Kruger Gate Hotel (formerly Protea Hotel Kruger Gate)
Large hotel with a treetop walkway · At Paul Kruger Gate, on the Sabie River · Kruger Gate Hotel
Mid-range
Outside the gate
Ownership unconfirmed
A large hotel less than a minute's drive from Paul Kruger Gate, on the bank of the Sabie River. Many sites still list it as Protea Hotel by Marriott Kruger Gate, but its own site now trades as Kruger Gate Hotel with no Protea or Marriott branding; the date of the change and the new owner are not published. It is outside the park, though named after it. Rates include dinner, bed and breakfast, and the room mix runs from deluxe and family rooms to suites and self-catering chalets. Choose it as the closest serviced hotel to Skukuza by road; remember the daily fee and holiday quotas.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Less than a minute from Paul Kruger Gate
- Dinner, bed and breakfast included
- Family rooms and chalets
- High Booking.com score on its own site
Cons
- Outside the park despite the name
- No published rate
- Conservation fee and holiday gate quotas apply each day
What's here
- Family rooms
Read from Kruger Gate Hotel (formerly Protea Hotel Kruger Gate)'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 Kruger Gate Hotel (formerly Protea Hotel Kruger Gate)
Rates on request. No rand figure on the homepage read on 6 October 2026; the hotel says its rates include dinner, bed and breakfast. Staying outside, you pay the SANParks conservation fee (R602, about $36, per international adult until 31 October 2026) each day you enter the park, and day-visitor gate quotas apply in holiday peaks.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
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 Kruger Gate Hotel (formerly Protea Hotel Kruger Gate)
Is the Kruger Gate Hotel inside Kruger?
No. It stands outside Paul Kruger Gate, less than a minute's drive away. Skukuza Rest Camp is 12 km inside the gate.
Is it still a Protea Hotel?
The hotel's own site trades as Kruger Gate Hotel with no Protea or Marriott branding. When the change happened was not published.
What is included at the Kruger Gate Hotel?
The hotel says its rates include dinner, bed and breakfast.