Umlilo Lodge
B&B lodge · St Lucia town, 9 Dolfyn Avenue (no gate fee) · Umlilo Lodge
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Mid-range
Inside the park
Ownership unconfirmed
A 13-room B&B lodge at 9 Dolfyn Avenue, St Lucia, with air-conditioning, wifi, an honesty bar and dinner on request at R490. Four rooms are built for accessibility, which is rare in town. Its own 2026/27 rates run from R3,045 a room for two with breakfast, and it takes 25% off stays of five nights or more, which brings a week close to the price of the cheaper guesthouses. The dossier places it among the small local businesses, but its site does not state ownership. Choose it for accessible rooms or a longer stay.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Four accessible rooms
- 25% off five nights or more
- Dinner on request
- Air-conditioning
Cons
- Dearer than most town guesthouses per night
- Dinner costs R490 extra
- No pool listed
What's here
- Wi-Fi
- Bar
Read from Umlilo Lodge'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 Umlilo Lodge
From R3,045 per room for two, B&B. Umlilo's own site, 2026/27: R3,045 to R3,190 per room for two, bed and breakfast (about $93 to $97 each). LekkeSlaap showed R2,835 on 24 September 2026. 25% off stays of five nights or more. Dinner on request R490. 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 Umlilo Lodge
What does Umlilo Lodge cost?
Its own 2026/27 rates are R3,045 to R3,190 a room for two with breakfast, with 25% off five nights or more.
Does Umlilo have accessible rooms?
Yes, four, according to its listing.
Is Umlilo good for families?
Thirteen rooms sleep 32 to 34. We found no published child policy.