Private Safari Lodges

What is a private safari lodge?

Private safari lodges are generally located within a concession in a National Park, or in a neighbouring reserve or conservancy. 

Why Stay at a Private Safari Lodge?

The land that the lodge is on is privately owned or leased, so unlike a game drive in a National Park, the game viewing vehicles are not wholly restricted to the road network. 

This means that it is possible for the experienced guides to track and follow the wildlife through the bush and to get guests extremely close to the animals – sometimes literally within a couple of meters.

Your guide is highly knowledgeable about the bush and the animals, and will be more than happy to share their knowledge with you and answer any questions that you may have.

Private safari lodges come in a variety of shapes and sizes.  Generally, they tend to be anything from 4 rooms up to about 20 rooms in total. 

The main guest areas and your room / suite can be authentically African or contemporary in design, and be a stone walled / thatched room structure or tented.   The lodge can be permanent or semi-permanent, and have additional facilities such as a spa, swimming pool, and even a gym. 

What's Included at a Safari Lodge?

The lodges all offer a fully inclusive African safari, and the rates quoted include at least your accommodation, all meals, two game drives per day in game viewing vehicles, and most will also include an optional guided bush walk each day. 

The more expensive lodges will include all your drinks, and maybe a laundry service, and some even include complimentary spa treatments. 

It would also be fair to say that more expensive lodges will also offer superior accommodation – such as incredibly spacious suites that you can get lost in, complete with private decks and plunge pools – and some will also offer a more exclusive game viewing experience (especially if they are the only lodge on a concession or private reserve and they have the exclusive rights to drive on the land). 

Although all the private lodges are run independently from each other, each one tends to offer the same sort of structure to your day – read more about what to expect from a safari lodge.

Safari Lodges for Families

For families, whilst just about every private safari lodge is suitable for older children, children under the age of 12 are not catered for at many lodges and so families do need to make sure that they pick a lodge that will suit the whole family. 

There are a large number of lodges that do welcome younger children, and some of them even offer a dedicated children’s programme or provide alternative activities and child care if they are too young to join the adults on the game drives. Find out more about family safaris.

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