Where you sleep is part of the journey. Here is how accommodation works on our safaris, the properties our catalogue names, and the questions worth asking before you choose.
See where you may stay
Explore ten photographed stays across Kenya and Tanzania. Five are named in our approved safari catalogue; the other stays are options to discuss, not automatic package inclusions.
Miti Mingi Eco Camp is the tented camp our catalogue names for the Maasai Mara on our budget journeys, close to the reserve’s Oloolaimutia Gate. Its permanent canvas tents, each with its own bathroom, stand along stone paths under a canopy of trees, and every photograph on this page is our own.
Buraha Zenoni is a hotel in Barnabas, Nakuru, named on both budget and midrange journeys in our catalogue. Its multi-storey building and pool give it a different character from a tented bush camp.
Leisure Apex Resort is a hotel on Moi South Lake Road in Naivasha. It suits a journey that pauses around the freshwater lake between wildlife destinations; our catalogue names it on selected budget routes.
Nyati Safari Camp is an Amboseli-area camp named on our budget journeys. The raised tented rooms in the photographs open towards the surrounding landscape, making this a different kind of stay from a town hotel.
Jambo Mara Safari Lodge offers a lodge setting in the Maasai Mara area. Garden paths between guest cabins are a defining feature of the verified photograph, and our three-day Maasai Mara Lodge Safari names this property.
Fanaka Campsite and Lodge is in Mto wa Mbu, near Lake Manyara on Tanzania’s northern safari circuit. It combines lodge rooms with garden camping, offering two distinct ways to pause between parks.
The Charity Hotel is an Arusha hotel with a garden setting, useful to consider for an arrival or departure night around a northern Tanzania safari. It is a town-based stay rather than a wildlife camp.
Seronera’s public campsites offer a camping option in central Serengeti. This entry describes the public camping area, not a private tented lodge or a guaranteed individual pitch.
Simba Public Campsite is a camping option on the Ngorongoro crater rim. The open ground and tents in the photograph convey a simple outdoor stay rather than a hotel or permanent safari lodge.
Lake Naivasha Crescent Camp is a tented camp on Moi South Lake Road, on the shore of Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley. The camp’s website describes twenty furnished canvas tents with private bathrooms and full-board meals; our own photographs show raised tents among acacias at the water’s edge. It is separate from Crescent Island Game Sanctuary.
Our catalogue names no properties in Tanzania. Journeys stay at a camp or lodge at each stop, discussed with you during planning. Explore the destinations.
Our catalogue names no properties in Uganda. Journeys stay at lodges or camps, discussed with you during planning. Explore the destinations.
Our catalogue describes accommodation in one of two ways. Some journeys name a property for a stop: five properties in all, every one of them in Kenya, from Miti Mingi Eco Camp in the Maasai Mara to Buraha Zenoni at Lake Nakuru, Leisure Apex at Lake Naivasha, Nyati Safari Camp at Amboseli and Jambo Mara Safari Lodge. Other journeys describe only the kind of stay, a camp or a lodge, and the property is discussed with you when you plan.
33 of our 100 journeys name at least one property; the rest leave the choice to planning. A named property tells you where a journey stays in that area, not on which nights: until Big Time confirms an itinerary, the number of nights at each property, the type of room and the meals included are open questions, which is why the questions further down this page are worth asking whoever you travel with.
The comfort level changes where you sleep, not which parks you visit. This is how our catalogue describes accommodation at each level.
The same 7-day route through the Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha and Amboseli at three comfort levels. The budget journey names a camp at every stop; the midrange journey names Buraha Zenoni at Lake Nakuru and lodges elsewhere; the luxury journey stays at lodges.
Big Time pick
Maasai Mara · Lake Nakuru · Lake Naivasha · Amboseli
Budget nights at Miti Mingi Eco Camp (Maasai Mara), Buraha Zenoni (Lake Nakuru), Leisure Apex (Lake Naivasha) and Nyati Safari Camp (Amboseli).
Maasai Mara · Lake Nakuru · Lake Naivasha · Amboseli
Lodge accommodation, with Buraha Zenoni (Lake Nakuru).
Maasai Mara · Lake Naivasha · Lake Nakuru · Amboseli
Accommodation is in lodges.
Whoever you travel with, these questions show what you are booking.
Share your budget and comfort preferences, and we will suggest accommodation that suits the journey.
