Grootbos Private Nature Reserve

The facilities at each lodge include a swimming pool, restaurant, lounge area, gallery, laundry service and postal service. The Garden Lodge also has a Bloom beauty room.

Grootbos offers three accommodation styles, each with a different character to suit your party – choose from Garden Lodge, Forest Lodge and two private villas.

Each free-standing suite is set in tranquil surroundings and consists of a lounge with fireplace, separate bedroom(s), en suite bathrooms and wooden deck offering ocean views. The bedrooms are equipped with extra long beds, 100% down duvets and cotton bedding, a safe for valuables, tea and coffee station and a well-stocked mini-bar. Whereas each bathroom has underfloor heating, double wash basin, double showers and/or baths plus heated towel rails and hair dryers. The private villas are the most exclusive offering at Grootbos – set apart from the rest of the estate to give ultimate privacy.

The team at Grootbos specialises in creating utterly amazing meals – whether it's a healthy garden salad with ingredients grown fresh onsite, or a five-course culinary masterpiece – with innovation and an eye for detail, you'll enjoy an explosion of taste. 

Dining at Grootbos is not just about eating, it is part of the whole experience. Almost half of all the ingredients used in meals are grown at Grootbos.  

The special full board rate includes a welcome drink served upon arrival, fresh fruit daily in your suite, breakfast buffet with full English breakfast menu, a light lunch and a beautiful five-course dinner.

Grootbos knows that children are very important and treats them as individuals. It's important that your children have a wonderful, safe time so that the you can enjoy your holiday as a family. The children’s activities are not just activities to keep them busy, but they combine education with fun in a natural setting. The dedicated staff will tailor make programs to fit your children's needs and inspire, educate, enthuse and exhilarate them to foster a long-term interest in nature and the outdoors.

Specially trained guides accompany children during all the activities, such as exciting treasure hunts, excursions to the beach, searching through rock pools and trips through the reserve. Children get familiar with the fascinating eco-system and the history of the area. Picture frame or shell bracelet making are great activities to inspire their creative side and a souvenir to take home. While exploring their immediate and natural environment the children can collect shells, porcupine quills or bugs, which will be brought back to their own activity room for exciting identification. At the same time they teach the children not to destroy or interfere with natural habitats.

Grootbos caters to younger guests with special children’s menus, as well as refreshments and snacks during the activities, plus offer a special children’s turndown service to end an exciting and fun-filled day.