Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge
Suites built into the landscape, plus one villa · Borders the reserve's southern section. Sabi Sabi calls its own land the 'Sabie Game Reserve' and is not on the Sabi Sand Wildtuin's own lodge list, though the fence between the two properties and Kruger came down in 1993. · Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve
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High-end
Inside the park
Group-owned (Sabi Sabi)
Earth Lodge is Sabi Sabi's flagship property, 12 suites built into the landscape rather than raised above it, plus a separate Amber Villa. It is the most expensive of the operator's four lodges at R44,000 per person sharing, unchanged between the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 seasons, with drives, walks and most meals and drinks included. Add Sabi Sabi's own SGR Conservation Levy, R450 per person per night rising to R495 in 2027-2028. Earth Lodge shares the operator's own reserve-wide traversing figure of 5,400 hectares.
Why you'd pick it
- 5,400 hectares, Sabi Sabi's own published reserve-wide figure for what it calls the Sabie Game Reserve, shared across all four of its lodges
- The most expensive of Sabi Sabi's four lodges at R44,000 per person sharing
- Charges Sabi Sabi's own SGR Conservation Levy: R450 per person per night for the 2026-2027 season, rising to R495 for 2027-2028. This is Sabi Sabi's own levy, not the Sabi Sand Wildtuin's Guest Conservation Contribution. A 15% festive surcharge applies from 20 December to 5 January.
Rates
From R44,000 pppn. 2026-2027 season (1 Mar 2026-28 Feb 2027): R44,000 per person sharing for a Luxury Suite. 2027-2028 season: the same R44,000, unchanged. The Amber Villa (4 guests, extra guests at the standard per-person rate) is a separate whole-unit rate at R165,000 a night in both seasons. VAT included. Converted at 1 USD = 17.6 ZAR on 16 September 2026, R44,000 is about $2,500. On top of the room rate: the SGR Conservation Levy, R450 per person per night for 2026-2027, R495 for 2027-2028.
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.