Cottar's 1920s Camp is on 7,600 acres of private land in the Olderkesi Conservancy, in the south-eastern corner of the Maasai Mara adjoining the Serengeti and Loliondo. It is run by the Cottar family, a fifth-generation safari operation dating from 1919, and the camp is furnished to a 1920s safari template. There are eleven tented suites in three configurations. Facilities include a pool, a spa tent, a gym, an organic garden and an Explorer's Tent used for talks. Activities include game drives, some in vintage wood-panelled vehicles, walking safaris, night drives, e-bikes, tracking and cultural exchanges with Maasai from the conservancy's landowning community.
What sets it apart
The 1920s furnishing and vintage vehicles are not decoration alone: the camp is run by the same family that has operated safaris in East Africa since 1919, on its own private conservancy.
Who it suits
Period safari atmosphere; families; remote south-eastern Mara.
The essentials
| Country | Kenya |
| Where | Olderkesi Conservancy, south-eastern Maasai Mara, bordering the Serengeti and Loliondo |
| Property type | tented camp |
| Rooms | 11 tented suites — five luxury doubles (Duma, Swala, Ndovu, Athi, Kudu), four family tents of two en-suite bedrooms each, and two honeymoon tents (Kiboko, Molo), per the operator. Go2Africa's figure of "28 guest accommodations" conflicts and appears to be a bed rather than a unit count. |
What it costs
No rate is published on the property's own site. Third-party reseller range only, not an official published rate: "€990–€1,725 per person sharing" per https://www.go2africa.com/accommodation/cottars-1920s-camp, as listed September 2026.
A reseller's range tells you the bracket, not the price you would pay. We show it because it is the only public figure that exists, and we label it rather than present it as the property's own.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs of African bush and desert country, chosen to suggest the kind of landscape you find around the Serengeti, Tanzania. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had been there. For pictures of the rooms, see the property's own site.