Lobo and Seronera Wildlife Lodges were great, with good food and fantastic views from the terraces, and the architecture of the main buildings is very good, with wooden structures emerging from the huge rounded rocks of the kopjes. The rooms were fine if not fancy, but the position is the important thing – you only use the rooms for washing and sleeping anyway – and on opening the curtains one morning at Seronera there was a giraffe browsing right outside our window, as well as a troop of baboons and a group of 20 banded mongooses. Seronera is also full of cute little hyrax and blue-and-pink agama lizards. The view from the terrace at Seronera a good, but from Lobo it is wonderful. No electricity midnight-5AM and 9AM-5PM, but you are in the middle of the Serengeti! Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge was slightly less impressive (and very cold at night, with no extra blankets – bring warm clothes!), but the view from the terrace over the crater was stupendous. However, if you just did the crater and left out the Serengeti you would miss a lot – best to do both.