Ocean View Hotel — Hotel in King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality

Very nice casual hotel. Staff very friendly and let you just be. Three rooms on the "beach" pleasant, but locals are a problem. Groups of young men gathered under the trees beyond the fence and watched you for long periods whilst in the room or sitting outside. They even urinated against the fence when ignored. The food is real "home food" and was excellently prepared - lots of food. The hotel and staff must be complemented, considering that everything is brought in from East London. Well done! The hotel deserves to be supported.

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The visit to the Hole in the Wall - a must!! It is some 10km away from the hotel. What a sight! But once again the local so called guides are a problem. Extremely intimidating and do not except "no" as an answer to being a guide. They will walk some paces in front of you and then demand a fee as high as R600. Thus park at the hotel. Exit through the gate towards the beach and turn right. Walk up to the "rip tide" sign and turn left. Walk to the "Hole-in-the-Wall conservation" sign and turn right. Follow the path and it will take you to the Hole. Also take a drive up to the view point - follow your nose. We called for assistance of people in the houses on the path leading to the Hole and they dealt with the "guides".

The drive to the hotel is about 80km from the N2. Many, many, many.... potholes - take it easy. Once again some locals guard a single pothole with a spade. They put some sand in the hole and then become aggressive if you do not give them some money. The rest of the community ignore you as much as you ignore them. Do not waste your time looking for a toilet within Butterworth or all the way to the hotel. If really required, make a road side stop - as all the locals do!

Fuel - some 20km from the hotel - thus...

Sad sad affair - this will be the last time that we will visit and see this beautiful setting...the hotel has been sold and all the wonderful memories of wonderful food seafood and the special ambience that all that risked the road to get here so appreciated and enjoyed!! Is gone...(and the chef with it) no more - seafood now only served on Saturdays - tonight for R195 we had burnt soup, raw chicken, strips of some kind of beef😳as tough as can be - I was so shocked!!! And then annoyed - so annoyed that they deducted the food charge - the electricity has been off for 2 days - we still pay the same rate - we sit in pitch dark with a lamp - no warm shower, no security lights outside, shocking!! And no backup plan. If you have been here before be prepared to be disappointed - If this is your first time know this - the sea,beach and setting is beautiful but at R1150 per night - dinner excluded and taking into account, the standard, selection and quality of the food, and the unsafe area where you are forced to park - do your homework well!! The star of the show is Molly the brindle hotel dog - it was love at first sight and she followed us around and slept next to our bed - the one star is for you Molly who was truly glad to see us!! Sad that a place with such a rich history and proven track record could go down...

We spent four nights there arriving on 31st December, great anticipation for seafood supper. What a letdown, some mussels in a solid sauce, frozen fillets, a yellowtail fish. No prawns, no Calamari, can understand no crayfish as the season was closed, what a let down. However the remaining nights food was okay, a different roast every night, only query was that they served the same dessert every night and most nights the jelly was mostly liquid. ||I found the staff to be great and most helpful. Our room upstairs was fine but again the whole place needs fixing. In the front there was a piece of the facade that was broken and looked terrible, easy to fix. The sunbeds around the pool all needed to have a coat of white paint and it would have then looked much better around the pool. So easy to trim the palm trees of their dead palms. The biggest problem is the road leading down to Coffee Bay, one of the worst I have ever driven. It needs to be fixed so that the area can take advantage of the tourism growth. ||Would recommend a visit but please folks give the hotel some tender loving care, even you staff complain about the lack of...