All the safari packages with lodge accommodation found on our website have been priced with the mid-range lodge category in mind. You will find below the description of the safari lodges we frequently use, but please keep in mind that they might not have availability at the time of your booking. If this is the case, equivalent lodges in terms of category and price will be proposed. If you wish to reserve another category (4-star or 5-star luxury, please contact us for a price quotation).
Tented Lodges & Camps
A tented safari lodge is a type of accommodation designed to offer a blend of comfort and an immersive, close-to-nature experience while on safari. Unlike traditional lodges or hotels, tented lodges typically use canvas tents as the main structure, but these are far from basic camping setups. Here’s what you can expect at a tented safari lodge:
1. Luxury Tents: These are spacious, often with high ceilings, and are equipped with real beds, furniture, and en-suite bathrooms. The tents are built on raised wooden platforms, offering comfort similar to a hotel room but with canvas walls and sometimes open-air showers.
2. Natural Aesthetic: The design integrates with the surrounding wilderness. You can usually enjoy unobstructed views of the savannah, watering holes, or nearby wildlife, often from a private deck.
3. Eco-Friendly: Many tented lodges are designed with sustainability in mind, using solar power, eco-friendly materials, and waste management systems to minimize environmental impact.
4. Immersive Experience: You’re surrounded by nature, sometimes hearing lions, elephants, or birds during the night. The tent’s structure allows you to feel closer to wildlife without compromising safety.
5. Personal Service: Tented safari lodges often include personalized service, with staff attending to your needs, such as organizing meals served in scenic locations.
6. Facilities: While the primary structure is a tent, these lodges often feature common areas like dining tents, lounges and bars, providing a communal space for guests to relax and socialize.
Overall, a tented safari lodge provides an adventurous yet luxurious way to experience the African wilderness.
Lodges
Staying in a brick-and-mortar safari lodge in Tanzania offers a more solid and enclosed experience compared to the adventurous feel of a tented lodge. In a brick lodge, you enjoy spacious rooms with permanent walls, modern amenities like hot showers, air conditioning, and better soundproofing, ensuring a quiet and restful sleep. These lodges offer more security, with higher protection from wildlife, making guests feel more insulated from the elements. The common areas, like dining rooms, lounges, and sometimes swimming pools, provide a luxurious, hotel-like atmosphere.
In contrast, a tented safari lodge offers a more immersive connection with nature. While the tents are luxurious—often with comfortable beds, en-suite bathrooms, and wooden decks—the canvas walls allow you to hear the sounds of the wilderness at night, like lions roaring or elephants passing by. The open-air design makes you feel closer to the surrounding wildlife, blending adventure with comfort. Tented lodges often focus on sustainability, using eco-friendly materials and solar power.
Ultimately, brick-and-mortar lodges cater to those seeking comfort and security, while tented lodges offer a more adventurous, nature-immersed experience without sacrificing luxury.
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire Safari Lodge
Tarangire Safari Lodge is well known for its great location and panoramic views. The safari tents with their thatched roofs and large, mesh-screened windows provide the perfect setting to connect with the sights and sounds of the park. Each tent has a veranda, ideal for bird watching and game viewing, as well as an en-suite bathroom with solar-heated showers and cupboard. The lodge’s open-air dining room provides a distinctive setting for the delicious home-style cuisine, and the bar and lounge offer refreshing drinks, as well as daily “sundowners” while witnessing the sublime Tanzanian sunset. The lodge also has a nice swimming pool set in the shade of acacia trees.
Tarangire Simba Lodge
Accommodation at Tarangire Simba Lodge is in sixteen classic canvas safari tents covered by thatched roofs. The spacious tents are constructed on platforms complete with wooden floors, large en-suite dressing room, toilet and shower. There are twin and queen tents although triples can be provided upon request. There is also a family tent with two queen-sized beds. Additionally there is an outdoor shower and each tent has a private veranda with beautiful views over the bush. If you are lucky you may even spot some wildlife from your terrace. Electricity and hot water are solar powered and full amenities are provided. Furniture is handcrafted from African hardwood and is complimented by tastefully selected fabrics.
Roika Tented Lodge
The Roika Tarangire Tented Lodge lies nestled on the banks of Tarangire River and is only 5km away from the main entrance to Tarangire National Park. Each one of the luxury en-suite tents has a unique theme with beautifully handcrafted furniture and uniquely built animal-shaped baths and showers. Every tent has coffee and tea making facilities and a private verandah with beautiful views over the Tarangire savannah. The lodge’s other facilities include a magnificent swimming pool, a games room, a bar and a large flat screen TV in the lounge area.
Tarangire View Camp
This brand new permanent tented camp lies on top of a hill near Mpingo Ridge with sweeping views towards the Tarangire River valley in the east and kopjes in the west. Housing 12 spacious house-style tents, this camp represents the ultimate safari “bush feeling” as it offers a stunning location with more than just a touch of comfort and privacy. The tents are equipped with beautifully designed furniture. In addition to the bed, there is a desk, a shelf and enough storage space for your luggage. The tents have an attached bathroom and a big terrace with a comfortabe couch and a table. Their resident game includes elephants, waterbuck, lion, impala, jackal and leopards with a variety of bird life providing great wake up calls in the morning.
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp
Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp is a special oasis nestled under a forest canopy at the end of a valley. A magical place of dappled light, surrounded by the lushest green vegetation, and buzzing with an energy of this high altitude wonderland. The tents are always a surprise to visitors who feel more like they are in a comfortable lodge than in a simple tent. Thay have put a lot of thought and creativity into the layout and interior design, as well as the decoration, materials, fabrics and items that each of our tents are created from. The result is a unique East African, spacious and comfortable space to feel welcome in for the duration of your Tortilis Experience.
Serengeti National Park
The Whisper Serengeti
An authentic bush camp, nestled in the wilderness, 20 minutes from central Seronera, offering Swiss hospitality standards and quality, following strict environmental, health and safety guidelines. The Whisper Serengeti is an eco-friendly tented camp featuring 10 ensuite tents, all using electricity and hot water from solar panels. Trained staff are happy to share their Tanzanian culture and customs to enhance your safari experience. Enjoy their chefs’ Tanzanian cuisine, based on local products, with unique recipes.
Embalakai Serengeti
Embalakai Serengeti Camp is situated in a stunning location that runs alongside the Nyabogati River which allows guests to be fully immersed in nature with a variety of birds and wildlife all around. The area is splashed with acacia tress and provides the perfect opportunity to see the sun as it sets behind the distant hills. With high-quality canvas between your comfortable bed and the sounds of the African night, this camp provides the ideal lodging for lovers of the great outdoors, while retaining the cosiness of a warm bed, a hot shower, delicious food, and friendly staff.
Serengeti View Camp North
Serengeti View Camp North is based at Togoro near the Lobo Hills in a wide open plain. Wildebeests and zebras pass through this area on their annual migration towards Kenya. There are also resident lion prides around, which are regularly spotted on game drives as well as giraffes, topis, elephants and many more. Togoro is less frequented by tourists compared to other parts of the Serengeti, offering visitors a more exclusive and intimate wildlife viewing experience. The spacious tents are equipped with double/single beds. Family tents are also available. Each tent has a private bathroom separated by a curtain and a terrace with chairs and a small table. The perfect place to enjoy a relaxed sundowner.
Ndutu Safari Lodge
Ndutu Safari Lodge has 34 permanent cottages, all of which are built from local stone and thatch material and are naturally cool due to the thick walls providing elegant and comfortable accommodation. Each room has an en- suite bathroom with hot showers, sink and flushing toilet. All of the cottages have a private veranda overlooking the natural unfenced landscape of indigenous trees and shrubs outside your cottage door ensuring you are never far from the host of birds and mammals who call the Ndutu area home. The cottages extend from a warm and welcoming central dining, seating and bar or ‘mess’ area which has long been a gathering place for friends old and new.
Heritage Mara Camp
The Heritage Mara Camp in Kogatende is about 20 minutes from the Mara River, on the outskirts of the Northern Serengeti zone. It’s a fantastic site to see herds of wildebeest cross the river. Even so, it’s far enough away from the main road to allow for remote game viewing. The camp is situated on a hill, surrounded by huge evergreen trees, with sweeping views of Northern Serengeti. The camp is open from July to November, when millions of wildebeest migrate across the Northern Serengeti, with the goal of crossing the Mara River. This cozy camp features comfortable with en-suite bathrooms. All meals are three-course affairs prepared by a chef and served in the mess tent.
Karatu
Rhotia Valley
The Rhotia Valley Lodge is built in a traditional African style offering breath-taking views of the Ngorongoro forest, the nearby villages and the terraced fields of the local farmers. In complete harmony with their natural surroundings, the permanent tented rooms offer all the comfort you will need for a peaceful rest after your safari day. This attractive lodge is small-scale and cosy and offers personal service and a particularly warm and typically African atmosphere. The chef works exclusively with fresh fruit and vegetables, mostly from his own vegetable garden and products from the immediate area. The lodge also has a swimming pool.
Eilleen's Tree Inn
The 20 spacious and comfortable guest rooms are set in a beautiful and quiet tropical garden. Each room has twin beds or a large queen size bed with mosquito nets. Triples are possible on request. All rooms have a writing desk and seating on the veranda. The bathrooms have a large shower with hot water on demand. Bottled drinking water is provided in every room.
There is also a bar and small lounge area on the premises as well as a swimming pool for your enjoyment. Your breakfast and dinner will be served in a large tree-house style dining room
Endoro Lodge
Welcome to Endoro Lodge, a truly ‘back-to-nature’ sanctuary nestled in the heart of the stunning Ngorongoro Conservation forest in Tanzania. With breathtaking panoramic views overlooking the Ngorongoro Valley, Endoro Lodge offers a sophisticated blend of natural beauty and artistic elegance. The lodge features beautiful chalets, all facing the Ngorongoro Conservation forest, and offers a variety of accommodations, including single, double, and triple rooms, as well as a honeymoon suite. The cuisine is a delightful fusion of diverse flavors, crafted by chefs who skillfully blend Swahili spices with international culinary styles.
Simba Lodge
Situated the heart of the farming area in the Karatu district and nestled alongside the Ngorongoro Forest, Simba Lodge offfers twin, double or triple cottages or rondavels with canvas walls and solid attached bathroom and shower, tastefully and simply decorated with handmade furniture of African hardwood. Each unit has its own deck with safari chairs for relaxing and taking in the splendid views. All beds have mosquito nets and full amenities are provided. The rooms are solar powered and have hot water and a power strip for battery charging. Free Wi-Fi is available in the common areas of the lodge. Other facilities include a restaurant, a lounge, a bar, a campfire area and a pool with a sundeck.
Mto Wa Mbu
Africa Safari Tented Lodge
Set in Mto wa Mbu, Africa Tented Safari Lodge offers comfortable tented rooms with fully equipped private bathrooms with shower and free toiletries. Guests can also enjoy free Wi-Fi, a comfortable bar in the common area, an outdoor swimming pool, a games area with pool and table tennis, a spa and a fitness centre. The welcoming and friendly staff will make sure your stay meets all of your expectations. The restaurant boasts great food, efficient and friendly service and a lovely view of Lake Manyara. The sounds of the wildlife roaming in the vicinity will surely add to the overall experience of this beautiful lodge. Baboons are everywhere on the grounds of the lodge and guests can also spot zebras and even hippos as they come out of hiding at night, making for an overall exciting experience!