Kids programme

Kruger accommodation featuring specific childrens safari facilities with bush activities and special things to do at the lodge

Fitzpatricks at Jock's childrens safaris

Jock has an excellent small family-friendly lodge next door, offering a range of safari and lodge-based activities for kids, including a trip through the Kruger to the Stevenson-Hamilton museum at Skukuza. Childcare and babysitting available

Ulusaba ranger entertaining kids in Cub's Club

Ulusaba Cub's Club

Ulusaba offers a Cub's Club for kids in the safe environs of its koppie-top eyrie. There is a mini-Ranger's course backed up by a wide variety of activities produced on demand. Cookie and story-telling bedtimes, with babysitting available.

Ngala & Kirkmans WILDchild

&Beyond Lodges' WILDchild programme is on offer at two greater Kruger destinations with a range of activities designed by each lodge and its staff. Levels of enthusiasm shown in arranging fishing, cooking and imaginative games for the kids is commendable, as are excellent guide interactions and the scrapbooks the kids keep.

Sabi Sabi EleFun centre

Sabi Sabi Bush Lodge has a fully-fledged specialist facility for the kids, the EleFun Centre. It offers daily schedules of activities tailored to two different age ranges. It provides somewhere supervised to play and swim, and to generally entertain the children, so adults can enjoy some safari time away from the family. Babysitting is available.

Lukimbi Childrens Programme

Lukimbi accepts children over 2; under eights must join parents on a privately-hired drive vehicle. Activities include track casting, arts & crafts, treasure hunts and game walks. There is an unsupervised playroom and shallow kids pool. Babysitting is available

MalaMala Junior Rangers

MalaMala Main Camp welcomes children of all ages with baby-sitting and a Junior Ranger's Programme for kids older than 4, who may also join drives. Activities include tracking animals by spoor & cooking a bush breakfast. Board games and DVDs at the lodge.