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Thobeka Guest House & backpackers lodge

Relaxing accommodation nestled in a subtropical paradise of indigenous trees & walkways. Close to prestine beaches, expansive lakes & game reserves. Only 10km from Mozambique border.

Accommodation Summary

Type:	Budget Accommodation
Price Range:	R 95 - R 1,000 per unit per night
Sleeps:	30
Bedrooms:	11
Bathrooms:	3
Guest Reviews:

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Establishment Types

Budget Accommodation	Backpackers Hostel
Campsites

Proximity Location

Mozambique Southern border:	10 km
Tembe Elephant reserve:	40 km
Kosi Lake system:	4 km
N2:	180 km

Activities Nearby

Scuba Diving:	20 km
Dolphin swim:	20 km
Snorkeling:	20 km
Game viewing:	40 km
Hiking:	1 km
Fishing:	4 km

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Thobeka Lodge

Wooden walkways connect the rooms in our backpackers lodge

DESCRIPTION

At Thobeka Lodge all our rooms are seperately placed amongst indigenous subtropical trees, connected to each other with wooden walkways. Wake up to the sound of colourful birdsong, before you help yourself to a complimentary cup of coffee or tea. If you want to stay in lazy mode, we have invitingly blue swimming pools & a gloreous "chill out" lounge area under a big old tree where you can kick back with a book or a boardgame. Have an ice-cold drink from our bar or watch the sunset while the boma fires are lit.
Alternatively try some of the great adventure tours we have planned for you.

FEATURES

Within walking distance of the famous Kosi Lake system and a short drive from pristine beaches, Thobeka lodge has a wide variety of adventures on offer. Take a tour of the Tonga fish traps and snorkel in the world renowned "aquarium", where tropical fish come to nest. Spend a lazy day on the beach or sandboard the steep dunes.
We offer tours into the Tembe Elephant reserve and day hikes through the Rafia palm forest where you might spot an elusive palm nut vulture. Only 10km from the Southern Mozambique border, we offer day tours into Ponta D'Ouro where scuba diving & a boat trip to swim with dolphins can be arranged.

GUEST REVIEWS

	Anonymous - 05 May 2011
	Wow what a dissappointment. The so called accomodation at Thobeka Lodge is absolutely disgusting. The facilities that they have could be more suitable to accomodate cattle or even pigs. This is being serious. Their adverts are completely misleading and it somehow appears that the owners intentionally rob innocengt people. They makle you pay a deposiy before your arrival, then when you get there to check and realize what facilities they have, they then lock teh gates and demand the balance of the payment before they let you go. The infestation of rats and unhygenic facilities cannot be healthy for anyone wanting to stay there. Where are the health authorities??

	Anonymous - 10 January 2011
	My parents had booked a double room while me, my brother and my sister had booked a bunk bed each. Going to bed, I pulled down the mosquito net and lifted the duvet to tuck my legs under it. At this point, I saw a rat running towards the foot of the bed. As I jumped out of bed and removed the duvet completely, I found rat babies asleep at the foot of the bed. Me and my siblings were offered another room by the owner, but as the walls of that room were of the same kind as of the room with the bunk beds (= rats could enter), we felt too uncomfortable and slept in the car. The next day, to our surprise, the owner of the backpackers' demanded that we pay for "camping on her premises". Given that we had found rats in bed the night before, making us so uncomfortable that we rather slept in the car (very unpleasant), we found this demand highly unreasonable. As we refused to pay, the owner reacted by patronizing my father (amongst other things, she called him "my boy"), and claimed that we were "people coming from the city expecting things to be like they are there". If we should have expected finding rats in bed and then paying for sleeping three grown-ups in a car, then yes she is right. We did not expect that. Since the accommodation is in the middle of the forest, 2 km from the closest proper road, we could safely have moved the car outside the backpacker premises - had we only known that she was intending to charge us. Speaking of location, the photos in the backpacker booklet "Alternative Route" (which is distributed at BazBus stops) gives the impression that Thobeka Backpackers is located on or very close to the beach. This is misleading. One needs a car to get from the backpacker's to the beach gate (yes, it costs money to enter), and if one does not have a 4x4 one must then walk for 45 minutes to get to the actual beach.

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