Rocktail Beach Camp
Tented camp with dive centre · Coastal Forest section, Rocktail Bay · Not confirmed (Maputaland Travel portfolio since 2018)
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Mid-range
Inside the park
Safari company
A camp of 17 tented rooms with a pool and dive centre in the coastal forest at Rocktail Bay, set up as a joint venture with the Mpukane community. Wilderness Safaris ran it for more than 25 years; from May 2018 it moved into Maputaland Travel's portfolio with Wilderness keeping ownership, and Wilderness's site now says it does not own camps in South Africa's safari areas. Who operates it today, and whether it is taking bookings, is not confirmed, and no rate is published. Choose it only after the operator confirms your booking in writing.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Community joint venture
- Dive centre and pool
- On the northern turtle coast
Cons
- Current operator not confirmed
- No published rate
- Sand-track access
What's here
- Swimming pool
Arranged from the lodge:
- Community visits
We could not reach a website for Rocktail Beach Camp, 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 Rocktail Beach Camp
Rates on request. No current published rate. The Coastal Forest gate fee is R34 per South African adult and R71 per international adult on the 2024/25 table, plus levies. Ask whether VAT is 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.
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 Rocktail Beach Camp
Who runs Rocktail Beach Camp?
Not confirmed. Wilderness Safaris ran it for over 25 years and moved it into Maputaland Travel's portfolio in 2018; Wilderness now says it does not own camps in South Africa's safari areas.
What does Rocktail cost?
No current rate is published.
Is Rocktail good for families?
We found no published child policy.