Ngorongoro Conservation Area Hotels | Places to Stay in Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Perched on the edge of the famous Ngorongoro Crater with magnificent views of the Crater floor. 11 tents offering an elegant fusion of modern and classic accommodation, en suite bathrooms adorned with fresh flowers and cristal, porcelain and wooden platters makes every meal a special occasion, blending elegant simplicity with a laid back style.

Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge is centrally situated on the northern safari circuit in Tanzania. Close to Lake Manyara National Park and the gate to Ngorongoro Crater it’s the perfect stopover between the two. Using Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge as a base for a few days you can also visit Tarangire National Park (about 1hr 30mins away) and Lake Eyasi (30mins away) as well as explore the region around Karatu where there are many hiking/walking opportunities and possibilities for cultural exchanges.

Opened in Dec 2013, the lodge is Tanzania's newest base for game viewing in Ndutu and southeastern Serengeti. A true African safari experience with unique blend of nature and luxurious living, lodge offers 22 guest tents with wooden floor raised a metre off the ground and set 15m from each other for privacy, all nestling underneath palm fronds roofing for shade and protection against the elements. The lodge boasts of two suites, specially designed to suit families with children.

The camp is located in the most remarkable natural wonder in all of Africa and the World Heritage Site – Ngorongoro Crater. The camp has 20 spacious and luxuriouselevated tented rooms with private balconies that can host private dinners or lunches that overlooks Lake Eyasi.

Crossing the Rift Valley and climbing the steppe onto the green and rolling hills south of the Ngorongoro Crater, there lies a truly undeniable surprise and one that will be a home-away-from-home. The Manor at Ngorongoro, located in the north west Tanzania and with its 9 luxurious cottages (18 Suites), family cottage, and magnificent main Manor House, is one of the first safari lodges of its kind to blend East African hospitality with old-world Afro-European architecture and decor. Located adjacent to the famous Ngorongoro conservation area and within a 1500-acre Arabica coffee estate, The Manor is reminiscent of an elegant up-country farm home in the Cape Dutch-style of architecture.

Perched on the edge of the famous Ngorongoro Crater with magnificent views of the Crater floor. 11 tents offering an elegant fusion of modern and classic accommodation, en suite bathrooms adorned with fresh flowers and cristal, porcelain and wooden platters makes every meal a special occasion, blending elegant simplicity with a laid back style.

A beautiful tented camp at the edge of the Ngorongoro Tropical Forest.Enjoy romantic sun downers or twilight dinners on your veranda with theastonishing landscape views of the dense forest. Watch wildlife, likeelephants, roaming through the forest, hear the lions roar and listen to the magical sounds of the tropical night.The camp is set a 10 kilometer scenic drive away from the main road leading from the bustling commercial center of Karatu town to the famous Ngorongoro Crater. The camp is located on a highland coffee plantation at an altitude of 1,800 m, directly bordering the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area (NCAA). Forest Crater Tented Camp is operated as a small scale eco-friendly camp with 15 luxury tented rooms, on highly raised platforms with magnificent views over the Ngorongoro Forest. The rooms are spacious, stylishly furnished and have en-suite bathrooms with a hot shower and flush toilet. There is even an African-style fire pot in every room, to keep warm in those chilly upland nights. In the morning you will wake up to the sounds of the awakening forest, when the nocturnal wildlife makes way for a mistily rising sunlight. Rise and shine for a new day…Staying at Crater Forest Tented Camp will be an experience you'll never forget.

Perched on the jagged rim of the crater, wreathed in morning mist, camouflaged in river-stone and cloaked in indigenous creepers, the Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge is a triumph of ecological and architectural fusion. Sensitively constructed so as to take nothing from its environment whilst affording endless vistas over the heat-shimmering reaches of the crater below, the clustered boulder-built buildings of the Lodge hug the crater rim, linked by rope-lashed timber walkways that skirt the buttressed roots of ancient, liana-hung trees.

A luxury lodge in Northern Tanzania, Gibb’s Farm offers a welcome respite for the East Africa safari traveller. Immerse yourself in a sanctuary for the senses, where the farm’s gentle rhythms impart a sense of peace and well-being. Experience a sense of place as you recline on your verandah, walk in the Ngorongoro Forest or explore the back roads of Karatu. Replenish with inspired organic cuisine, fresh from the farm’s gardens, bakery and dairy. Surround yourself with the rich traditions of East African life, exclusive to Gibb’s Farm, and share an eternal sense of history and community.

Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge is dramatically perched on the rim of Africa’s Eden, affording unbelievable views plunging down over the crater floor, 7,500 feet above the sea level. The Lodge is elegantly built mainly from natural stone and local wood and timber, harmoniously merging with its natural surroundings, and it is provided with panoramic windows that encompass superb views of the crater’s great bowl.