(24 rooms) 33 Okavango Av (corner Okavango Rd and Kaiser Wilhelm St), PO Box 346, Grootfontein; tel: 067 242078/9; fax: 067 243072; email: meteor@iway.na; web: http://resafrica.net/meteor-travel-inn

The Meteor's rooms are laid out around a courtyard at the back. Each has a direct-dial telephone, wall-mounted fan, and twin beds. It isn't luxurious, but neither is it at all dingy, as small-town hotels often are. There is another open courtyard where, beneath banana trees, lunch, dinner and drinks are served. On Friday evenings pizzas are the speciality, from purpose-built brick ovens.

Rates: N$230 single, N$368 double, including breakfast.