Intu Afrika Kalahari Suricate Tented Lodge

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• brigitte54

  17 mayo 2018
  Tented camp

  Excellent place with very good services et very friendly peoples. Very good evening drive and sundowner. I will recommand this lodge to my friends and family. For the start of our trip it was an very good experience.

  

• Fiona T

  07 junio 2018
  A wonderful Kalahari setting with a simple charming lodge

  Although part of the Intu Afrika group this lodge was so much nicer than Zebra lodge. Wonderful kind caring staff and very comfortable bright airy tents. Again the food was mediocre but the staff were fantastic. We had a wonderful walk on the pan in the evening and a glorious sunset. Sadly no one had told us we couldn't drive around and a very rude man from Zebra lodge attacked us in the car in a most undignified and unnecessary fury - there are ways of asking people to conform and all hoteliers should know this..

  

• malulca49

  20 marzo 2019
  Encantador.

  Cabañas con todo lujo de detalles,con dos camas grandes y mosquitera.Una ducha enorme en un buen cuarto de baño.Las cabañas tienen una terraza diseñada para poder ver a los distintos animales beber agua en la charca y al estar sobreelevada en troncos de madera,puedes ver incluso como pasan las gacelas por debajo.Se come estupendamente.La piscina tiene vistas a la sabana y organizan excursiones maravillosas en 4X4.Para mi de lo mejor que he visitado.

  

• ozallan

  08 abril 2019
  A Special Stay

  Suricate Lodge is located in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. There is lots of sand! It is a very comfortable tented camp on the edge of a large salt pan looking out to the red sands & bush of the desert. Its a really beautiful outlook. The rooms / tents are on a wooden structure with a balcony. There is a couple of comfortable beds & at the back of the tent connected to the tent is a good size bathroom with toilet & shower. However there is only a drip of water for the shower. There is a small outside swimming pool at the main building which also overlooks a small watering hole of the animals. Meals were served here. Dinner was three courses & 2 choices of mains which was very tasty. Breakfast had a small section of cold foods & eggs could be ordered. The lodge is located on a private game park & it is possible to do a two hour game drive in the afternoon with sunset drinks on the dunes. This costs extra but well worth doing. There are a good number of animals to spot. A day & a night is possibly enough but well worth the experience.

  

• sourosircar

  10 junio 2019
  Good stay on 1st night in Namibia tour, could do with mosquito nets.

  My tour guide took me and a fellow traveller to this alternative lodge when our originally lodge Camelthorn was closed for renovation and we were delighted with it. After a long drive from Windhoek, we were greeted with a cool drink and the staff who were very friendly and cheerful helped us with our luggage and the manager informed us of all the tours the lodge provided for an additional cost and as this was our first time in Namibia we all decided to go for an early morning bush walk with decentants of native tribes known as San people and an afternoon jeep safari on their secured onsite game reserve. The rooms are quite unique being built in huts on stints made from wood and canvas, which are very secure and sturdy and just outside your room door is a balcony overlooking a dry lakebed with a small waterhole where wild game come and drink. I had a good view and saw some springbok and oryx, also known locally as gemsbok. Each hut has a double bed with tea and coffee facilities and an en-suite bathroom, although shower is not enclosed. Being in the Kalahari Desert, there is a lot of sand and the terrain was quite rocky especially between your room huts and the main reception building, so good solid walking shoes were required and take small steps at a time. In the main building there is a small swimming pool, decked seating lodge and a restaurant providing breakfast buffet and dinner. The food provided was very tasty and the staff were very kind and helpful. They even helped wake me up when my alarm clock failed and arranged my tour jeep to wait when I am ready. The bush walk was fantastic as was the game drive, the sand dunes at the reserve were very steep so you had to hold on tight to the bars on the safari jeep and made sure you seatbelts were fastened if you were lucky to have any on your seat. Me and my tour group were lucky to see a lioness up close as well as a herd of springbok and waterbuck, we even saw a white hornbill and a tree with a big nest on its branch full of the flock of social weavers. The reserve is quite vast with multiple came thorn trees and termite moulds and we even encountered some abandoned ostrich eggs that are so solid a man can step on it without breaking them. Great experience although the rooms at this lodge could do with an enclosed mosquito net even though there is a strong effective bug spray that can kill most types of insects including mosquitoes, although thankfully I was never bitten on my first night. Would highly recommend using spray constantly to keep insects away before settling in and sleeping. Apart from the bug problem, I enjoyed my stay and would recommend this lodge to other travellers when coming in the Kalahari desert of Namibia.