Reviews of Strand Hotel
(90%) From 42 travellersThey do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa.
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An oasis of comfort - but lacking local feel
Arriving at the Hotel after a nine hour drive down the Skeleton Coast and 10 days in the bush was something of a shock - we walked dishevelled into an air-conditioned marble clad reception and suddenly found we were in an international standard hotel. And that's the problem - we didn't want to be in an international hotel, we wanted to continue to feel we were fully in Africa. So we would have preferred something more local and authentic. Having said that, reception sorted out a room problem and our rooms were very comfortable and the staff helpful and the breakfast excellent. Signage to the adjoins Ocean restaurant is inadequate - we wandered out of the hotel into the evening darkness and spent serval minutes trying to find it. A sign outside the door would have been helpful! Also there is no pool. unlike in all the camps we stayed in. And the wifi didn't work for most of our three night stay - bizarre given that it had worked better in some very remote places
We thought Swakop was well over-rated - examples of German colonial architecture are few and far between and otherwise it is simply an unremarkable, useful 'administrative' stop over - we had a camera that needed maintenance, an infected leg that needed a doctor, and a puncture to repair. But I would keep any stopover to two nights - enough to do the Walvis Bay tour and the quad biking / sandboarding adventure, which our kids loved - and then get back out into the real remote Namibia again.
Strand Hotel review
Swimming pool missing
Spa small and close early
Map of the city was not provided
If you like hotels you'll like The Strand
Following our flight up to Swakop from Geluk in the morning we were unable to check in to our rooms until 1400, which wasn't handled well.
If you like hotels then you'll like the Strand which is perfectly adequate with a very comfy room, but after too many hotel nights in a business career I would very much preferred something else, but Swakop was apparently booked out. There's no pool.
Swakop on a Sunday had little to recommend it.
Strand Hotel review
Friendly staff and a very modern hotel but somewhat lacking in character.
One could have been in any modern hotel in any major city.
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ex stay in lovely new modern hotel right by the beach but still close to the centre
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Strand Hotel review
We stayed here for two nights. The hotel has been beautifully renovated, there are photos and maps of days gone by throughout the hotel. The rooms are fresh, clean and comfortable.
The breakfasts at the Farmhouse Deli are great and have a wonderful selection of delicious food.
The service throughout the hotel is very good.
The great location makes this hotel a ideal place to stay.
Whilst in Swakopmund, these travellers took a day trip to Sandwich Harbour, here's what they said about it:
What a great tour to Sandwich Harbour. Our guide Burger collected us at our hotel and we drove through Walvis Bay stopping to see the bird life on the way. We had an adventurous drive down along the coast to Sandwich Harbour stopping at points of interest pointed out by Burger. We stopped for a lovely lunch and climbed the sand dunes. We came back through the dunes, spotting Springbok and seals.
Burger was fun, knowledgeable and really made our day out more of an experience. Well worth the day out.
Strand Hotel -amazing laundry service!
New modern comfortable hotel on the Mole, our room overlooked the sea and one morning we saw a dolphin swim in quite close to shore.
Very comfortable and with exceptionally good housekeeping staff – with the fastest laundry service we have ever come across! We stayed twice - on our second stopover, which was after our camping trip, the exceptional laundry service was a god send!
The food was also very good and all staff were very helpful.
Strand Hotel review
Very comfortable stay and good location.
Whilst here, we organised several trips for this family. They commented about the 4WD day to Sandwich Harbour:
This was one of our top highlights of the trip. Our guide was excellent, very funny and very knowledgeable.
We loved every minute of this day trip, the kids in particular loved hiking up the sand dunes and running dow them! Sandwich harbour itself, and the drive along the beach, is simply stunning and the sun came out for us at 12pm. Spectacular and a delicious lunch also.
Huge thanks to Expert Africa for having advised us to do this.
They also commented about the morning trip kayaking with seals:
We loved this trip, and Naude was a wonderful guide. Delicious sandwiches after too!
Foggy Strand Hotel
Great hotel, and very nice athmosfere. the location is superb
We asked for an upgrade to a Suite in order to have a balcony and great view of the Ocean, the upgrade was not that expensive.
We had dinner at the Ocean Cellar, and it was very nice. Excellent breakfast
I would inform your customer that in Swakopmund morning ad afternoons are really foggy and cold, we were scared the first day but that we had a beautiful warm sunny day
