Reviews of Hobatere Lodge
Wildlife sightings and reviews
78 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Hobatere Lodge and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

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"Hobatere the ultimate game lodge."
The new accommodation and public buildings are very well done and an improvement on an already very nice facility.Steve and Louise Braine were so welcoming and all the staff were excellent, so nice to see Martin again who is an excellent guide. Steve,of course, is a mine of information and always ready to share his enthusiasm. Extraordinary range of wild life with two hides to watch it from,early morning bush walks with Martin,day time game drives seem almost superfluous.To complete the picture the food was the best we had during our holiday.
We will return." See all these reviews: 11n in Namibia
"Just the best !"
we were pleased to have stayed three nights here as it was not as crowded as Etosha ." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia
"Enjoy a quiet location"
We had a nightime visitor in the lodge in the form of an elephant but did not cause too moch damage!" See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia
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The staff were particularly helpful in trying to locate a new tyre for our rental car - thanks very much." See all these reviews: 25n in Namibia
"Very pleasant relaxing place to stay"
Electricity was provided by a generator which went off quite early in the evening, and could perhaps be left on a bit longer." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia; 2n in Botswana
"Enigma Lodge"
were probably designed by Basil Fawlty or Mr.Bean. A huge branch of a tree is positioned on the bed head at the exact position to render one
unconscious should one sit up quickly.
The Tree House looks as though it was constucted by a troop of baboons, during our stay a couple who had booked the "Tree House"
refused point blank to stay there.
A coach party arrived on our last day, and this did not improve matters.
The highlight of Hobatere was the waterhole, superb photo opportunities, Elephant, Oryx, Kudu, Hartmann,s Mountain Zebra and many more,
super." See all these reviews: 17n in Namibia
We are aware that the Tree House at Hobatere is very, very basic and consequently only offer this to the ‘right’ people. We fear that the people who were supposed to stay there when these travellers were at the main lodge, had not been briefed fully on its ‘rusticness’ by their agent.
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The rooms were lovely, the food was excellent and serving staff were really friendly and helpful. It was nice to have buffet style meals as the amount of meat was becoming too much by this point on our trip, so it was great to see some vegetables!
The owners drove us out to the hide one day and left us for 2 hours, which was lovely as we saw an elephant (as well as looots of zebra, oryx, springbok etc). The lookout point from the main lodge was also good, and pool lovely. It was all set out very nicely.
A very enjoyable stay." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia
"Out-of-the-way lodge in interesting reserve."
The 'water hole' viewing building was good but the hole - seemingly natural and possibly a cut-off section of a river - was far too distant from it with animals disappearing from view when going down to the water. The bill we had to pay at the end was rather high when in many places it was fairly nominal." See all these reviews: 16n in Namibia
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A great introduction to wildlife prior to Etosha." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
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