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Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge
Lilayi Lodge

Reviews of Lilayi Lodge

Wildlife sightings and reviews

16 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Lilayi Lodge and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

Showing 1-10 of 16
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Arrival date
Mr & Mrs F
Harrow

"Lilayi Lodge 2 night stay"

2 nights Arrived 31 Jul 2024
"A really good choice for us after travel from UK.

We are pleased we booked 2 nights here as we could enjoy a full day before moving into the bush. 1 night would have been too short as its quite a way out of Lusaka.

Accommodation was lovely, we did one of the trail walks on our own, which stretched the legs and got us into bush feel, plus the food was very good." See all these reviews: 11n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mr. P
NL

"Lilayi Lodge review"

2 nights Arrived 25 Jun 2024
"Delightful ! A hidden gem. A super way to unwind after a safari.

Very comfortable, excellent rooms and very good food and service !

I did a 10K walk within the confines of the park which is home to Lilayi lodge which allows you to see the many animals and birds that are resident there.

All in all what a great place !" See all these reviews: 13n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr P M & family
UK

"Lilayi Lodge review"

2 nights Arrived 17 Jun 2024
"This is a great place to recover from a long flight before heading elsewhere on safari. Due to flight schedules we had 2 nights here and really enjoyed our stay. We were able to do several of the self guided walks and enjoyed the experience of walking near to several species of antelope, monkeys, warthogs and giraffes. The bird life was also excellent. Game drives are available and we did the sundowner drive which was very nice. The staff were very friendly and the food excellent. Would definitely stay here again if we return to Zambia." See all these reviews: 9n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mrs JD
W London

"Lilayi Lodge review"

4 nights Arrived 11 Oct 2023
"What a great place, and a place that we want to re-visit in September 2025

We got to know Scott, the General Manager and his entire family quite well + a wonderful guy called Billie-Guest Manager or something like that, and again, we are keeping up a lovely e-mail relationship with Billie and his lovely wife

We had many discussions with Scott about the lack of "foreign guests" and he agreed, and said that this is an area that he would like to expand

We said that it was a wonderful experience to go from the remote "bush", into another type of "bush"-tamer, but superb with its 640 hectares of land and 410 animals wandering around everywhere and 300 species of birds -rather than go straight from the remote "bush" onto ghastly International airports, delays and many flights!

So hopefully, he will begin to attract more foreign clients-we really believe that they miss out by not staying here en route to wherever-but then again, I suppose that it's all about peoples' money and time-it all adds up to more days out of the UK / other countries + more costs-and that is just not possible for everybody-but we feel that people would really benefit from staying here for a few days, to wind down and to relax

We highly recommend Lilayi and hope that you continue to offer this lodge for the reasons above, to your clients

One piece of feedback is with regard to the transfer from Lusaka Airport to Lilayi Lodge

We believe that you need to ensure that there is about one and three quarters hours transfer "time-wise" to transfer from the airport to the lodge and vice versa

On the return on a Sunday, leaving the property at 1830, for a flight leaving at 2040, we were told that that leaving at 1830, was sufficient time

Our poor driver, was under huge pressure from us, as the traffic was horrendous, and he had to keep trying to find alternative, less busy routes, to try to avoid the traffic-even on a Sunday evening-and it was a very stressful transfer, as the clock ticked on, as did the traffic

So our suggestion is that this one a three quarter hours transfer time, is noted by you." See all these reviews: 14n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
A&S
Northampton

"Lilayi Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 2 Sep 2023
"Perfect for a start to the trip. Lovely staff and very relaxing.

We were treated to a dinner with wine on our stay which was extremely generous of the host.

Would recommend and return." See all these reviews: 14n in Zambia; 5n in Malawi
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Mrs M.
Chesterfield

"Lilayi Lodge review"

1 night Arrived 28 Aug 2022
"The hotel was very flexible and accommodating, the room was very good and the food in the restaurant was very good." See all these reviews: 10n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Paula
Atlanta

"Great - once you get there!"

1 night Arrived 22 Sep 2019
"Really great lodge - however, not for one night unless you want to see the city and life in the capital. The lodge, the food, the setting were great!" See all these reviews: 7n in Zambia; 5n in Namibia; 3n in Botswana; 1n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Average
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs B
Billericay

"Lilayi Lodge review"

2 nights Arrived 9 Sep 2019
"As our previous review" See all these reviews: 9n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Average
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Mr & Mrs B
Billericay

"Good overall"

2 nights Arrived 2 Sep 2019
"Our only comments are that the menu for lunch and dinner was the same and seemed to be the same each day so quite limited and a lighter lunch menu would have been better, also the lodge is a good hours drive from Lusaka airport." See all these reviews: 9n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Average
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Average
Food:
Good
The B family
Swindon

"Excellent Lodge in Lusaka"

3 nights Arrived 21 Jul 2019
"Lilayi Lodge is an excellent place to start a safari. Being able to walk around the grounds and see wildlife by yourself is an added attraction.

As is the elephant orphanage at the end of the road which the lodge are happy to drive you to.

The lodge is relaxing, quiet and friendly. The chalets are very well appointed.

We would definitely return." See all these reviews: 13n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
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