Need to know
Rooms
11, including two villa-like Retreats.
Check–Out
10am. Check-in is at 2pm, although if you arrive earlier, you’re welcome to use the camp’s communal spaces until your room is ready. If you opt for late check-out, you’ll need to pay for an additional day’s park fees.
More details
Rates at Namiri Plains include all meals and drinks (except premium wines), limited laundry service, open-vehicle game drives, walking safaris (for over-12s) and return transfers to Seronera Airstrip.
Also
Unfortunately, this remote camp is not suitable if you have limited mobility.
At the hotel
Information centre and library and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: radio, electric fan, torch, USB charging ports, coffee-making kit, free bottled water, mosquito net, laundry detergent, bathrobes, slippers and Cinnabar Green bath products. Stays at the camp’s Retreats come with a private chef, host and dedicated safari vehicle and guide.
Our favourite rooms
At Namiri Plains, Tented Suites meet the camping brief in silhouette only — each luxurious raised pad is set at a suitably private distance from the next, with a suite-spanning deck where you can catch all the passing wildlife action, reclined on your lounger or soaking in your alfresco bath tub. Larger families will want to upgrade to a Retreat — with two ensuite bedrooms, an extensive lounge and dining space, a kitchen, and shared Retreats-only pool.
Poolside
A rectangular outdoor pool at the main lodge is your go-to cooling-off spot after a sun-warmed game drive or walking safari: edged by a wooden deck with curvaceous day-beds and woven hammocks, it also offers some shade, with tables set up for poolside drinks and grazing (open 7am until 7pm). Namiri’s two Retreats share a second, private pool and lounge.
Spa
Gentle ripples of wind through the grass out on the savannah soundtrack alfresco massages with one of Namiri Plains’ on-site therapists. Treatments rooted in natural healing and traditional practices can be arranged at various secluded spots around camp.
Packing tips
Channel your inner Attenborough with safari-ready threads. Serengeti’s beauty calls for capture on film, so bring your camera. And downtime on your deck or by the pool will be all the sweeter with a ready supply of page-turner novels.
Also
Once you’ve booked your safari stays, the Asilia team will be in touch within 48 hours to help arrange travel between camps, which may include charter or private small-plane flights and/or overland transfers.
Children
Namiri Plains welcomes children aged five or older. For walking safaris, the minimum age is 12 years; younger Smiths will need to stay at camp, supervised by one of their adults.
Sustainability efforts
Operating in protected natural landscapes means that Asilia has a raft of measures in place to help limit its impact on the environment and support the communities around its safari stays. Locally sourced, natural materials are used in the construction of each camp, around half of which is made up of temporary structures that can be removed without trace. Camps are 100% solar powered; ethically sourced bath products are biodegradable; water- and energy-saving, composting and recycling policies are in place, and carbon emissions are categorised, tracked and offset. Asilia donates between $3 and $4 million to conservation and community projects in East Africa, and supports 11,000 primary schools in the region with materials and volunteer teachers; they also fund around 200 vocational scholarships for young people each year.
At Namiri Plains, by prior arrangement, you can learn about Asilia’s collaborator, the Serengeti Cheetah Research Project.
