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andBeyond hotels

Expert-led safaris join care for land, wildlife and people, from African reserves to distant shores.

andBeyond brings safari hospitality and conservation together, with lodges that help support the landscapes guests come to explore. Its addresses range from the KwaZulu-Natal lowveld to Bhutan and the Chilean Lake District, with a shared emphasis on guiding and the natural world that leaves room for very different buildings and experiences.

31 andBeyond hotels in 8 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Privately held
• Worldwide: Roughly 29 lodges and camps across Africa, plus a small and growing footprint in Asia and South America, spanning more than 9 million acres of wildlife land and 1,800 miles of coastline under the brand's stewardship; the Luxury Hotels Atlas curates 34 andBeyond properties across 10 countries — Botswana, Bhutan, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, South Africa, and Tanzania
• On the atlas: 15 Grand Luxury, 13 High Luxury, 3 Core Luxury

History

andBeyond’s founding vision linked photographic safaris with the funding of conservation, land rehabilitation, and community partnerships. The company often developed lodges through long-term relationships with land custodians, bringing tourism to former farms and concessions. Its later moves into Bhutan, the Galápagos, and Chile extended the experience beyond the African landscapes where the model began.

Timeline

• 1991 — Dave and Shan Varty, together with a group of South African entrepreneurs, found Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa) to export the "for-profit conservation" model they had pioneered at their family's Londolozi reserve; the venture's first act is the creation of &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, degraded cattle and pineapple farmland bought back and restocked with the Big Five, the first private game reserve of its kind in the province.
• 1992 — Phinda incorporates Ngala Private Game Reserve, leased from South African National Parks and the WWF, into what becomes an unbroken conservation corridor with Kruger National Park; the Rural Investment Fund, now the Africa Foundation, is formed the same year as CC Africa's dedicated community-development partner.
• 1995 — Ngorongoro Crater Lodge is reimagined by designers Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens (with Fox Browne Creative on interiors) around the fictional conceit of a 19th-century European explorer's caravan meeting a traditional Masai manyatta, a look the team nicknamed "Masai Versailles." It becomes one of the most-copied safari interiors on the continent.
• 1997 — The Ngala and Kichwa Tembo camps and Kenya's Bateleur Camp in the Maasai Mara enter the CC Africa portfolio, extending the brand's East African footprint alongside its KwaZulu-Natal base.
• 2000s — CC Africa rebrands as &Beyond (the change lands across the fleet roughly 2008–2009), signalling the shift from a purely southern-African operator to a genuinely pan-African, then intercontinental, conservation-hospitality brand.
• 2014 — Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge is completely rebuilt and reopens on 1 September under lead architect Nicholas Plewman working with UK studio Michaelis Boyd, its raised, pangolin-inspired timber structures becoming one of the most-published pieces of safari architecture of the decade.
• 2018 — andBeyond Vira Vira opens in Chile's Lake District near Pucón, the brand's first property outside Africa, a hacienda-style lodge on a working farm that signals the start of a deliberate push into South America.
• 2022 — andBeyond Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge reopens after a complete rebuild on the Tanzania site the brand has operated since 2006, and wins an AHEAD Middle East & Africa award and a Prix Versailles special prize for interior design that year.
• 2023 — &Beyond Punakha River Lodge opens in September on the Mo Chu River in Bhutan's Punakha Valley, the brand's first fully owned and operated lodge in Asia, after nearly two decades of running tours across the region, and the opening act of a stated new phase of continent-spanning expansion.
• 2024 — &Beyond Mnemba Island, the private-island lodge off Zanzibar, reopens in October after a full refurbishment; &Beyond Galapagos Explorer, a converted charter yacht previously known as Stella Maris, joins the fleet and departs on its first &Beyond sailing on 17 June.
• 2025 — &Beyond Suyian Lodge opens on the Laikipia plateau north of Mount Kenya, a collaboration between Michaelis Boyd, Nicholas Plewman Architects, and Fox Browne Creative built around an escarpment overlooking the ancient Suyian rock sanctuary, using an elephant-permeable low-impact fence so wildlife can move freely to the lodge's edge.

The houses to know

1. andBeyond Vira Vira, Pucón, Chile — The brand's first property outside Africa, a working-farm hacienda in the shadow of the Villarrica volcano.
2. andBeyond Phinda Private Game Reserve, Hluhluwe, South Africa — The 1991 founding act of the brand, degraded KwaZulu-Natal farmland rewilded into the province's first private Big Five reserve, and still its flagship.
3. &Beyond Mnemba Island, Mnemba Island, Tanzania — The private-island lodge off Zanzibar reopened following a full refurbishment in October 2024.
4. &Beyond Phinda Homestead, Phinda, South Africa — A fully staffed private villa inside the Phinda Private Game Reserve, the brand's founding reserve, reserved for exclusive family or group use.
5. &Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Sossusvlei, Namibia — Glass-walled suites set into the dunes of the world's oldest desert, each with a private plunge pool and star-bed deck.
6. andBeyond Bateleur Camp, Maasai Mara, Kenya — A classic tented camp on a private concession bordering the Maasai Mara National Reserve, named for the brand's eagle emblem.
7. andBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania — The safari interior nicknamed "Masai Versailles", European explorer's caravan meets traditional Masai manyatta, on the rim of the world's largest intact volcanic caldera.
8. andBeyond Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania — A complete 2022 rebuild of a site andBeyond has operated since 2006, on the western fringe of the Serengeti's migration corridor.
9. &Beyond Phinda Zuka Lodge, Phinda, South Africa — Four suites make Zuka an intimate exclusive-use base within Phinda Private Game Reserve.
10. andBeyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge, Magara, Tanzania — The treehouse suites sit above the groundwater forest floor within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

Newest openings

• &Beyond Suyian Lodge — Nanyuki, Kenya — opened 2025 — A collaboration between Michaelis Boyd, Nicholas Plewman Architects, and Fox Browne Creative on the Laikipia plateau north of Mount Kenya; the design uses arches and circular forms, locally sourced stone, and earth-rendered domes taken directly from the site, with a low-impact elephant fence that lets giraffes, lions, zebras, and elephants wander to the lodge's edge.
• &Beyond Galapagos Explorer — Galápagos Islands, Ecuador — joined the fleet 2024 — A converted charter yacht (formerly Stella Maris, deployed in the Galápagos from 2014) that entered the &Beyond portfolio after refurbishment, with its first &Beyond departure on 17 June 2024.
• &Beyond Mnemba Island — Mnemba Island, Tanzania — reopened October 2024 — Zanzibar's most exclusive private-island lodge, fully refurbished and relaunched under the &Beyond name.
• &Beyond Punakha River Lodge — Punakha, Bhutan — opened September 2023 — andBeyond's first fully owned-and-managed lodge in Asia, on the banks of the Mo Chu River, with six tented suites and two villas designed for the brand's low-density, conservation-linked model; it opened the same era in which andBeyond began deliberately extending its footprint beyond Africa.

Opening next

• No upcoming lodge openings were confirmed in the sources reviewed through 2026. The collection has described plans to expand further in Asia and South America, following Vira Vira in 2018, Punakha in 2023, and its Galápagos and Amazon programmes in 2024.

Every andBeyond hotel on the atlas

South Africa

• &BEYOND Ngala Treehouse — Hoedspruit · Grand Luxury
• &Beyond Phinda Homestead — Phinda · Grand Luxury
• &Beyond Phinda Zuka Lodge — Phinda · Grand Luxury
• &Beyond Tengile River Lodge — Sabi Sand · Grand Luxury
• andBeyond Phinda Private Game Reserve — Hluhluwe · Grand Luxury
• &Beyond Ngala Tented Camp — Ngala · High Luxury
• &Beyond Phinda Forest Lodge — Hluhluwe · High Luxury
• &Beyond Phinda Mountain Lodge — Phinda · High Luxury
• &Beyond Phinda Rock Lodge — Phinda · High Luxury
• &Beyond Phinda Vlei Lodge — Phinda · High Luxury
• andBeyond Kirkman’s Kamp — Sabi Sands · High Luxury
• &Beyond Ngala Safari Lodge — Ngala · Core Luxury

Botswana

• &Beyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge — Okavango Delta · Grand Luxury
• &Beyond Nxabega Under Canvas — Okavango Delta · High Luxury
• &Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp — Okavango Delta · High Luxury
• andBeyond Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp — Okavango Delta · High Luxury
• &Beyond Chobe Under Canvas — Chobe · Core Luxury
• &Beyond Savute Under Canvas — Chobe · Core Luxury

Tanzania

• &Beyond Mnemba Island — Mnemba Island · Grand Luxury
• andBeyond Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge — Serengeti National Park · Grand Luxury
• andBeyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge — Magara · Grand Luxury
• andBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge — Ngorongoro Conservation Area · Grand Luxury
• &Beyond Klein's Camp — Serengeti · High Luxury
• &Beyond Serengeti Under Canvas — Serengeti · High Luxury

Kenya

• &Beyond Suyian Lodge — Nanyuki · Grand Luxury
• andBeyond Bateleur Camp — Maasai Mara · Grand Luxury
• &Beyond Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp — Masai Mara · High Luxury

Bhutan

• &Beyond Punakha River Lodge — Punakha · Grand Luxury

Chile

• andBeyond Vira Vira — Pucón · Grand Luxury

Mozambique

• &Beyond Benguerra Island — Benguerra Island · High Luxury

Namibia

• &Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge — Sossusvlei · Grand Luxury

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