Speke Bay Lodge
Lakeside bungalow lodge · Lake Victoria shore, 15 km from Ndabaka Gate · East Africa Camps
Mid-range
Outside the gate
Safari company
Speke Bay Lodge is on the south-eastern shore of Lake Victoria, "15 km from the Ndabaka entrance to Serengeti National Park and 125 km north of Mwanza", run by East Africa Camps, which also runs Pumzika inside the park. It stands on 200 acres that have turned back into savanna, and it offers traditional boat rides on the lake and birding. It is the natural first or last night if you enter the Western Corridor from Mwanza by Ndabaka Gate. The old domain spekebay.com redirects to the current site. No rate or room count is published. Choose it for a lake night at the western gate; skip it if you want game from your room.
Pros and cons
Pros
- 15 km from Ndabaka Gate on the Mwanza road
- Boat trips and birding on Lake Victoria
- No park fees for the night itself
Cons
- Outside the park
- No published rate or room count
- We found no published child policy
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Boat trips
- Birding
Read from Speke Bay 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 Speke Bay Lodge
Rates on request. East Africa Camps publishes no rate on the page read. The lodge is outside the park, so no TANAPA fee applies to the night; the conservation fee of $82.60 per adult (16 May to 14 March, VAT included) applies on each day you enter. Whether VAT is in the lodge'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 Speke Bay Lodge
How far is Speke Bay Lodge from the Serengeti?
15 km from Ndabaka Gate, the park's western entrance, and 125 km north of Mwanza, the lodge says.
What can you do at Speke Bay Lodge?
Traditional boat rides on Lake Victoria and birding in the lodge's 200 acres.
Is spekebay.com still the lodge's website?
It redirects to eastafricacamps.com, the current site.