Where will
you sleep
tonight?
Tulo is a guide to real places to sleep in Zambia. Real photos, exact pins, and real availability. Every place checked by a person, not scraped. Reserve a room in the app and pay the property when you arrive.
NEAR YOU TONIGHT
01 · The promise
Every place is real.
A person went and checked.
No scraped listings, no stock photography, no reviews written by robots. If Tulo pins it, someone on our team stood at the gate, saw the rooms, and called the number until the front desk picked up.
02 · The app
Open the app.
The city answers.
See what's near you
Stays sort by distance from where you stand. Say no to location and you still get the whole city.
Pick a room, pick your nights
Real photos, real prices, and each room's own availability calendar. Nights that are taken are grayed out, so there is never a surprise at the gate.
Pay the fee. Get the gate code.
Tulo's reservation fee, on Airtel Money, MTN MoMo, or card, holds the room. Your code arrives by SMS and WhatsApp. The room itself you pay at the lodge.
03 · The money
You pay the lodge,
not us.
Paid straight to the property when you arrive, in kwacha, by whatever they accept. Tulo never collects it, holds it, or takes a share of it.
Tulo's own fee, and the only thing you ever pay us. It holds your room and buys the gate code. It is always shown in full, as its own line, before you confirm.
FEE ONLY04 · For properties
Run a lodge, guesthouse or hotel?
Your rooms in front of every bed seeker in Lusaka, and a front desk that runs itself. Bookings arrive, confirm, and land on the right room on their own. No phone tag, no double-selling a night. Run everything on the Tulo Console, or keep your system and connect through our API.
05 · Straight answers
Asked often, answered plainly.
Especially about money. The short version: your stay is paid to the property, never to us. Tulo only ever charges its own reservation fee and property subscriptions.
Do I pay for the room in the app?
No. The room rate is paid at the property, normally when you check in, the way you always have. In the app you pay one thing only: Tulo's reservation fee, which holds the room and gets you your gate code. Tulo never collects, holds, or passes on room money.
What exactly is the reservation fee?
Tulo's own charge for the booking service, sometimes called a convenience fee. It is shown in full, as its own line, before you confirm, and it is the only amount a bed seeker ever pays through Tulo.
What if I cancel?
Because you have not paid the property anything through Tulo, cancelling costs you nothing further through us, and the property's own terms govern your stay. When the fee itself is refunded is spelled out in the refunds & cancellations policy.
What do properties pay?
A flat monthly subscription for the listing and the Tulo Console (front desk, room rack, bookings, reports). There is no commission on rooms; a property keeps 100% of what its guests pay it.
How does Tulo verify places?
A person from our team checks every listing: the photos are the property's real rooms, the pin is where the gate actually is, and the phone number is answered. Where a property has a published ZTA licence, we show it. If something goes stale, tell us via support and a person re-checks it.
Do I need an account to browse?
Not to browse. The whole catalog is open, no sign-up, no ad tracking. To place a booking we ask for the basics a front desk needs: your name, phone number, and ID details for check-in.
Is Tulo on Android?
The Android app is built and currently in testing. The iPhone app is the one you can download today; write to us and we will tell you the moment Android is public.
Sleep easy.
Real places, held with a fee, paid at the gate.