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Kwandwe Ecca Lodge

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Restaurants

Dining

The finest cuisine combined with excellent wines are available for guests at Kwandwe.  Various dining venues make for unforgettable safari style settings.  Enjoying a dinner in the outdoor boma under the star studded African sky are unique while the roars and sounds of the surrounding wildlife are heard.

Activities, Sports & Leisure

Game Drives

Early morning game drives, as well as afternoon / evening game drives, provide visitors with an excellent opportunity to explore the game reserve with its many animals.  Up close encounters with the "Big Five" (rhino, buffalo, elephant, leopard and lion) as well as other game and buck are thrilling.

Walking Safaris

While walking through the bushveld accompanied by an armed ranger, guests learn more about the little animals as well as about the plants and flowers in the reserve.  Tracking big game such as elephants, rhinos and buffaloes on foot in the wilderness, makes for an unforgettable experience.

Save the Rhino Drive

Guests may spend 3 to 4 hours tracking a rhino with a specialist tracker and ranger team through the reserve.  One learns a lot about this endangered species, about rhino poaching as well as the reserves successful conservation efforts.  This unique wildlife experience ends with refreshments served in a scenic location of Kwandwe.

Private Photographic Safaris

For the private specialist photographic safaris, a safari vehicle with ranger and tracker are available whereby each experience is tailor made according to guests’ individual requirements and wished.  During the photographic game drives, the photographer joins the guests on the vehicle providing them with advice of camera settings for different scenarios and answers any questions relating to photography. 

Photographic Safaris:

  • tutorials
  • Photographic Game Drive
  • 1 Day Photographic Workshop
  • 2 Day Photographic Workshop.

Services

Check in and Check Out Times
  • Check in: 12:00
  • Check out: 11:00
General Services
  • Airport transfers
  • Babysitting
  • Concierge services
  • Housekeeping service
  • Massage treatments
  • Safari drives
  • Secure parking
  • Tours & Transfers on Request
  • Wake-up call
  • Walking safaris
Children Policy
  • Kids of all ages are welcome at Kwandwe's Ecca Lodge, with a maximum of two children aged 16 years and younger able to share the same suite as the parents.

Available Rooms

Ecca Lodge Double Suite

# Rooms:
6

Ecca Lodge features only six suites which are individually decorated. These provide ample of space, luxury and privacy. Open and airy, these provide barely a barrier between the elegant indoors and the African bush making for a great indoor/outdoor accommodation experience.  Each of the stand-alone suites features different and vibrant colours.  The wraparound wooden decks offer private plunge pools. 

 

Children of all ages are welcome to stay at the Ecca Lodge, with a maximum of two children aged 16 years and younger able to share with their parents.

 

Suite features:

  •  Super-King sized bed
  •  Large bathroom with free-standing bath
  •  Separate lounge area with bean bag and day bed
  •  Outdoor shower.

Ecca Lodge Family Suite

Kwandwe Ecca Lodge

Innovative, stylish and intimate, the exclusive Kwandwe Ecca Lodge embodies a “funk-meets-futuristic-farmhouse” ambience and features only six beautiful suites with spacious living areas and en suite bathrooms. Overlooking rolling spekboom valleys, main guest areas include a spacious sitting room, dining room and bar area, communal kitchen, sparkling rim-flow lap pool, and children's play centre.

All suites feature:

  •  En-suite bathrooms
  •  Indoor and outdoor showers
  •  Mini bar
  •  Private veranda
  •  Plunge Pool
  •  Air-conditioning
  •  Hairdryer
  •  Electronic safe
  •  Telephone
  •  WiFi.
 

GPS Co-Ordinates

Latitude: -33.130481

Longitude: 26.537392

Directions

Direct flights from Port Elizabeth to the Lodge's Airstrip takes around 30 minutes. Flights directly to the Game Reserve are scheduled for early afternoon, to allow arriving guests to enjoy an afternoon game drive on their day of arrival.

Guests are advised to fly to Port Elizabeth and proceed to Kwandwe by road or air transfer. The distance from Port Elizabeth to Kwandwe is 160km (100 miles) and can be comfortably covered by road in 1 hour and 45 minutes.

On arrival, guests will leave their vehicle at the car park at Heatherton Towers and will be transferred to the Lodge of their choice by an open safari vehicle.

Parking

On site parking facilities are provided for guests.

Star Rating

5 Star

Memberships

  • Relais & Chateaux Hotels