When the British South Africa Company commissioned a grand railway hotel beside the world's largest waterfall in 1904, they were encoding an entire imperial worldview in terracotta roof tiles and cream-rendered colonnades. The Victoria Falls Hotel, completed in its current Edwardian form by 1905 and extended significantly through the 1930s, was designed to make the journey to Mosi-oa-Tunya — the Smoke that Thunders — feel like an occasion worthy of the destination. The two-storey facade, visible across immaculate lawns shaded by mature indigenous trees, presents that original confidence intact: a deep colonnaded veranda running the full width of the building, red-tiled hipped roofs, and the particular pale yellow of colonial plasterwork catching the late-afternoon Zambezi light. Inside, the property holds two distinct registers. The formal dining room retains its coffered plaster ceiling, brass chandeliers with red shades, a resident grand piano, and decorative ironwork screens worked into stylised palm fronds — a room that could seat a colonial governor without adjustment. Against this, the renovated guest rooms introduce a more contemporary hand: linen-upholstered headboards with integrated lighting, monochrome geometric rugs, and framed antique engravings of the Falls arranged as a considered frieze above the bed. The heritage suites preserve four-poster beds dressed in white mosquito nets, stripped timber floors, and ikat-print curtains in celadon — accommodations that honour the building's age without requiring guests to perform nostalgia in order to sleep comfortably.

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EDWARDIAN STYLE HOTEL Established in 1904, The Victoria Falls Hotel overlooks the magnificent Batoka Gorge with the Victoria Falls only a 10 minute walk away through the hotel’s path, 22km from Victoria Falls Airport. FACILITIES – This gracious Edwardian – style hotel is set in lush gardens, with three restaurants, a swimming pool, spa, hair salon, gym, mini golf (putt putt), in addition assortment of local art throughout the hotel grounds. The hotel epitomises the romance of grand travel with total relaxation. The highlight is traditional High Tea on the terrace and dinner at Jungle Junction offering a view of the Victoria Falls Bridge and Batoka Gorge, displaying the spectacular African show at night. ACCOMMODATION - The 161 en-suite bedrooms and suites are fully air conditioned, with telephones, complimentary Wi-Fi and satellite television.