Travel reviews by Mr C from Hale

"The Lodge provided exactly what we wanted after our long flight from the UK.

The room, restaurant and service generally were excellent"

"We travelled in the middle of March post-COVID and for half the time we had the Camp to ourselves.

We had fabulous leopard and cub, lion and wild dog sightings and even a couple of springhares fighting in the daytime.

Food and room were excellent."

"We travelled in the middle of March post-COVID and for most of our time there was just one other couple in the camp.

Wildlife was pretty incredible as far as I was concerned, with multiple lion and wild dog sightings, and prolonged single sightings of leopard and cheetah. Guiding was very high quality, food extremely good and the room luxurious.

We saw wild dogs hunting through the camp, an elephant slept 10 yards from our room and there were leopard visits too.

Whilst we were having dinner one evening, a hyena sauntered over and laid its chin on the deck. What more can I say?"

"My daughter and I had a great time and it is a trip that neither of us will ever forget.

The highlight for me was seeing the dunes at Sossuvlei from the air. I do suffer from motion sickness and this is usually made worse when I am trying to compose pictures in my camera viewfinder. Andre was brilliant at getting the plane in the right positions and even landed the plane next to the dunes so that I could recover and then carry on afterwards.

The Schoemanns are incredibly hard-working and passionate about the area. I have seen some amazing things in Africa and, although I find it impossible to rank things that are very different, this was very much up there with the best"

"As it was the low season, there were very few guests indeed.

The staff went out of their way to make me feel welcome and do whatever they could to help. The food/service was excellent. The setting and views were great.

The only adverse comment I would make was that the rooms had no heating at all, and this was a disadvantage when cold and wet!"

"In the end I didn't go there. I have posted an overall experience rating simply to allow me to move to the next page."