Travel reviews by Mr C & Mrs C from UK

"Great welcome, rooms beautiful and clean. Owner very helpful with local info eg where to find an ATM etc.

Breakfast lovely. Location very handy for Joe's Beerhouse!"

"Lovely welcome here, met in the car park and taken to reception for a welcome drink. Cases were taken down to our rooms while we did the mountain walk in time to see the stunning sunset. Food absolutely beautiful here, excellent quality. Ordered early breakfast pack in order to be able to go to Sesriem, which was good. Also ordered a lunch pack to take with us, $80 each which was perhaps a little over priced.

One thing to note is that there are no electric sockets in the room . Although there were plenty of plug sockets up in the main lodge for people to charge cameras and phones, you couldn't really go up there to dry your hair!

Didn't take part in any of the activities there."

"Again lovely rooms here. We had a double room in the main guest house, our three boys had two twin rooms, a lovely bathroom and fridge and heater etc.

The whole place was very welcoming. We were invited to have a sherry in the lounge, in fromt of the real fire. We had booked activities to do in Swakopmund (quad biking, kayaking and living desert tour). The lady on reception phoned to confirm one of the bookings for us, then printed off the map that we needed.

Breakfast was great again and done early to fit in with our early start for the kayaking."

"We had lovely semi detatched chalets here, nice rooms, with coffee and tea making facilities and a fridge. The waterhole was excellent, never too crowded. The food in the restaurant was lovely (soup and or salad for starter, always two meats on offer and a nice selction of desserts). The chef , Mr P Pakura was larger than life ( an African Brian Blessed!) and made evryone feel very welcome. It was normally possible to pay for meals by credit card but the machine wasn't working while we were there.

The shop was a little disappointing in as much there was no bread, cheese, ham etc to buy. I had thought we would probably be able to buy things to make a lunch to take with us the following day. In the event we returned to camp and used the kiosk, which was good value,for a snack like toasted sandwich and chips was around £4.

The system of checking out then having breakfast, so giving them chance to check the rooms, worked well for us, as we had left a torch and some shower gel behind, which we were able to get before we left!"

"Slightly smaller rooms than at Okaukuejo but still very nice.

We drove down to the waterhole, though it was easily walkable. Fantastic experience at sunset as 12 elephants arrived, complete with two babies.

Food lovely here too and restaurant accommodated us eating in two sittings while one of us stayed and looked after our youngest son, who was poorly. Credit card payments not a problem here and quick too."

"Wow, what a lovely place. Lovely rooms in a beautiful setting. Welcome great, with a cooling flannel for everyone to freshen up.

Food very good quality, in a beautiful restaurant round an open fire. Two lounges and a lovely verandah made for a lovely place to relax at the end of a day in Etosha. A lovely touch was that while we were at dinner, a bedtime story was put in the children's rooms."

"The only place in the itinerary I wouldn't rush back to. Lovely setting but from there it wasn't so good. We paid our $500 dollars deposit but got to our room to find a glass missing and no bulb in our bathroom. We needed a mattress to be put in the children's room and when we got back from our walk, we found it dumped outside the door.

The kiosk wasn't open so we had to try and cobble a bit of lunch together from what was for sale in the shop (bread and peanut butter!) We were told to make a reservation for dinner, but at the rsetaurant we were told we didn't need to. We got to the restaurant just after 7 and didn't get our meals till 8.15. It was a menu service rather than the buffet like at the other NWR resorts and tehre just didn't seem to be enough people in the kitchen. When my son got his steak, which was meant to be well done, it was still bleeding, so that delayed his meal even further.

We did complain (which we very rarely do), but there had been no apology or explanation as to why the food took so long. The lady we spoke to was initially quite rude, agreed to take the cost of the cheapest meal off the bill and then did apologise. Breakfast the following morning was fine but we headed off to Okonjima straight after breakfast. Our $500 was returned without the room being checked. Credit card payments fine here too"

"An awesome experience. We had Bush View rooms, which were out of this world. Going to sleep to the roar of lions, waking up to a view of oryx and warthogs!

The rooms were really nicely decorated. Everything ran like clockwork there, you went to get your dinner, handed in your key, then got it back with a torch later. The food was excellent. Paid for lunch on the first day, which was a little over priced really at $100. [Ed: that's N$100 which is about US$14, or UK£9, at today's rates] The following day we had a late breakfast after going leopard tracking at 6am, so the breakfast then lasted us till we had coffee and cakes at 2.30 before the afternoon activities.

The activities were pricey (as there were 5 of us) but equally excellent value for money when yo considered what you got to see. The guides were excellent too (ours Jonas was very enthusiastic and very amusing) When you got back from the night drive or a visit to the night hide, it was lovely to find hot water bottles in your bed!"