# Marataba Mountain Lodge

Marakele, South Africa · Selected: clears the published selection standard.

- Page: https://mindreachgetaways.com/za/marakele/wellness-retreat/marataba-mountain
- Book direct: https://www.more.co.za/marataba/mountain-lodge/
- Map pin: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-24.3474156,27.5696391

## Our read

Marataba is easy to book as a safari and then discover you are in the wrong landscape. Mountain Lodge is five rooms above Waterfall Valley, solar-powered, with a fireplace and 431 square feet, in Marakele. Safari Lodge is the fifteen-tent camp on the plains. The villa is a third booking, on the Matlabas. The useful contrast with Kruger is the one their own page makes: the Waterberg, described as malaria-free beside the villa. Come if five rooms and a valley are what you wanted. Skip it if you needed the Big Five density of Sabi Sand, or if you booked the mountain and expected fifteen tents.

## Come here for

- Five rooms above Waterfall Valley, with a fireplace and a private terrace
- A solar-powered camp in Marakele, in the Waterberg
- A stay that is deliberately smaller than the fifteen-tent safari lodge

## Skip it if

- You wanted the plains camp. That is Safari Lodge, fifteen tents.
- You wanted Kruger or Sabi Sand. This pin is Marakele.

## The place

Marataba Mountain Lodge is five rooms above Waterfall Valley, in Marakele National Park in the Waterberg. The lodge page describes a solar-powered camp, Scandinavian in design, and a luxury room for two guests with a fireplace, a private terrace, a rain shower, and a king bed, at 431 square feet. The phone printed with the lodge anchor is +27 14 779 0018. The same page describes the other Marataba camp, Safari Lodge, as fifteen tents on the plains, and the villa as four tents on the Matlabas River. Five rooms is the product. The page talks about silence, a view, and a small team that is absent when you do not need them. It is not a Greater Kruger traverse. When the page describes the villa in this reserve, it calls the Waterberg malaria-free. Lion Sands, on the Sabie, prints the opposite warning. The mountain page does not give a nightly rate, and it does not print a separate GPS pin for the five rooms. The map pin used here is Marataba in Marakele, not a surveyed door of the mountain camp. Reserve with the hotel. MindReach does not take the booking.

## What it is like

- The five: Five rooms above Waterfall Valley. A luxury room is 431 square feet, with a fireplace.
- The power: The page calls the camp solar-powered.
- The other camp: Safari Lodge is fifteen tents on the plains. The villa is four tents on the Matlabas.
- The valley: Marakele National Park, in the Waterberg, not Greater Kruger.
- The phone: +27 14 779 0018, printed with the lodge anchor.

## Ways to stay

- Five rooms, not fifteen tents · Price on their site · https://www.more.co.za/marataba/mountain-lodge/

## Getting there

Waterfall Valley, Marakele National Park, in the Waterberg. Phone +27 14 779 0018. The page does not print a GPS for the five rooms. The map pin is Marataba in the reserve, not a surveyed cottage door.

## Questions

**How many rooms?**
Five, above Waterfall Valley. Safari Lodge, on the same reserve, is fifteen tents.

**Where is it?**
Marakele National Park, in the Waterberg. Not Kruger.

**Is there a private pool?**
The luxury room on the page lists a fireplace, a terrace, and a rain shower. It does not list a plunge pool.

**What about malaria?**
The page calls the Waterberg malaria-free when it describes the villa in this reserve. Ask the lodge before you travel.

**Where do I book?**
With Marataba. MindReach does not take the reservation. Phone +27 14 779 0018.

## How far to trust this

Written from what the property publishes. Not yet checked by hand. Confirm on their site before you book.
MindReach Getaways does not take the booking. You book with the property.