Absolutely brilliant! It's an early start in order to meet up before sunrise but well worth it. We walked to our viewing position and then within 15 minutes the first two meerkats appeared, then a couple more, then the whole 'family' - sunning themselves in the first rays of the day. The guides (especially Divi) were so knowledgeable about this 'family' of meerkats - dominant female, dominant male, outsiders welcomed into the 'family', mentors for the youngsters...... It was almost as if the guides felt that they were part of the extended meerkat 'family' and that, as a consequence, they then had the ability to invite us to join. Such a privilege!

Be prepared to be up early as you need to meet before sunset, but it's worth every minute. We were quite lucky this morning as we didnt have to wait too long before the Meerkats woke up and came out to play. You need to be patient with this trip, they are living in their natural habitat and they do as they please so I can imagine some mornings they will come out quickly, some mornings you may have to wait around and just see what happens, the company cant predict how they will act that morning. Such a worth while experience we saw all the babies (2 months old) today play fighting and going by their normal day. After a while they started to leave their burrow we was given the option to follow and move closer but we chose to leave after an hour so they could continue on with their day. I would highly suggest a visit, make sure you read your emails carefully as you have to confirm you are attending once you have booked. Our guide was great, very useful information and comical. Rememberable experience.

This was one of the kind experience we had on our trip to SA. We have been on 14 Safari’s, seen all Big Five, all Small Five and also the ugly five, and this one was the most funny one. Much because our wonderful young guide who made a great work togheter with his colleagues. Thanks for some really nice hours.

Beware people - there are TWO meerkat experiences!!! The best is the one by Devey who operates through de Zeekoe and this tour is well organised and run. Meerkat Magic, by Grant is NOT the one to go to. It is a rip off (if you even get to go after paying) So watch out.

If you stay at her place you would be condoning animal cruelty, have a look at all the posts about ikkos and its horses, This women as watched these poor animals starve to death over years

I would stay away from this establishment. We booked 2 night's stay at this hotel and the owner Laura would not even email me directions to her farm until she received a 50% paypal deposit. Further, when we were lost on the road to her B&B, she did not pick up the cell phone she listed as a way to contact her. We told her we were borrowing a friend's phone and did not know how to use text message yet when she replied to our messages left on her cell phone, she would only text back and not pick up her cell phone. This occurred more than once. She refused to call us for whatever reason. She did not seem like she really wanted any guests to stay there as she refused to pick up on our calls. Unfortunately we had to cancel one night's stay at her B&B the night before and when we called a day earlier, again she did not pick up the phone. We paid her in advance for a night's stay and a meerkat tour R800 (which was 50% deposit) and she refused to refund us that money or to apply it to the second night's stay. Further the website does not tell you that meerkats may not be found during this tour that costs R400/person and that yellow mongoose season is only during a certain time of the year. Plus, this farm charges you to take photos and even more to take videos. If you like to have your calls ignored especially when on the road on route to this establishment and then to be charged for everything like taking photos and videos, then this B&B/tour might be for you. However, please be careful of sending these people ANY money from a paypal account as the cancellation policy doesn't exist. There is NO refund for ANY reason.

We booked and got confirmation via sms (strange idea) as the guide does not do phone conversations? We waited for over an hour at the meeting spot at 5 am but the guy never pitched and did not answer his phone or text messages.

The activity is interesting and fun: you get up very early to go in groups to a low scrub land where you're lined up behind the leading guide your folding chair. Once in front of the nest, you sit and wait for the first start appearing soon head stands on two legs and begins to scan the horizon regardless of the group of people who are sitting in front of him. Soon, he leaves the second and then the rest of the family. In our case we had an initial disgust despite having booked online months in advance and receive confirmation with the time and the meeting point, the owner of our B&B called the day before by phone to confirm our attendance and reported that there was a change and it would be 15 minutes earlier than expected, and we get upset a little for not having received any mail warning us of the change, but hey. The next morning we wake up 15' before and got right to the new time to the place planned but there was no one there. After waiting five minutes, appeared another car with two other people and their guide, so we called the office Meerkat Adventures but no one answered nor in the mobile number we had until after three more tries and after 15 minutes they said that the group had already left "on time" with the group and if we wanted, we could drive about five kilometers until we found the entrance to the dirt road of the farm and after a few meters of driving we would find the where cars would be waiting for one of the two guides. We did the two cars, with appropriate indignation and fear of ending getting lost or late, but fortunately did not and just getting to the destination point, but at no time did anyone offered us a single verbal or writing apology about what happened .

Let me start by saying that I was not able to visit the Meerkat Magic tour but I would like to put in writing my experience. On the website they say don't phone, they will only respond to emails or text messages. In a very polite way, I sent a text message asking if we could perhaps go on a tour and this is the response I got - and I quote: "The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project's conservation visits are all booked between research assistants and filming into later this year - limited visits are allocated so that the Wild and Free meerkats are not disturbed. We usually take donations of R20 - R50 per visit as our focus is not on large scale overpriced tourism but rather around limited numbers of small group visits with conservation minded guests NOT wanting the standard "check list" commercialised tourism. For a list of our international scientific publications with Cambridge there is a link on the main website. There are 150 + free online conservation videos from MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS - UNCUT of our Wild and Free meerkat greeting card images from our Wild and Free meerkat conservation research since 1993 ............. Best Wishes from Grant". I consider this response rude at best - how does Grant know that we are not conservation minded people and why, if they are so booked do they advertise so extensively. A simple "I'm terribly sorry but we are fully booked", would have sufficed.

My daughter was given a gift republic " adopt a meerkat" which DONATES to Grant Mc IlRath who calls himself the Meerkat man so we took a detour via Oudshoorn on a visit from UK in January only to find that his sanctuary doesnt even exist- we had no access to internet at the time, which seems to be the only way he takes bookings. when we exnquiredat the local tourist board could only give us Devey Glinisters tel no. We reported this to Gift republic on our return to UK but they continue to support him.