Roika Tarangire Tented Lodge

Just a fabulous place situated in a fantastic park full of beautiful animals. The Masai guards you and are very friendly. The rest of the staff is sooooo nice. The food is very good. The “tents” are super comfortable and you can hear the elephants rocking you to sleep. They prepared a morning meal that we took with us on the savanna that was a king worthy. They were up very early to do that…wow. Perfect place. Forget about that the pool is a little worn down etc. It is not what the place is about. It is people and animals living together.

We stayed there as part of our Kenya, Tanzania tour through Perfect Wilderness Safaris, Nairobi. It was an excellent stay in the forest. On that day, we were the only occupants at the lodge. So, all the staff were at our service! It is at an excellent location. The food was excellent. We totally enjoyed our stay.

Nice tented lodge, rooms and beds clean. Very funny bathroom with a giant shark shaped tub… Alacarte menu was not exciting but when there were enough guests there were better food. Still a bit short on the vegetarian side. For safety reasons -animals are around- Masai warriors walked us to our room and back. They were very helping and smiling like the rest of the staff.

Greeted on arrival and given a full brief on the way to do, and not to do things, during our stay as animals roam freely around the grounds during the night. They had various staff to walk you from A to B if required and during the night. Pros and cons to that as you could feel like you weren’t able to be independent and free. However it was for our/your own safety in case. Also had a whistle on your room key should you be in your room and require a staff member to walk you from your room to the main hotel complex. The rooms are a tent set up within a building structure. Very cute and clean. A bathroom is also within the structure so once you’re in you’re good for the night etc. Our bath was a Baobab tree shape with a Hippo head with taps coming out. Not a real tree and hippo! All cast and shaped from likely concrete or similar. It was in keeping with the park and very cute and entertaining. The hotels bar and restaurant are well done. A deffo lack of beers in stock. Only a few large ones for $4 then they ran out and we had to start on the smaller ones at $3 each. I hope that was down to poor stock keeping and not to make more from guests. The pool was a bit poor. No pump was running so the water was still and lacked filtering. Any bugs and bits on top of the water were dealt with by a chap with a net to keep it looking cleaner. The bar and restaurant areas were very nice, clean and tidy too. The pathways around the accommodations were a bit rough. Might be as it’s the end of the raining season and things had washed away. You could see a load of rock and what looked like smashed up tiles that created to the foundations of the path. Plus broken bits of plastic pipe which was used to “protect” electrical cables to the rooms. They could do with getting some sand out to cover the hardcore foundations and those pipes as it made the place look a bit crap. We went for a short walk to the river with one of the hotels guides/security. We saw two elephants on the other side of the river (200/300m away) and were also shown two holes that were the dens for the Hyenas! A lovely location and area but could do with a bit of TLC to the Pool and Pathways to polish it up a bit.