St Lucia Wilds
Self-catering units · St Lucia town (no gate fee) · St Lucia Wilds
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Budget
Inside the park
Ownership unconfirmed
Four self-catering units in St Lucia with a pool, wifi, parking and braai, according to its own site, which publishes no rate. The same site carries useful town information: ATMs for FNB, Nedbank, Standard Bank, Capitec and Bidvest, Caltex and Engen fuel, Avis car hire and the 40 km/h town speed limit. It does not say who owns it. Choose it if you want to cook for yourself in a small complex; ask for the price. There is no gate fee to stay in town.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Self-catering with pool and braai
- Wifi and parking
- Small complex
Cons
- No published rate
- Ownership not stated
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
- Self-catering
Read from St Lucia Wilds'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. 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 St Lucia Wilds
Rates on request. Its own site publishes no rate. No gate fee to reach St Lucia town. Ask whether VAT is included.
Self-catering. You cook. Nothing else is included unless the entry says so.
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 St Lucia Wilds
What does St Lucia Wilds cost?
Its own site publishes no rate. Ask.
Are there shops and ATMs in St Lucia?
Yes: ATMs for the main banks, two fuel stations and car hire, according to St Lucia Wilds' own information page.
Is it good for families?
We found no published child policy.