Image: An infinity-edge pool overlooks the Serengeti

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is to take over the operation of Bilila Lodge in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park after signing an agreement with the property's owner.

The deal will come into effect during the third quarter, with the property to be renamed Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti. James Kostecky has been named as general manager.

Facilities include a 4,000sq ft (372sq m) spa with six standalone treatment rooms. All of the treatment rooms contain a full shower/steam shower, while one offers dual soaking tubs.

Four Seasons has confirmed there will be some design alterations made to the spa, which it will operate. The group is also in the process of finalising the product suppliers.

Elsewhere, the lodge - offering accommodation in 60 bedrooms, 12 suites and five villas - has an infinity-edge swimming pool overlooking an active Serengeti watering hole.

Four Seasons vice president of worldwide development Scott Woroch said the lodge is the first of three "diverse experiences" being planned for Tanzania.

Woroch said: "This is an extremely rare opportunity for Four Seasons in that no other property of this size or scale exists, or is likely to ever be developed again in the Park.

"With the future development of a luxury tented safari camp in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and an exclusive beach resort on the island of Zanzibar, Four Seasons will offer some of the finest holiday experiences in Tanzania."

Click here for more information about Four Seasons' first of three new destinations to open in Tanzania.