THEBE RIVER LODGE FACILITIES Facilities at Thebe River Lodge include Twin Room and Family Room accommodation in addition to Camping Facilities. All guests at Thebe River Lodge have access to our Spacious Dining Area and the Bush Bar and a pool to soak in the Botswana Sun. Thebe River Lodge offers an Activity Centre where you can book a variety of activities on offer in the region and transfers to all the regional Airports and towns. Thebe River Restaurant offers the chance to unwind after a long, hot day of exploring the Chobe National Park or after arriving from a distant destination or just anytime you feel like cold drinks, good food and varied company in the rustic restaurant and bar area overlooking the placid Chobe River. Guests can enjoy a fine meal or drinks from the bar and take a swim in the inviting pool if the weather gets hot which it does often in Kasane. Facilities at Thebe River Lodge include; - Lodge Rooms - Camping Sites - Restaurant - Bar and Pool area - BBQ Facilities - Activity & Safari Centre
We stayed at Thebe River's camp for two nights very recently and were really disappointed at what little regard was given to our booking, which was made months in advance to make sure we got a camp! People showing up last minute were allocated to share our camp, which meant by the time we returned from having dinner, there were other campers set up around the concrete block, braii etc - meaning we had to squeeze our 4WD into a space and didn't have access to these facilities! There was no warning or apology for overbooking and it felt like we were the ones encroaching on someone else's camp because we weren't there first. It was crowded and awkward.
We were also moved on our second night (so couldn't leave our tent up, and had to pack everything away) to a group camp site and told we had to share with other campers because there were no individual camps left.
Very disappointing as Thebe came recommended from a friend who had a very different experience over a year ago. Easy to see why as the bar and restaurant had a lovely vibe and the wifi works very well. But in terms of the actual camping - it seems making a few extra Pula by double-booking sites is more of a priority to staff here than ensuring the camp is run well and people are happy.
We wouldn't come back here or recommend it to friends. Particularly because this is not a cheap campsite in the first place. There are plenty of camps in Kasane with great reputations that don't double book and squeeze people in!
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Date of stay: August 2016
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Responded Aug 13, 2016
Thank you for your honest review. Your feedback allows us to continually improve our services and guest experiences. It also allows us to ensure all complaints can be dealt with in a timely manner. I would firstly like to offer my sincerest apologies for your experience on behalf of the Thebe team. I am disheartened to hear that you left our property unsatisfied. We have held a staff meeting to address your experience. I would like to inform you that this matter has been dealt with and I can ensure you that it will not happen again. I hope to welcome you back to Thebe in the near future so you can see the improvement we are continually working on.
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We travelled from Kama to Kubu Island and though Chobe national ending up at the Oasis being Thebe River Lodge, Wow water pressure, Wow hot water, Wow electricity, the resturant was extremely reasonable with eight of us including 4 kids under USD 100 including a fair amount of celebratory drinkypooos, the staff were always present and willing and the environment was superb, the view from the river gets a 100% 👍🇧🇼 can be proud of this little gem.
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Date of stay: July 2016
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Responded Aug 14, 2016
Thank you for your kind review. We are glad you thoroughly enjoyed your stay here at Thebe. I will pass on your compliments to our restaurant staff. We look forward to welcoming you back in the near future.
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Clean good sized room, hot water extremely dangerous as was scalding hot. You had to be very careful not to burn yourself. A lot of noise from the other rooms (could hear every word of next doors conversation) and the busy road outside. Went on a couple of their tours into Chobe - be aware theirs was the worst game viewing vehicle we came across in our entire trip across Botswana. Very difficult to climb into and seat so high your feet didn't touch the floor, yet your head was on the roof and you had to duck down to see the animals!
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Date of stay: August 2015
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Close to the borders, nice place to stay. Good cottages, good atmosphere and friendly staff. Nice riverview where you can enjoy a good view on wildlife, elephants, mongose,birds, warthogs are around the place
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Date of stay: January 2015
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In regard to the room, it was fine. We stayed in a family room, which was clean but had a strange layout. What we really have to talk about was the reception staff. We waited about 30 minutes to check-in while the reception staff answered phone calls and spoke in Setswana to each other rather than talking to us. They were uninterested in checking us in and made us feel like we were inconveniencing them. Later we went to reception to ask for converter plugs (which the booklet in the room said to ask for at reception), and they just looked at us like they had no idea what we were talking about. To be fair, the staff in the restaurant was friendly.
Don't bother staying at Thebe when there are PLENTY of other places closer to/in town in the same price range where the staff are more welcoming.
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Date of stay: October 2014
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These rooms had tea and coffee making facilities. The beds were comfortable. The rooms were quite small but for one person they were fine. The bathroom door would not close properly. The shower was hot and the toilet worked. Slept well.
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Date of stay: August 2014
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Hotel is right o the banks of the Thebe River. While swimming and drinking beer, you see elephants on the side of the river. Take a walk into town, and your moving out the way of wart hogs.
Spent a day in Kasane before heading off to Okovanga Delta. This is Africa. This is the true way to experience it.
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Date of stay: March 2014
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Stayed 4 days/3 nights here with a school group (33 kids and 5 staff) The camping area was good (had a useful kitchen area) ,though sometimes people used out pitch as a through route to the facilities. The toilets/showers were very good as was the bar/pool area. It has links with the safari torus too so you can get picked up beside the bar. There is wifi but struggled to get it to work. Thoroughly enjoyed my stay here though.
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Date of stay: July 2014
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Good camp site close to Kasane. Good value for money with decent bathrooms and shaded camp sites. Our booked camp site was taken by an overland truck when we arrived after dark, but the site given to us was not bad, although not that shady. Every camp site has a thatched lapa with fire pit, water and electricity. Would habve loved it if they built the restaurant / bar on the river. Bit noisy at the bar, so dont camp near to it.
Would definately come back again
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Date of stay: June 2014
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We stayed here for one night recently as part of a larger tour that we were on. We upgraded to a room and I thought - while it isn't the Hilton or anything - that the accomodation was perfectly reasonable and clean (with the air con very helpful in particular!). But what I liked most about the place was the wildlife activities which, let's face it, if you are in Chobe that is largely what you are visiting for.
The sunset river cruise down the Chobe river was fantastic. There was so much space to move about on the boat meaning you didn't get crowded out when you wanted to take a picture. Chobe river allows you to see wildlife from a completely different perspective and while nothing at all is guaranteed of course I think you would be hard pushed not to see at least one elephant or hippo!
The next days very early morning game drive was also very good, with a particular shout out to Percy the driver. He was very accommodating and tried his best to make the experience an enjoyable one for everyone - which really was no easy task with some of the demands from other passengers on the bus who seemed to think he could click his fingers and a lion would show up to fight an elephant or something. People need to be realistic as to what they will see on a game drive and just enjoy the experience of being out in somewhere so fascinating - not everything is a BBC documentary.
I'd recommend this place to people on a budget who want to make the most of the wildlife.
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Date of stay: May 2014
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Ciao Alberto,
Si (Self Drive) ho attraversato tutta l'Africa con il mio Fuoristrada scendendo dal Marocco al Sud Africa, ora sono a casa ed il mio fuoristrada e parcheggiato per alcuni mesi a Livingstone in Zambia.
Riparto in Giugno ed attrverserò Zimbawe-Mozambico- Tanzania e mi fermerò a Monbasa, quindi rientrerò in Italia dopo aver parcheggiato il mio mezzo per alcuni mesi, poi entro il 2016, dopo alcune tappe penso di rientare attraverso Kenia-Uganda-Etiopia- Sudan- Egitto.
Ti consiglio sopratutto in Botswana di prenotare da subito se vuoi pernottare all'interno dei Parchi con la tua Tenda, in quanto i posti disponibili sono pochi ed il Botswana ha una politica per salvaguardare la Fauna di accettare solo pochi Viaggiatori , non puoi non andare al Moremi al Chobe ed anche al Kgalagadi, a Livingstone se tu leggi le mie recensioni ti consiglio la Olgas'Guest House, e anche li devi prenotare.
Ciao e Buon Viaggio.
Eros
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LOCATION
BotswanaNorth-West DistrictChobe National ParkKasane
NUMBER OF ROOMS
31
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