Reviews of Palmwag Lodge
C40, 9000 Palm, Namibia

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Reviewed: 31 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewRoom, view, dining area
No complaints, maybe should be hand soap at both sinks
Reviewed: 5 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewWonderful oasis in desert area. Lush green. Birds. Great clean rooms and peaceful surrounds
Rude and unprofessional personnel at check in at all different times. (I.e not an isolated incident) (note bar and dining personnel exceptional friendly)
Dear Pieter, Thank you for your feedback. We are delighted to hear about the positive aspects you found in our offer. We are also sorry to learn about your experience with our team. As we always strive for a welcoming and friendly atmosphere from our team, we take your comments seriously and will look into this concern. Looking ahead, we sincerely hope to welcome you back for an even more enjoyable experience in the future. Kind regards, Your Gondwana Team
Dear Pieter, Thank you for your feedback. We are delighted to hear about the positive aspects you found in our offer. We are also sorry to learn about your experience with our team. As we always strive for a welcoming and friendly atmospher… Show more
Reviewed: 26 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewGood location, nice breakfast, good facilities, helpful staff, clean room, comfortable bed.
Room was a little small and wifi not good, bit pricey but paying for the location.
Dear Alan, We appreciate your review and appreciate your honest feedback. We regret that we could not meet your expectations, but we are glad that you enjoyed the majority of your stay. We hope to welcome you back sometime in the future. Kind regards, Your Gondwana Team
Dear Alan, We appreciate your review and appreciate your honest feedback. We regret that we could not meet your expectations, but we are glad that you enjoyed the majority of your stay. We hope to welcome you back sometime in the future. Ki… Show more
Reviewed: 23 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewDear STEPHAN, Thank you for sharing your review with us. It was our utmost pleasure having you here. Looking forward to welcoming you back for more EXCELLENT stays with you! Sincerely, Your Gondwana Team
Reviewed: 13 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 9 June 2025 · Stayed in May 2025
Verified reviewThis lodge is beautiful and in a great location. The cabins (even the standard ones) feel like a luxury vacation, and this lodge is well worth the stay. The view from the restaurant is unbelievable at sunset, and the food is delicious. The staff are kind and easy-going and help to organize whatever activities you would like to do.
Dear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. It was great having you here and we look forward to being your host again in the future. Sincerely, Your Gondwana Team
Reviewed: 1 June 2025 · Stayed in May 2025
Verified reviewLocatiin,staff and lunch! Pizza was super great.
Spiders in room but hey this is Africa!
Dear Guest, We appreciate your review and appreciate your honest feedback. We regret that we could not meet your expectations but we are glad that you enjoyed the majority of your stay. We hope to welcome you back sometime in the future. Kind regards Your Gondwana Team
Dear Guest, We appreciate your review and appreciate your honest feedback. We regret that we could not meet your expectations but we are glad that you enjoyed the majority of your stay. We hope to welcome you back sometime in the future. K… Show more
Reviewed: 14 May 2025 · Stayed in March 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 13 May 2025 · Stayed in May 2025
Verified reviewA superb location, great views, great food, a rare pleasure
Dear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. It was great having you here and we look forward to being your host again in the future. Sincerely, Your Gondwana Team
Reviewed: 12 May 2025 · Stayed in April 2025
Verified reviewAstonishing views from the bungalow balcony, feeling of being in the beautiful nature yet still comfortable.
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Dear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. It was great having you here and we look forward to being your host again in the future. Sincerely, Your Gondwana Team
Reviewed: 30 April 2025 · Stayed in April 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 30 April 2025 · Stayed in April 2025
Verified reviewDelicious dinner with stunning view. Unfortunatelly there was no wi fi due to unspecified failure( it was quite inconvinient to us, because it was a main purpouse, why we choose this lodge for a 2 day brake on our camping trip). According to prices i.e. In Etosha, game drives here are little overpriced.
Dear Guest, We appreciate your review and appreciate your honest feedback. We regret that we could not meet your expectations but we are glad that you enjoyed the majority of your stay. We hope to welcome you back sometime in the future. Kind regards Your Gondwana Team
Dear Guest, We appreciate your review and appreciate your honest feedback. We regret that we could not meet your expectations but we are glad that you enjoyed the majority of your stay. We hope to welcome you back sometime in the future. K… Show more
Reviewed: 20 December 2024 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewReviewed: 5 December 2024 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewNice houses with a very nice view. Especially to watch the sunset. Good beds, nice shower and great smelling shampoo, shower gel and many more in the room.
This lodge is way to expensive for what you get for it. Room price twice as much as somewhere else, food also twice as much and game drives also. Dinner was till 21:00, but they started to take everything away at 20:45, while we just had our main course. They put 15% tipp on every bill. Game drive was later described as scenery drive, I understand why, because you won’t see many animals. The abundant wildlife which you can see on other places can’t be seen here. Also other groups did hardly see any. It wasn’t scenery at all. A 4,5 hours bumpy ride over rocks with hardly no animal to see. I understand that you can’t predict the presence of wildlife, but nowhere we have experienced something like this. It also felt like a wast of time, as we entered the area a rhino ranger got a lift from our tourguide, because he had to work and search for the rhino. After 3,5 hours searching (and seeing no animal at all since the ranger got in the car) the tourguide said that they normaly do the rhino tracking in another area, where the soil is more moist, because the chances are better there. If they knew this, why did they search there for so many hours? We would have liked to see a rhino, but seeing other animals was okay for us as well. This made me very disappointed about the tour. The guide was friendly, but I don’t think the way he worked it out was okay. We were there just providing the ranger a ride, which has cost us 75€ a person. In the room, the safe didn’t work and there is no fridge. As you pay so much for this lodge everything should have been better than this. I payed for a stay of 19 hours including the food and the drive €450 for two persons. I don’t mind if everything is perfect, but it was far from that. Keep your money in your pocket and go somewhere else.
Dear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. While we wish you had a better experience, it is feedback like this that we learn from and use to improve. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience, and it's apparent in this case that we fell short. We will do our utmost best to catch up to our previously good and very good reviews. We look forward to being your host again at one of our lodges in the future. Sincerely, Your Gondwana Team
Dear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. While we wish you had a better experience, it is feedback like this that we learn from and use to improve. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience, and it… Show more
Reviewed: 27 October 2024 · Stayed in October 2024
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Verified reviewReviewed: 3 October 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
Verified reviewDear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. It was great having you here and we look forward to being your host again in the future. Sincerely, Your Gondwana Team
Reviewed: 24 September 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
Verified reviewThis is a true Oasis in the truly breath taking scenery. An absolute gem of a place in every way..... Fantastic!!!
Nothing not to like.
Dear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. It was great having you here and we look forward to being your host again in the future. Sincerely, Your Gondwana Team
Reviewed: 14 September 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
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Verified reviewReviewed: 20 July 2024 · Stayed in June 2024
Verified reviewGood size rooms with a little seating area in front. Good shower, great view from restaurant, friendly staff.
Nothing I didn’t like, but it is pricey for overseas visitors.