Reviews of Sam's Giardino
Wildlife sightings and reviews
173 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Sam's Giardino and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa
"Gratitude to Sam"
Sam gave us an extra room for the first night and moved us to the family penthouse for the second.
He went out of his way to help, assist and advise.
Even encouraged us to take sandwiched for the way the day we left.
We also enjoyed the dinners and special wines." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia
"Sam's Giardino review"
The food and wines were exceptionally good and the garden a delight. And that lovely, lovely dog… we took him for a walk and brushed him and entirely fell for him (clever PR move!). It wasn’t until we were well on our way onwards that I realized we hadn’t put anything in the staff tips box, which I feel particularly bad about.
We can recommend the boat trips with Ocean Adventures: we saw dolphin, whale, tame seals and tame pelicans, and the trip was very well run (they collect you from and return you to your hotel). Even better it seemed that nobody else on the trip ate oysters, so after tentatively wondering if we could have more than one we realized that we could have as many as we liked (and did!)." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
"comfortable place, nice people"
Excellent access to guides for the dunes." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia
"A relaxing 'home from home' at Sam's"
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Sam was very helpful booking restaurants and gave good advice" See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
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"Beethovens Symphony"
Lovely gardens! Definitely the place to stay in Swakopmund.
Ate out at the Tug, on the pier - fantastic restaurant, superb food.
Went sand boarding too - highly recommended for all ages as long as you have good underpants - reached up to 72kmh." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia; 5n in South Africa
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"Sam's Giardino review"
Good service and friendly staff.
Whilst in Swakopmund these guests took a day excursion to the coast south of Swakopmund. This is what they said about it:
This turned out to be one of the highlights during our trip, highly recommended.
Our guide Ernst Ritter shared his knowledge and showed us a lot of facinating and interresting things in and around Sandwich harbour. We even got a bit of sunshine when we headed back.
We also enjoyed the driving on the sand dunes and along the coast almost in the waves.
An exciting day we will never forget, thanks a lot." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
"Very hospitable"
We had a very informative and great guide Sean in our desert trip which was great fun and a highlight of our trip here, the museum in town was first class and the whole family enjoyed it .Our boat trip was very cold , we saw many seals but sadly very few dolphins from a distance a little disappointing .We would if we had our time again probably only spend 2 nights here ." See all these reviews: 18n in Namibia
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