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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"Elephants and rhino"
The only problem is the length of time it can take to get anything done in the office. They seem to need to produce masses of paperwork for the same thing and there is just not enough staff at the peak times of checking in and out. The few staff work very hard to deal with 6 things at once!
2 corrections to information we were given in UK. Firstly, park entrance fees are not included in accommdation costs and must be paid on arrival. Secondly, the check of your room upon departure is done by radio and is speedy in our experience. Don't be tempted to hand over your passport/driving licence as a deposit on the room - we saw several people hurrying off and forgetting these and another person whose licence had been lost in the office!
Take your own teabags - and Englishman with no breakfast tea is not worth knowing!" See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia; 7n in South Africa
We note that Namibian park fees are not included as part of a holiday cost in our initial correspondence with travellers. This is when we detail out the chosen safari and what is and isn’t included in the cost. We will look into mentioning this again to travellers before they depart so that they can plan accordingly.
"Okaukuejo Restcamp review"
"Okakuejo has the best water hole in Etosha"
We lost count of however many Elephants we saw as well as 6 Rhinos and a Hyena in one short evening" See all these reviews: 16n in Namibia; 3n in Botswana
"Lovely stay at Okaukuejo"
The food is institutional and the service tends to the terse. But that's not the point! The location is fantastic, the waterhole at night is spectacular, and not bad during the day. There are plenty of places to drive to to watch even more game, and the birdlife just wandering about the camp is excellent." See all these reviews: 16n in Namibia
"Okaukuejo Restcamp review"
The bungalows were very clean, spacious and well prepared for any mozzies. Food at the restaurant was not great (think of mass catering) but was OK for 2 nights.
If you want to self-cater DON'T relay on the shop - very poor range and quantities - bring it with you! Post Office is great!" See all these reviews: 20n in Namibia
"Okaukuejo Restcamp review"
We were delighted with the whole park - we made two drives each day and saw almost all that we would wish to see, including quite a number of lions on three occasions, two leopards eating a kill, right next to the road, and a distant cheetah.
I suspect that the lion population is pretty high in Etosha now, but we still counted ourselves very fortunate in our sightings. I would rate Etosha as at least as good as parks like Tsavo and Amboseli.
The food at Okokuejo was excellent, too, with friendly restaurant staff." See all these reviews: 18n in Namibia
"Exceeded our expectations in every way"
Swimming pools and grounds were beautiful and overall impression is that this place is good enough to compete with any resort hotel in the world. Restaurant meals in the evening were rather a scrum with significant queues for main courses, but choice was wider than anywhere else we visited and quality was excellent . Second evening ate at 1830 rather than 1900 and avoided most of the queuing.
Some info we read in the UK before departure suggested that Okaukuejo had an ATM and internet cafe, but neither were present and nearest bank was south at Outjo. Hotel and park fees can be paid by credit card, but don't rely on topping up cash reserves here.
We spent hours at the water hole, both during day and at night. Constant visits from big groups of large and small animals. Just fantastic.
During our full day at Okaukuejo, we explored the furtherest western water holes and found these teaming with life, but with few other visitors. Didn't feel need to take guided tour, and managed to see virtually every animal that we wanted at a pace that suited ourselves. After checking out we drove through park eastwards and were rewarded with numerous close encounters of the animal kind.
Before coming to Namibia we thought that we would be lucky to get close enough to get decent photos of any of the big animals. In the event we were regularly stopping the car to allow deer, giraffe and elephant to cross the road immediately in front of us. We have returned home with 6Gb of pictures and 5 hours of video. This place is outstanding." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
"Much smarter than 13 years ago!"
The revamped lodge rooms are much smarter than they were and of a good standard, if a bit cramped. The food is a bit canteen like and outside of the canteen there is little in the way of self-catering faiclities in the rooms." See all these reviews: 11n in Namibia
"Okaukuejo Restcamp review"
The waterhole provided excellent game viewing.
Great swimming pool." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
"Wonderful waterhole at Okaukuejo Restcamp"
Camp pass - we arrived for a 2 day stay at 2.30pm. Problem was that the pass expired at 2.30 after 2 days, which means that we had to exit the other gate by this time, or buy another day pass. I feel that the pass should be for a full day if arriving after 1.00pm." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia
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