of it. The bands below come from our Mozambique trip cost guide and cover accommodation, food, local transport and activities together — they are what a day on this coast actually costs at each tier.

TierPer day7 nightsWhat that looks like
Backpacker$50–80$350–560Beach guesthouse, local restaurants, chapa on the EN1, a couple of day trips
Mid-range$150–250$1,050–1,750Comfortable lodge in Vilanculos, private transfers, island days included
Premium$400–800$2,800–5,600Top mainland lodges, private boat days, internal flights
Private island$1,000+$7,000+Anantara, Azura, &Beyond, Kisawa — genuinely all-inclusive

Per person, excluding international flights. Add roughly $1,500–3,000 per person from Europe or $400–800 from South Africa.

Read the small print

What’s in a package, and what quietly isn’t.

A Mozambique holiday package should cover accommodation, transfers, activities and park fees, and should be explicit about which of those it leaves out. The item most often left out of a headline price is the Bazaruto conservation fee — MZN 900 per person per day for international visitors as of June 2026, plus MZN 250 for snorkelling. Every island trip we run includes it and we pay it for you at the park office.

The archipelago has been a national marine park since 1971, covering 143,000 hectares of ocean, co-managed since 2017 by Mozambique’s national parks authority and African Parks. Those fees are what pays for it — and for the reason people come: Bazaruto shelters East Africa’s last viable dugong population, an estimated 250–350 animals, according to the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force.

International flights are the other big exclusion, and we think that’s the right call — you will almost always beat a bundled airfare booking it yourself. Internal flights we book at cost.

Why book it here

No middleman on the water.

We’re in Vilanculos. The boats, the crews and the drivers are people we work with every week, not a supplier list.

The prices on this page are the prices. They’re what a walk-in pays, and they don’t change because you booked from abroad.

An overseas operator selling the same week is selling the same lodges and the same boats, with their margin on top.

One person runs your booking end to end, and answers when a flight shifts or the sea turns.

Common questions

Still on your mind.

How much does a Mozambique holiday package cost?
Our five packages start at, per person: Islands & Beach $1,050 (7 nights), Two-Centre $1,500 (10 nights), Family Coast $1,050 (7 nights, under-10s half price on day trips), Divers’ Trip $1,500 (10 nights, dives extra), Honeymoon $2,800 (7 nights; private-island lodges from $7,000). Those cover accommodation, food, local transport and activities, and come from our published daily budget bands. On a backpacker budget a week runs $350–560. International flights are extra — roughly $1,500–3,000 per person from Europe, $400–800 from South Africa.
What is included in a Mozambique holiday package?
It depends who sells it, which is why we list ours. A package built by us includes airport transfers (Vilanculos airport from $25 (1,500 MT)), road transfers between towns at published fixed rates, day trips and activities at our published per-person rates, and — the part most operators leave out — Bazaruto National Park conservation fees. Accommodation is booked with our partner lodges and guesthouses to your budget tier. International flights are not included; internal flights we book at cost.
Are Mozambique holiday packages all-inclusive?
Rarely, and the word means something different here than in Mauritius or Zanzibar. Private-island lodges in the Bazaruto Archipelago (Anantara, Azura, &Beyond, Kisawa) genuinely are all-inclusive — meals, drinks and most activities are in the nightly rate. Mainland Vilanculos and Tofo almost never work that way: you book a room, then eat and book activities separately. That's usually cheaper and always more flexible, but it means an "all-inclusive Mozambique package" advertised at a mainland price is worth reading twice.
Are Mozambique travel packages and vacation packages the same thing?
Yes — the same trip under different names, and which one you see depends on where the seller sits. Holiday package is the British and South African term, vacation package the American one, and travel package or tour package get used interchangeably by operators everywhere. None of them is a defined product with a fixed meaning, so the only thing worth comparing is what the price actually covers — which is why ours is broken down on this page instead of sitting behind a form.
Do you run Mozambique holiday specials or package deals?
No, and that's deliberate. Our rates are the same all year and the same for everyone — what's on this page is what a walk-in pays at our office in Vilanculos, so there's no inflated list price to discount from. Two things genuinely lower the bill: under-10s pay half price on our day trips, and the quieter December-to-March months are easier to book late, though it's hotter and wetter and some lodges close. If a package elsewhere is advertised as a special, check whether the Bazaruto park fees are inside the headline price — that's usually where the difference hides.
Do Mozambique holiday packages include flights?
Ours don't, and that's deliberate — you'll almost always beat a bundled airfare booking it yourself, especially from Europe. Budget $1,500–3,000 per person from Europe and $400–800 from South Africa. The route is usually into Johannesburg or Maputo, then a short hop to Vilanculos (VNX) or Inhambane (INH). See our flights guide for who flies what. If you'd rather we handled the internal legs, we book those at cost with no markup.
What are the Bazaruto park fees, and are they included?
Bazaruto Archipelago National Park charges a conservation fee paid in meticais at the park office in Vilanculos before you cross. As of June 2026 it is MZN 900 per person per day for international visitors (MZN 600 SADC, MZN 400 Mozambicans), plus a snorkelling fee of MZN 250 per person per day. Every EKAYA island trip includes these fees — we pay them for you, so you never queue at the office. Check whether a package you're comparing does the same; it's a real cost that is often quoted separately.
How far ahead should I book a Mozambique holiday?
For April to October — the dry season and the busy half of the year — book accommodation 3–4 months ahead, and the private-island lodges 4–6 months ahead. Day trips and transfers can be arranged much later, often a few days out, because we run them ourselves. December to March is quieter and easier to book late, though it's hotter, wetter, and some lodges close.
Is a package cheaper than booking everything separately?
Honestly, not usually — not if the package comes through an overseas tour operator, because that price carries their margin on top of the same lodges and boats we use. What a package genuinely buys you is coordination: someone making sure the boat, the transfer and the room line up on the right day, and answering the phone when a flight shifts. We charge for the arranging, not for a hidden markup on each component, and our activity prices on this page are the same ones we charge walk-ins.
Can you build a family holiday package?
Yes, and the pricing helps — children under 10 pay 50% on our day trips. The usual family shape is Vilanculos-based, 7 nights, with a mix of short boat days and land activities so nobody is stuck on a long crossing. See our Mozambique with kids guide for age-by-age suggestions and an honest look at the safety questions parents actually ask.
Which Mozambique holiday package is best for a first visit?
The Islands & Beach week in Vilanculos. It's the shortest travel time from the airport, the Bazaruto Archipelago is the reason most people come, and a week is enough for two island days, a sunset sail and the dunes without living on a boat. If you have ten days, add Tofo for the whale sharks — see Vilanculos or Tofo for how the two compare.
Can you combine Mozambique with a Kruger safari?
Yes — it's the most common two-country shape. Three or four nights in Kruger or a private reserve in South Africa, then a flight via Johannesburg to Vilanculos for the island half. Two weeks total works well. Our 14-day itinerary shows the shape, and Kruger to Mozambique covers the border and driving options.

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