Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge
Large tented lodge with pool · Central Serengeti · Tanganyika Wilderness Camps
Mid-range
Inside the park
Safari company
Kubu Kubu is a 25-tent lodge with a swimming pool, run by the Arusha company Tanganyika Wilderness Camps, which describes it as "in the heart of serengeti national park". Family tents have two interconnecting rooms and the company says children are welcome. Its own page gives Seronera airstrip as 80 km away, which is a long way for a central lodge; check the drive time before you book a flight. The old domain kubukubu.com is parked, so use the TWC page. No rates or email are published. Choose it for a family road safari with a pool; skip it if you plan to fly in to Seronera.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Swimming pool
- Interconnecting family tents; children welcome
- Wi-Fi in common areas
- Balloon flights listed
Cons
- No published rates or email
- The lodge gives Seronera airstrip as 80 km away
- kubukubu.com is a parked domain
- A 25-tent lodge, not an intimate camp
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
- Family rooms
- En-suite bathrooms
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
Read from Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Serengeti National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entry$70 plus 18% VAT, so $82.60, per 24 hours from 16 May to 14 March; $70.80 from 15 March to 15 May.
- $83per person, per day
- Vehicle$40 plus VAT, so $47.20, for a foreign-registered vehicle up to 2,000 kg; a Tanzanian-registered safari vehicle pays TSh 20,000, about $8 at TANAPA's TSh 2,555 to the dollar.
- $47per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $639 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
A lodge or camp inside the park adds TANAPA's concession fee on top: $70.80 per adult per night from July to September and $59 from October to June, VAT included. Arriving by road from Arusha adds the Ngorongoro permit of $70.80 per adult each way.
The full fee schedule for Serengeti National ParkRates at Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge
Rates on request. Tanganyika Wilderness Camps publishes no rates. TANAPA fees come on top: $82.60 conservation per adult per 24 hours (16 May to 14 March) and $70.80 (July to September) or $59.00 (October to June) concession per adult per night, VAT included. Whether VAT is in the lodge's own rate is not stated.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked on 6 October 2026 against each operator's own website or rate sheet, in US dollars per person per night sharing unless the entry says otherwise. Two figures are per room, not per person: Serengeti Serena's $728 and Serengeti Explorer's $750 (a January 2025 opening offer). One figure is a reseller's, not the owner's: Africa Safari Serengeti Ikoma's $154 a night on Priceline (6 Oct 2026, basis not stated). Ndutu Safari Lodge's figures come from a rate sheet that ran to 15 December 2025, the newest on its site. Unless the entry says otherwise, TANAPA fees come on top of every rate inside the park: the conservation fee of $70 plus 18% VAT ($82.60) per adult per 24 hours from 16 May to 14 March, $70.80 from 15 March to 15 May, and the hotel concession fee of $70.80 per adult per night from July to September or $59.00 from October to June, VAT included. Camps at Ndutu and Lake Masek pay the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority instead: $70.80 entry per 24 hours and $59.00 concession per adult per night. Wilderness Usawa is the one rate we found that includes park fees.
Questions about Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge
How far is Kubu Kubu from Seronera airstrip?
The lodge's own page says 80 km. That is far for a lodge it calls central, so confirm the transfer time when you book.
Is Kubu Kubu good for families?
TWC says children are welcome and has family tents with two interconnecting rooms. We found no age limits or child rates.
What is Kubu Kubu's website?
Its page sits on twctanzania.com. The domain kubukubu.com is parked and does not belong to the lodge's booking system.