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Budget
Outside the gate
Ownership unconfirmed
A city lodge in Hillside, Bulawayo, about 5 km from the centre, graded by the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority. Useful for a night in town before or after the park; it offers nothing in the Matobo hills itself.
Why you'd pick it
- A Bulawayo base, not a park lodge
- Backup power
- Conference room for 65
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
- Restaurant
- En-suite bathrooms
- Solar or 24h power
- Laundry
Read from Sethule 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
From $70 a night, room only. From the lodge's own site: standard room $70 a night and executive $90, bed only. Normal rates do not apply during the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair.
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.