Baobab Hill House
Exclusive-use bush house · Makuleke Contract Park, far north · RETURN Africa
Mid-range
Inside the park
Ownership unconfirmed
The old Pafuri ranger station in the Makuleke Contract Park, now an exclusive-use house run by RETURN Africa. Four bedrooms take a minimum of six and a maximum of eight guests, with a private guide and vehicle and two private game drives a day. You choose self-catering or fully catered. The land belongs to the Makuleke, who reclaimed it in 1998, and the operator works in partnership with them. Rates load in a booking calculator that did not render, so ask for a quote. Choose it for a family or group of six to eight who want the far north to themselves.
Pros and cons
Pros
- The whole house for your group
- Private guide and vehicle
- Self-catering option
- A historic ranger station
Cons
- Minimum six guests
- No rate readable online
- We found no published child policy
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
Read from Baobab Hill House's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Kruger National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryR602 per international adult per day at USD 1 = ZAR 16.65 (6 Oct 2026); R692, about $42, from 1 Nov 2026.
- $36per person, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults pay $216 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
SANParks charges no vehicle fee for private cars at Kruger.
Almost every private lodge inside Kruger excludes the SANParks conservation fee from its rate, so you pay it on top for each night.
The full fee schedule for Kruger National ParkRates at Baobab Hill House
Rates on request. No rate captured: rates sit in RETURN Africa's booking calculator, which did not render on 6 October 2026. Self-catering or fully catered; includes two private game drives a day.
It depends which package you book. This camp sells more than one basis, from self-catering up to fully inclusive. The rates note says what each one covers.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked 6 October 2026 and converted at R16.65 to the US dollar (rate of that date); re-check before you book. SANParks does not print its unit rates online, so every SANParks figure here is a reseller rate from krugerpark.co.za (Siyabona Africa) for 1 November 2026 to 31 October 2027, quoted per unit and shown per person for two sharing. Private lodge figures come from each lodge's own rate page unless the entry says reseller. The SANParks conservation fee is extra almost everywhere: R602 (about $36) per international adult per day until 31 October 2026, R692 (about $42) from 1 November 2026.
Questions about Baobab Hill House
How many people does Baobab Hill House sleep?
Between six and eight, in four bedrooms, by RETURN Africa's page.
Is Baobab Hill House catered?
Either way: the operator offers it self-catering or fully catered, with two private game drives a day.
Can children stay at Baobab Hill House?
We found no published child policy. Ask RETURN Africa.