A drawing, because nobody has sent us a photograph of Samburu Sopa Lodge yet. Send five and this page changes the same week.
Mid-range
Inside the park
Safari company
Sopa's own page states plainly that the lodge is inside Samburu National Reserve, so guests pay Samburu County $85 a day and the agents who file it under Buffalo Springs have it wrong. It is a large property for this river at 60 rooms, two of them interconnecting and wheelchair accessible. Sopa keeps no rate on the lodge page, so ask reservations for the season you want.
Why you'd pick it
- The owner's own page says inside Samburu National Reserve, settling a common filing error
- Two interconnecting wheelchair-accessible rooms
- Fifty minutes by air from Nairobi Wilson, or six hours by road
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. Sopa publishes no rate on the lodge page itself. Reservations answer at reservations@sopalodges.co.ke, and the group also lists reservations@sopalodges.com and info@sopalodges.com.
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.