Lamai Serengeti
Kopje lodge with open-fronted rooms · Kogakuria Kopje, Lamai Wedge, northern Serengeti · Nomad Tanzania
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Lamai Serengeti is Nomad Tanzania's lodge built into the Kogakuria Kopje in the Lamai Wedge, the far north of the park beyond the Mara River. From the rocks you see "for miles and miles", and Nomad says the herds cross these plains to the river "just down the track". Rooms are open-fronted with locally sourced interiors; there is a two-bedroom family unit and a separate four-room Lamai Private. Nomad offers walking safaris. It publishes no rate or room count on the pages we could read. Choose it for the remote north with a kopje view; skip it if you need a price before you call.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Kopje setting in the remote Lamai Wedge
- Close to the Mara River
- Private four-room camp for groups
- Walking offered
Cons
- No published rate or room count
- No airstrip named on the pages read
- No child age policy captured
What's here
- Family rooms
- En-suite bathrooms
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Guided walks
Read from Lamai Serengeti'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 Lamai Serengeti
Rates on request. Nomad publishes no rate on the pages read. TANAPA fees come on top unless Nomad says otherwise: $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 camp'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 Lamai Serengeti
Where is Lamai Serengeti?
On the Kogakuria Kopje in the Lamai Wedge, the northern tip of Serengeti National Park, near the Mara River.
What is Lamai Private?
A separate camp on the same kopje with four open-fronted rooms, for one group.
Can families stay at Lamai Serengeti?
There is a family unit of two bedrooms joined by a shared bathroom. We found no age policy.