Travel reviews by Mrs & Mr G from Cape Town
Review Distribution
Total number of trips
1
Countries visited
1
Lodges stayed in
3
Excursions taken
0
Feb 2014 Botswana trip
Botswana between 27 Feb 2014 and 6 Mar 2014
"An experience of a lifetime. Felt thoroughly looked after and catered to.
We saw the most amazing game and were privileged with the vast bush knowledge of our guides, and the love of the Batswana for their land and country.
Only one real downside of staying in the camps as a party of 6: we literally never had a moment of just being able to hang out or enjoy a meal on our own - because of the nature of long-tables with all guests eating together and guides playing host and conversation-partners during meals. With the strict rules around not walking about at night without a guide present, it created an awkwardness in us about staying around later into the evening and having to keep our guides up. So over the 8 days of the trip we actually had almost no time to interact with our own party on our own.
Lagoon and Kwara camps seemed to offer a reasonable balance between attentiveness and respect for guests' autonomy. Kanana, however, was a bit over-hosted and over-attentive (even though our hosts were truly wonderful) - it got a bit much to be hovered over ALL the time.
Everyone, everywhere, was so genuinely radiant and generous, and we are in love with the Batswana people!
Thanks to Expert Africa for good guidance and organising! And for the wonderful book on Botswana.
Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:
Is there any way to include more physical exercise?! It's an extremely sedentary experience with too much food :-) and an understandably restricted environment because of the wildlife.
Somehow though, we would have loved to engage in some kind of more robust activity/exercise over the 8 days."
We saw the most amazing game and were privileged with the vast bush knowledge of our guides, and the love of the Batswana for their land and country.
Only one real downside of staying in the camps as a party of 6: we literally never had a moment of just being able to hang out or enjoy a meal on our own - because of the nature of long-tables with all guests eating together and guides playing host and conversation-partners during meals. With the strict rules around not walking about at night without a guide present, it created an awkwardness in us about staying around later into the evening and having to keep our guides up. So over the 8 days of the trip we actually had almost no time to interact with our own party on our own.
Lagoon and Kwara camps seemed to offer a reasonable balance between attentiveness and respect for guests' autonomy. Kanana, however, was a bit over-hosted and over-attentive (even though our hosts were truly wonderful) - it got a bit much to be hovered over ALL the time.
Everyone, everywhere, was so genuinely radiant and generous, and we are in love with the Batswana people!
Thanks to Expert Africa for good guidance and organising! And for the wonderful book on Botswana.
Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:
Is there any way to include more physical exercise?! It's an extremely sedentary experience with too much food :-) and an understandably restricted environment because of the wildlife.
Somehow though, we would have loved to engage in some kind of more robust activity/exercise over the 8 days."
Arranged By Maruska AdyeRowe
Lagoon Camp
"Lagoon Camp review"
2 nights
Arrived
27 Feb 2014
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Good
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Good
Facilities
Excellent
Kwara Camp
"Kwara camp review"
2 nights
Arrived
1 Mar 2014
"We loved our guide - his assurance, sense of adventure, and bush wisdom, and the great rapport between him and his assistant/tracker. It rained a lot but we went out on activities undeterred and had great fun.
Also loved the more indigenous feel of the camp, with its elephants in the garden!
Would be nice if the camp had more sitting/lounge facilities - sometimes there simply wasnt space for all the guests to be in that single lounge space at once."
Also loved the more indigenous feel of the camp, with its elephants in the garden!
Would be nice if the camp had more sitting/lounge facilities - sometimes there simply wasnt space for all the guests to be in that single lounge space at once."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Good
Food
Good
Facilities
Good
Kanana
"Kanana review"
3 nights
Arrived
3 Mar 2014
"Every wish and whim was attended to by the personal touch of the camp managers! Nothing was too much for them.
Really enjoyed the activities, and especially singing and dancing into our dinner with the entire staff.
Although the camp managers were outstanding in their professionalism, service and commitment, we missed having the whole camp staffed by local people (management was South African).
Amos our guide and respected elder was superb - we felt privileged to be in the bush with him."
Really enjoyed the activities, and especially singing and dancing into our dinner with the entire staff.
Although the camp managers were outstanding in their professionalism, service and commitment, we missed having the whole camp staffed by local people (management was South African).
Amos our guide and respected elder was superb - we felt privileged to be in the bush with him."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Excellent
Facilities
Excellent
Loved our HUGE suite on the river!"