Mara Intrepids
Family-friendly river tented camp · Talek River, central reserve (Narok side) · Heritage Hotels
Mid-range
Inside the park
Safari company
Mara Intrepids is a Heritage Hotels tented camp on the Talek River inside the reserve, which the camp places at the meeting point of the Mara's four game-viewing areas. Its strongest card is children: the Adventurers' Club, run with Maasai naturalists, is designed for children on safari with their parents. Heritage advertises three drives a day and an airstrip three minutes away, but publishes no rates, no tent count and no child ages. Choose it if you travel with children and want a camp built around them inside the reserve; skip it if you want a published price before you enquire.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Inside the reserve on the Talek River
- A children's club with Maasai naturalists
- Three game drives a day advertised
- Airstrip three minutes from camp
Cons
- No published rates
- Tent count not published by the camp
- No published child ages or child rates
- Inclusions not stated
What's here
- Family rooms
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Community visits
Read from Mara Intrepids'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 Intrepids
Rates on request. Heritage Hotels publishes no rate on the camp's pages (read 6 Oct 2026). Ask what the quote includes: the camp lists three drives a day, but not whether drinks, park fees or VAT are inside the price. The reserve ticket is $100 per non-resident adult per 12-hour day from January to June and $200 from July to December (Narok County Finance Act 2023).
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 Intrepids
Is Mara Intrepids good for families?
It is the camp in the reserve most clearly built for children: Heritage runs an Adventurers' Club with Maasai naturalists for children accompanying their parents. We found no published child policy with ages or rates.
How much does Mara Intrepids cost?
Heritage Hotels publishes no rate on the camp's pages. Ask for a quote and check whether park fees are included: $100 per adult per day from January to June, $200 from July to December.
Where is Mara Intrepids?
On the Talek River inside the reserve, at what the camp calls the confluence of the Mara's four game-viewing areas. The camp says its airstrip is a three-minute drive away; it does not name it.