Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp
1930s-style tented camp · Moru Kopjes, south-central Serengeti · Elewana Collection
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Serengeti Pioneer Camp is Elewana's 1930s-style tented camp in the south-central Serengeti, "within the Moru Kopjes area". The Moru Kopjes are granite outcrops rising from the plains, and the camp looks over them. The southern location puts it nearer the herds from December to March than the Seronera camps. Elewana sells full board or a Game Package with drives, a sunrise breakfast on the rocks and a bush sundowner, and there is a family suite for two adults and two children. Elewana does not publish a tent count. Choose it for the Moru landscape and a family suite; skip it if you need a published child age policy.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Kopje setting in the south-central park
- Family suite with a published rate
- Game Package with drives, rock breakfast and sundowner
- From $678 in April and May
Cons
- Park fees extra on every package
- $1,020 in January, February and June to October
- Elewana publishes no tent count
- No published child age policy
What's here
- Family rooms
- En-suite bathrooms
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
Read from Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp'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 Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp
From $678 pppn. Full board in Green Season, 1 April to 31 May 2026; $825 Mid (March, 1 November to 19 December) and $1,020 High (4 January to 28 February, 1 June to 31 October, 20 December to 3 January), per person sharing on Elewana's 2026 rates. Game Package $978 to $1,320. Family Suite for two adults and two children: $3,397 to $5,100 a night on full board. Park, reserve, conservancy and camping fees are excluded: add TANAPA's $82.60 conservation and $59.00 or $70.80 concession per adult per night with VAT. Elewana does not say whether VAT is in its own rate.
It depends which package you book. This camp sells more than one basis, from self-catering up to fully inclusive. The rates note says what each one covers.
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 Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp
Where is Serengeti Pioneer Camp?
In the south-central Serengeti, within the Moru Kopjes area, Elewana says.
How much is the family suite at Pioneer Camp?
Elewana's 2026 rates give $3,397 to $5,100 a night on full board for two adults and two children, depending on season.
Are park fees included at Serengeti Pioneer Camp?
No. Elewana excludes park, reserve, conservancy and camping fees. TANAPA's conservation fee is $82.60 per adult per 24 hours and the concession fee $59.00 or $70.80 per adult per night.