"Great hotel. Impressive customer service. Clean and comfortable rooms. WiFi is amazing. Food is excellent"

"What a stunning location and beautiful rustic home. Ginormous double bedroom and king bed, spacious living/lounge room and quaint twin room. Well equipped kitchen, just enough room to swing a cat! Made use of the braai area and lush walk around the lake. The view is outstanding! The upmost hospitable host ever! Thank you for our stay, we will be back again soon! Kayleigh & Matthew, UK "

"The lodge is absolutely beautiful, in a perfect location with the best views. There is a wide variety of places to visit around the area and beautiful animals all around. The staff ensured I had a seamless experience and the breakfast is divine. This was definitely value for money and it exceeded my expectations. Will definitely be back again"

"They were very friendly and helpful. The restaurant too. We are dinner and breakfast and the did not mind our doggies. We will definitely stay there again. "

"last‑minute overnight stay at St Ives Lodge turned out to be perfect. The estate is peaceful, beautifully kept, and full of wildlife zebra, wilder beast, antelope wandering freely across the grounds, which made the whole experience feel like a mini‑safari without any effort. The room was spacious, clean, and comfortable even though a bit dated. Staff were friendly and welcoming breakfast in the main lodge was perfect with the atmosphere overall was calm and relaxing. It’s the kind of place where you instantly unwind the moment you arrive."

"Both my family and I have been going to Fordoun Hotel and Spa for many years. Firstly, the Spa staff are absolutely amazing! Last year when I went for a half day spa - the spa experience was amazing but noticed a few concerns. I went to lunch and at lunch in front of other patrons I was asked to settle my bill, when I told them that it was a birthday gift voucher of a half day spa, including lunch, they disagreed with me. I knew I had to pay for my glass of wine, but the whole lunch had already been paid with my half day spa. I went to the management office and left my card there to ask that someone from management contacts me to give them my experience. I walked out knowing I was in the right, and my lunch had been paid for. I was never contacted. I recently went to have my half day spa again and had a wonderful time at the spa. What I did notice is the rusting shower units, fruit that was off (I took a photo), cracks in tiles, towels were scarce when I showered in the changing room. It looks rundown. Nonetheless, I went down to meet my brother for lunch and had an amazing lunch. With a full restaurant I was approached again to pay my lunch bill and advised the waiter that it was included in my half day spa, they insisted I pay, even bringing the poor staff member from the spa to try and get me to pay. I was felt embarrassed and angry at the same time. I said goodbye to my brother and went with the spa assistant to the spa to find out what was going on. They were told that I needed to pay for my lunch as per management. I walked down to management and refused to pay for my lunch (wine was paid for) as it is part of the package, my husband bought the half day spa voucher, like he does every year that includes a lunch. Management insisted that I needed to pay so I asked for management to contact me on the Monday (I went on the Sunday) for the pure reason of I went in stressed, had a lovely spa session and then went home stressed. I did not want to talk to anyone. I advised the lady at the management offices that I would like to sort this out and not have to resort to social media to voice my frustrations. Nobody heard me and I was called the same day. I politely asked the person to contact me on Monday. The Spa Manager contacted me, and I again advised that the Spa is not the problem, it is a simple transaction between departments and could not understand how management could not hear me about this. I thanked her for her lovely staff but would like management to contact me to explain why this is happening. To date, I have not heard from anyone and as promised I am going to social media before another person goes through the same embarrassment I did - you made me look like a could not afford my lunch and that I was not an honest person by not paying. Shame on you for putting me in this position. To management: I will not be returning to your spa for further abuse. You are wondering why you are getting quieter in the Natal Midlands; it is because of"

"Everything inside was nice & clean but outside needs some work. Other than that not bad value for money"

"I received this accommodation as part of my 6 day tour. Stayed here 2 nights. Things that matter to me. After using my towels first day, I left it on the floor. On coming back, found it hanging on the rack to be used again. Complaint to reception I was told "we don't change towels daily, welcome to Africa". I don't agree, this was my day 21, it's not true. Asked for towels which I was given. Breakfast was included in my deal, nothing special basic English Breakfast. Only soap is provided in bathroom. Toilet paper provided is very poor quality, worse than backpackers hostel in Thailand. Room is clean, no insects. Heater and power points. Fridge, microwave, kettle that worked. Toilet pan, cupboard and drawers all run down. WiFi good quality. TV was small and old, could not cast. TV hooked to a box with programs that wasn't desirable. No YouTube, Netflix etc. For SA room doors and windows were secure."

"Excellent stopover just off the beaten track. Friendly hosts being Graham who owns it, and Ryan his son who runs the place. Great accomodation. It's a small establishment with only a few rooms. We were in room 2 with an in room bath and separate shower and toilet. Lovely comfortable bed and good quality linen and bath towels. Loved the honesty bar and common area downstairs, plus the friendly Jack Russel. Amos cooked a great breakfast and even although there was load shedding there was no disruption to service. Only negative being there weren't any good restaurants in the vicinity for dinner unless you drove all the way back to Nottingham Road."