Orange River Rafting Lodge

The place is amazing and has a great view. It gives you peace and the staff is amazing. I would go back to this place. Amazing, tranquility, beauty… the rooms are spacious and the bathroom is definitely the best. The food was amazing and makes me want to go back for more.

Staff is amazing frieendly and beautiful veiw for feinds amd family. Very classy yiu can hist a wedding small , dinner parites and baby shiwers, brithdays fir kids amd closing functions it ia breath takimg and i recommend it to anyone greats

The place is so welcoming and luxurious..everything there is proper and stunning. And comes to food is so wonderful and delicious.. the place is so warm and very welcoming and the safest place on the planet. I advise you to have a look there the experience will make you never be the same

To end our 3 weeks trip through Namibia, we booked a stay in a luxury cabin at Orange River. But this title is absolutely misleading….. luxury is something else. Doors that could not be closed, plaster falling of the wall, roof thatched with straw falling apart, and a choice of just one sort of red wine… thats not what I call luxury 😏

Two stars for scenery, pool and dining area. Complex has a bit of an eery, run down vibe. Awkwardly built huts in dire need of some love and attention. Inside the uninsulated airconditioned chalet a pamphlet requesting customers to use water and energy sparingly. At the same being able to stick my finger into the opening between the door and doorframe. And lastly, no wine in the restaurant?!! We paid something along the lines of R1350 for two people for one night. Not great quality for money compared to many of the lovely resorts we have visited the last few weeks.

River Rafting Lodge deserve a second visit soon, actually we are planning to coming back on February 12 for a day visit with my daughter that is longing for the sunshine and the chance to kayaking on the Orange river. All the staff was attentive and friendly. We were treated like VIPs

We had such a lovely experience at the lodge. The river rafting was great, a bit tough for newbies, but overall I would recommend the experience the scenery was beautiful. The staff and Gm Vaughn were so welcoming from the beginning.

Sleeping in a wooden wendyhouse, with an outside bathroom and no soap, is not my idea of a hotel room, but I could still let that slide. We were, after all, paying only about R350 per night per person for our family of four. Except, the wendyhouse was too small for all four of us, so my one son camped in a tent outside. The bar carries limited stock and the staff seem completely disempowered. However, the manager Vaughn really went out of his way to try and help and make up for the obvious flaws at this Lodge. If we had known Orange River Rafting Lodge did not have a trained, equipped guide for our three day, two night river rafting adventure following our one night stay in the wendyhouse, we would have booked elsewhere. This turned out to be quite a nigh**are. On the first day of rowing, not altogether refreshed after our night in the wendyhouse (thank goodness the aircon was working!), we were dropped off along the river miles away from camp and had to battle in headwinds all day long to row to a safe place to overnight. We hardly stopped for lunch and our dreams of kids swimming and fishing throughout the day while rowing, were shattered. We rowed and rowed and rowed from 10:30 to 18:30 and our untrained guide could not explain when it would all end. Thank goodness for a friendly neighbouring lodge, which saved the day by providing us with a safe campsite for the night when we simply could not continue on the river. Our guide cooked supper, borrowing my headlamp because he had brought no light of his own. He had also run out of water and we had to give him some of ours. Oh, he could also not phone Orange River Rafting Lodge to explain to Vaughn what had happened to us that day and that we were dissatisfied, because his phone was not working, or he had no airtime, or whatever... On day two, we paddled back to Orange River Rafting Lodge. The paddle was much more pleasant and relaxing - we managed to stop along the way and swim a few times. We headed for lunch at Orange River Rafting Lodge, where we pulled the plug on the rest of our river rafting adventure. We did not want to risk a repeat of the perils of Day 1. Again, Vaughn went out of his way to make up to us, serving a braai for dinner on Day 2 and providing us with a campsite at Orange River Rafting Lodge for the night. Camping here posed a new challenge. Thumping music from our fellow campers 'till 10pm and 'see-through' reed ablution cublicles, very dirty sanitary ware and no water in the morning until 07:30... We were glad to go!

Sleeping in a wooden wendy house, with an outside bathroom and no soap, is not my idea of a hotel room, but I could still let that slide. We were, after all, paying only about R350 per night per person for our family of four. Except, the wendy house was too small for all four of us, so my one son camped in a tent outside.The bar carries limited stock and the staff seem completely disempowered. However, the manager Vaugh really went out of his way to try and help and make up for the obvious flaws at this Lodge. If we had known Orange River Rafting Lodge did not have a trained, equipped guide for our three day, two night river rafting adventure following our one night stay in the wendy house, we would have booked elsewhere. This turned out to be quite a nigh**are. On the first day of rowing, not altogether refreshed after our night in the wendyhouse (thank goodness the aircon was working!), we were dropped off along the river miles away from camp and had to battle in headwinds all day long to row to a safe place for overnighting. We hardly stopped for lunch and our dreams of kids swimming and fishing throughout the day while rowing, were shattered. We rowed and rowed and rowed from 10:30 to 18:30 and our untrained guide could not explain when it would all end. Thank goodness for Kwelanga Lodge, which saved the day by providing us with a safe camp site for the night when we simply could not continue on the river. Our guide cooked supper, borrowing my headlamp because he had brought no light of his own. He had also run out of water and we had to give him some of ours. Oh, he could also not phone Orange River Rafting Lodge to explain to Vaughn what had happened to us that day and that we were dissatisfied, because his phone was not working, or he had no airtime, or whatever... On day two, we paddled back only to Orange River Rafting Lodge. It was much more pleasant and relaxing - we managed to stop along the way and swim a few times. We headed for lunch at Orange River Rafting Lodge, where we pulled the plug on the rest of our river rafting adventure. We did not want to risk a repeat of the perils of Day 1. Again, Vaughn went out of his way to make up and he served a braai for dinner on Day 2. We set up camp at Orange River Rafting Lodge for the night. Camping here posed a new challenge. Thumping music from the neighbours 'till 10pm and 'see-through' reed ablution cublicles, very dirty sanitary ware and no water in the morning until 07:30... We were glad to go!