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Chobe River Lodge
Chobe River Lodge
Chobe River Lodge
Chobe River Lodge
Chobe River Lodge
Chobe River Lodge

Reviews of Chobe River Lodge

Wildlife sightings and reviews

56 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Chobe River Lodge and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

Wildlife sightings by our travellers
Starting in Sep-2018, 9 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Chobe River Lodge.
Lion

75% success

Leopard

43% success

Cheetah

0% success

Wild dog

0% success

Buffalo

100% success

Elephant

100% success

Giraffe

100% success

Hippo

100% success

Zebra

88% success

Wildebeest

44% success

Eland

25% success

Roan antelope

17% success

Sable antelope

14% success

Spotted Hyena

13% success

Aardvark

0% success

Brown Hyena

0% success

Pangolin

0% success

Sitatunga

0% success

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Duration
Arrival date
Mr & Mrs S
Kure Beach

"Garden Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 3 Jun 2022
"We spent just 1 night at the lodge as it was a transition from visiting Victoria Falls and our mobile safari in Botswana.

We enjoyed the meals and the flexibility on timing them with scheduled activities.

We greatly enjoyed both the river cruise and game drive that were coordinated by the lodge." See all these reviews: 11n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

2 sightings

Elephant

8 sightings

Giraffe

3 sightings

Hippo

7 sightings

Lion

2 sightings

Wildebeest

1 sighting

Zebra

1 sighting

Dr D & Dr U
UK

"Garden Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 20 May 2022
"Great location, fabulous design, fantastic food and lovely staff.

Unfortunately noisy at night with alarms going off nearby overnight, not a problem with ear plugs though." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 1n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Dr M & Mr D
Yorkshire

"A lovely surprise"

1 night Arrived 6 May 2022
"We only stayed here one night, the first of our 20 day holiday.

We had thought it would be a convenient stop over, which it was, but it proved to be much more. The manager (whose name I have unforgivably forgotten) was so welcoming, the staff friendly and helpful, the food was the best we had during our entire holiday, there was wildlife in the garden (warthogs, banded mongeese and a hippo) though was perfectly safe.

We had an amazing game drive, arranged by the lodge with a great guide (Tifo) and saw a large pride of lions (including the cutest cubs) feasting. We would have stayed for longer if we had only known how great this place is and would recommend it to anyone (though young children would need to be monitored at all times due to the wildlife)." See all these reviews: 17n in Namibia; 3n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

Multiple sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

2 sightings

Hippo

1 sighting

Lion

10 sightings

Mr & Mrs H
Caterham

"Garden Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 29 Apr 2022
"Just here for a day on arrival from UK.

We has a very nice room with a sunny patio outside and went on a relaxing boat trip on the lovely Chobe River and had sundowners. Access to the river was from the jetty at the end of the lovely garden.

Evening meal was good and in the morning we had a game drive before breakfast back at the lodge. The lodge had some fantastic large pictures and other nice unusual decor." See all these reviews: 4n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Lu
Australia

"Small and friendly Garden Lodge"

3 nights Arrived 1 Aug 2019
"As a solo traveller this small lodge was perfect for me. The drives and boat trips had fewer than 10 people, which gave it a friendly atmosphere, with us all sharing the excitement.

Both guides I had were extremely knowledgeable, able to spot the tiniest kingfisher in the reeds on the glorious sunset boat trip, or work hard to find that elusive leopard on the game drive.

We all ate together in the evening, joined by the two managers, which was a great end to the day, and again, lovely for a solo traveller.

Highly recommend." See all these reviews: 3n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

3 sightings

Elephant

5 sightings

Giraffe

3 sightings

Hippo

4 sightings

Leopard

2 sightings

Lion

1 sighting

Zebra

Multiple sightings

Mr M.
Anchorage

"Garden Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 3 Nov 2018
"great location to end the trip at, stayed one night -- next time two nights." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia; 1n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

Multiple sightings

Eland

Multiple sightings

Elephant

Multiple sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Zebra

Multiple sightings

Mr & Mrs K
Maidstone

"Garden Lodge"

2 nights Arrived 29 Oct 2018
"We have been going to Chobe on and off during the last 30 years.

Over that time the Kasane area has grown enormously with more and more visitors and hotels so it was a great surprise to find this excellent small hotel operation together with its own land and river safari facilities.

It has the advantage of being "family run" with the owners keen to discuss all aspects of your stay and excursion planning." See all these reviews: 7n in Zambia; 2n in Botswana; 1n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Sightings Report

Buffalo

2 sightings

Elephant

2 sightings

Giraffe

2 sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Lion

1 sighting

Sable antelope

1 sighting

Spotted Hyena

1 sighting

Zebra

2 sightings

Mrs C.
cyprus

"Garden Lodge review"

2 nights Arrived 28 Oct 2018
"Lovely lodge, all really good.

We found the safaris a little too long (4hrs) and would have preferred 3hrs" See all these reviews: 2n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
George H
AZ

"Garden Lodge Kasane"

2 nights Arrived 7 Oct 2018
"We did the Chobe River and the land safari. Only one is need of each but recommend taking both. We also played golf next door. Pretty amazing with elephants roaming through. We had to take caddies (I use the term loosely because they did not know much about golf) but it was a good idea to have them help navigate the animals. We decided the course was probably in the worst shape of nay course we had ever played but it was fun. Right on the Chobe River yet they had a watering problem, go figure. Phillip, the owner of the Lodge, said they had problems. Phillip was great and sat with us a dinner entertaining us with stories." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

1 sighting

Elephant

4 sightings

Hippo

4 sightings

Wildebeest

1 sighting

Zebra

3 sightings

Mr & Mrs W
Roehampt

"Good location and guides"

4 nights Arrived 19 Sep 2018
"The all-day game drive was a real highlight for us.

The guides are all good.

The lodge location is wonderful, right on the banks of the Chobe." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Average
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Average
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Sightings Report

Buffalo

10 sightings

Eland

1 sighting

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

5 sightings

Hippo

10 sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

1 sighting

Zebra

10 sightings

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56 reviews of Chobe River Lodge by travellers since August 2007
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