President Paul Kruger Guest Lodge — Hotel in Rustenburg Local Municipality

My wife and I stayed overnight, arriving at 1PM with a rental car. From the designated parking, we walked 50m to the reception house and were greeted by friendly Francois. The manager took my card payment and led us on a tour of the property ending at our thatched cottage. “Fredrica” opened to a narrow hall with a small refrigerator and micro, then a bedroom with a comfortable double across a table and chair with a wall TV(Al Jazeera, BBC, many satellite channels). The open bathroom had a closet and a tiled stall shower. Nice hot water, good secure WIFI and the room was quiet with windows opening to the shaded garden filled with large palms and 200+ year old trees.||The excellent 7AM English breakfast was served in the nearby dining house near the pool; OJ, fruits, yogurt, muesli, made to order eggs served with mushrooms, shredded cheese, tomato and cucumber and bacon if desired, coffee and their special spring water.||With perfect weather, we drove 5 miles northwest to the Kgaswane Mountain Reserve($3.5 seniors) to drive the “Sable Loop”, finding Sable, Waterbuck and herds of Plains/Mountain Zebra and Common Elands.||This is a beautiful garden complex with lots of rustic charm but would be enhanced with a bathroom door and a second chair in...

Knowing that we would be tired after a long day visiting the Magaliesberg Battlefields, we had pre-ordered a three-course traditional dinner catered by the Manager, Francois. The Owners, Pam and Human, joined us for a most sumptuous and delicious meal. My Australian Clients enjoyed the fellowship and lively conversation about adventure tours in South Africa.||||After a peaceful sleep in the most comfortable rooms we enjoyed a very tasty breakfast - again catered by Francois. Human then took us through his museum and workshop, showing us the old pumps that he has restored to pristine working condition. I could never imagine that I would be so captivated by such unusual machines. There are other historic items and photographs as well, including a huge collection of old branded matchbooks.||||The highlight of our stay was knowing that we slept in President Paul Kruger's first home on his first and original farm "Waterval". Although it has been extensively re-built and restored, one still has the feeling of being the honored guest of a great man who lived here in the...

What a great place this is. We stayed after a big day touring the local countryside exploring battlefields from the Boer war with Rob Milne (robmilne.com) an excellent guide. The owners and manager of this place cooked us up an awesome meal and made us feel extremely welcome. The rooms were clean and comfortable with all the necessary mod cons, set amongst lovely trees full of birds! After a huge breakfast we visited the engine museum that the owner has put together restoring many old small engines, it must be the best of its kind in South Africa if not the world - amazing! Oh yeah did I mention we stayed in Paul Krugers original farmhouse! Great choice Rob, we will be back there again on...