Mid-Range
Safari Lodge
AA Lodge Masai Mara
Central Masai Mara National Reserve
Central reserve position with six room categories, so mixed groups and families actually fit without anyone on a rollaway.
Can be added to 4 safaris
Every lodge and tented camp we use across Kenya and Tanzania — grouped by park, with no guesswork.
Most safari operators list your accommodation as “3-star lodge or similar” and leave you to find out on arrival. We don’t. Below is the full list of properties we book — where each one sits, what makes it worth staying at, and which of our safari packages include it.
Every property here has been visited by our team, and we hold direct contract rates with each one. That means no third-party markup, and a real relationship when something needs sorting out at 9pm on a Saturday.
Kenya’s flagship reserve and the stage for the Great Migration between July and October. Big-cat density here is the highest of any park we visit — lion, cheetah and leopard are realistic in a single day.
Mid-Range
Safari Lodge
Central reserve position with six room categories, so mixed groups and families actually fit without anyone on a rollaway.
Premium
30-Tent Luxury Camp
Thirty tents inside the reserve near the Mara River, on the migration route. Fully solar powered with no single-use plastic.
Mid-Range
10-Room Boutique Eco-Lodge
Ten rooms in Maasai manyatta style, right at Oloolaimutia Gate — through the barrier minutes after leaving.
Premium
Luxury Tented Camp
On the Olare Orok river in a remote corner of the Mara, with a star-bed sleep-out under the open sky.
Budget
16-Room Tented Camp
An honest budget camp near the gate. Clean tents, hot water, warm Maasai welcome — we tier it Budget despite its own marketing.
Mid-Range
Safari Lodge
Inside the reserve between two streams, so game comes to drink rather than you going to find it. 11km from Sekenani Gate.
Mid-Range
Eco-Luxury Cottages & Tents
Deluxe cottages with outdoor rain showers and wooden soaking tubs. Their kitchen does proper Jain and South Indian food — genuinely rare out here.
Premium
12-Tent Luxury Camp
Twelve tents at the Mara–Talek confluence, each in its own walled boma with a private plunge pool. Hippo and crocodile in the pools below camp.
Premium
5-Star Hilltop Lodge
The only lodge inside the Mara Triangle, high on a hilltop with a rock-cut pool and river views. Manyatta-inspired design.
Mid-Range
99-Room Safari Lodge
One of the first lodges built in the Mara, so the gardens are decades mature. 99 rooms in round-house style — where we put larger groups.
Mid-Range
Luxury Tented Camp
On the Talek River minutes from Sekenani Gate. Gold Eco-rated, with tents raised on wooden decks and solar-heated showers over river-facing verandas.
Premium
Luxury Tented Camp
Inside the reserve with Club, Deluxe and Family tents, and a farm-to-table kitchen fed by the camp's own organic garden.
Premium
4★ Luxury Tented Suites
Twelve suites above the Mara River looking over the Mara Triangle, with an on-site photography studio — professional Nikon gear and a resident photographer.
Mid-Range
4★ Tented Camp
Open Mara plains stretch from every tent, and game drives roll out of camp at first light — no gate queue before you’re on the plains.
Famous for enormous elephant herds framed against Mount Kilimanjaro. Clearest mountain views come at dawn and in the hour before sunset — which is exactly why where you sleep matters here.
Mid-Range
Safari Lodge
Inside Amboseli park with six room categories including dedicated family rooms. Kilimanjaro on the horizon at dawn.
Premium
Safari Lodge
Beside a spring in the heart of Amboseli, Kilimanjaro on the horizon. Guests plant trees through its reforestation scheme.
Premium
4★ Lodge
Kilimanjaro fills the horizon. Morning drives from here regularly deliver the elephant-and-mountain shot Amboseli is famous for.
Mid-Range
110-Tent Camp
110 en-suite tents on ancient elephant routes just outside the park. Beds built from bush logs, produce from the camp's own farm.
Premium
Safari Lodge
At the heart of Amboseli on ground once used by the crew filming Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Elephant herds cross the marshes in front.
Premium
Luxury Tented Camp
Zebra Plains' Amboseli camp — pool, spa, 24/7 power and an in-house clinical officer. Direct flights to their Mara camps.
A compact, fenced park with both white and black rhino, Rothschild giraffe, and over 450 bird species. You can choose to sleep inside the park boundary or just outside it — the difference is early-morning game drive time.
Premium
4★ Lodge
Elevated inside the park boundary, so game drives start at your door rather than at the gate. Sweeping lake panoramas at sunrise.
Premium
Chalet-Style Game Lodge
Up on Lion Hill inside the park, every chalet with a private terrace over Lake Nakuru. Eco-certified.
Mid-Range
147-Room Town Hotel
A town hotel, not a lodge — and sometimes the right call. 147 A/C rooms and a spa, well below in-park rates.
Mid-Range
3★ Bush Lodge
Individual cottages tucked into indigenous bush — a genuine wilderness feel at a friendlier price than the in-park lodges.
A freshwater Rift Valley lake that breaks up the game-drive rhythm — boat rides, and Crescent Island where you walk on foot among zebra and giraffe with no predators around.
Mid-Range
3★ Lakeside Hotel
Lakeside gardens where hippos come up to graze after dark, and 350+ recorded bird species within walking distance of your room.
Mid-Range
Lakeside Resort
Built without felling a single tree — the public building curves between the trunks. Boat trips and Crescent Island walking safaris.
East Africa’s largest black rhino sanctuary, home to the last two northern white rhinos on earth, and the only place in Kenya where you can see both the Big Five and chimpanzees.
Mid-Range
3★ Lodge
Minutes from Najin and Fatu — the last two northern white rhinos alive. A portion of every conservancy fee funds local schools and clinics.
Premium
Luxury Tented Camp
Tented camp inside Ol Pejeta with a heated pool and Mount Kenya behind. Minutes from the last two northern white rhinos.
Remote, arid and dramatic — and home to the “Samburu Special Five” you will not see anywhere else in Kenya: Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, Beisa oryx, Somali ostrich and gerenuk.
Premium
19-Tent Luxury Camp
Nineteen tents under doum palms on the Ewaso Nyiro, facing Ol Olokwe mountain. Private river-view terrace on every tent.
Mid-Range
3★ Lodge
Sits directly above the Ewaso Ng’iro, where elephant, crocodile and hippo gather daily — wildlife viewing from the terrace, not just the vehicle.
Mid-Range
60-Room Lodge
Cottages curve around a waterhole with a deliberate gap so animals can walk in. Two genuinely wheelchair-accessible rooms.
Premium
85-Room Game Lodge
Born Free country. Natural springs feed streams through the gardens; all 85 rooms face the river or the greenery.
Kenya’s largest park and its rawest — red-dusted elephants, big lion prides, and Mzima Springs. Far fewer vehicles than the Mara, which changes the feel of a sighting entirely.
Mid-Range
46 Rooms & 6 Tents
On the banks of Aruba Dam in Tsavo East, two hours from Mombasa — the sensible safari half of a beach trip.
Premium
56-Room Stone Lodge
Among Kenya's first park lodges. All 56 volcanic-stone rooms face a waterhole below the Chyulu Hills.
Mid-Range
3★ Hilltop Lodge
Perched on a cliff edge above a floodlit waterhole — elephant, buffalo and predators come down to drink while you watch from dinner.
Our cross-border safaris continue into northern Tanzania. Sleeping inside the Serengeti and within reach of the Ngorongoro Crater rim removes hours of transfer time from your game-viewing days.
Budget
3★ Garden Inn
Lush tropical gardens just 20 minutes from the Ngorongoro Crater rim — you can be on the crater floor before the day-trip crowds arrive.
Mid-Range
3★ Tented Lodge
Inside the Serengeti itself — you wake up already in the middle of the migration route instead of driving two hours to reach it.
We can still arrange it. Tell us where you want to go →
We turn down more lodges than we accept. Four things decide it.
No property goes on this list from a brochure. Someone on our team has stayed, eaten the food, and tested the shower pressure.
A plain room 10 minutes from the gate beats a glossy suite two hours away. Game-drive time is the thing you actually came for.
We book every property directly. No online agent sits between you and the lodge taking a cut and losing your reservation.
Things go wrong on safari. What matters is whether the manager answers at 9pm on a Saturday. Every property here does.
Tell us your budget and travel dates and we’ll come back with a specific lodge-by-lodge itinerary — named properties, not “or similar”.
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