Reviews of Wilderness Beach Hotel
N2 National Garden Route Highway, Wilderness Waterfront, 6560 – Wilderness,, 6560 Wilderness, South Africa

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Reviewed: 9 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewLocation is excellent. Staff were very friendly. Was clean.
Breakfast was very limited. We would have preferred a continental breakfast (as was advertised with our booking) as opposed to the halaal cooked breakfast we had.
Reviewed: 22 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewThe Ocean View
Catering for food and room service
Reviewed: 4 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewClean facilities and friendly staff
Noisy in the night. Breakfast was really not as expected. Not worth R200.
Reviewed: 23 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 30 April 2025 · Stayed in April 2025
Verified reviewCanceled booking on arrival, not suitable for the occasion. Hotel needs attention, smelly and hosts students
Smelly an hotel is hosting students. Hotel needs attention
Reviewed: 23 March 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewLocation is good but old neef renovation, expensive
Reviewed: 12 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 9 February 2025 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewThe location. Staff were helpful and friendly.
The building is neglected and air cons didn’t work in 2 of the 4 rooms rented. TV channels weren’t clear. Breakfast was limited.
Reviewed: 6 February 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 4 February 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 3 February 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 31 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewbreakfast was good pool was great rooms are okay
Toilet was leaking and smelling bad the hotel needs an upgrade
Reviewed: 30 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewNothing at all
Everything should be knocked down
Reviewed: 17 January 2025 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewThe location of the hotel
The hotel room was in a horrible state for the value paid, there were a lot of defects and broken stuff in the room from furniture to facility.
Reviewed: 13 January 2025 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewReviewed: 12 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 11 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewThe location is great and the hotel is really nice overall. Love the staff. They are friendly, welcoming and very helpful. Breakfast was fantastic.
The place is great overall but the rooms need an upgrade now. I also found a cockroach in my room.
Reviewed: 11 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 11 January 2025 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewReviewed: 9 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewAlotoof the hotel facilities appeared very badly maintained. The grass was dry, broken tenis courts. The passage carepts did not apear clean. The staff were helpful.
Reviewed: 9 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewLocation, location, location
Needs a bit of an upgrade
Reviewed: 7 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewLocation is good
Reviewed: 6 January 2025 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewReviewed: 6 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewThere was nothing to like in terms of expectations. The once clean, pristine hotel is now a student hostel and not a hotel! It is a property where paragliders and their extended families and businesses take over the grounds.
There was nothing to like besides the staff that tried their best to explain and manage a dilapidated property from the parking to the rest of the supposedly hotel. I even find it hard to believe that I was forced to stay in this dilapidated rundown facility. At first, we were given rooms right at the end of the passage on the ground floor that took an eternity to get to. From the pool facing room that we were promised, we landed up in a room facing...dead grass and the throughfare of beach goers and paragliders. Spectators simply make themselves at home on your supposedly private patio including the pets! This begs the question about your security! There is no security! We traveled from East London with great expectations...to be met with great disappointment! The aircon was broken and blowing hot air and went off like an old diesel machine in the middle of the night disturbing the whole neighborhood! To top this, we booked two rooms of which the other had no aircon at all. I complained to the hotel management and Booking.com. I spent hours on the telephone to accomplish nothing! Although the booking.com operator tried assisting in finding other accommodation, it was virtually impossible as alternative accommodation was all booked or partially booked. This would have meant moving from one place to the other which was just too inconvenient. I demand that my moneys be refunded! The advertising on Booking.com is absolutely misleading and fraudulent. The pictures in comparison to what we saw, is like day and night! We had to settle for rooms closer to reception that had once again only one room with a functional aircon. A fan was provided for the other room. Not a day passed where we not had to request toilet paper...not one! There are no "Do not disturb" signs to hang on your door with the result that "housekeeping" knocks on your door at 7:45 to do stocktake of coffee, tea and sugar???