Granite Park Lodges
Self-catering lodges and camping · Bulawayo suburbs, about 30 minutes from the park · Granite Park Lodges (family-owned)
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Budget
Outside the gate
Owner/family-run
Four self-catering lodges and a lawned campsite on family land on the edge of Bulawayo, about half an hour's drive from the park. A town base with a pool rather than a place in the hills.
Why you'd pick it
- Family land for four generations
- Self-catering with a rock pool
- Camping with power
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
- Family rooms
- Campsite
- Self-catering
Arranged from the lodge:
- Birding
Read from Granite Park Lodges'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. Matobo National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryThe ZimParks rate if you drive in from outside.
- $18per person, per day
- VehicleForeign-registered car, $10 a day visiting and $3 staying inside; a Zimbabwe-registered hire car pays $5 and $2.
- $10per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $138 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
World's View and the painted caves need a separate NMMZ ticket, $10 per non-resident adult, which is not included in these sums.
The full fee schedule for Matobo National ParkRates
From $100 a night per lodge. From the lodge's own site, no year given: double lodge $100 a night for two, family lodge $160 for up to four, both bed only; camping $10 per person; breakfast $10.
Self-catering. You cook. Nothing else is included unless the entry says so.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked in September 2026. Where a lodge publishes its own rate we use it, with its date; for Amalinda, Big Cave and Shashani, which do not print rates on their own sites, the figure comes from a named reseller or agent and says so. The price filter and sort use per-person rates only; lodges that price per room or per unit show their rate in the text but carry no sortable figure. ZimParks entry is extra almost everywhere: $18 per international adult per day driving in, $10 sleeping inside, and the NMMZ ticket for World's View and the caves is $10 on top.