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Samburu Serena Safari Lodge

Lodge · Buffalo Springs National Reserve · Serena Hotels

A drawing, because nobody has sent us a photograph of Samburu Serena Safari Lodge yet. Send five and this page changes the same week.

Mid-range Inside the park Safari company

Samburu Serena stands in Buffalo Springs National Reserve across the river from Samburu National Reserve, which would make entry Isiolo County's $70 per non-resident adult. What we could establish in September 2026 is that Serena's own safari page lists five Kenyan properties and this is not among them, and that serenahotels.com/samburu returns a 404, while booking sites carry on selling the lodge. What we could not establish is whether it is trading, and the lodge was badly damaged in the flood of March 2010. If it is open, tell us and we will put the 62 rooms back on the page the same week.

Why you'd pick it

  • Missing from Serena's own portfolio of five Kenyan safari properties
  • serenahotels.com/samburu returns a 404
  • Booking sites still sell it in 2026

What the park charges on top

The rate above buys you a bed. Samburu National Reserve charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.

Park entrySamburu National Reserve; Buffalo Springs and Shaba charge $70.
$85per person, per day
VehicleA car under six seats at KES 800.
$6per vehicle, per day

Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $528 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.

No published validity period. The counties do not state whether a ticket runs 24 hours or a calendar day, so a multi-day stay could be charged either way.

The full fee schedule for Samburu National Reserve

Rates

On request. We list no rate for a property we cannot confirm is trading. Booking sites are still selling it, which is exactly why we would want the confirmation from Serena first.

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.

Checked in September 2026. This region publishes almost no rates in the open: nearly every camp hides its tariff behind an enquiry form or a PDF, and several operators' own websites were unreachable on the day we looked. Where that happened we say so and list the place as on request, because we only print a rate the owner has published. Agent and tour operator quotes are deliberately left off this page. County entry is extra everywhere: $85 per non-resident adult per day for Samburu National Reserve, $70 for Buffalo Springs and Shaba, and a conservancy fee instead of either if you stay outside the reserves.

Something this page does not answer?

This camp does not publish a rate, so the only way to a real number is to ask them or us.

Ask us. We answer questions about the park itself, and we can usually tell you which camps work on one route and who to write to. If what you want is a trip someone else arranges, we will say so and hand you to an operator we know, and we earn a commission if that becomes a booking.

Nothing on this site sits behind the form. Every figure we have is already on the page.

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