Warangi Ridge Lodge
Tented lodge · Central Serengeti · Not published
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Inside the park
Ownership unconfirmed
Warangi Ridge Lodge appears on TANAPA's 2025 register of lodges inside Serengeti National Park as a "luxurious tented lodge, located in the central Serengeti". That is all we could establish: we found no website, operator, rate or photo, and TANAPA's register does not say whether it is open or still being built. TANAPA also lists a Warangi seasonal campsite. Ask a Tanzanian operator whether it takes guests before you plan around it.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Listed by TANAPA as inside the park
- Central Serengeti location
Cons
- No website, operator or rate found
- Not confirmed open
- Nothing published on rooms or facilities
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 Warangi Ridge Lodge
Rates on request. We found no website and no rate. Any lodge inside the park adds TANAPA fees: $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.
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 Warangi Ridge Lodge
Is Warangi Ridge Lodge open?
We could not confirm it. TANAPA lists it inside the park, but we found no website or booking channel.
Where is Warangi Ridge Lodge?
In the central Serengeti, according to TANAPA's register.
How do you book Warangi Ridge Lodge?
We found no booking channel; ask a licensed Tanzanian safari operator.