andBeyond Bateleur Camp

Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

andBeyond Bateleur Camp is a tented safari camp on a private concession in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Travel + Leisure readers ranked it No. 1 in the World's Best Awards 2025 list of the 100 favourite hotels in the world, with a score of 100. The magazine calls it a "luxe base for seeking out the Big Five" and singles out the caring staff.

The camp has 19 tents, each with indoor and outdoor showers, furniture sourced locally and inspired by the surroundings, and a private deck. T+L mentions meals in the open on the banks of the Mara River and hot-air balloon flights over the Great Migration among the experiences the staff arrange.

Sources of this text: Travel + Leisure

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