Satao Camp
Tented camp · Tsavo East, central park south of the Galana River, with its own airstrip · Southern Cross Safaris
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The best-known camp in central Tsavo East, built in a circle around a waterhole that elephants treat as a daily commitment. Rates swing hard by season, from $135 in the April rains to $270 at Christmas, so the month you pick changes the bill by half.
Why you'd pick it
- Floodlit waterhole with heavy elephant traffic through the dry season
- The suites are built right on the water
- Accessible tents, rare in Tsavo
What's here
- Restaurant
- Bar
- En-suite bathrooms
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Birding
Read from Satao Camp'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
From $135 pppn. Full board, per person per night sharing: $135 in April and May, $189 January to March, June and November, $243 July to October, $270 over the festive period. Ground packages including transfers and drives run $324 to $576 per person.
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.