坎迪波山私人野生動物保護區 - 紐馬克

Auch zum wiederholten Male ein nur schwer zu beschreibendes Erlebnis. Auf alle Fälle ein Game Reserve, was das Prädikat einmalig verdient. Das betrifft die weltweit einmalige Landschaft, das gesamte Team, die Art und Weise der oft atemraubenden und atemberaubenden Ausfahrten und ein besonders großes Lob für unseren Ranger Martin! Das war ganz großes und unvergessenens Kino. Hinzu kommt ein Team, was alles möglich macht und so wunderbar unaufgeregt im agiert. Massentourismus a la Krüger etc. findet man hier nicht. Dafür Ruhe und familiäre Atmosphäre. Wir freuen uns schon auf die Rückkehr im nächsten Jahr. Herzlichen Dank an alle!

Das war nun schon der 5. BESUCH INNERHALB EINES JAHRES - und jedes Mal haben wir diesen einzigartigen Ort mehr als ungern verlassen, aber immer mit einem Rucksack wunderbarer Erlebnisse. Kommt man an, fühlt man sofort die familiäre und sehr individuelle Atmosphäre, die durch die Ruhe der Landschaft noch unterstützt wird. Massentourismus a la Kruger etc. - weit gefehlt. Dazu ein Team, das ganz unaufdringlich diese Tage unvergessen macht, auch kulinarisch!!! Hier wird frisch gekocht und aufgetischt und auch hier sind individuelle Wünsche kein Problem. Die Game Drives sind dann der absolute Höhepunkt, wobei man immer zwischen den Stühlen sitzt und sich zwischen dem Verbleib im traumhaften Außen-und Innenbereich und den ebenso spannenden Pirdchfahrten entscheiden muss. Entscheidet man sich für die Ausfahrten weiß man oft nicht, was beeindruckender ist - die Landchaft und die Fahrt durch diese (echtes Fahrzabenteuer!!) oder den Tierbeobachtungen, die man hier nicht teilen muss. So bleibt auch hier viel Zeit für Individualität. Herzlichen Dank an das gesamte Team in der Küche und im Service, an Rudolf unseren amazing guide!!!!, an Justin und sein Team für das herzliche Willkommenund die unproblematische Vorbereitung. Die sehr gute Kommunikation mit dem Newmark-Team soll natürlich ebenso Erwähnung finden. Wir freuen uns auf 2025. Alles erdenklich Gute dankie, enkosi kakulu and thank you very much. Sven und seine Gruppen

The location is magnificent. The food was good. This place has so much potential but it is not really being looked at properly. The communication about the code of the entrance gate could be much better. The room, bathroom and dining room in the manor house could use a renovation. The bed creaked with every movement. The suite is smaller than in the pictures. The air conditioning regularly started to make a lot of noise that could not really be helped. The shower door does not close. The shower is also not very clean. The kitchen staff is your single point of contact. The manager didn't show up until we left on the 4th day. All in all, there is a lot of room for improvement in management. For example, one evening there was a problem with the wine. The manager had taken the key of the wine supply that meant that the key had to be picked up with a car (15 minutes). The website states that this lodge is familyrun but the owner lives in Cape Town.

We had two nights booked but decided to leave after one. We were in the Courtyard Manor Suite which although very nice in itself is not at the main Lodge. This meant our ranger (Sulemain) who was very helpful and had to come and pick us up for game drives and we had to go straight into breakfast and dinner after the drive without the opportunity to clean up which for us is not ideal. Not being in the main Lodge also meant we did not have access to the swimming pool which would have been ideal in 37C heat! This was the fifth game reserve on our trip to the Eastern Cape and probably one too many as we had already seen all the mammals and surprisingly there was not that much bird life. Compared to other lodges we had been to the food was mediocre, no choice bush cooking and these days we expect better. The scenery is absolutely spectacular but the terrain is very rough and the Land Rover being used was by no means in the best of conditions. We also suffered from a lack of service with nobody based in the Courtyard Manor at any time and we felt somewhat isolated hence our decision to move on. We got the feeling this property may be struggling and cannot recommend it.

The location of the actual main Lodge is in the valley of the game park. There are a few of what looked like fairly large rooms in the lodge itself, but we stayed in the 2 ‘pods’ located about an hours game vehicle drive a away. Our friends stayed in Pod 1 and we were in Pod 2 - about 20 minutes further on from the lodge. Both pods have very different views, Pod 2 although further away had the better view. The Pods themselves were amazing, comfortable, very remote and you feel so isolated. Each Pod has a small kitchenette with microwave and 2 gas rings and a fridge. The shower had lots of hot water and the small deck outside provided amazing views. We had a braai pit fully equipped with logs, matches and firelighters, a separate outside lounge/comfy seating area, and a wood fire outdoor spa. An Electric fence protected us from any unwanted visitors. The downside was the food…the ‘evening dinners’ provided for us to warm up as well the lunches were simply awful and very basic…such a let down with the accommodation being so awesome. No choices of food and the portions were small. More imagination could have gone into to the food preparation. If I went again I would take my own food to prepare and braai. the

We have wanted to stay at the Mount Camdeboo pods for a while, but booking has been difficult through their booking agents. This time we managed to get three nights at the loss and were excited. We have lived in SA a long time, so had no issue lighting fires, cooking on flames, lighting hurricane lamps and keeping the hog tub fire going. The pods are lovely and well equipped and designed. It's such a rare treat to be outside in total isolation with just the sound of animals. BUT, the food is abysmal. We had breakfast at the lodge after the mor ing game druve, and that was okay. But the lunch and dinner that was pre-cooked and taken up to the pods was just dreadful. I dont eat meat, so I was given a small piece of fish each evening. Even microwaving it resulted in overcooked fish as it was fully cooked already. Mynother options were stuffed vegetable (which is so unimaginative and i dont know why cooks think vegetarians like spinach stuffed into another veg). My husband got cheap, fatty and no eye cuts of meat like oxtail and lamb neck. Difficult to eat with limited light and our foreign friends simply hated these two meals. On the last night the cook produced two anorexic chicken drumsticks and a small handful of diced vegetables, no starch. Dry, unappetising, tasteless. And there was no GM in sight, no one asked for feedback. Not a great experience