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Sam's Giardino

Reviews of Sam's Giardino

Wildlife sightings and reviews

173 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Sam's Giardino and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

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R Family
San Diego

"Gratitude to Sam"

2 nights Arrived 9 Aug 2014
"Our designated room was really crowded and small
Sam gave us an extra room for the first night and moved us to the family penthouse for the second.
He went out of his way to help, assist and advise.
Even encouraged us to take sandwiched for the way the day we left.
We also enjoyed the dinners and special wines." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Dr J & Ms G
UK

"Sam's Giardino review"

3 nights Arrived 31 Jul 2014
"Sam’s Giardino was a wonderful place. Sam’s interests in food, wine, music and conversation, combined with a very homely place, meant that after three nights it was like saying goodbye to an old friend.

The food and wines were exceptionally good and the garden a delight. And that lovely, lovely dog… we took him for a walk and brushed him and entirely fell for him (clever PR move!). It wasn’t until we were well on our way onwards that I realized we hadn’t put anything in the staff tips box, which I feel particularly bad about.

We can recommend the boat trips with Ocean Adventures: we saw dolphin, whale, tame seals and tame pelicans, and the trip was very well run (they collect you from and return you to your hotel). Even better it seemed that nobody else on the trip ate oysters, so after tentatively wondering if we could have more than one we realized that we could have as many as we liked (and did!)." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mrs & Mr
USA

"comfortable place, nice people"

2 nights Arrived 20 Jul 2014
"We enjoyed our stay at Sam's Giardino. Very nice hospitality and comfortable rooms. Clean, near enough to town center for convenience yet far enough away for a quite night.

Excellent access to guides for the dunes." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
W family
Gwent

"A relaxing 'home from home' at Sam's"

3 nights Arrived 4 Jul 2014
"We liked the atmosphere and relaxing 'home from home' feeling at Sam's. The decor may be a little old-fashioned but the food was excellent and accommodation well-located for walking in to town. Very quiet location too. Definitely recommend it particularly if some normalcy is needed after too many 5 course meals in the lovely lodges! A walk into town for a pizza did the trick!" See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Mr D & Mrs J
Dudley

"Sam's Giardino review"

3 nights Arrived 30 Mar 2014
"Too long a walk to the town centre.

Sam was very helpful booking restaurants and gave good advice" See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Poor
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Family P
London

"Sam's Giardino review"

2 nights Arrived 26 Mar 2014
"Very personal attention from the owner. A nice and interesting man and a good hotelier. Excellent dinner for such a small guest house. A characterful and memorable place. Would definitely go back." See all these reviews: 7n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Mr M & Ms O
UK

"Beethovens Symphony"

2 nights Arrived 9 Mar 2014
"Sam's a great caring host. Less eccentric than we remember - loves his classical music! No longer has the St Bernards have been replaced by one very large Bernese dog!

Lovely gardens! Definitely the place to stay in Swakopmund.

Ate out at the Tug, on the pier - fantastic restaurant, superb food.

Went sand boarding too - highly recommended for all ages as long as you have good underpants - reached up to 72kmh." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia; 5n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs J
Dorking

"Sam's Giardino review"

2 nights Arrived 29 Jan 2014
"Very comfortable with excellent service and food." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Mr G x 4
Norway

"Sam's Giardino review"

2 nights Arrived 28 Oct 2013
"We had 2 nights there and enjoyed our stay in Swakopmund even if the weather was misty most of the time.

Good service and friendly staff.

Whilst in Swakopmund these guests took a day excursion to the coast south of Swakopmund. This is what they said about it:

This turned out to be one of the highlights during our trip, highly recommended.
Our guide Ernst Ritter shared his knowledge and showed us a lot of facinating and interresting things in and around Sandwich harbour. We even got a bit of sunshine when we headed back.
We also enjoyed the driving on the sand dunes and along the coast almost in the waves.
An exciting day we will never forget, thanks a lot." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Mr M & family
UK

"Very hospitable"

3 nights Arrived 23 Oct 2013
"We arrived in Swakopmund on a cold foggy day , unfortunately our rooms at Sam's were very chilly and perhaps less appealing than our previous accommodations however Sam's hospitality and Cuisine made up for the lack of comfort ion our rooms .

We had a very informative and great guide Sean in our desert trip which was great fun and a highlight of our trip here, the museum in town was first class and the whole family enjoyed it .Our boat trip was very cold , we saw many seals but sadly very few dolphins from a distance a little disappointing .We would if we had our time again probably only spend 2 nights here ." See all these reviews: 18n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average

Location:
Average
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Poor
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Average
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