Idube Game Reserve
Air-conditioned suites, each with a private pool · West and central sector, served by Newington Gate. Independently owned, not part of any group. · Idube Game Reserve
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High-end
Inside the park
Owner-run
Idube sits in the west-central sector with 14 suites, each with a private pool, split across three categories. Rates run from R16,000 per person sharing in the cheapest bands of 2026 and 2027 up to R19,250 in the busiest 2027 period, three meals and two daily safaris included, a bush walk added once you stay two nights or more. A compulsory conservation levy is named as excluded from the rate, but Idube does not state the amount on its own rates page, and it does not publish a traversing figure.
Why you'd pick it
- Every suite has its own private pool
- 2 Makubela Suites, 8 Safari Suites and 4 Linked Suites with shared outdoor space, 14 in total
- Names a compulsory conservation levy as excluded but does not publish its amount
Rates
From R16,000 pppn. 2026: R16,000 per person sharing (16 Nov-19 Dec 2026), R18,000 the rest of the year. 2027: R16,000 per person sharing (8 Jan-31 May and 16 Nov-19 Dec 2027), R19,250 the rest of the year. Converted at 1 USD = 17.6 ZAR on 16 September 2026, the cheapest band is about $909. A compulsory conservation levy is named as excluded from the rate but no amount is stated on the rates page.
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 and fees come from each lodge's own website, read 16 September 2026, cross-checked against the Sabi Sand Wildtuin's own published Guest Conservation Contribution and access fees at sabisand.co.za (the landowners' association, spelled without an 's') and against a reserve overview compiled the same day. Two booking-agent microsites, sabisands.com and sabisands.co.za (both spelled with an 's', unrelated to the association), were checked for cross-reference only and are not used as a source for any rate or levy figure. Ulusaba's own site quotes no nightly rate for its three lodges, so those are recorded as rates on request. Sabi Sabi and MalaMala are not on the Sabi Sand Wildtuin's own lodge list, and neither states whether the reserve's own conservation contribution applies to a stay there; both maintain their own separate levy or none at all, as noted lodge by lodge.