From clifftop luxury lodges to canvas-walled tented camps and white-sand beach resorts — we partner directly with the best hotels and properties across East Africa, secure preferred rates, and book your stay for you as part of your itinerary.
Tell us your budget, dates and what matters most to you — view, privacy, family-friendliness — and we'll book the right lodges, camps and resorts into your itinerary.
Ask an expert→Every property below is a hotel, lodge, camp or resort we partner with directly — we negotiate the rate, make the booking and handle it as one seamless part of your itinerary.
Where you stay shapes a safari almost as much as the parks you visit. Across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, the properties on our partner list fall into three broad styles: luxury lodges — permanent, architect-built suites with full hotel-grade service; tented camps — canvas-walled rooms set right in the bush, some of them genuinely mobile and seasonal, following the Great Migration; and beach resorts — the classic way to close out a trip with a few days on the Indian Ocean coast.
We book every stay on this list ourselves, through partnerships built directly with each hotel, lodge, camp and resort — so you get our negotiated rate and one confirmed reservation, not a separate booking with every property. What we add on top is the part that's hard to do yourself: knowing which lodge suits a honeymoon, which camp is positioned for this year's river crossings, and which beach resort is the right distance from your last game drive.
Most multi-stop itineraries mix more than one style — a lodge for the first leg, a tented camp deeper in the bush, and a beach resort to finish.