Reviews of Okaukuejo Camp
Wildlife sightings and reviews
701 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Okaukuejo Camp and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa
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"Okaukuejo Camp review"
The camp itself was big, impersonal, food very poor, and service bad, and there seems to be a problem with sewage (bad smell all around the camp ) - rooms were clean though.
However, it was worth staying here for the waterhole.
Extraordinarily to see so many elephants at once, and later that night we saw giraffes, which was incredible - very memorable!" See all these reviews: 17n in Namibia
"Okaukuejo Camp review"
The wildlife we saw there was fantastic; after one rather quiet half hour, twenty or so elephants came ambling in. At all times there was something to see. The chalet itself was very comfortable, although it needed a bit more care (the downstairs living room had no light when we were there, though one was rigged up by the maintenance man).
The food was buffet-style, for large numbers of people, but perfectly adequate. We did not take any of the tours available but as we drove around in the national park, we found some amazing viewpoints, where lines of game were queuing for their access to water. We were very glad to have gone there and experienced the park, in spite of the numbers of people and pressure on services." See all these reviews: 16n in Namibia; 3n in South Africa
"Great place to start our Etosha experience!"
On our first day we saw 5 rhinos and many elephants at the waterhole.
Amazing!" See all these reviews: 7n in Namibia; 5n in Botswana; 2n in South Africa; 2n in Zimbabwe
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"Fantastic Waterhole"
A really huge highlight of our trip!" See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia; 2n in Rwanda; 1n in South Africa
"Okaukuejo Camp"
The experience driving out the east gate of Etosha was better than expected with decent number of mammals at the waterholes.
Got to see three black rhinos together at the camp watering hole." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 1n in South Africa
"Great waterhole but could be so much better!"
Room was ok, but shower was not good at all. It clearly needed the head cleaning so more water could come out or a new shower head.
Pool looked good, although we didn't use it there was lots of people that were. They also have a tower you can climb to the top off to see of the Etosha plains which was nice.
The dinner was also overpriced compared to where we had eaten previously and not very good - would recommend if you can have a bbq. We couldn't as we didn't have any bbq equipment. The second night we were the first ones eating as we had booked to go on a night drive, and asked if we would sit outside instead of inside (inside gets very smokey). Our waiter said yes and changed two of the table numbers, and for some reason this caused an argument between some of the staff later on - despite the fact we were gone before anyone else came. It appears they need to have a better, more relaxed system in the restaurant which isn't so strict on where people sit and keeps customers happy! Breakfast was a little better food wise, but again the staff never seemed happy. Tried to eat at the kiosk - was told shuts at 4.30, went at 4.00 and got told not doing anything apart from toast as cleaning down.
Also found it incredible that there is a big water shortage in Namibia and the government camp were using sprinklers to water dead grass. All other camps we were staying at were trying to preserve water,
The night drive was ok, but it was on a big vehicle which was full. We did manage to see baby hyenas and a rhino very close.
One thing I would say is this camp is good for the waterhole. We saw lots of animals here. So unfortunately the camp do have that in there favour and I think they know it." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia
"Great waterhole at Okaukuejo Camp"
The food and service was better than Halali camp." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia; 3n in Zambia; 1n in South Africa
"Okaukuejo Camp review"
The slight inadequacies of the place were easily made up for by the closeness to the waterhole. This was amazing to just watch the animals come in to drink. We spent an entire afternoon just watching a herd of Elephants with some very young ones drinking and it was fascinating to watch the interaction between the group.
The following day we spent driving around ourselves and found a Leopard and a couple of Lionesses, amongst many other animals.
We did not have any problems with noise as had been led to expect even though our room was right next to the camp site and there was certainly no problem round the waterhole." See all these reviews: 17n in Namibia
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