Meliá Serengeti Lodge
Large design hotel · North of Seronera (Nyamuma Hills, per listings) · Meliá Hotels International
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Top-end
Inside the park
Safari company
Meliá Serengeti Lodge is a design hotel that "blends into the exceptional surroundings of the Serengeti National Park", in Meliá's words; listing sites place it in the Nyamuma Hills north of Seronera. TANAPA's 2025 register does not list it, so its inside status rests on the hotel's own wording. It has an infinity pool and a spa, and its Safari Experience package includes Seronera airstrip transfers and a half-day safari in a shared jeep, which helps if you fly in without an operator. Choose it for a hotel stay with a pool and a simple safari add-on; skip it if you want a camp feel.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Shared-jeep safari for guests without their own vehicle
- Infinity pool and spa
- Seronera airstrip transfers on the package
Cons
- No rate visible on its own page
- Not on TANAPA's 2025 register
- Room count only from listing sites
- We found no published child policy
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Restaurant
- En-suite bathrooms
- Spa or massage
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
Read from Meliá Serengeti 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 Meliá Serengeti Lodge
Rates on request. No rate was visible on Meliá's own page. TANAPA fees come on top unless Meliá 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 hotel'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 Meliá Serengeti Lodge
Is Meliá Serengeti Lodge inside the park?
Meliá says it sits in the Serengeti National Park, and listing sites place it in the Nyamuma Hills north of Seronera. TANAPA's 2025 register does not list it, though that register is incomplete.
Can you do a safari from Meliá without your own vehicle?
Yes. Meliá's Safari Experience includes Seronera airstrip transfers and a half-day safari in a shared jeep.
Is Meliá Serengeti on Booking.com?
Yes, a Booking.com listing appears in search results; we could not open it.