Name: Motswiri Private Safari Lodge
Address: Madikwe Game Reserve 1, 1, Madikwe, 2865, ZA

10/10

Exceptional

25 Oct 2025

Duncan

Great location, friendly and attentive staff, unbelievable experience with the watering hole so close to lodge

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Apr 2025

Navin

Fantastic experience with great staff always going above and beyond. Highly recommend. Only fault i could say is that wifi was down for 2 of the 3 days of the stay with no mobile signal at the lodge.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Feb 2024

adriaan

Absolutely loved this property!! Charming, small boutique hotel feel with only 6 lodges (rooms). Very friendly staff, excellent food and VERY experienced rangers taking you 2x a day on drives around the reserve. Stuart, Barry and Elliott are all three FANTASTIC!! Highly recommend this property.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Dec 2022

Michael

MOTSWIRI December 22

This was a magnificent stay, from arrival at the main gate to the 8 km drive up to the lodge everything started amazingly. Kudu, zebra and tortoise before we even got to the lodge.
Once there the warmth of the welcome was apparent and that was a theme the whole way through the stay. Manager Lisa and her team were fabulous, and made special provision for my Dad who is 75 and has mobility issues.
Ranger Elliott took us on each of our 6 game drives and everyday was different , exciting, inspiring and surprising. He even went out early on the last morning to hunt down Buffalo so that we could complete 4 of the big 5.

The accommodation is perfect, the food OUTSTANDING and the ambience and setting perfect.

They even cleaned the car for us before we left on the final morning. Have stayed at many lodges…..this was outstanding.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

21 Sep 2022

Alan

Amazing game lodge

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Nov 2020

Fernando

It was a great stay. The lodge is located inside a great game reserve which you are literally in the bush close to all animals, Big5 and so :)!
Our stay was made even more special due to our ranger Elliot, which made all efforts for a great stay and managed to get us 4 fantastic game drives, seeing in a couple of hours a big and great combination of the best animals, make sure you go with him!

On the improvement side the room facilities could be a bit better, our shower had some small leakages and fan was bit outdated and noisy, but nothing that changed this great stay!!!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Sep 2019

Sylvia

Very charming lodge, private spacious villas. Food is excellent, taste very fresh. Wide selection of fruits and vegetables.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

02 Dec 2017

Nick

Absolutely superb

Motswiri was absolutely fantastic. The room was huge but also had bags of character and a view of the waterhole that meant we could watch elephants, giraffes and the like from the comfort of our bed. The staff were all absolutely brilliant - lovely people who did everything they possibly could to make our stay as wonderful as it was. And the food was delicious and seemingly never-ending.

Most importantly our ranger, Visser, was incredible. He had the enthusiasm of a first-time tourist combined with the expertise of an old-timer. He was obsessed by making sure we got to see everything we possibly could and was happy to be first out and last back of all the lodges to ensure we saw every bit of wildlife there was.

Examples of this included heading out early to track down cheetahs and driving deep into the bush where Visser's x-ray eyes managed to spot sleeping lions way past the time we were meant to be back at the lodge.

I couldn't recommend Motswiri highly enough. The only negative was having to leave.

10/10

Exceptional

03 May 2026

Daniel

Eliott our Safari guide / Ranger was a 10++, amazing, kind, showed us all he could in pretty bad weather with muddy roads. He wins it all, the best. Our kids loved him a lot. Go and ask for him.
The lodge is nice but has some flaws. The way to the room was not illuminated and the kids were scared. In the room we had several spiders and animal droppings. The food was very good but we felt observed quite a few times instead of being help/served. The owner Bill is great and extremely helpful. For this price we expected more from the lodge but Eliott surpassed it all.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

21 Apr 2026

Norman

Super Lage mit Bungalows am Wasserloch, wo zu jeder Tageszeit unterschiedliche Tiere kommen. Sehr cool. Lodge selbst ist gemütlich.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Nov 2025

carolina

A equipe do hotel é extremamente simpática e amável. Solícitos em preparar comida para criança. O guia Berry foi ainda mais espetacular! Ainda tivemos a visita de elefante na varanda.
Único ponto é que haviam alguns pequenos insetos no quarto o que entendemos ser normal para um hotel desse tipo

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

06 Apr 2025

Rodrigo

FORMIDÁVEL

TUDO PERFEITO

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

31 Oct 2023

Magnus

Fantastic Safari Experience

A fantastic safari experience.
The room was spacious, the food was tasty and the swimming pool overlooking the plains and the waterhole was a great place to unwind in after the excursions.
Elliot, our ranger was knowledgeable and brought us close to 4/5 of the big five and numerous other animals.
Can warmly recommend Madwike and Motswiri Lodge.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

18 Jun 2019

Ana Paula

Perfeito! Magnífico! Fantástico! Os games com o guia stwart são maravilhosos! Toda a equipe é muito atenciosa e acolhedora! Quartos muito confortáveis e com vista para a savana. Acordamos e tinham animais próximos do quarto, como um elefante, por exemplo. Incrível.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Mar 2018

Claudia

Fantástico!!!!

Partner