Residences and apartments in Djibouti: the real offers

Which apartment and villa offers are in the catalogue?

The partner platform’s catalogue, the only source of real prices we have for accommodation in Djibouti, publishes six offers of this kind. Here they are, as they stand.

Offer published in the catalogue	Catalogue category	Establishment	Price (Fdj)
Apartment	appartment	Escale International Hôtel	45,746 and 48,060
Sea-view apartment	appartment	Escale International Hôtel	48,594 and 50,908
Villa privatisation, small group, fewer than 15 people	villa	Loubatanleh Village Resort	300,000
Villa privatisation, large group, 15 to 20 people	villa	Loubatanleh Village Resort	325,000

Two headings each carry two prices because the catalogue publishes two distinct offers under the same name. We reproduce them separately rather than display a single rate that does not exist.

Two establishments, then, and two very different logics: a unit-by-unit apartment offer, in town, and a group offer, outside the capital. No other establishment in our catalogue offers an “apartment” or “villa” category.

One neighbouring case deserves to be flagged, even though it falls outside those two categories: the catalogue publishes an Apartment Suite 1-2 of 80 m², 2 beds, at 21,000 Djiboutian francs at the Sinny Hill Center, in Arta. It is classed in the catalogue’s hotel category, not in the appartment category, and we flag it as such. We publish no telephone number for that establishment, for lack of a verifiable source.

What does the catalogue publish about the apartments at the Escale International Hôtel?

Four offers, published by an establishment rated 4 stars in the September 2026 Google survey and scored 4.3/5 over 59 Google reviews (September 2026 survey).

Two categories coexist: the apartment, at 45,746 and 48,060 Djiboutian francs, and the sea-view apartment, at 48,594 and 50,908 francs. The heading of the second category is the catalogue’s own: it indicates a sea view, nothing more.

That is all our sources allow us to assert. The catalogue documents neither the floor area of these apartments, nor the number of rooms, nor the facilities, nor the presence of a kitchen, nor what the price covers. We therefore add nothing on those points, not even what an apartment usually implies.

Two practical points, on the other hand, are established. The verified address of the establishment is rue de Venise, and not the avenue Mohamed V carried by the catalogue; its verified telephone number is 21 25 78 88. These two values agree between the National Tourism Agency’s directory and the establishment’s Google listing.

The same establishment also publishes rooms and a suite, with rates climbing to 91,492 francs: the detail is on the page for 4 and 5 star hotels.

What are the villa privatisations at Loubatanleh Village Resort?

Two offers, and their heading carries the essential information: the capacity.

The privatisation for a small group, fewer than fifteen people, is published at 300,000 Djiboutian francs. The one for a large group, fifteen to twenty people, is published at 325,000 Djiboutian francs. Both are the booking of an entire villa for a formed group, and not a room: it is a collective stay product, not a hotel night.

The establishment stands in the Tadjourah region, about ten kilometres from the town according to its Google listing — and not in Djibouti City, as the catalogue indicated. Its verified number is 77 29 29 94. No star rating is published for it in the September 2026 survey. Its Google listing is scored 4.9/5 over 22 Google reviews (September 2026 survey): the score is excellent, the sample is thin, and the two are said together.

The same establishment also publishes rooms, from 34,000 Djiboutian francs for a Goda family room to 65,000 francs for a Mabla family room, as well as a night under the stars at 8,000 francs classed in the camping category, described on the camps and ecolodges page.

Why is this page shorter than the others?

Because the material is short, and we would rather own that.

The catalogue documents six establishments in all, and only two of them publish offers classed as apartment or villa. That makes six offers, four of them apartments belonging to a single establishment. We could pad this page with general considerations on furnished rental in Djibouti City, on residential districts or on lease lengths. Nothing in our sources supports them, and so we will not write them.

That does not mean the offer does not exist. Apartment hotels do exist in the country: the September 2026 survey records one rated 4 stars, the Appart Hôtel Moulk Center, scored 4.2/5 over 96 Google reviews (September 2026 survey), in the BP 3648 sector. It does not appear in our catalogue, so we publish no price for it: the rate is set by the establishment.

In other words, this page covers exactly what we can prove, and flags for itself what it does not cover. A longer page would have been a less reliable one.

What should you check before booking an apartment or a villa in Djibouti?

Four checks, in this order.

The contact details. Of the six establishments our catalogue documents, five contained a verifiable error. The two that bear on this page are corrected above: rue de Venise for the Escale International Hôtel, Tadjourah region for Loubatanleh. Always confirm the address at the same time as the booking, because a badly placed apartment changes the whole stay.

What the price covers. The catalogue publishes one price per offer, and nothing more. It indicates neither the period covered, nor the number of people admitted, nor the meals included, nor the cancellation conditions. Those four questions are to be put to the establishment before paying.

The facilities. We assert nothing about air conditioning, internet connection, kitchen, linen or hot water: the catalogue does not document them. For an apartment, those are precisely the points that decide real comfort, and they are asked about in advance.

Payment. Outside Djibouti City, bank cards are not accepted everywhere. See money and payments before leaving, and plan enough to settle in cash if necessary.

Should you book an apartment in Djibouti early?

Yes, and for reasons of volume rather than season.

The catalogue publishes only four apartment offers, all at a single establishment in Djibouti City. When the supply of one type of accommodation comes down to a few units at a single address, availability depends less on the month than on other travellers’ calendars. That is an argument for booking early, and for planning a fallback in a hotel if the date is already taken.

For the rest, the seasonal markers are the country’s: the period from November to January is the most in demand, as the where to sleep hub explains. For groups, the case is different: the villa privatisations document a capacity of fifteen to twenty people, which assumes fixing the booking on a known headcount, therefore several weeks ahead. The town of Tadjourah and its surroundings are described on the page where to sleep in Tadjourah.