Mara Bushtops
Large luxury tents with spa · Bushtops' own conservancy (name not published) · Bushtops Camps
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Outside the gate
Owner-run
Mara Bushtops is a family-run camp of twelve large luxury tents in what it calls the Bushtops Conservancy, its own private wildlife area outside the reserve, where only its guests and the Maasai have access. The camp offers private night drives, off-road drives and walking safaris, plus a live stream from its salt lick, visits to Kakiya Cave and the Amani spa, which it says won a World Luxury Spa Award for best safari spa three years running. Which named conservancy the land belongs to is not stated. No rate or email is published. Choose it for a spa and private drives; skip it if you need to know exactly where you are.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Private conservancy for Bushtops guests
- Night drives, off-road drives and walks
- Award-winning spa, on its own claim
- Family-run
Cons
- No published rates
- Conservancy name not published
- No email on the page
- We found no published child policy
What's here
- Spa or massage
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Guided walks
- Night drives
Read from Mara Bushtops'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. Masai Mara National Reserve charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryThe non-resident rate from 1 July to 31 December; $100 from 1 January to 30 June.
- $200per person, per day
- VehicleKSh 1,000 a day for a car under six seats, about $8 at KSh 129 to the dollar.
- $8per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $1224 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The figure above uses the July to December rate. From January to June the same sum halves for the people. A day is 06:00 to 18:00, and guests in the conservancies outside the reserve pay only on the days they drive in.
The full fee schedule for Masai Mara National ReserveRates at Mara Bushtops
Rates on request. No rate captured from the camp's page (read 6 Oct 2026), and no email is shown there. Ask whether the conservancy fee and any reserve days ($100 or $200 per adult per day) are included.
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 on 6 October 2026 against each operator's own website or 2026 rate sheet, in US dollars per person per night sharing unless the entry says otherwise. One figure is a reseller's, not the owner's: Olonana Lodge's $2,450 (safari.com, 6 Oct 2026), because A&K's own page would not load. Angama's rates come from a January 2026 copy of its site, since the live site blocks automated reading. On top of nearly every rate sits Narok County's reserve ticket: $100 per non-resident adult per 12-hour day (6 am to 6 pm) from January to June and $200 from July to December, $50 for a child of 9 to 17, free at 8 and under. Conservancy camps add their own nightly fee, $130 per adult in Mara North, Olare Motorogi and Naboisho in 2026 and $116 in Mara Siana, unless the entry says it is included.
Questions about Mara Bushtops
Where is Mara Bushtops?
In a private wildlife area the camp calls the Bushtops Conservancy, outside the reserve. The camp does not say which of the Mara conservancies it belongs to.
Does Mara Bushtops do night drives?
Yes. It lists private night and off-road game drives and walking safaris.
Does Mara Bushtops have a spa?
Yes, the Amani spa, which the camp says was voted best safari spa in Africa three years running at the World Luxury Spa Awards.