Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge
Luxury tented lodge on raised platforms · Savute Channel, Savute section · Belmond
Top-end
Inside the park
Safari company
Belmond's 12-tent lodge in the heart of the Savute Channel, on raised platforms, with its own airstrip and helipad. Belmond is a hotel group, and on 2026 reseller figures this is the most expensive lodge inside the park. What you get for it: at least two game activities a day, cultural activities, a lookout hide over the waterhole, a heated swimming pool and a spa tent, with meals and drinks included. Guests arrive by air, 50 minutes from Maun or 40 from Kasane. Belmond lists children's amenities and activities without an age, and chobe.com gives a minimum of six. Choose it for comfort in Savuti; skip it if the budget matters.
Pros and cons
Pros
- A lookout hide over the waterhole
- Heated pool and spa tent
- Own airstrip, so the transfer is short
- Meals and drinks included, per Belmond
Cons
- The highest rates inside the park, peaking in Christmas week
- Rates come from a reseller, not from Belmond
- Minimum age six, per the reseller
- No open months published
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Spa or massage
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Community visits
Read from Belmond Savute Elephant 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. Chobe National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryP270 a day for non-residents, roughly $20 at P13.5 to the dollar.
- $20per person, per day
- VehicleP115 a day for a foreign-registered vehicle, roughly $9 (P30 for a Botswana-registered or hired car).
- $9per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $147 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The full fee schedule for Chobe National ParkRates at Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge
From $1,014 pppn (reseller rate). Belmond's page shows no rate. Reseller chobe.com, read 4 October 2026, per person sharing per night, deluxe tented room, 2026: US$1,014 (7 January to 31 March), US$1,794 (1 April to 31 May), US$2,419 (1 June to 30 September), US$1,794 (1 October to 14 November), US$1,014 (15 November to 23 December), US$2,794 (24 to 31 December). chobe.com lists all meals, local-brand drinks, two activities a day, park fees and laundry. 2027 rates were not yet published.
All inclusive. The rate covers meals, drinks, activities and the transfers named below. Park fees are charged separately.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked on 4 October 2026, per person per night sharing, from each property's own website or rate sheet where one is published. Desert & Delta, Belmond, &Beyond, Bush Ways, Machaba and several Kasane lodges publish none, so those figures come from two resellers, chobe.com and the Siyabona network (safari.co.za), and are marked as a reseller rate; the houseboat and Ichingo figures from chobe.com are in South African rand. SKL's campsite table is undated. Kwando Safaris, African Bush Camps and several smaller lodges publish no rates at all. Park entry is P270 per non-resident per day for a private visitor and P190 on an operator's activity, and many Kasane packages leave it out, so check what your rate includes.
Questions about Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge
Is Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge inside the park?
Yes. Belmond's own page gives the address as Chobe National Park and places the lodge in the heart of the Savute Channel.
What does Savute Elephant Lodge cost in 2026?
Belmond publishes no rate. chobe.com lists US$1,014 per person per night in the low months, US$1,794 in April, May and October to mid-November, US$2,419 from June to September and US$2,794 over Christmas week, including meals, local drinks, two activities a day and park fees.
Is Savute Elephant Lodge good for families?
Belmond lists children's amenities and activities but no minimum age. chobe.com, a reseller, gives a minimum age of six, with children 6 to 12 paying 50 percent of the adult rate in low and shoulder season and 75 percent in high season.