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Vingerklip Lodge

Reviews of Vingerklip Lodge

Wildlife sightings and reviews

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

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Starting in Nov-2022, 1 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Vingerklip Lodge.
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Rob and Gin
Australia

"Vingerklip Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 21 Nov 2022
"Wonderful location, the views were wonderful in a very different landscape.

The chef did a great job especially with the game meats." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Mrs & Mr DB
BC Canada

"Picturesque"

1 night Arrived 24 Oct 2019
"Beautifully located and nicely landscaped with walking paths to rooms and pool and around the property.

The Eagle's Nest restaurant at which we had the pleasure of dining was a spectacular setting on the cliff." See all these reviews: 21n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

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

"Great views, rock formations"

1 night Arrived 20 Jul 2019
"Excellent dinner at Eagles Nest on top of mountain...worth the climb for us!

Location a good way to shorten drive to Etosha the next day.

Left an item in the room and staff worked hard to try and return it to me while we were still in Namibia." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Ms L
Queensland

"Views like Monument Valley, good hotel"

1 night Arrived 27 Mar 2018
"The area has buttes and mesas made of exactly the same sandstones, and eroded in the same way as those in the South West of USA. I was pleasantly surprised when I arrived here for a 1 night stop to break up the driving. The lodge was built nicely onto the side of a mesa. It offered exceptional views around.

The rooms were well furnished except that they were too small for the furniture that were put in. The main problem was it gets too hot at night (being built on a rock) and the ceiling fan had little effect being mounted too high and filtered by the mosquito net over the bed. They really need a pedestal fan.

Meals were buffets which had a good range and was well cooked, except half of dishes for dinner were spicy. They took no notice of any special meals requests, even for low fat milk." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia; 4n in Zimbabwe; 1n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Mr M
W Lothian

"Vinger klip Ugh"

1 night Arrived 28 Sep 2017
"I have given you a blow by blow account of this place.

Filthy dirty, disinterested staff, insecure rooms. facilities in the rooms did not work.

Poor water supply, no plugs in the basins, fan did not work. Dining room disgusting. table mats had last week's inground food in them, table cloth stained and smelly.

NEVER AGAIN !!!!!! food was nothing to write home about. UGH !!!!!" See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Terrible

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Terrible
Rooms:
Terrible
Food:
Poor
Facilities:
Terrible
Family V
Belgium

"Vingerklip Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 20 Jul 2017
"What a surprise to find this beautiful pearl of a Lodge in these stunning surroundings.

Lovely private luxurious chalets, beautifully decorated inside - pity we only had one day. The (2) swimming pools are stunning, as are the views basically from everywhere.

The Eagle's Nest up the mountain is a must for a sundowner and preferably for dinner too, with glorious 360' views, all in all very romantic. Book ahead 'cause there's only a few tables." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Dr A, B & B
San Diego

"Vingerklip Lodge"

1 night Arrived 21 Jul 2016
"The expression "style over substance" applies here.

Nice rooms, but we first had no water in the shower. They fixed this in the evening, but there was no hot water until they fixed it just before we checked out the next morning. The safe did not work.

The staff often seemed bored with their jobs." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 1n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Average
Rooms:
Poor
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Poor
Mr T & Mrs M
Newmarke

"Vingerklip Lodge review"

2 nights Arrived 28 Sep 2015
"This was a luxurious place in which to enjoy a day off.

A stunning location, with excellent facilities." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia; 5n in Zambia; 2n in Zimbabwe; 2n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs W
VIC

"Stunning location"

1 night Arrived 4 Oct 2014
"Nice spot and well presented. Gaenor was bitten by a scorpion on the first night and the concern was that no one seemed to know what to do in the circumstances. Luckily there was a Guide there with another party who was able to help. But no ready access to a doctor and the first aid kit consisted of 5 tubes of Germolene and a bottle of Dettol. Gaenor was in considerable pain and we were able to reduce pain because we had the necessary tablets with us. Not a very good experience and luckily the scorpion was not the small deadly venomous one.

Otherwise a nice pleasant place to stay." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Average
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Average
Mr & Mrs R
New York

"Vingerklip Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 19 Nov 2013
"As with Waterberg, the Vingerklip might be worth a drive for a day visit but not for an overnight.

Rooms were good, pool nice but the rock formation not worth more that a couple of hours. We did make reservations at the Eagle's Nest. The walk up and view from the top is wonderful but dinner at the restaurant pretty terrible. It's all cooked below and shipped up to steam tables. A better decision would have been to walk up for the sunset and have dinner in the restaurant below.

Really, we didn't think that it warranted an overnight." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average

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