Reviews of Nkwazi Lodge
(82%) From 26 travellersThey do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa.
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Friendly riverside lodge
Nkwazi Lodge is more rustic lodge but very friendly and comfortable and we had a lovely sundowner cruise and a very pleasant evening chatting with the owner.
Basically a campsite.
The room was nice but the "lodge" is really a campsite. Lots of people, and not really our kind of place. I understand that the owners try to help the local children but we were actually asked by a waiter for a contribution to his education and if he could have our address and details in the U.K for if he came over. This was not anyone we had any contact or conversation with other than the normal questions about the menu etc. and it made us feel uncomfortable having to refuse.
We also were put off the food by the behaviour of other guests.. one almost sticking his nose in a dish of "stew" to find out what it was and a coulple who actually put back a spoon into a dish after tasting it..from the spoon. Maybe a bit TOO free and easy and "communal" . Nothing much to do, as there was nowhere interesting to walk.
Brief stopover
Nkwazi is probably the sort of place you stop at when you're on the way to somewhere else. That was us. It was comfortable and well appointed; cuisine was good or very good.
The assembly of a series of local dancers, whom it was difficult to avoid watching at an extra charge (dinner only served after the demonstration) had the flavour of the artficial, a staged performance for tourists and the reckoning the following morning took place with Valerie sitting at the receipt of customs, writing the details of, and charges for, every individual's consumption then and there. With a queue of about fourteen, and very laborious computing and scribing, the excessive waste of time was unnecessary and frustrating.
Nkwazi Lodge review
We arrived to find we had been put in chalets K1 and K2. These were the new chalets (they are building quite a few new ones, and were on a building site on top of the others being built!) and were definitely not really ready for occupation. Very bare with no mosquito nets, nothing on the bare cement floors, and very little furniture. I was completely despondent! I insisted we were moved while feeling sorry for them because they were fully booked. Luckily they decided to move us and to take the flak from the later arriving tourists! Our new chalets were very good overlooking the river and we went on to enjoy this lodge and especially the food which was very good indeed. I suggest you insist that any future clients are in the original chalets and not the new build.
Read more about the whole tripGood one night stop
A convenient and comfortable place to stay for one night
Read more about the whole triplocal involvement
Sundowner boat trip included children singing for us and that evening at the lodge we were entertained by Local traditional dancers and choir
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We have always believed that acting responsibly is the only way to approach tourism and we're one of
the few companies to hold AITO's original coveted 5-star status for responsible tourism. It's a lead
that others are now following.
