Name: Casart Game Lodge
Address: Private Nature Reserve, Grietjie, 22, Kruger National Park, Kruger National Park, Kruger National Park, 1390, South Africa
Rating: 10

Air conditioning

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Restaurant

Bottled water (at extra charge)

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English

French

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Parking

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Conference Hall

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Pets Not Allowed

Pets

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Personal protection equipment for staff

Extra decontamination measures

Temperature control for guests

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Phalaborwa Airport

Hoedspruit Airport

Casart Game Lodge

Kruger National Park

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Great place! I’d recommend to any one of my friends and family members to come to South Africa and stay at Casart. The staff is just so nice, Happy the game drive ranger shared great knowledge with us about all the animals in the area as well as the lands and the stars. Agrineth (sorry if mispelled) and Stanford served us very well and made us feel at home!
Tip for animal seekers like me and friends, do the game drive package with three drives included and also reserve one or two days to go to the Kruger National Park (1h drive to nearest gate) on a self Safari (just too good of an experience to pass)

Awesome stay!

My review is so over due! life gets crazy and just why a stay at Casart is relaxing and rejuvenating.
After ten yrs , we Returned for 6 nights. Everything was as wonderful as we remembered. All the positive descriptions are accurate. Sonia is charming and thoughtful and her staff are professional and friendly. The full breakfast is satisfying. The dinners by candlelight are creative and delicious. Presentation and service - 4 star. 
Our ( netted ) king bed comfortable, our porch tranquil and the hot tub …perfect under the stars .
Yes, expect exciting game drives and elephants at the watering hole. ..like magic. 
It’s not a posh place but comfortable and authentic.
It was worth the long journey back to the bush and Casart.

Twice in a lifetime may not be enough

From the moment we booked the hotel until we arrived home again... Everything was well thought out and very attentive. Sonia and her staff left nothing to desire. We booked the safaripackage and our guide Sammy was amazing. We learned so much from him. 

The room was beautiful and luxurious. The food was delicious. And the view at night with the stars was spectacular. This stay was perfect. Thank you, Sonia and thank you to your staff. Hopefully we can come back soon.

Best hotel I have ever been in

Prior to our arrival Sonia was excellent at relevant and timely communication. During our 2 night stay we were added to a WhatsApp group so we could be made aware of animal sitings by the lodge.
We were welcomed by Sonia along with Stanford and Yannick who were all very friendly and helpful during our stay. 
Everything was lovely from the privacy of the lodges we slept in to the main lodge facilities which included a sun deck/ viewing area, pool and comfortable sitting area.  The food was delicious from breakfast to evening meals all of which were timed to fit in with our game drives.
Yannick was our ranger who took us out for four drives during our two night stay.  He enthusiastically tried to find us good game viewing and when, as can always happen, the animals weren’t for coming out from hiding, he always had something interesting to show us and tell us about. 
Sonia’s attention to detail and comfort was a credit to her and her staff.
We have stayed in other lodges in and around the Kruger and Greater Kruger areas and Casart is up there with the best. We would recommend it for its great value for money, comfort and food all set among the wild game reserve.

Great friendly host, value, comfort and food set among wild game reserve

My wife and I with two friends have stayed at several private game lodges over the last 19 years and Casart was one of the most pleasant short stays we have enjoyed in the bush. Sonja is a most excellent, friendly host and has put together a wonderful support team. The location is idyllic, the rondevals are superbly appointed and so comfortable with massive beds, huge walk in Showers and a hot tub on the deck too. The meals were oout of this world - bobotie made by Sandford and a mixed grill of bush meat which would have fed another four people. Yannick, our safari guide worked so hard without much luck to find bug game but he substituted spotting with entertaining and informative briefings gs about the local flora and fauna - his bush picnic spots were excellent. So, all in all, a wonderful short break!

Outstanding!

We loved staying here. Absolutely friendly staff, clean, quiet and safe accomodation, very good communication, awesome scenery. We enjoyed the three course meal in the evenings. Since we were just 4 guests in total we had the lodge for ourselves most of the time. 

Relaxing lodge

We booked the safari special with two overnight stays and a total of 3 game drives. Happy our guide is such an incredibly nice person who was able to teach us so much about the flora and fauna in the area.

We were able to spot lions every day thanks to him. His in-depth knowledge and experience are amazing. He has been a guide for 15 years and knows exactly what he is doing.

We had booked the Simba bungalow at the lodge. It was furnished with great attention to detail. We even had our own jacuzzi which we used every day - wow ! 

Stanford took care of our physical well-being and offered us incredible service.
He was always there when we needed something - just great!

Sonia - the owner of the lodge - also came by and greeted us.
She was super nice and helped us wherever she could. 
She runs the place with a lot of experience.

We were in contact with each other the whole time via a WhatsApp group. This meant that we were able to coordinate daily updates and discuss details about breakfast, dinner, game drives and other matters quickly.
We felt incredibly comfortable right from the start and 

All in all, the stay, the food, the safari experience and the service were a unique experience that we would definitely recommend to anyone

We would definitely come back and were even a little sad that we had to leave after just 2 nights.

Please keep up the good work and stay exactly the way you are.
You are a great team - thank you for this once-in-a-lifetime experience! 

Much love to the whole team at Casart Lodge and Merry Christmas.

Once-in-a-lifetime-experience!

A warm welcome by the entire staff, a helpfull Sonia, good food (3 plates diner!), an amazing view of the waterhole where the elephants came to drink and a game drive (more than one) with Happy made our stay at Casart Game Lodge one of the highlights of our Africa trip. Thank you Sonia and your team for an amazing experience.

Small-scale lodge, ideal for relaxation and enjoyment

Private lodge in the Grietjie reserve. Only 3 rooms (2 doubles, 1 family room for 4) small but well-kept. Family run, it offers good quality accommodation at reasonable prices compared to other 'private reserves'. Good breakfast, dinner with some successful dishes and others a little less.
We went to do the private safaris, let's say it's worth it up to a certain point: we were lucky enough to immediately see 2-3 young lions in the first safari at sunrise, then practically almost nothing, same thing in the second sunset safari… We saw many more animals (including lions) in Kruger by self-driving, so for this aspect we would not recommend it.

Getting to the really painful notes mentioned in the title, we had our room stolen!! Unfortunately we are certain that the lack of money happened precisely at the Casart, we also wrote it with all details to the owner, given that in person she seemed reliable to us; she made its assessments and "investigations", but decided not to give us any reimbursement as she was unable to acquire irrefutable evidence (obviously, money leaves no trace and it is difficult for those who committed the crime to confess...), even though the amount was limited to some cash that we had left in the room. In our opinion it was a lack of correctness and taking responsibility for the actions of the employees, which leads us to advise against the stay to others. Also because - if you read the reviews on Tripadvisor from 2014 - it is not the first time that thefts have occurred in this place…

In conclusion, good location and services; Safaris are quite cheap but it's not worth going to Casart for this reason; Unfortunately, the risk of not taking home what you leave in the room, thinking it is safe, must be carefully evaluated... all in all it is better to look for different alternatives!!

Not bad, if they didn't steal from the rooms

I was forced to pay an extra R1980 for dinner of two nights on my departure, of which my payment of R9809 included dinner, I first paid R8489 via Booking.com then modified my booking with Sonia to include dinner of which i added R1320 on my arrival. They even chose dinner for us, such a bad experience i had with Sonia , R9809 +R1980 all in all, will never visit Casart game lodge ever! 

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