It’s beautifully furnished. The oak and prints.

“A pleasant place but customer care matters, so I won’t be going back…”

The accommodation is lovely and the environs are pleasant, however the place is somewhat neglected - weeds in the tennis courts…

“Great location, great host”

The premises are beautiful and well kept. The concierge Antonio was great and very helpful.

“excellent”

“Our stay was very beautiful, we wanted to stay away from the city lives and we got just that. It was mind blowing”

It’s very fancy but very reserved and very farm like. So mind calming

“Nice and quiet”

It was clean nice and quiet and beautiful

“Never again”

The host was friendly, garden was beautiful

“All in all i enjoyed my stay”

The staff was friendly and professional. The lodge was nice and clean. The drinks the food was top tier. All in all it was awesome stay

“Fantastic stay and much better than the former reviews”

To sum it up: A great place. I have to admit that I read all the negative comments and got very mixed feelings about my booking before arriving. Also, I got a very confusing automated email from the management to pay my booking on booking.com within a very short time frame (1 or 2 days) by bank transfer, although the payment specifics on booking.com stated that I can pay with credit card upon arrival. After escalating the case with booking.com and also writing an email to the management, I got the confirmation immediately that I can pay with card upon arrival. It would be better for the management to change their automated message to avoid confusion. However, besides this I cannot understand the bad reviews of the other travellers. Ok, the swimming pool is a sad sight, with some algae and milky water. This new management of this place obviously just took over from the former owners, so they definitely need some time to get everything in order. The management said they will look into the matter to improve the water quality of the pool. The overall location and the layout and design of the hotel is fantastic, isolated, quit and the garden designer really knew what he was doing when he constructed the outward patio and seating area close to the floodlit waterhole and around the fig trees which are hundreds of years old. Of course, the tennis court is delapidated and the airstrip is no longer in use. This building has definitely seen more glamorous times in its 100 plus year old history and 60 since being remodelled into a hunting lodge. The main building has lots of character and, as a hunting lodge, is full of fancy sofas upholstered with zebra skins. Plus there is a stuffed giraffe in the lounge (and supposedly an elephant head in the owners building). This game seems to have been shot long time ago. The bar and main building looks as from a movie.

“It was a nice place to break the journey and meet friends under the beautiful tree.”

The staff were attentive and friendly. The big fig trees were amazing. Dinner was very tasty.

Pleasant and accommodating staff

“Loviest stay”

The staff were the friendliest and most welcoming!