Park Fees in Hell’s Gate National Park 2022
Park Fees in Hell’s Gate National Park 2022
Park Fees in Hell’s Gate National Park 2022 : Hell’s gate national park lies south of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, North West of Nairobi. Hell’s gate national park is named after a narrow break in the cliffs. It was established in 1984, it’s known for its variety of wildlife and for its scenery like Fischer’s Tower and Central Tower columns and Hell’s Gorge, the park is also known for as a home to five geothermal power stations at Olkaria.
Park fees in Hell’s Gate National Park.
Park fees in Hell’s gate national park means all the rates, fees, charges, interests and other amounts charged for rising out of the use of parking spaces in the parking facility.
Park fees are charged according to the following characteristics of people and their specific groups.
Age of the tourists.
Children-tourists from 3 years and below the age of 18 years old.
Adult-Individuals from the age of 18 and above.
Status of the tourists.
Citizens. Tourists residing in Kenya and have valid national identity cards or pass ports, citizens from East African community member countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are also categorized as citizens.
These tourists have to be in possession of valid national identity cards or passports to prove their citizenship in their respective countries.
Residents. Tourists of other nationalities residing and working in Kenya, these tourists are supposed to be in possession of proper documents issued by the government of Kenya.
Non-Residents. Tourists residing outside of Kenya and East African community member countries.
Students. Tourists visiting Hell’s gate national park with purpose of learning and research according to the Kenya Wildlife Service, students are supposed to come from recognized education institutes, and those students should not exceed 23 years of age.
Park entry fees of Hell’s gate national park.
Hells gate national park entrance fees and opening hours 2022.The Hell’s gate national park operates between 6:00am and 6:00 pm daily.
Citizen | Child(Ksh) | Adults(Ksh) |
200 | 250 | |
Resident | Child(Ksh) | Adult(Ksh) |
200 | 250 | |
Non-Residents | Child(USD) | Adult(USD) |
15 | 20 |
Activity fees in Hell’s gate national park.
Each safari experience in Hell’s gate national park is offered a fee, these fees are paid before the experience at the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and these fees are charged to every tourist per day.
Activity | Fees(Ksh ) |
Walking safari per day | 1500 |
Cycling per day | 215 |
Night game drive per trip | 2155 |
Annual passes fees.
Annual passes that allows tourists annual entrance to Hell’s gate national park, these annual passes fees are validity of one year.
Category | Kshs |
Adult annual pass | 43100 |
Child annual pass | 10340 |
Corporate annual pass | 103440 |
Tour driver personalizes annual pass | 6000 |
Camping fees.
The park has two categories of campsites that is special and public, the charges change according to the category you chose.
Special campsite | Adult | Child/Student |
Citizen | 500 Ksh | 250 Ksh |
Resident | 600Ksh | 350Ksh |
Non-Resident | 50 USD | 25 UDS |
Public campsite | ||
Citizen | 250 Ksh | 200 Ksh |
Residents | 600 Ksh | 300Ksh |
Non-Residents | 30 USD | 25 USD |
Tourist vehicle fees.
Ever tourist vehicle carry tourists to Hell’s gate national park the basis of fees levied on these vehicles to carry capacity or number of seats. These fees are paid per day and they are valid for 24 hours.
Category | Fees (Kshs) |
Less than 6 seats | 300 |
6-12seats | 1030 |
13-24seats | 2585 |
25-44 seats | 4050 |
45 seats and above | 5000 |
Best time to visit Hell’s gate national park.
Best time is from June to March is the best for general wildlife viewing and outdoor activities (little rain).
High season, the park is little visited throughout the year, but Naivasha gets busy with experts on school holidays, especially over Christmas(accommodation in Naivasha might be harder to book.)
Where to stay in Hell’s gate national park.
There are quite numbers of accommodation in Hell’s gate national park ranging from mid-range, budget, luxury accommodations.
These accommodations includes Sawela lodges, Lake Naivasha country club, Great rift valley lodge and golf resort, Merinja Guest house, Sovereign suites, Hylise hotel, Sweet lake resort, Zereniti house, Lake elementaita mountain lodge, Ulwazi place.
How to get to Hell’s Gate National Park.
Hell’s gate national park can be accessed in two different ways that is through road and air or flight means of transport.
By road transport.
It takes you different hours according to which road you have used, that is from Nairobi to reach Hel’s gate national park takes you the following hours according to the road you used as follows.
2 hr. 50(125.2km) through Old Naivasha Road /C88.
2hr 56 min (134.5 km) through A104
3 hr. 5min (118.1 km) through Old Naivasha road/C88 and Moi S Lake Road.
By air or flight transport.
There are daily flights to Loldia airstrip on the western side of Naivasha. Getting to Nairobi is easy as this is one of the biggest transport hubs on the continent. International flights arrive in Jomo Kenyatta International airport 15km/9mi southeast of Nairobi.
Please check skyscnner ,or, or for multiple-destination flights check expedient see which airlines can take you to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and what tickets would cost. www.sktscanner.com,www.expedia.com.
Chartering flights between parks can be an efficient way to travel. These flight are booked by tour operators as part of their tour package. Most domestic flights, including flights to Naivasha, leave from Wilson Airport 6km/4mi south of Nairobi. Domestic flights to Naivasha can be booked with Safari link.
Hell’s gate national park entrance fees and opening hours 2022, The Hell’s Gate National Park operates between 6:00am and 6:00 pm daily.