Tanzania’s Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge has been featured in the list of top 100 hotels worldwide according to the new list, called Top 1,000 World’s Best Hotels unveiled by French company La Liste this week.
The rankings are not a result of a judging panel that conducts in-person visits, but rather a compilation of customer ratings on booking websites, published reviews from travel magazines, global and local media coverage, as well as other travel guides.
According to the list Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge is perhaps the only one hotel from the East African Community (EAC) region that made it to the list of the world’s top 100 hotels ranking in the 44th position.
In April 2020, heavy rains caused the Grumeti River to spill its banks and flood this beloved Tanzanian lodge — causing enough damage to necessitate a total rebuild.
AndBeyond tapped the original designers, Fox Browne Creative and Jack Alexander, to create a property that blends seamlessly into the landscape.
Indeed, the entire place seems to revolve around the Grumeti: the low-slung buildings follow a bow of the river, and each of the 10 stand-alone, semi-tented suites has floor-to-ceiling windows and a veranda that overlooks the water, where hippos splash and crocodiles lurk.
On game drives, guests may be lucky enough to spot black-and-white colobus monkeys, found nowhere else in the Serengeti (though large prides of lions are the real draw).
One of the more memorable moments for a stay at Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge is dinner in the bush: roaring fires, and instead of music, the distant sound of whooping hyenas
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