Mara River Safari Lodge

This place is amazing. The service is next level, everyone very friendly and cannot do enough to help. We haven’t experienced anywhere like this place. You can literally have breakfast, lunch and dinner with the lion pride. You can pee while lions look on in the toilets. You have full Access to the safari park which is amazing. You can feed elephants, giraffes and a variety of other animals and wildlife for not much money at all. The shoes are informative and brilliant to watch. The hotel itself - only a few select rooms actually will have access to animals within close range and to be honest the giraffe only Roams in a particular area which again only a few rooms will have a great view of. You will see rhino, zebras etc anyway. We had lunch which was perfectly fine. Dinner however is a mess, it’s a buffet style dinner or you can order from the menu but this menu will be the same as the lunch menu. Whilst you have lots of options for food from the Buffett unless your early it’s absolute carnage. Food literally battered and lots of annoyed people trying to get to the full selection on offer. Pretty sure they need to allow a maximum amount of people at a time otherwise it’s a like a scrum! We had breakfast with the giraffes which is a paid extra and we were seriously lucky we found out about it early and got one of the 2 daily slots. You get a lot of food for breakfast but you’ll be too excited to eat. The giraffe and keeper will be yours for 1hr 30mins and during that time you’ll get to hand feed the giraffe several times whilst taking pictures. The keeper is amazing and makes sure you get the attention from the giraffe. It’s a private breakfast you’ll have no one else there and it’s well worth the money. We had a lot of jealous holiday makers who knew nothing about it. Book it it’s better then any night safari you can book or private jeep tour. The rooms themselves are great, comfortable and clean and very big. Lots of added extra in terms of toiletries and drinks. The night fire show is amazing and the cast great. Well worth the money. The park itself as said is amazing and worth a a visit as is the connected marine safari.