Lemala Nanyukie
Luxury tented lodge · Eastern Serengeti, 60 minutes east of Seronera · Lemala Camps & Lodges
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Inside the park
Ownership unconfirmed
Lemala Nanyukie is a permanent tented lodge in the eastern Serengeti, "a 60-minute drive east of the Seronera Airstrip", opened in October 2018; TANAPA's register lists it as a permanent tented camp in the east. The east is open grassland away from the main Seronera traffic. Lemala gives 15 suites, including one two-bedroom suite, though the numbers on its page do not add up. Like the rest of Lemala, it is full board with house drinks and expects you to arrive with an operator's guide and vehicle. Choose it for the eastern plains with your own guide; skip it if you want drives included.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Eastern plains, away from the Seronera crowds
- House drinks, Wi-Fi and laundry included
- Two-bedroom suite
- From $585 in March to May 2027
Cons
- Game drives and transfers are extra
- $1,480 in high season before TANAPA fees
- An hour's drive from Seronera airstrip
- Suite count on Lemala's page does not add up
What's here
- Wi-Fi
- Family rooms
- En-suite bathrooms
- Laundry
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Guided walks
Read from Lemala Nanyukie'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 Nanyukie
From $585 pppn. Low season, 1 March to 31 May 2027; the mid-season figure shows as $853 and high season (1 June to 30 September 2026, 20 December 2026 to 5 January 2027) is $1,480, per person sharing on Lemala's rate page valid 6 January 2026 to 31 May 2027. Full board with house drinks, Wi-Fi and laundry. Excluded: game drives, airstrip transfers, and TANAPA entry 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 Nanyukie
Where is Lemala Nanyukie?
In the eastern Serengeti, a 60-minute drive east of Seronera airstrip, Lemala says. TANAPA's register lists it as a permanent tented camp in the eastern Serengeti.
Are game drives included at Lemala Nanyukie?
No. Lemala's rates are full board with house drinks and exclude a guide and vehicle, airstrip transfers and park entry and concession fees.
Does Lemala Nanyukie accept children?
Lemala says children are welcome and refers to its Lemala Cubs programme, without published ages. One suite has two bedrooms.