Travel reviews by Family Adventure from UK

"Good choice"

"Fantastic trip with Andre, wish we had had longer on the Kunene"

"Better than expected. We saw amazing wildlife, including a pride of 7 lion, an Aardwolf, a black mongoose, black rhino and large herds of Eliphant, giraffe, zebra and antelope.

Dennis is a great chap but a bit of an eyore, he has more at Etendeka than he is really willing to use or let on about."

"Better than expected, and worth going to, great night drive"

"Run by the government company as a model of inefficiency. I just wanted to get hold of them and shake them firmly.

It could be soooo much better with a bit of imagination and oomph, as it has so much to offer."

"Still getting over set up issues, but a good lodge with a real sense of service that just made the Halali experience even more frustrating."

"Brilliant as ever. Our time with Bruno was amazing. We would like to find a way of helping Bruno with his work there and spoke to him about it.

We would like to talk to Chris about it sometime."

"Just what we needed, and the road was better than the guidebook suggested as there have been works done to it and they are currently building a series of bridges to keep it open in the wet."

"A very good place to settle in and aclimatise and also close to Joe's beerhouse."

"The tents looked as though they would be rather fun. The building rooms are alittle tired."

"Stunning location, some of the best food we have had in Africa (how they do it in the middle of nowhere goodness only knows) and 7 Rhinos, one leopard and a honey badger plus lots more.

3 days would be better as then you could cover the three areas they go out to in rotation."

"Bruno was amazing again. This place really gets under your skin. A must to go back."

"The Plateau Lodge was just finishing a new restaurant, which will be stunning. It is perched up on the rocks with views across the plain. It means that people staying there would no longer need to go to the main Wilderness Lodge to eat, but it would be a pity to miss out on going to see the main lodge as the setting is stunning and the short walks around the head of the valley are lovely.

We were dissapointed that the access to the plateau was no better than from the government's resort camp. we would like to find a way to go camping across the plateau for a few nights without having to take a whole lot of gear out with us."

"Worst food of the trip, which surprised us."

"This worked really well for an overnight stopover, and was much better and friendlier than a business hotel at the airport."

"Just amazing as a place and a concept. Even the website, which is good, does not do it justice.

The diving disappointed though. We were the first PADI course that the instructor had done there and he was not really set up for it. Only 2 of the 5 of us stayed the course and he really frightened Vanessa and got me badly sunburned due to taking the wrong wet suit out on the boat. Some of the dive gear is quite tired.

There is no confined water (pool) for the first 2 dives and so they do it off the beach. It was quite windy and rough and the tides were strong so it really was not ideal. It would be better to tell people to do the confined water stuff in their local pool before going out ( the people who followed us were having the same trouble) and I have mentioned this to Neil.

To be fair they only charged us for 2 courses and 3 discovery dives, which we paid locally. I assume the diving was not included in the bill we paid you. Perhaps you could confirm.

We went by road and came out by plane and enjoyed both, though the plane arrangements are a bit flakey and we had to travel seperately."