Reviews of Cornerstone Guesthouse
(95%) From 179 travellersThey do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa.
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Exactly what it said on the tin
A very solid guest house with welcoming and helpful hosts. It is within walking distance of the centre of the town and most of the restaurants.
The room was spacious and comfortable with a separate sitting area.
Nothing great but nothing to complain about.
Excellent position in a quiet residential are
A lovely house with all the rooms having their own private patio area.
Gorgeous well maintained pretty gardens. The owners were away but the 2 ladies who ran the place were really friendly, welcoming & helpful as were the staff.
Great dining room with an excellent breakfast served both mornings.Great to be able to put the car safely away & to be near enough to town to sample a good choice of restaurants on foot!
Thoroughly recommend this B&B
Lovely Guesthouse
Owner & staff extremely helpful. We were given a lovely room with a lounge area for a little relaxation.
My husband needed a dentist and we called in advance and Peter, the owner, arranged an appointment locally and all was done and dusted the day after we arrived.
Excellent breakfast and good location.
Perfect attention to detail
We loved our stay at Cornerstone. It was in a quiet location but only a 5 minute walk to the town centre or the beach.
Peter, the owner, was very helpful and we appreciated the provision of mobile phones so that guests could contact him if needed. The attention to detail was impressive - for example there was a post box for guest mail. The rooms were comfortably furnished and spotless. Breakfasts were good. We enjoyed sitting on our terrace in the late afternoon watching all the birds that visited the garden.
Peter suggested a visit to the local museum - we went there and would also recommend it. Take eye shades for sleeping if you are sensitive to light as there is a street lamp just by the pedestrian gate.
Cornerstone Guesthouse review
A very comfortable guest house, well situated for exploring Swakopmund on foot. It complemented the game lodges well.
Read more about the whole tripBeautifully clean with a very good location
We stayed here two nights and highly recommend it. It is spotless and only five minutes from the centre of town. Parking is either on site or just outside and they have security.
We ate the first night at Kucki's Pub which was good but really just pub food. The second night we ate at The Tug.This is fantastic but you must book as it is very popular. Its the best John Dory I have ever eaten. We also visited the gem stone factory and the museum which are both worth a visit. We also did the Welwitchia Drive where you must get a permit in town before you go for negligible cost but we were never asked to show it. It is spectacular.
It is noticeably colder in Swakop but a warm fleece is enough unless you are particularly susceptible to the cold.
We then drove up the coast to the seal colony. Amazing site and very smelly. Its a long drive but worth it.
Very good location for Swakopmund
Cornerstone was very comfortable and accessible, located just off the main road and close to the City Centre.
They provided info on restaurants and other points of interest.
The Museum and the Krystal Gallerie are both well worth a visit,, and although we didn't get to the Tug or Jetty, Kucki's was very good..
Spacious, good food and helpful service
Nice big rooms with en suite bathroom, a TV and a laundry service, which was very welcome after a week on the road. Excellent breakfast and really helpful staff, who kindly arranged breakfast packs on the day we had an early start.
Only suggestion for improvement would be extractor fans in the bathrooms, as we found the room ended up a bit steamy and damp after we used the shower.
Whilst here, these travellers took a Day trip to Sandwich Harbour. They commented:
Brilliant fun in the dunes!
We had so much fun on this trip - driving over the dunes was absolutely brilliant and we could have stayed there for hours!
It was a bucket-list thing for me to go to Sandwich Harbour, to see where the desert meets the sea - and I'll never forget the drive along that precariously narrow stretch of sand between the crashing waves and the huge dunes. My only suggestion for the future would be if they were to advise where you can see the classic viewpoint of the headland curving out into the sea in the distance, ringed by the dunes - possibly the best vantage point of this would be on top of one of the dunes, but we never quite saw it from that angle.
They also enjoyed a scenic flight over the coast, and said of that:
Mind-blowing, once-in-a-litetime trip!
This was far and away the most exhilarating, inspirational and beautiful excursion we've ever taken! It was a big expense, because we were the only two passengers, but it was entirely worth it.
The first leg of the flight, over the Namib desert sand sea, was phenomenally beautiful - I must have taken a thousand pictures! To see the huge, snaking apricot coloured dunes, Sossusvlei and the Tsauchab corridor from the air was mind-blowing - and something I'll treasure for ever. And after that, we still had Fish River Canyon, mountains and Sperrgebeit, the diamond coastand Sandwich Harbour to go! The tour of Kolmanskopp was great: another bucket-destination that we were pleased to experience but we felt we were hurried out of fascinating Kolmanskopp to get to lunch and the Luderitz tour, which was far less interesting to us.
Nevertheless, the day overall was outstanding - one we'll never forget!
Good base for a stay in Swakopmund
Very helpful and friendly staff - Robyn helped with meal recommendations and reservations and she also managed to explain to me how my local data package worked!
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