Geluksdam Guest House — Hotel in Gamagara Local Municipality

This review is relatively objective being my 15th road trip - this time staying at 7 properties over a 21 day period.||Stayed for one night in September solo enroute to the West Coast.||Easily found - adequate/secure parking.||The host and all staff were friendly and efficient.||Relaxing ambience in the small, but well kept garden from where the units are accessed from. Each unit/room has it’s own compact sitting area outside.||Spacious enough, clean and comfortable room. Bathroom was a walk in shower wet room - decent water pressure and temperature. Room was cool enough despite Eskom load shedding.||No external night noise - a good nights sleep.||Evening meal was a hot buffet with decent enough choices. Very good ‘home cooked’ quality. Decent wine on sale too. Breakfast was a hot buffet with eggs cooked to order again - good quality.||Excellent overall value||If I’m looking for a pit stop on this route again,...

Sometimes I get the feeling that many people just give five star rave reviews for everything. But by doing that you are actually doing a disservice to the next customers. Many people don’t seem to understand that ratings are meant to grade things compared to what is average. We found this place perhaps the most overvalued room we have stayed in on our 5 week tour around SA. The main room with the restaurant and the garden are lovely but for 850R we would normally get much more .. we have had excellent Wi-Fi swimming pools large modern kitchens etc etc… many places have also thrown in breakfast free for similar prices.. but this was more of a small dark place with old furniture and fixtures. Still, enough for a sleep over, but nothing...

We revisited this beautiful little Kalahari Gem,  Geluksdam Guesthouse in Olifantshoek, only one hour's drive from Eldorado Lodge in Kuruman.

I just love everything about this true little Kalahari gem. It looks like a little museum with all the beautiful and carefully collected items. Each a gem in its own right, but it was our interesting host who treated us with a devine breakfast and his interesting stories, that I would like to visit again and again...

On your way to Upington or the Kgalagadi or on your way back, this surely is the ideal place to refresh for the rest of your trip. I am sure that if you arrange with Jozua, you will even be treated with something...