Eagles Cragg

Eagles Cragg

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Shamwari Game Reserve, Eastern Cape

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Stars : 5

Capacity : 18

Price : R5750

Full Description

Shamwari Game Reserve, the malaria free, private game reserve situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, has received numerous international awards, including the World`s Leading Conservation Company and Game Reserve for many consecutive years.It is situated in the verdant bush along the Bushmans River, halfway between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown, a pleasant drive from Cape Town, forming a natural extension to the famous Garden Route.

Shamwari is about conserving a vanishing way of life. Steeped in Pioneer history, and dating back to the time when a multitude of game roamed wild and free, the reserve boasts five eco-systems, thus enabling the support of many forms of plant, animal and bird life. Eagles Cragg Lodge is an avante-guard masterpiece of thatch, stone and glass for the most discerning of traveller who is looking for privacy and tranquillity. Exclusivity, privacy and serenity assured.

The lodge boasts an authentic African Experience, secretly hidden in a gorge of this extensive mountain range, filled with temperate forest vegetation and looking out onto a cliff-face and dry riverbed, where leopards and various african creatures are free to roam between the rooms.
9 Detached Junior Suites are available to you all with your own plunge pools on private decks, accessed through large stack-away walls on raised wooden decks between all rooms and public areas.

Indoor and outdoor shower facilities complete the experience but the additional small telescopes in all the rooms makes this lodge unbelievable and unique. Internet access and the Bar or Cigar Lounge with fireplaces in rooms with glass fold-away walls leading onto the wooden decks can be enjoyed getting to know fellow travellers.

The Spa with 2 Treatment Rooms, Hydro Bath, Sauna and Steam Bath, Curio shop, Library or meeting room is additional features of so many this lodge affords the luxurious traveller. Dining Rooms on upper levels complete with fireplace and fold-away glass walls reach onto the balcony. Outdoor dinners in the boma or on the lower level deck with more fold-away glass walls leading out onto the balcony offer the wildlife visitor a Birders paradise.

This is the ultimate African adventure and conservation effort coupled with responsible tourism.Luxury accommodation is offered 6 different lodges on the reserve.

• Long Lee Manor , offers a distinctive Colonial experience in a restored Edwardian Manor house. Long Lee Manor also has a spa.
• Bushmans River Lodge is a unique historical site with its 4 suites decorated in an artistic African theme.
• Riverdene Lodge is a restored settler`s lodge with 9 suites, all en-suite with air-conditioning, Satellite TV, telephone and small lounge area. The ethnically decorated Lobengula Lodge with its thatched roofs is tucked deep in the valley bushveld. It offers 12 guests a tranquil, luxurious and exclusive getaway as well as a wellness centre.
• Bayethe Tented Camp is a 5-star, luxury lodge comprising of 9-tented suites.

A magnificent bushveld-type lodge made of stonewalls and thatch, accommodates the lounge, dining room, an outdoor banquet boma, swimming pool and viewing deck. The magnificent stone and thatch Eagles Crag, with its own wellness centre offers nine detached suites, each with private deck and plunge pool. Shamwari`s highly trained game rangers, with skilled service staff will ensure a memorable adventure, personalised to your needs.

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Activities and Facilities

• Underfloor Heating
• Spa
• Sauna
• Safe
• Room Service
• Research Area
• Qualified Guides
• Pool
• Outdoor Shower
• Night Drives
• Library
• Laundry Service
• Honeymoon Suite
• Hair Dryer
• Game Walks
• Game Drive
• Fireplace
• En-suite Bathroom
• Curio Shop
• Coffee Stations
• Boma Dinners
• Birding
• Big 5
• Beauty Treatments
• Bar
• Air Conditioning
• View
• Viewing Deck
• Wake Up calls
• Wine Cellar

NOTE : Some of the activities and facilities are not covered by the rate quoted and may be surchargeable.

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Rates

 

 

 

October 2011 to to 20 December 2012: R5750 pp sharing 

For Single Room Occupancy surcharge applies to all rates.

 All rate are Inclusive of:

•  Accommodation
•  All Meals
•  Early Morning and Evening Game Drives,
•  Taxes and Local South African beverages.

Please do not hesitate tocontact African Chapter for further information and options of the activities available in the Eastern Cape. Special long stay rates and combination packages available on request.

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