A drawing, because nobody has sent us a photograph of Samburu Simba Lodge yet. Send five and this page changes the same week.
Mid-range
Inside the park
Safari company
Samburu Simba Lodge stands deep inside Buffalo Springs National Reserve near the airstrip, so the ticket is Isiolo County's $70 a day whatever the name suggests. It is a large property, around 70 rooms across seven two-storey blocks, including interconnecting rooms. We found no operator website, which is why there is no rate and no contact address here.
Why you'd pick it
- Samburu in the name, Isiolo County at the gate
- One of the biggest bed counts in the three reserves
- Minutes from the Buffalo Springs airstrip
What's here
- Family rooms
We could not reach a website for Samburu Simba Lodge, so this list is incomplete by definition. Ask them directly.
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 ReserveRates
On request. We found no website run by the operator and no rate published by the owner. Figures between roughly $210 and $350 circulate on booking sites and through agents, on an unclear basis, and none of them is the owner's, so they are left off this page.
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.