Oilepo Amboseli
Small lodge · Kimana side, 800 m from Kimana Gate · Oilepo
Mid-range
Outside the gate
Safari company
A small lodge of five tented chalets and two family cottages, run by Oilepo, a Kenyan operator with two properties, this one and Oilepo Naivasha, and an office in Kilimani, Nairobi. Its contact page puts it '800m near Kimana gate in the heart of Kenya's Amboseli National Park'. The 800 metres is the useful part. The rest is wrong: Kimana Gate is the park boundary, and OpenStreetMap places the lodge about 2.4 km outside it, so Oilepo sits outside the gate despite its own wording and you pay the KWS fee for each day you drive in. With seven units it is one of the smallest places near the gate. It publishes no rate or child policy, so ask for everything in writing.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Only seven units, small for this strip
- Two family cottages
- Close to Kimana Gate
- Kenyan operator with a sister lodge at Naivasha
Cons
- Sits outside the park despite its 'heart of the park' wording
- No published rates
- No activities listed on the pages read
- We found no published child policy
What's here
- Family rooms
Read from Oilepo Amboseli'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. Amboseli National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryThe non-resident rate, per entry of up to 24 hours, flat all year since 1 October 2025.
- $90per person, per day
- VehicleKSh 600 a day for a car under six seats, about $4.60 at KSh 129.45 to the dollar.
- $5per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $555 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
Leaving the park and driving back in buys a new ticket, so a lodge outside the gate can mean more fee days than nights.
The full fee schedule for Amboseli National ParkRates at Oilepo Amboseli
Rates on request. No rate, season or child policy on the pages read on 4 October 2026. Ask for a per-person quote and the meal plan. The KWS conservation fee of $90 per non-resident adult per day (October 2025 card) applies on park days.
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 on 4 October 2026 from each property's own website or rate card and from KWS's October 2025 conservation-fee card and 2025 Mbugani Homes rate card. Angama's 2026 rate comes from an archived copy of its rate page (captured August 2025), because the live site blocks automated reading. None of the figures is a reseller or agent rate; where a property publishes nothing, the entry says Rates on request, and the Budget, Mid-range or Top-end label then follows the style the property describes rather than a price. Booking.com was not checked for any property. Watch the basis: most camps quote per person sharing, the KWS units per unit and Kibo Villa per villa, and the KWS conservation fee of $90 per non-resident adult per day (October 2025 card) is extra almost everywhere, plus conservancy fees at the conservancy camps.
Questions about Oilepo Amboseli
Is Oilepo Amboseli inside the national park?
No. Its contact page says it is 800 m from Kimana Gate 'in the heart of Kenya's Amboseli National Park', but Kimana Gate is the boundary, and OpenStreetMap places the lodge about 2.4 km outside the park. Budget for the KWS conservation fee of $90 per non-resident adult for each day you drive in.
Is Oilepo Amboseli good for families?
It has two family cottages alongside its five tented chalets, but we found no published child policy or child rates. Ask when you book.
How do I book Oilepo Amboseli?
Write to amboseli@oilepo.com or call +254 798 785 638; the lodge publishes no online rates. Oilepo's corporate office is on Chania Avenue in Kilimani, Nairobi.