Lake Nakuru Lodge

Overview of Lake Nakuru Lodge

Kenya, Lake Nakuru

Situated in Kenya's Lake Nakuru National Park, known for its large flamingo population, Lake Nakuru Lodge is a comfortable safari lodge offering excellent service and gorgeous natural surrounds. The lodge is built to blend with the environment, and offers exceptional views of the passing wildlife. Lake Nakuru Lodge offers a range of rooms to accommodate all tastes.

The acacia and euphorbia forests are havens for animals during the heat of the day, making Lake Nakuru an excellent game-viewing destination, whilst the aptly name Hippo Pool is a favourite spot for picnics. Activities include horse-back safari excursions, game drives, bird-watching and plant identification walks.

Highlights & Activities

What's on offer whilst on this itinerary?
  • Warm, friendly service & good food
  • Large pool & exceptional views
  • Famous for seeing flamingo flocks
  • Excellent game viewing & horse safaris
  • Great opportunity to see rhino

Bird watching

Game drives

Horse riding

Local village visits

Specialist guides

General Facilities

Lake Nakuru is home to a wide variety of game and birdlife, providing memorable game viewing and bird watching. The lodge overlooks the National Park where you can enjoy frequent sightings of warthog, waterbuck, leopard and both black and white rhino. The lake is known for its large flamingo population while the Hippo Pool, north of the lake, is home to a resident pod of hippo.Other activities on offer include horseback safari excursions and informative nature walks through the forest. Visit the sport grounds or recreation centre before cooling off beside the large swimming pool overlooking the beautiful park. After a day of safari activities, you can enjoy sundowners at one of the two inviting bars that overlook the lake.

Bar

Restaurant

Swimming pool

Dining

Cuisine at Lake Nakuru Lodge caters for all tastes and includes outside dining, bush barbeques and African theme nights.

Expert Opinion

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Emma Hill

Emma Hill

Africa Safari Expert

Affordable lodge that provides a bird-eye view of the lake. Highlights for me are the game-viewing in the area for rhino, pelican and flamingos.

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Traveller Reviews

  • TM
    Tarek Massoud
    traveler

    Lake Nakuru Lodge is beautiful with a very nice swimming pool, however the rooms are better in the other 2 lodges

  • EH
    Emma Hill
    employee

    Affordable lodge that provides a bird-eye view of the lake. Highlights for me are the game-viewing in the area for rhino, pelican and flamingos.

  • SC
    Steven Cooper
    traveler

    We stayed at Lake Nakuru Lodge which was a charming place, if a bit like a hotel. Great food, great staff. Great surroundings. Baboons visited the backyard of our room, watching us as we watched them. We did a later afternoon game drive where our driver pointed out the differences between the giraffes here and those in the Mara. We watched more rhinos and, just as the drive was about to end, just as dusk was about to surrender to complete darkness, our driver got one of those frantic calls. And off we went. And there, quite far from the road, but remarkably visible, sat a leopard, seemingly aware of its own elusiveness. Beautiful. Absolutely stunning.

  • NC
    Nilda Colon
    traveler

    We have very nice memories from our trip and many fun anecdotes. Lake Nakuru for the rhinos. It was a dream come true.

  • DM
    Deborah Mur
    traveler

    Lake Nakuru lodge also exceeded our expectations. The accommodations were comfortable, clean and the service was great. Our rooms were always readily available and conveniently located. Lake Nakuru has lovely gardens and animals were close by. Both lodges had nightly entertainment. The meals were very good at both lodges – all buffet style with lots of options – a large selection of fresh fruits and vegetables (we had 1 vegetarian in the group), often a pasta or omelet chef. Deserts are less successful but that was a good thing. No matter what time we arrived, there was always plenty of selection.

  • AB
    Anna Benifield
    traveler

    Amboseli, Lake Nakuru, and the Masai Mara were beyond description. Our experience at each place was fantastic. Every place we stayed was over-the-top in service and quality.

  • MD
    Michel Daenen
    traveler

    From the Pollmans tours the best lodges was Lake Nakuru, view from our hotel was incredible and in a short time you can see a lot of different animals in action.

TM
Tarek Massoud
traveler

Lake Nakuru Lodge is beautiful with a very nice swimming pool, however the rooms are better in the other 2 lodges

EH
Emma Hill
employee

Affordable lodge that provides a bird-eye view of the lake. Highlights for me are the game-viewing in the area for rhino, pelican and flamingos.

SC
Steven Cooper
traveler

We stayed at Lake Nakuru Lodge which was a charming place, if a bit like a hotel. Great food, great staff. Great surroundings. Baboons visited the backyard of our room, watching us as we watched them. We did a later afternoon game drive where our driver pointed out the differences between the giraffes here and those in the Mara. We watched more rhinos and, just as the drive was about to end, just as dusk was about to surrender to complete darkness, our driver got one of those frantic calls. And off we went. And there, quite far from the road, but remarkably visible, sat a leopard, seemingly aware of its own elusiveness. Beautiful. Absolutely stunning.

NC
Nilda Colon
traveler

We have very nice memories from our trip and many fun anecdotes. Lake Nakuru for the rhinos. It was a dream come true.

DM
Deborah Mur
traveler

Lake Nakuru lodge also exceeded our expectations. The accommodations were comfortable, clean and the service was great. Our rooms were always readily available and conveniently located. Lake Nakuru has lovely gardens and animals were close by. Both lodges had nightly entertainment. The meals were very good at both lodges – all buffet style with lots of options – a large selection of fresh fruits and vegetables (we had 1 vegetarian in the group), often a pasta or omelet chef. Deserts are less successful but that was a good thing. No matter what time we arrived, there was always plenty of selection.