Maputaland Guest House
B&B guesthouse · St Lucia town, 1 Kabeljou Street (no gate fee) · Maputaland Guest House
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Budget
Inside the park
Owner/family-run
A five-room B&B at 1 Kabeljou Street in St Lucia, run by its hosts, with a pool, wifi, parking and laundry, from R1,600 a night for two on LekkeSlaap. That makes it one of the cheaper B&B rates in town with a pool. Breakfast is included; for dinner you go into town. The cruises leave from the estuary nearby and Cape Vidal is about 53 minutes north. Choose it if you want a small, host-run place at a budget price.
Pros and cons
Pros
- From R1,600 for two with breakfast
- Pool and wifi
- Laundry
- Host-run
Cons
- Directory price, season not stated
- No dinner listed
- Only five rooms, so book ahead in holidays
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
- Laundry
We could not reach a website for Maputaland Guest House, so this list is incomplete by definition. Ask them directly.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. iSimangaliso Wetland Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryGate fee and conservation levy plus the R12 accommodation levy, counted per day because no official document says whether multi-night guests pay the gate fee once.
- $9per person, per day
- VehicleR74 car fee, counted per day for the same reason.
- $5per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $69 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
Sleeping inside the boundary is what keeps that low. Overnight guests add the R12 accommodation levy per night, against $8 a day for anyone driving in from outside.
These are the 2024/25 rates, which expired on 30 November 2025; no newer table has been published. Sodwana, the Coastal Forest and Kosi Bay charge about half (R71 per international adult). Lodges in St Lucia town are outside every gate.
The full fee schedule for iSimangaliso Wetland ParkRates at Maputaland Guest House
From $49 pppn (reseller rate). LekkeSlaap, read 24 September 2026: R1,600 per night for two, bed and breakfast. No gate fee to reach St Lucia town. VAT treatment is not stated.
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 against the research dossier of 24 September 2026. State-camp prices come from Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife's 2023/24 tariff (1 November 2023 to 31 October 2024), the last official camp tariff that could be read; treat them as a floor, because iSimangaliso has published none since it took the camps over on 1 March 2026. Thonga Beach Lodge, Kosi Forest Lodge, Coral Divers, Mabibi Beach Camp and Umlilo Lodge are priced from their own sites. Every figure marked 'reseller rate' comes from SA-Venues, LekkeSlaap, Siyabona or a booking agent, uses that site's 'from' price, and usually prices a room for two; we halve it to give a per-person figure. Dollar figures use R16.36 to the dollar (24 September 2026) and are rounded. Gate fees are extra everywhere except in St Lucia town: R62 per South African adult and R130 per international adult at the dearest gates on the 2024/25 table, which expired on 30 November 2025 with no successor published.
Questions about Maputaland Guest House
What does Maputaland Guest House cost?
LekkeSlaap lists R1,600 a night for two, bed and breakfast.
Does it have a pool?
Yes, according to the LekkeSlaap listing, along with wifi, parking and laundry.
Is it good for families?
Five rooms sleep 13. We found no published child policy.