Kamboyo Guest House
Self-catering guest house · Tsavo West, Kamboyo park headquarters · Kenya Wildlife Service
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (KWS)
KWS's own eight-bed guest house at Kamboyo headquarters, let as a whole unit rather than by the room. For a family or a group of friends with a vehicle it is the cheapest proper roof inside either park, though you cook for yourselves and bring everything with you.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Cheapest proper roof per person in either park
- Whole house booked for your group, no strangers
- Close to park headquarters, Mzima Springs and Kilaguni
- Works out to about $38 a person at full house
- Airstrip right next door at Kamboyo
Cons
- Self-catering: cook for yourselves and bring everything
- USD price reconstructed from a PDF; confirm before paying
- Conservation fees are extra on top of the house rate
- Conservation fee still due per person, even for young children
What's here
- Campsite
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Guided walks
Read from Kamboyo Guest House's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Tsavo National Parks charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryThe non-resident rate, and East and West are ticketed separately.
- $80per person, per day
- VehicleKSh 600 a day for a typical hire car, roughly $5.
- $5per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $495 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
A combination ticket covering both parks saves about $35 over two single tickets.
The full fee schedule for Tsavo National ParksRates at Kamboyo Guest House
From $300 per house. KSh 30,000 or USD 300 per night for the whole house, not per person, sleeping up to eight. That works out around $38 each at full occupancy. Self-catering, conservation fees extra. The USD column was reconstructed from a two-column KWS PDF, so confirm with reservations@kws.go.ke before you pay.
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.
Indicative 2026 rates gathered in July 2026 from operators' own rate cards and the official KWS tariffs. Watch the pricing basis: most Tsavo camps quote per person per night sharing, while Serena, the KWS guest houses and the self-catering bandas quote per room or per unit, so two sets of numbers are not directly comparable. KWS conservation fees are extra almost everywhere at $80 per adult per park per day, plus KSh 600 for a car under six seats.
Questions about Kamboyo Guest House
How much does it cost to stay at Kamboyo Guest House?
Kamboyo Guest House costs KSh 30,000 or USD 300 a night for the whole house, not per person, sleeping up to eight, which works out to about $38 each at full occupancy. The USD figure was reconstructed from a two-column KWS PDF, so confirm the exact rate with reservations@kws.go.ke before you pay. Conservation fees are extra.
Is Kamboyo Guest House good for families?
KWS's published conservation fee rules do cover children: anyone aged five and under is exempt from the park fee, and ages five to seventeen pay half the non-resident rate, $40 against $80 for Tsavo. The house itself is priced as one flat rate for up to eight people regardless of age, so a family's saving comes from sharing that rate rather than a child discount on the room.
What do you need to bring to Kamboyo Guest House?
Everything for self-catering: Kamboyo Guest House is let as a self-contained unit, so you cook for yourselves and need your own food, and likely your own bedding basics too, since KWS does not itemise what is provided. It sits at Kamboyo headquarters, close to Mzima Springs and Kilaguni, with its own airstrip next door.
How do you book Kamboyo Guest House?
Book through KWS, by email at airwing@kws.go.ke. Confirm the exact rate before you pay: the USD figure of $300 a night was reconstructed from a two-column KWS PDF rather than taken from one published number. The house sleeps up to eight and is let as one unit, not per person.