Lemala Kuria Hills Lodge
Glass-fronted tented suites · Wogakuria Hills, northern Serengeti · Lemala Camps & Lodges
Top-end
Inside the park
Ownership unconfirmed
Lemala Kuria Hills is a 15-suite lodge "remotely located in the Wogakuria Hills of the Northern Serengeti", inside the park: its rates exclude park entry and concession fees, which only properties inside pay. Do not confuse it with &Beyond's Klein's Camp, which is also sold as Kuria Hills but stands on a concession outside the park. Suites are glass-fronted tents set among boulders, and one has two bedrooms and a private plunge pool. Lemala lists game drives, balloon safaris and walking. The price swings hard with the herds: $520 a person in the quiet months, nearly three times that from July to September, when the Mara River crossings are 45 minutes away. Choose it for the north out of season; skip it in July if your budget is tight.
Pros and cons
Pros
- $520 in low season for a northern lodge with a view
- Two-bedroom suite with private plunge pool
- Walking safaris listed
- Inside the park, unlike Klein's Camp in the same hills
Cons
- $1,496 from July to September, before TANAPA fees
- Game drives and airstrip transfers are extra
- Children welcome, but no ages published
- Remote: 45 minutes from Kogatende airstrip
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Family rooms
- En-suite bathrooms
- Spa or massage
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Guided walks
Read from Lemala Kuria Hills 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 Lemala Kuria Hills Lodge
From $520 pppn. Low season, 1 November to 19 December 2026 and 6 January to 28 February 2027; $1,496 in high season (1 July to 30 September 2026), per person sharing, on Lemala's rate page valid to 31 May 2027. Full board with house drinks. Excluded: game drives, airstrip transfers, and TANAPA conservation and concession fees ($82.60 plus $59.00 or $70.80 per adult per night with VAT). Lemala does not say whether VAT is in its own rate.
Full board. Meals are included; drinks, activities and park fees are not.
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 Lemala Kuria Hills Lodge
Is Lemala Kuria Hills inside the Serengeti National Park?
Yes. Lemala places it in the Wogakuria Hills of the northern Serengeti, and its rates exclude park entry and concession fees, which apply only to properties inside the park.
How far is Lemala Kuria Hills from the Mara River?
Lemala gives the transfer to Kogatende airstrip as 45 minutes. It does not publish a drive time to the crossing points; ask your guide.
Is Lemala Kuria Hills good for families?
There is one two-bedroom suite with its own plunge pool, and Lemala welcomes children under its Lemala Cubs programme. We found no published age limits.