Lobo Lodge like all Tanzania Wildlife Lodges has an excellent location. Lobo Wildlife Lodge is situated in North of Serengeti National Park Tanzania, the most spectacular scenario of wildlife in its pure essence. Lobo Wildlife Camp is a dream of romanticism in its remote location, strategically hidden inside an enormous volcanic rocky outcrop. It is the biggest hotel on the Tanzania migration route. You can watch and witness the great annual wildebeest migration by while on the pool. Artistically made of wood and glass elements around clusters of large boulders, harmoniously merging with its surroundings, Lobo Lodge affords from its raised location stunning views of the most amazing natural spectacle to be seen on Earth.
Lobo wildlife Hotel is ideally set in the Animal migratory route of over two and a half million of wildebeest in their desperate struggle for survival. It is the first lodge in the way from Kenya to Tanzania, only 28 km from the Masai Mara. Lobo Wildlife Lodge invites you to an unforgettable Tanzania Safari Experience from its privileged location, unrivalled by any other both for game viewing and scenery. A waterhole below the Lodge attracts a variety of wild visitors during the day and is lit each evening revealing an interesting array of nocturnal animals, providing a close encounter with the very authentic Wildlife.
Lobo Wildlife Lodge was first built in 1968 and was run by the Tanzania government on a massive kopje, merging completely into the surrounding landscape, considered to be one of the most beautiful lodges in Tanzania; its beauty can be described as breathtaking. Lobo Hotel overlooks one of the most picturesque plains in the Serengeti. It features 76 rooms with private bathrooms and a restaurant situated amidst huge walls of granite. The swimming pool and bar, both dug into the rock, afford breathtaking views over the bushy plains and savanna dotted with herds of buffalo and elephant. Climb atop the kopje to the hotel's sundowner deck, and watch the horizon ablaze with the setting African sun. Lobo Wildlife Lodge was one of the two original accommodations, hand picked and specifically built around Lobo area in Northern Serengeti. This was done strategically due to the abundance of resident and migratory wildlife that would often traverse the area at various times of the year.
Lobo Wildlife Lodge was first built in 1968 and was run by the government until two years ago. The old-fashioned, stone structure of the building has effectively remained unchanged since being under new management; the lodge has been built in and around the volcanic rocks of the distinctive Lobo Kopje, in the northern Serengeti. It's a mixture of jumbled, rounded rocks – some boulders the size of a hand, others the size of a small tower block. Lobo Wildlife Lodge is one of few lodges in the Serengeti National Park to have really excellent views – and there are several viewpoints here where you can watch the sun rising and setting, and get a really amazing view over this undulating corner of the northern Serengeti.
Lobo Wildlife Lodge is a large lodge; all of these are fairly monotonously placed in a number of square, box-like adjoining blocks. The layout of Lobo Lodge means that all of the rooms are directly next to one another and down long, white painted corridors which are often open on one side. Inside each room is decorated in the same, no-nonsense style: white, stone walls, highly-polished wooden floors, twin beds with uninspiring fabrics, and stainless steel light-fittings reminiscent of the 1970s, but do enjoy the big glass windows and tiny terraces that the rooms have, as some have great views. All of the bedrooms at Lobo have an en suite bathroom. Like the bedrooms, these bathrooms are practical and simple.
They have a white tiled bath, with a shower attachment over this, a flush toilet and a white sink set into a polished wooden surround, below a large mirror. There are a couple of complimentary toiletries, and clean towels. Lobo Wildlife Lodge has a dining room, a bar and a swimming pool – and in these larger, general areas the designers have often tried hard to incorporate some of the kopje's huge rocks. Integral to the dining room is the trunk of a tree, encased in a square glass tube, which reaches up and opens to the roof. We're told that there used to be a leopard that would come down here, in full view of the diners! (This was last recorded in 1974!)
Despite the simple accommodation here, the real star of the show is the scenery and the wildlife. Lobo Kopje is a very photogenic corner of the Serengeti – with huge granite kopjes rising out of undulating plains. It also has excellent resident game. There are two separate prides of lion, as well as a fleeting leopard plus a large herd of buffalo, a family group of elephants, and plenty of plains game. The best of these sightings were in the very early morning, so get going early here if you can. The great animal migration passes through the Lobo area on its way south, down the eastern side of the Serengeti National Park and Loliondo Game Controlled Area, between about October and November. You may also see elements of the migration heading north around there, during August and September. So whilst Lobo works as a game safari destination all year round, it's particularly worth going to between about August and November. Note that because it's so far to the north of the park, the game-drive roads around here can be marvelously quiet
Lobo Lodge Hotel Accommodation
Lobo Wildlife Lodge has 76 rooms over two levels, including one presidential suite. Specifically, the accommodations include: 57 twin rooms, 18 double rooms (king-size bed) and one presidential room. The Lodge rooms have a view over the Serengeti plains, and are naturally ventilated and fitted with mosquito nets over the air vents.
It is quite common to find wildlife like giraffes near your bedroom, munching on the leaves less than a meter away or the bush babies at night climbing the branches of the tree only seen by night vision binoculars or by a trained pair of eyes spotting two glowing eyes of the lemurs. Lobo Lodge has to be Serengeti's best architecturally designed lodge, carefully concealed between rocky outcrops, which provides a unique and natural wildlife experience. 18 of the rooms are family inter-connecting rooms. Third beds, as well as limited baby cots are available on request.
Lobo Lodge Hotel Restaurant
Meals are served in the Fig Tree Restaurant prepared by well-trained chefs serving a variety of international and local menus. The restaurant is open from 7.00 to 9.00 am for breakfast, 12.30 to 2.30 pm for lunch and 7.30 to 9.00 pm for dinner. For early risers, Lobo Wildlife Lodge serves coffee and biscuits starting from 6.00 am.
Other relaxation venues include The Laguna Lounge. The lounge is located within the immediate vicinity
of the restaurant and opens on to a terrace, which provides an outstanding view over the park's wide-open spaces. Bar over two levels with open hearth, open from 11 am to 11 pm. The lounge was named "Laguna" further to the launch and tests conducted on the Renault vehicle of the same name in January 1994 attended by 700 international journalists.
Lobo Lodge Hotel Facilities:
● The Fig Tree Restaurant
● The Laguna Lounge Bar
● TV Lounge
● Housekeeping Services
● Laundry
● Babysitting (On Request)
● Swimming Pool
● Telephone & Radio Communication Facilities
● Currency Exchange Service
● Boutique & Souvenir Shop
The Lobo Wildlife Lodge is a member of The Hotels & Lodges Tanzania Ltd that owns 4 remarkable properties:
1. Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge Hotel
2. Seronera Wildlife Lodge Hotel
3. Lobo Wildlife Lodge Hotel
4. Lake Manyara Hotel Lodge
Hot-Air Balloon Safari & Picnic Lunches offered as EXTRAS!
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