Travel reviews by C family from West Sussex

"Liked the flexibility of the meal system and also excellent quality food which included fresh produce from the garden

Excellent guide - Bwalya was not only very personable and good company but also had an in depth knowledge of birds as well as animals.

Great to hear they sourced a lot of the food and other things needed for the camp from the local community.

Highlight for me was seeing wild dogs close up"

"Great food for such a remote location - the fresh produce from the garden was a real plus.

Highlight was three leopards in the same tree!

The mountain bike ride was fun and the walking safari was excellent.

We had a variety of different guides all with an excellent knowledge of birds as well as animals and other wildlife"

"A wonderful location, elephants seem to be in camp about half the time.

We enjoyed the opportunity to do a variety of activities including canoeing and the walking safari

We saw less game than in South Luangwa but we didn't do the long drive in which might have revealed more.

The staff were incredibly friendly and welcoming

One improvement would be to use refillable water bottles rather than relying on a constant supply of new bottles which must generate a lot of plastic waste.

Highlight was seeing 2 porcupines on a couple of occasions by our tent!"

"Lovely place and great location for Victoria Falls. Helpful staff and excellent food."

"Very relaxing and welcoming. Great food.
Good place to recover after the flight.

Wish we had used this as a base for a day trip to Arusha NP before setting off for the safari to the bigger parks"

"The Lodge is very impressive if a bit sterile. Very clean and an excellent location in the Park.

Food disappointing and an overly attentive waiter which didn't work for us.

Tarangire was excellent for both game (we saw lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dog) and birds"

"We liked the community involvement.
A desolate 10Km drive across degraded land to get there but the site is at the foot of the Rift escarpment with great views.

Our Masai "butler" for our stay (Yamat) was excellent - interesting, friendly and very helpful.

The only thing to be aware of is there is no electricity or lighting at night - make sure you have a torch for each hut!"

"Excellent - basic but clean and no pretensions. Good hearty food. Recommended.

Buffalo and waterbuck feed on the grass right outside the rooms!"

"Expensive but a fabulous location and wonderful experience.

Go there if you can."

"A strange place - fabulous location but quite a big Lodge with very few guests - perhaps because not many people come this far up the Serengeti. Probably also because it is badly managed although the waiters, kitchen staff and evening piano/guitar player were lovely and excellent with our children (serious people may not appreciate the guitar player!).

Food very basic

Quite a lot of noisy construction work while we were there and our son was sick after swimming in the pool (on a closer look it was easy to see why....it was full of pond life)

Great area for wildlife though - serval, cheetah and leopard all seen near the Lodge"