Plett River Lodge

Location is good if you want to be between Plettenberg Bay and Tsitsikamma or Nature’s Valley. Maria who checked us in and helped with the storage of certain food items and my milk was very helpful and friendly.

The room was very basic. Did not have a mini fridge to even keep our water and some fruit chilled. Also I tend to travel with my own almond milk as I’m lactose intolerant and it’s rare that hotels and lodges provide almond milk as an alternative to cow’s milk. Since we did not have a bar fridge in our room I had to ask for it to be kept in the main kitchen’s fridge and as a result I subsequently forgot to take it with me when we checked out! I presume the blonde woman sitting at one of the tables doing admin was the proprietor of the lodge - she wasn’t very friendly and one of the staff had to ask her permission to store my milk in main kitchen fridge since no mini bar fridges are provided in the room. This request was met with a reluctant affirmative nod of the head! There was also no safe in the room. The positioning of a big single seater sofa chair was weird in the room - almost blocking the entrance to the bathroom. Both my husband and I knocked our knees against it a few times but there was nowhere else where we could push the chair to so has to tilt on an angle in order to gain better access to the bathroom. I would suggest a smaller chair be put in the room as that chair does not fit the space! The bathroom was spacious but felt a bit bare and basic too. There’s a big bare piece of wall between the basin and the shower - there is enough space to put a little bench area that you can sit on when you dry yourself from the shower. I’m that way the space is at least utilised better. There was also no soap dish on the basin area for the bar of soap provided by the property, so that made the service area messy after washing your hands. The windows let in a lot of light in the morning which means if you’re sensitive to light as my husband is, you will wake up earlier that you intense to. Having thicker curtains/black out blinds is an idea to solve this issue.