About this guide
Who's behind Visit the Kruger Park?
An independent guide to Kruger National Park, built on SANParks' own tariffs and camp pages, the lodges' own websites and published research, with a date on every figure.
What this site is
Visit the Kruger Park is an independent visitor guide to Kruger National Park in South Africa, published by Visit Africa Publishers. It is not run by SANParks, a lodge, a tour operator or a booking site, and it does not sell trips. Its job is to answer the questions a traveller has before going: what the park costs, where you can sleep, which gate to use, when to go and what you are likely to see.
Kruger needs that more than its fame suggests. Many pages still quote last year's R535 conservation fee or print next year's R692 as this year's, hotels in Hazyview are sold as Kruger lodges although they are outside the boundary, and the January 2026 floods changed which camps are open. This guide sets those things straight and dates every claim.
How the guide is funded
Some outbound links, for example to hire cars or flights, earn us a small commission when you book through them, and those links are marked as paid links. The guide sells no trips and takes no fees from lodges.
It changes nothing on the page. Listing a lodge, camp or campsite is free, the order of every list follows the same rule for everyone (inside the park first, then by price), and no position, review or figure can be bought. Every outbound lodge link is nofollow, so a listing here is information, not a traded favour.
Where the numbers come from
Park fees come from SANParks' own Kruger rates page and its fee documents, camp facts from SANParks' camp pages, and the park's size, history and zoning from the statutory Kruger National Park Management Plan 2018 to 2028. Lodge rates come from the lodges' own websites where they publish them, and from a named reseller where SANParks does not print its own unit rates, marked as such. Wildlife figures come from SANParks' published aerial counts and peer-reviewed papers, climate from thirty-year Open-Meteo normals, and malaria advice from NaTHNaC.
When the authority publishes no figure, that is what we report. SANParks prints no campsite tariff on its Kruger page, publishes no per-gate visitor quota and has published no park-wide leopard count, so the pages say exactly that and stop.
What is not for sale
- A place on any list, or a higher place than the rule gives.
- A softer description of a lodge's location, price or child policy.
- Any fee, rate or distance on the site.
- Removal of an accurate but unwelcome fact.
Corrections
Fees, rates and camp status change, and this guide will sometimes be behind. If you find something out of date, write to us through the Ask page with what you saw and when, and the page changes the same week. Every change a reader would notice goes into the public changelog.
Elsewhere in the family
Visit the Kruger Park belongs to a small set of independent guides to African parks, including the Sabi Sand on Kruger's western boundary, Pilanesberg in South Africa's North West and Gonarezhou across the border in Zimbabwe. They share a method, not a sales funnel: official fees, every place to stay listed on the same terms, nothing sold.