The Musketeers Lodge
Bed and breakfast · Bulawayo, 8 km from the city centre on the Matopos side · The Musketeers Lodge
Budget
Outside the gate
Owner/family-run
A small bed and breakfast in Bulawayo, run by its owners since 1998. It is about 25 km from the World Heritage landscape and sold as near Matopos, which suits a late arrival or an early flight rather than a stay in the hills.
Pros and cons
Pros
- A handy Bulawayo base, not a park lodge itself
- Airport transfers on request, $40 for up to four
- Family-run since 1998
- Wifi and an en-suite room for every guest
Cons
- About 25km from the Matobo World Heritage landscape, not in the hills
- No child policy found, and no minimum stay published
- The lodge's own site gives no rate figures, only Booking.com does
What's here
- Wi-Fi
- Restaurant
- Bar
- En-suite bathrooms
Read from The Musketeers Lodge'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 at The Musketeers Lodge
From about $140 a night, B&B. The lodge's site quotes bed and breakfast rates without figures. Booking.com showed from $140 a night in September 2026. Airport transfer $40 one way for up to four.
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 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.
Questions about The Musketeers Lodge
Is The Musketeers Lodge good for families?
We found no published child policy on the lodge's own site, so ask when you book. It is a small six-room bed and breakfast in Bulawayo rather than a lodge in the Matobo hills, so it suits a family breaking a journey rather than a multi-day stay near the park.
How much does The Musketeers Lodge cost?
The lodge's own site quotes bed and breakfast without a figure. Booking.com showed rates from about $140 a night in September 2026. An airport transfer costs $40 one way for up to four people, useful if you are arriving late or flying out early.
Is The Musketeers Lodge close to Matobo National Park?
Not really; it is a Bulawayo base about 25 km from the Matobo World Heritage landscape, roughly 8 km from the city centre on the Matopos side of town. It suits a night before an early flight or after a late drive out of the hills, not a stay in the park itself.
How do you get to The Musketeers Lodge?
It sits at 42 Annabel Drive, Eloana, in Bulawayo, with GPS coordinates published on its site. Airport transfers are available on request for $40 one way, for up to four guests, or you can self-drive using the published address.