A hand-picked selection of lodges and camps. Click through their name to visit their own website directly.
Mawe Tented Camp
A Mawe Lodges camp in the Central-Eastern Serengeti near Soit-le-Motony, with just ten luxury tented rooms facing open savannah and the Ngarenanyuki River. It sits in prime big-cat territory, with resident lion, leopard and cheetah, and a full range of activities from game drives to hot-air balloon safaris.
Lemala Kuria Hills Lodge
A hillside lodge in the Northern Serengeti near the Mara River, built into granite kopjes with sweeping views over the plains — front-row seats for the Great Migration’s river crossings, paired with the Lemala group’s design-led comfort and warm hospitality.
Lemala Nanyukie
A permanent lodge in the Central Serengeti near Seronera, one of the ecosystem’s most reliable year-round game-viewing areas — resident lion and leopard alongside the passing migration, with the same design-led comfort found across the Lemala portfolio.
Serengeti Migration Camp
An Elewana Collection camp perched above the Grumeti River in the Western Corridor, one of the best-placed properties on the migration’s northward push and famous for regular river crossings just below the camp. Spacious tented suites pair classic safari style with front-row access to one of the Serengeti’s most dramatic seasonal events.
Serengeti Explorer
A dramatic aerial camp on the western Serengeti’s Ndoha Plains, Elewana Serengeti Explorer pairs vintage 1920s-safari styling with sweeping views over the migration corridor. King Savannah Suites offer generous canvas-and-thatch interiors, while the upper-deck lounge and fire pit make for prime sundowner watching over the plains below.
Serengeti Pioneer Camp
Set on the Serengeti’s Ndoha Plains at the foot of the Simiyu Escarpment, Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp channels the golden age of exploration with vintage 1920s safari styling and just twelve tented rooms. Its main lounge and dining tent open onto sweeping plains views, while spacious canvas tents pair classic safari comfort with front-row access to year-round game viewing away from the busier central Serengeti circuits.
Kichakani Camp
Kichakani Camp, an A&K Sanctuary, is a mobile tented camp that moves through the year to stay with the wildebeest migration — the southern calving plains, the western corridor, then the northern river crossings. Ten tented suites, each with a private deck onto the plains, a central mess tent for dining, and game drives morning and afternoon from wherever the camp happens to be standing.
Serengeti Safari Camp
Serengeti Safari Camp has no fixed site. Six canvas tents, one of them a family tent, are struck and re-pitched four or five times a year to stay with the migration — the southern plains around Ndutu for the calving, the Western Corridor and Grumeti in June and July, Kogatende in the north for the river crossings. The mess tent stands open-fronted at the centre and the camp is unfenced, with eco-loos and hot bucket showers filled on request. Game drives carry six guests at most. It runs all year, and children are welcome from eight.
Lamai
Lamai stands on the Kogakuria Kopje in the northern Serengeti, its rooms built into a tumble of giant boulders above the plains, with the Mara River and its crossing points just down the track. Eight open-fronted rooms look out from the rocks, several of them family units with two bedrooms sharing a bathroom, and a pool sits in the main area alongside the bar, dining room and a map-lined library. A separate four-room wing, Lamai Private, can be taken exclusively, with its own pool and crew. Days run to game drives, birding and walking with a guide from twelve. Open June to mid-March, and children are welcome from eight.
Mkombe’s House
Mkombe’s House is a private house rather than a camp, taken exclusively by one party at a time, standing on the Kogakuria Kopje with the northern Serengeti opening out below. Four bedrooms sleep up to ten — three open-fronted with verandas, one enclosed and set up for younger children — and there is a snug for the children, a pool with a smaller one beside it, and a star bed on the sun deck for anyone who wants to sleep outside. A private guide, vehicle and house team come with it, babysitting included. Open June to mid-March, and children of any age are welcome.
Kusini
Kusini stands among granite kopjes in the southern Serengeti, a quieter corner of the park where the plains run out empty in most directions. Six tents sit on wooden platforms, each with a veranda and a bathroom with flush loo and shower, and the rock outcrops behind camp are walked rather than driven. It runs all year, but the reason to come is December to March, when the wildebeest drop their calves on these southern plains. Game drives go out morning, afternoon and after dark. Children are welcome from eight, and from twelve on walks.
Serengeti Bushtops
Fifteen tented suites in the northern Serengeti, taking thirty guests, with canvas fronts that open onto the plains and a hot tub on each deck. Two of the fifteen are family suites. The camp runs its own bespoke 6×6 vehicle, the Beest, fitted with heated seats, fridges and a fold-out bar, and there is a spa and a pool.
Roving Bushtops
Roving Bushtops has no fixed site. Eight tented suites, taking sixteen guests, each packed into a wheeled unit the camp calls a Rover, and the whole camp is moved twice a year to follow the migration — the northern Serengeti near the Mara River from June to October, then the southern plains around Kusini from late December to March.
Lemala Ewanjan
A permanent tented camp on the western slopes of the Makoma Hills, tucked into a secluded valley in the game-rich Seronera Valley of Central Serengeti. Fourteen en-suite tents — twelve twin or double units and two two-bedroom family tents — run on solar power and are positioned away from other camp traffic. Activities include 4×4 game drives, guided walking safaris and optional hot-air balloon flights, with year-round game viewing and migration crossings passing through in April–June and November–January.
Lemala Mara & Ndutu
Lemala Mara & Ndutu is one mobile tented camp with two seasonal homes, not two separate properties. It is pitched in the northern Serengeti near the Mara River roughly June to October, then struck and moved south to the Ndutu plains on the Ngorongoro Conservation Area border for December to March, closing briefly in November during the relocation. Ten to twelve en-suite canvas tents follow the wildebeest migration between the two sites, with game drives and, seasonally, hot-air balloon safaris timed to river crossings or the calving season depending on where the camp currently stands.
