Reviews of Pioneer Camp

"I it is necessary to spend a night away from Tafika etc due to an early flight then Pioneer Camp is the next best thing.

Aagain I was treated royally and helped in every way even to providing me with an escort to my chalet and a candle when the lights went out" See all these reviews: 7n in Zambia

"This camp is ideal for a one night stop-off but not for a two night stay as it is a long way from Lusaka and 'in the middle of nowhere'." See all these reviews: 11n in Zambia

"Very convenient stop off prior to London flight

Good food - enormous steaks

Very obliging service" See all these reviews: 10n in Zambia

"The staff were friendly and helpful - in fact, the manager seemed to be the meeter and greeter, driver, bar tender, and general factotum. The arrangements for getting us to and from the airport worked well. The food was good and plentiful. The rooms were large, clean and tidy, but one of our bathrooms was very short of somewhere to put things and the rooms could have done with somewhere to put clothes overnight. The mattresses were terrible - lumpy and hard. We could not have fallen out, being trapped in the dip in the middle. The lighting in the rooms was very poor.

Getting between the bar/eating complex and the rooms was very difficult due to the state of the rough stone tracks and was positvely dangerous in the dark, just asking for somebody to turn an ankle on loose stones and cobbles. It was also difficult to find particular huts in the dark, and one of us wandered around in confusion fruitlessly visiting one cabin after another. There were lamps, which we think were solar powered, but they were spaced far apart, and either not working at all or so dim as to be almost useless.

A good international hotel might have been a better choice, but given that the international hotels in Lusaka do not seem to be good, from what we have read, I think the Pioneer Camp was perhaps a better end to a safari but we ourselves would not want to go there again until the tracks have been made safe to walk on." See all these reviews: 14n in Zambia

"Due to having to get the early BA flight back to the UK, we were unable to spend our last night in Kafue at the Lunga River Lodge on the Rivers and Plains trip and were booked into Pioneer Camp on the outskirts of Lusaka as an alternative.

The compound has a number of chalets and camp sites around a central bar/restaurant and inevitably was going to be something of a disappointment after staying in small camps in the National Parks. Our chalet was fairly basic with tired bedding but clean enough.

Excellent steak dinner. Breakfast a little disorganised in the early morning. before departure. Pick-up and drop-offs at the airport were completely hassle-free. I don't know what the cost was per night so it may be good value but I can see the only reason to stay would be for easy access to the Airport or as a short stop-over." See all these reviews: 11n in Zambia