WOW.what a place to end our tour of etosha.beautiful room,loads of little luxury items in bathroom.staff very friendly.bar and dining room an absolute joy.the buffet was superb.altogether a fantastic place to stay.cant wait to return

Wow! Can't believe the reports below. This was absolutely superb in our view. Although I don't know about the $111 price tag shown on this site - we paid US$200 and thought it excellent value. We are 2 adults and a 12 year old. We were given a suite with 2 huge bedrooms and a huge bathroom/separate toilet and a sitting room.

As we drove in, we had already worked out that it would be out of our price range and/or fully booked. Couldn't believe our luck. We got 4 nights before heading in to Etosha's accommodation.

The buffet breakfast with the smiling crepe chef is superb. Spent hours grazing in here! Didn't eat evening meals as we had our own snacks - there's a fridge, tv and kettle, by the way.

Bontebok roam the grassy areas and we saw giraffe very close too. Pools are excellent. We were torn between rushing off to the game park and wanting to enjoy the surroundings here too! We found the service excellent - a few plumbing problems like a lot of Africa - all dealt with swiftly.

As stated below, it is an excellent location for Etosha, half the price of Namatoni with the only downside being you can't be in the park at night of course. You can come and go into Etosha as many times as you want during the day (in before breakfast, back again for an afternoon game drive, for example).

If there is a downside I would say it's the large tour groups that regularly show up by the bus load. Why are these types of tourists so inconsiderate? Loudly yelling in their native languages, taking over the place and generally making sure we all notice and suffer their presence. Oh, and we didn't like the smoking permitted in the communal areas but that's standard. The large open fire in the cosy lounge with all those books would have been great apart from a couple travelling with a hubble-bubble pipe! Are you serious? I guess I am thankful I live in a relatively smoke-free country!

But this hotel is EXCELLENT.

This place has just been taken over by Kempinski and is undergoing some renovations. The rooms are very good. The food, especially the braai is great. The "reptile park" or whatever they call it is a joke. The service is a joke.

This place is in Position A for Etosha National Park, being only a few metres from the gate.

It ought to be an ideal place to stay, but somehow just misses the spot and I don't know why - maybe it's a bit too 'corporate' and soulless.

The grounds are immaculate with antelope wandering freely about. There is a nice swimming pool and everything is beautifully kept.

Accommodation is in terraced blocks with the not very attractive names of 'Block A', 'Block B' etc and we all found the rooms to be too small and badly designed with insufficient space to sit down or move about. Having said that the rooms were comfortable and clean.

The food was mixed. The first night was an indoor barbecue which was excellent, the second night was a carvery which was awful.

If you want to be on the doorstep of Etosha so that you can make an early start then this is probably the place to stay due to its proximity to the gate. I can't help but feel that we should have enjoyed this place more than we did - somehow it didn't quite ring all the bells.