Singita Faru Faru Lodge
Contemporary lodge on a waterhole · Grumeti River, Singita Grumeti Reserve · Singita
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Outside the gate
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Faru Faru is Singita's contemporary lodge "set within Singita's 350,000-acre private reserve" alongside the Grumeti River, with a waterhole in front of the lodge. Like Sasakwa and Sabora, it stands in the Singita Grumeti Reserve, outside the national park on the north-western side, where Singita and the Grumeti Fund manage the land. Singita publishes no rate or room count for it. Choose it for a waterhole lodge in a private reserve; skip it if you want to be inside the park.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Waterhole in front of the lodge
- Grumeti River setting
- Private reserve
Cons
- Outside the national park
- No published rate or room count
- No child age policy captured
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
We could not reach a website for Singita Faru Faru Lodge, so this list is incomplete by definition. Ask them directly.
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 Singita Faru Faru Lodge
Rates on request. Singita publishes no rate. The lodge is in the private Singita Grumeti Reserve, so no TANAPA concession fee applies; a day in the national park costs the conservation fee of $82.60 per adult (16 May to 14 March, VAT included). Whether reserve fees or VAT are in Singita's 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 Singita Faru Faru Lodge
Is Singita Faru Faru inside the Serengeti National Park?
No. It is in the Singita Grumeti Reserve, outside the national park.
What is Faru Faru known for?
A waterhole in front of the lodge and its position beside the Grumeti River, on Singita's description.
How many rooms does Faru Faru have?
Singita's page did not give a number when we read it.