Time + Tide Chongwe Suites
Sculpted open-air suites · Chiawa GMA, at the Chongwe confluence · Time + Tide
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Top-end
Outside the gate
Safari company
Two suites built as sculpture as much as accommodation, open to the river and the escarpment behind. Everything is private: your own guide, your own vehicle, your own schedule. Priced accordingly, and it sells out early in the September and October peak.
Why you'd pick it
- Two hand-sculpted open-air suites, no walls to speak of
- Private guide, private vehicle and a butler included
- Complete privacy while sharing the camp's guiding team
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
- En-suite bathrooms
- Solar or 24h power
- Spa or massage
- Laundry
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Guided walks
- Fishing
Read from Time + Tide Chongwe Suites'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. Lower Zambezi National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entry$25 if you are with a licensed operator instead of self-driving.
- $30per person, per day
- VehicleUnder 3 tonnes, foreign registered.
- $15per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $225 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
Camps inside the park bundle a bed-night levy and community fee on top, which together run $85 to $120 per person per night. That is the number that lands on your invoice, not the gate fee.
The full fee schedule for Lower Zambezi National ParkRates
From $950 pppn. 2026: $950 green season, $1,330 safari season, plus $100 per person per night in fees. Butler, private guide and private vehicle included.
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.
Indicative 2026 rates from operators' own rate cards, gathered July 2026. Always confirm with the lodge. Two things shift the real comparison here. First, camps inside the park add $85 to $120 per person per night in bundled park and conservation fees, and most quote that separately. Second, camps in the Chiawa game management area carry no national park entry fee at all unless you cross into the park, which is why a GMA bed can work out far cheaper than the headline rate suggests.