Pioneer Lodge && Camp and Safaris

We spent a number of nights camping at Pioneer in our group of 10 on a charity expedition through Zambia. We used it as our Lusaka base, coming to and fro the various expedition legs. Pioneer & the staff make you feel at home, its a perfect spot just outside the hustle & bustle of Lusaka. It has lovely bar & restaurant, good showers & camping pitches and swimming pool! The staff were wonderful! Many thanks to Janet, Lewis, Francis & Levi. We will definitely stay there again. Highly recommended.

Place was good and nice. Good for camping and relaxing. Not far away from Lusaka town. They even got rooms and chalets. We were camping in the camp and there were bunch of Local guys came and camped in same place. They were very loud and screaming until 2-3am. Very much disturbing. That’s the only problem we had over there. Otherwise overall everything was ok. They had clean bathroom and toilets. Hot water was working. Mk

We did an overnight stay. Rooms were good. Staff was very friendly and helpfull. Stunning place🖐 only problem we did have was food was not up to standard and served cold big menu but only few options was available, ablutions did not have hot water evening and morning which made it unpleasant

Very beautiful and quiet place. Suitable for vacation and spending time with family and friends

This will be lengthy but I am going to give a very honest review. -The road is alright, passable with a higher car. - The place itself is lovely, green and I loved the nature around it. Lots of butterflies and birds too. -Service, well we were welcomed by a lady called Tina who gave us a good offer and swapped up our room. However, our first breakfast had runny eggs even after asking them to make them very well done. They corrected this and brought me my 2 well done eggs, ignoring my sister's plate. The other lady did not even ask what drinks we wanted and gave us what she wanted. They never asked even once whether we enjoyed the food, I offered my own compliments for the egg napolitana. -We love to ask for prices of things so that we plan better but this seemed to make the other lady impatient and think we were not meant to be there, if you know what I mean. I felt uncomfortable most of the time I was there. -They had a lunch menu but the chef was not around on the day we wanted to order. What we ordered though was not nice. Firstly, they got our order wrong, we asked for 3 portions of chips and 2 quarter chickens, we ended up with 2 chicken and chips portions and 3 separate chips, too much food of which 2 plates went to waste, which was an unnecessary expense. The chicken was dry and not cooked through well enough. We ended up not being motivated enough to have the Saturday night buffet. -The room smelt very damp, but was clean. -We were beaten so badly by what we thought were mosquitoes, but now we see they may be bed bugs. My young sister, our baby and I have huge bites and for my young sister, they have turned into boil like bites. It is so unsettling and they are painful. Lastly, I have no idea if I would ever recommend anyone to go there, maybe for a day visit. The weekend nights were noisy and the noise was right outside our chalet causing our baby to lie awake most of the night as she is a light sleeper. Please work on customer service, food and your room beddings hygiene.