MindReachGetaways

Albertinia, South Africa

Garden Route Game Lodge

A malaria-free Big Five reserve on the N2, three and a half hours from Cape Town. Eight luxury suites, sixteen lodge rooms, eighteen chalets.

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The place

The count

Eight Sunset Ridge luxury suites, sixteen lodge rooms, eighteen private chalets.

The drive

About three and a half hours from Cape Town, as the hotel prints it. Malaria-free.

The animals

Lion, white rhino, elephant, buffalo, cheetah, and giraffe, from an open Land Rover.

The table

Serengeti’s. The hotel says the kitchen draws on the farm where it can.

The pool

A plunge pool is named on the luxury family suites, not on the whole inventory.

Our read

People hear Garden Route and think a beach town. This lodge is the private reserve on the way there: Langeberg behind it, malaria-free, and a published split of eight luxury suites, sixteen lodge rooms, and eighteen chalets. A plunge pool is on some family suites, not on every key. Come if Cape Town is the flight and you still want elephant and lion before the coast. Skip it if you thought you were booking Kruger.

Come here for

  • A malaria-free Big Five drive, three and a half hours from Cape Town
  • Serengeti’s, with the farm in the kitchen where the hotel can manage it
  • A family suite with a plunge pool, if that is the room you actually book

Skip it if

  • You wanted Kruger or Sabi Sand. This reserve is on the N2 near Albertinia.
  • You assumed every room has a private pool. The page puts a plunge pool on some family suites.

We’d rather send you somewhere else than send you somewhere that doesn’t suit you.

Garden Route Game Lodge sits against the Langeberg, on the N2 near Albertinia. The hotel calls it a family-owned private reserve, malaria-free, and a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Cape Town. The same page counts 8 Sunset Ridge luxury suites, 16 lodge rooms, and 18 private chalets. Some family suites have a plunge pool. The animals named on the page are lion, white rhino, elephant, buffalo, cheetah, and giraffe, seen from an open Land Rover. Central reservations are +27 28 735 1200. Dinner is at Serengeti’s, and the hotel says the kitchen uses the farm where it can. This is not Kruger and it is not a malaria conversation. The drive from Cape Town is the arrival. The page prints package offers in rand. Those figures move. Read them on the hotel site before you treat one as the rate. A traveller who wanted the national park will be disappointed. A traveller who wants the Big Five without leaving the Garden Route corridor is looking at the right gate. Reserve with the hotel. MindReach does not take the booking.

03 · Live here

How the days go

  1. Arrive

    On the N2 near Albertinia, with the Langeberg behind the reserve. The hotel prints a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Cape Town. Phone +27 28 735 1200. The map pin is the lodge on the N2.

  2. Live here

    A malaria-free Big Five drive, three and a half hours from Cape Town

  3. Go

    Book on the hotel site. MindReach does not take the reservation.

04 - Stay

Ways to stay

Ask which of the three inventories

A lodge room, a chalet, and a Sunset Ridge suite are not the same stay. A plunge pool is on some family suites.

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05 - Know

Before you go

Written from what the property publishes. Not yet checked by hand. Confirm on their site before you book.

On the N2 near Albertinia, with the Langeberg behind the reserve. The hotel prints a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Cape Town. Phone +27 28 735 1200. The map pin is the lodge on the N2.

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Is this Kruger?

No. It is a private reserve on the Garden Route side of the N2, near Albertinia.

Is it a malaria area?

The hotel calls the reserve malaria-free.

How many places to sleep?

Eight luxury suites, sixteen lodge rooms, and eighteen private chalets, on the hotel page.

Where do I eat?

Serengeti’s, on the property.

Where do I book?

With the lodge. MindReach does not take the reservation. Phone +27 28 735 1200.

06 · Go

Garden Route Game Lodge

Albertinia, South Africa

People hear Garden Route and think a beach town. This lodge is the private reserve on the way there: Langeberg behind it, malaria-free, and a published split of eight luxury suites, sixteen lodge rooms, and eighteen chalets. A plunge pool is on some family suites, not on every key. Come if Cape Town is the flight and you still want elephant and lion before the coast. Skip it if you thought you were booking Kruger.

Getting there
On the N2 near Albertinia, with the Langeberg behind the reserve.
From where you are
Distance appears once we know where you are.

Garden Route Game Lodge

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