matthewh34
1. april 2025
Stayed for 2 nights and went on 2 safari drives. We came here largely for the safari experience - particularly to see leopards and also elephants, sloth bears, mongoose, etc in their natural environment. We have done a couple of safaris in South Africa and Botswana, and hoped this would be similar in terms of animal spotting. Unfortunately, for us, the whole experience didn’t live up to what we hoped. The safari vehicles are limited to driving on roads (unlike other parts of the world where they can go off-road) that hundreds of other jeeps/trucks of tourists were on, leading to lots of dust and few animal sightings (other than the water buffalo, peacocks and birds that are all over). Our guide explained that the animals go inside the bush away from the cars/roads (understandably). We had planned to do a 3rd safari drive, but after the first two, we cancelled the 3rd. Of course, the hotel can’t control the crowds or ensure we saw a leopard, but having come here for the animal experience, we were disappointed with the experience. In hindsight, this was an expensive and time consuming (3 days/2 nights) part of our trip for a safari experience that for us was underwhelming. The hotel itself was nice, but lacked some special touches to make it truly exceptional/5 star. For example, cold towels would be a nice gesture to offer guests when they return from game drives - it’s dusty and hot out there and would be nice so we could clean our hands. The restaurant needed better ventilation/a/c - though there are a few wall a/c units and some fans, it still was very hot during lunch. Also, some fans seemed to be broken as when we asked if they could be sped up, the staff said they could not. Food itself was fine. One time we also found that the bathrooms by the restaurant were both out of soap even though it was just 10am. We asked the front desk for soap, but he said it would “take some time” so we instead walked back to our huts to wash our hands before returning to our breakfast. Staff is kind and friendly.
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