Last updated: October 2026 · Method: compiled from public listings and traveller reports; treat figures as planning aids, not quotations.
📄 Image slot: camp staff welcoming arriving guests with welcome drink at tent line.
Check-in at Sam runs from the welcome drink to the programme sheet: a greeting that varies with the camp’s tier, a tent walkthrough that catches problems while the porter is still there, and a printed evening schedule that the whole night hangs on. Ten deliberate minutes at arrival protects the whole stay.
Check-in begins when the booking ends, and this page covers what arrival looks like.
The arrival
- The welcome: a tilak-and-drink greeting at the better camps; a plain room-key handover at the budget ones.
- On the tent tour, check the flaps, the bathroom and the bolt before the porter leaves.
- The programme sheet: confirm the evening’s music and dinner timings, because the buffet hour waits for nobody.
The arrival sequence
- The welcome is a tier signal. The tilak-and-drink greeting marks the better camps; a plain key handover marks the budget end, and neither predicts the tent quality.
- The tent tour is your inspection: check the flaps, the bathroom and the bolt before the porter leaves, because fixes happen same-hour only while staff are standing there.
- The music and dinner timings on the programme sheet are commitments, not suggestions; the buffet hour does not wait, and the desert does not repeat the show.