Travel reviews by Mr & Mrs L from Staffs

"Glass of champagne on arrival, room was beautiful.

However, after 36 hours travelling we were keen to eat dinner quickly and have an early night. The restaurant staff took over 30 minutes to produce an English menu and there were no cold beers. When the food eventually arrived it was delicious."

"Great location and rooms lovely but some way from restaurant and bar with limited wooden walkways. These need extending and raising to make it easier to keep sand out of shoes. Rooms were very hot with only very thick duvets (and hot water bottles!!). Need thinner quilts or blankets as an alternative. The food and staff were excellent despite them claiming they had not been advised in advance of one vegetarian. No cold beers available.

Drives were good but somewhat limited in finding different things to see.
Perhaps a good idea to warn visitors that no electric points are available in the lodges.
By no means the best one we stayed in."

"Lovely lodge outside Sossusvlei so entrance and exit to the park was limited. Not much to do apart fom seeing the park so perhaps 1 night spent actually inside the park would have provided better photo opportunities.

Food was superb - especially the imaginative vegetarian meals.

With temperatures of 45C it was extremely HOT!! The AC in the room failed to work apparently it was 'too hot for it'! Thankfully it eventually worked at some time in the night when the temperature fell a little.

Wifi was available - pleasant surprise."

"We arrived a day early due to cancelled balloon ride in Hoodia desert. Cornerstone had no availability for that night so we stayed opposite it at the Organic Square Guest House. This was a beautiful place with a delicious healthy breakfast. Heidi was exceedingly friendly and helpful and gave us advice on various trips, and even let us keep our car there while we went out, knowing we were staying at the Cornerstone for the next 2 nights.

The Cornerstone was also very nice and we were very comfortable there. Rooms were spacious. The staff were efficient but not over friendly. Our personal preference would have been to stay the 3 nights at Organic Square."

"Wonderful camp set in the rocks - we loved it! Rooms were large and discreetly hidden from each other with excellent facilities.

Sundowner area was 2 minute walk away with its own bar with lovely cold beers! Staff very helpful and friendly. Our favourite of the trip!

Safari was excellent if a little long but that was the fault of the elusive elephants!"

"We arrived here from Mowani at around 3:30 to find a drive was due to go at 4pm - all a little rushed - we felt that times of activities should be advised in the itinerary to ensure guests arrive in sufficient time. The drives were excellent with lots of wildlife, although the Land Rovers' seats were way overdue for re-upholstering as they were extremely hard and uncomfortable.

Room was lovely with excellent facilities."

"Very nice camp but spoilt somewhat by thousands of bugs everywhere - very unpleasant at dinner and in the room, not helped by the staff leaving an outside light on directly by the door. The second night we requested this to be left off and it reduced the number considerably.

The room itself was extremely hot and airless and the fan was useless! The pool area was relaxing and very welcome in the heat."

"Think we were upgraded here as we seemed to be the only ones in a very large one-off villa in main camp. Room and bathroom were stunning but very hot. Lovely food and friendly staff.

Excellent guides who were very knowledgable and helpful."

"Our last night and it would have been very peaceful and relaxing but a storm raged throughout the early evening and night. We were looking forward to walking through the grounds (a luxury after all the driving) but sadly we were unable to do this.
The mud huts were very organic and unusual.

We got the impression that guests are somewhat scarce here as there were very few entries in the guest book.
Food was excellent, staff very quiet and unassuming."