Zebra and wildebeest scattered across the Mara plains at dawn, hills fading behind a lone acacia

Kenya · 5 days

Angama Family Safari

Four nights at Angama Mara with the first two children under twelve as the lodge's guests, with a private vehicle throughout, a family photoshoot, and childminding every evening so dinner is yours.

Duration: 5 days, 4 nights · by road throughout
Where: Kenya
Experiences: Road Safaris
Board: All-inclusive
Price: FromUSD 1,331per guest per night, sharing

Overview

The shape of the journey

Angama sells nights, not itineraries, so this is a stay rather than a route: four nights at Angama Mara on the escarpment above the Maasai Mara, priced per guest per night, with the first two children under twelve staying as the lodge's guests. The rate assumes two adults and two children sharing.

What makes it work for families is the private vehicle. Game drives run when your children are ready rather than when the camp is, and if the afternoon collapses you go back. Between drives there is a proper roster of things for them to do, and childminding from six to ten in the evening so that dinner belongs to the adults again.

The same offer runs at Angama Amboseli and at the four-tent Angama Safari Camp in the Mara Triangle, both of which also take families. Ask us and we will price the alternative.

Where you'll stay

The camps and hotels

Angama Mara

Two camps of tented suites high on the Great Rift Valley wall above the Mara. Two sets of interconnecting suites in each camp, enclosed passageways between them, and under-twelves can share with you on a triple set-up.

Day by day

How the days run

A proposal, not a timetable. The routing, timings and inclusions are confirmed in writing before you pay anything.

Day 1
Arrive at Angama Mara
You come up onto the escarpment and the Mara opens out a thousand feet below. Rooms are tented suites with floor-to-ceiling glass at the front and a deck; the interconnecting pairs are the family ones. An afternoon drive if there is light, or the view and nothing else.
Angama MaraAll meals
Day 2
Out with the guides
Your own vehicle and your own guide, which on a family safari is the whole difference. Angama's guides are used to children and pitch the day accordingly. Back when you have had enough, not when the schedule says.
Angama MaraAll meals
Day 3
The Shamba, and the kitchen
A morning on the lodge's vegetable garden: the scavenger hunt, the greenhouse, the worm farm, the bug hotel, the chickens out to the compost and back, with an apron of your own to take home. Or into the kitchen with the baker to make something the family eats that evening.
Angama MaraAll meals
Day 4
A warrior, and the beading studio
A morning or afternoon walking with a Maasai warrior: the plants, the remedies, and rather more information about animal droppings than anyone expected. Later, the Maasai Mamas in the beading studio will teach you their work, and you keep what you make.
Angama MaraAll meals
Day 5
Depart
A last morning on the deck, and the photographs from your shoot to take with you.
Breakfast

What's covered

Inclusions and exclusions

In line with the itinerary above. Your written quote is the version that counts.

Included

A private safari vehicle for the duration of your stay
A one-hour photoshoot on the property
Childminding daily between 18h00 and 22h00
The first two children under twelve stay as Angama's guests
Daily children's activities and children's menus

Not included

Maasai Mara park fees
The Angama Foundation contribution
Additional guest experiences and Safari Shop purchases
In-tent massages and gratuities

Price & terms

What it costs

FromUSD 1,331per guest per night, sharing

What this price covers

Rates are per person sharing unless the line above says otherwise.
Prices move with the season and with availability, and are held only once your quote is confirmed in writing.
The day-by-day above is a draft. Final routing, timings, inclusions and any park or permit fees are confirmed with your quote.

Before you go

Worth reading before this trip

The best time to visit Kenya, month by monthJanuary and February, then July to October, are the months we send most people.
Safari packing list for kidsWhat children need for a week on safari in Kenya, on top of your own list: their documents, clothes for cold mornings and hot middays, a health kit dosed for their age, and what keeps them watching in the vehicle.
Safari packing list for KenyaA working checklist for a week on safari in Kenya: the bag, the layers for a cold six o'clock start, optics, health and documents, with quantities for seven nights and what changes by season.
Kenya safari cost: where the money goesWhat you pay for on a Kenya safari, why two similar weeks can differ threefold, who sets the park fees, and how to get more from the same budget.
Practical facts by countryPlugs, currency, time zone, driving side, SIM, tipping and tap water.