A hand-picked selection of lodges and camps. Click through their name to visit their own website directly.
Deloraine House
Not a safari camp but a country house, about 30 kilometres north-west of Nakuru town and roughly forty-five minutes from the park gate. Built in 1921 for Lord Francis Scott and owned since the 1990s by the Voorspuy family, who founded Offbeat Safaris, it still runs as a private home taking a few guests at a time — five bedrooms in the main house and three more in an adjoining cottage, with a pool, a tennis court and croquet on the lawn. Horses are the heart of it: around ninety of them, a polo ground and cross-country jumps. The estate is farmland and woodland rather than game country, which makes it an easy base for families pairing Lake Nakuru with a few quiet days.
Punda Milias Nakuru Camp
Not in the park but out on the Rift Valley floor between Lakes Nakuru and Elementaita, on the Soysambu Conservancy boundary. Beds are tiered from a villa and architect-designed cottages down through bandas and safari tents to a campsite with a proper bathroom block — which makes it one of the more inexpensive places to spend a night within reach of the lake. Gardens full of birdsong, a pool, a kitchen cooking from its own produce. Founder Karoma guides himself, with two decades behind him, and runs game drives, cycling and walking into both Nakuru and Soysambu.
Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge
Inside the park, laid out in rows along the Lion Hill ridge so that most of it looks down over the lake. Sixty-two chalet-style cottages and three suites, all on the ground floor and each with its own patio, plus a solar-heated pool, a spa, a kids’ club and a bonfire lit on the bar terrace every evening. It is a big lodge and makes no secret of it, but the position is the point: rhino, Rothschild’s giraffe and the flamingo shallows are a short drive from the door, and Nairobi is 160 kilometres away, two and a half hours on the old highway.
Mbweha Camp
Not in the park but hard against it, in a private conservancy of 6,400 acres on the boundary, with the Eburru and Mau ranges along the skyline. Ten lava-stone cottages under thatch, spaced out in indigenous bush, each with an open-air bathtub, and a fire lit in the evening. Because the land is private, what the park forbids is possible here — night drives, walking, horses and camels — while the gate is close enough to spend the whole day inside it.
