Kudu Lodge & Campsite

Excellent lodge! Rooms are very spacious, good shower and bathroom, Lovely tropical landscaping and good sized pool. Staff was very friendly, especially the restaurant team who performed a wonderful musical birthday dance for our daughter 🥳 We would stay here again!

We visited this place with a rented 4x4 camper. Well maintained. Relaxed atmosphere. Motivated well educated staff. Located in in town of Karatu. Campsite itself is located in a garden area. Space for app six to eight campers. Roof covered kitchen area. Water available. Showers and toilets nice and spacious; very clean. Always hot water. The restaurant serves breakfast and dinner. Dinner was very good, normal price level. Price level is acceptable. Would we come again? Yes we would, this campsite offers a decent overnight stay.

Excellent lodge to stay after or before you go on safari. The lodge was very spacious. Bed and shower were also good. We especially liked the garden with many birds and the swimmingpool. Food was also good. We would definitely recommend this lodge.

We were a group of 4 families with 14 people ranging in age from 8 to 78 including a vegan and 2 vegetarians. We stayed for 2 nights including Christmas Day. What a wonderful time we had. The rooms are spacious and superbly appointed, the landscaping attractive, the staff wonderful and the meals delicious. The pool with its elephant was a big hit with young and old.

The bed linens are truly fine and very comfortable. The rooms are huge, bigger than necessary, and the buffet is lovely, again, much bigger than necessary. This lodge attempts to be luxury by doing the following: huge rooms, huge buffet, not serving water at dinner, charging a great deal for everything, such as spa, laundry service, etc. Special placards are printed out with your name and a table assignment at dinner, for no reason. The waiters made a big deal out of insisting we pay in cash for our dinner charges each night, when we had specifically been offered (and accepted) the option of charging to the room. The sign in the room said that no more plastic is being used, so call if you need a new carafe of water -- but the only water there was plastic bottled. The pool was supposedly open in the early evening, except that it wasn't. There was quite a lot of say one thing, do another. The gardens are nice. The shower was decent, tho no shampoo was offered, but there are some nighttime bug issues because the windows have no screens. Of all the places we stayed on our trip, this place was the least pleasing. It felt like they just wanted more money out of you all the time.

Tucked away close to the Ngorogoro Crater this lodge exceeded my expectations. I would have loved to just unpack and stay for the week as it was just so relaxing. ||Food was great, staff were well above average for speaking English and they delivered an enthusiastic high-level of service. ||We really loved the lounge area for drinks before dinner and the grounds are gorgeous. Rooms are huge and well appointed with many amenities. Pool looked inviting but we didn’t have a chance to use it. ||I don’t feel the photos on trip advisor do it justice, because the place is absolutely beautiful.

What a secret hidden gem. And oasis. Would have loved to have stayed here longer, but God willing, next time

I had a fantastic experience during my 13-day stay in Kenya and Tanzania! ||I stayed in Kudu Lodge for two nights. The environment was superb, and my room was clean, spacious, and comfortable. The food was top-notch—definitely the best meals I had throughout my trip. I also loved the souvenir shop; it offered a great selection at very reasonable prices. Highly recommend!