Name: Needles Lodge
Address: 341 Bushpig Avenue, 341, Kruger National Park, 1321, ZA

10/10

Exceptional

23 Oct 2024

Peter

Great lodge near Kruger. Comfortable, quiet and clean. Wonderful food too. Friendly staff. We had a marvelous time. And a special thank you to Glen who was our game drive guide. Tremendous experience. Lots of fun. Five stars all around!

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Nov 2022

Oksana

My stay at Need was amazing! No need to look further!

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

18 Dec 2021

L Aesthetics

The stay was amazing….Dennis and Gail are super hosts and the lodge is situated nicely tugged away in the bushes. The staff are super friendly and the food was as good. A really enjoyable trip amd stay we had at Needles

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Dec 2019

Jamie

Intimate, Delightful Safari Lodge

Needles Lodge is a fantastic option for a small, intimate safari experience on the edge of Kruger National Park. The rooms are clean and comfortable with sliding doors that look out at the bush in the backyard where zebras, monkeys and wildebeests often gather. Meals are delicious, multi-course family-style affairs with scintillating conversations with guests from around the world. The owner, Dennis and manager, Colin, do everything possible to ensure a wonderful stay.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Nov 2019

David

Fantastic, peaceful lodge.

Everything about Needles Lodge was excellent. From our room, which was spacious and beautifully finished, to the unbelievable food served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We loved having the animals wander by and spent hours by the delightful pool. The lodge's main areas are great too with lots of books for reading about the animals. The staff were really helpful and kind, it was just the most wonderful few days and we can't wait to return!

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

12 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

Excellent food, wildlife visits and close to Kruger.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Aug 2019

Ram

Charming lodge in Marloth Park

Charming lodge, rooms and host. Excellent breakfast and wine selection. Zebra visits to the lodge was a nice touch. Location in Marloth park is interesting - this is a very unique project to combine human neighborhood with a quasi safari. Dinner was just OK and the idea of a shared table to all guests and hosts is not to everyone's taste, but this shouldn't affect the high rating. We stopped there after our Kruger visit, but the guests who used the lodge for the Kruger safaris seemed happy with the lodge as their basis.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

19 Feb 2019

Verified traveler

Needles was a great place to stay. We were afraid it was going to be in a developed town but it's in a protected area with wildlife coming through the area as well. We saw Kudu, giraffe, a genet, and a bushbaby just on the grounds.
Dennis and Gail were gracious hosts and as Dennis is a guide, he knew everything about birds, wildllife, and the park.
Whatever you want is really the order of the day. Needles can arrange morning walks, game drives, nearby tours, or you can use it as a jumping off point to Crocodile Bridge (about 30 minutes by car) into Kruger National Park. It's an easy drive up to Lower Sabie camp for lunch but the location of Needles is convenient. On departure, we went from Crocodile Bridge to Malelane in the park and then it was about four hours to Pretoria by car.
We had a great time and would love to return. We're talking to friends about making it a group visit.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

20 Dec 2018

Tony

Stayed there for 3 nights at the start of our South Africa holiday, and before spending 4 nights at SANPark lodges in the park. Had we known just how good it was, think we may have spent our entire 7 nights in Kruger there. It more than lives up to the great reviews it gets (which is why we chose Needles), the place is beautiful, the staff amazing, the visiting animals a daily treat, and the proximity to Crocodile River entrance gate does actually mean you could easily stay here, and go into the park for the day (which means you get the 5* benefit of the lodge, with all the animal viewing you could wish for). We had dinner, bed and breakfast, the cooked breakfast was fantastic (best mushrooms I have ever tasted), the dinners a delight sat outside with a glass of Pinotage. Within 30 minutes of arriving we had visits from a huge rock monitor, a family of mongoose and a Kudu. Lots of birds to watch and identify in the nearby trees, Zebra wandering over, the Bushbabies at night, amazing. We did a full day safari by way of introduction to the park, and I would recommend it. Patrick our guide and driver was just brilliant, spotting things well before we did (without binocs and while driving), he promised my wife 30 giraffe and he delivered, as well as lions, buffalo, white rhino, elephants, eagles, hippos (25 species we saw on that one day, plus it gave us great ideas of where to go when we were in the park, like Mpondo Dam). Perfect place to stay in every respect.

10/10

Exceptional

14 Oct 2017

iris

Fantastic!

Wonderfull hospitality,great atmosphere,fantastic food. It feels like home,thanks to the wonderfull people who run the place.Only thing needs improvement is Wifi,being weak. But after all,we came to dissconnect...

Partner

8/10

Excellent

07 Jan 2016

John

Wonderful lodge

We had a wonderful time in this beautiful lodge. Staff and owner were very accommodating with our late arrival and had dinner ready for us nonetheless. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jun 2015

Verified traveler

wonderful honeymoon

excellent location. great staff. ask them about kosher options!

Partner

8/10

Excellent

20 Apr 2015

Verified traveler

Nice lodge, but bit far from Kruger Park for us.

Nice lodge with good food and local setting (local Zebra, Giraffe, Warthog etc). Bit too far from the park though (half an hour drive to Crocodile Bridge).
Staff very friendly and helpful, but join you at your table for dinner...

Family

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jan 2026

Christian

Had a great stay here for three nights. I enjoyed all guests and the hosts eating together, especially traveling alone. It's located about 30-40 minutes from the yep gates to Kruger. Good communication and wonderful hosts.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

31 May 2023

JEAN MARC

Very professional service, the welcome is good, the rooms are comfortable, the food is excellent, and the atmosphere is friendly. In addition, the boss speaks excellent French.

10/10

Exceptional

13 Feb 2023

Carlos

Wonderful stay in a beautiful lodge

The welcome and service were wonderful. The lodge was very cute, the dinner and breakfast were excellent and we loved seeing the bush babies, zebra and warthogs right in front of us. Definitely a place to visit again!

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jan 2023

Karl-Heinz

Ein kleines Paradies

Wir waren auf unserer Südafrika-Rundreise für 6 Tage Gast in dieser sehr persönlich vom Inhaber Dennis und seinem „guten Geist“ Lyn geführten Lodge und sind beeindruckt von der Gastfreundschaft des gesamten Teams - Kompliment an alle Beteiligten, insbesondere auch an die jungen Guides John und Tammy! Absolutes Highlight waren die ganztägigen Game Drives, durchgeführt direkt von der Lodge im offenen Landrover, in den besonders wildreichen südlichen Teil des Kruger Nationalpark, wo wir neben unzähligen anderen Tieren auch sämtliche Big 5 zu sehen bekamen, besonders eindrucksvoll ein Rudel Wildhunde auf der Jagd nach Impalas; die Lodge selber liegt im Marloth Park, ca. 30 Minuten vom nächsten Gate zum Kruger Park entfernt, mit frei herumlaufenden Giraffen, Zebras, Kudus und Warzenschweinen, die bis an die Terrasse der Lodge herankommen und einen zum Frühstück oder Dinner besuchen; die Lodge hat lediglich 8 Zimmer, entsprechend familiär ist die Athmosphäre; das Dinner wird gemeinsam mit den Gästen aus aller Welt und den Besitzern auf der offenen Terrasse eingenommen, alle Sonderwünsche werden berücksichtigt; Frühstück und Dinner sind reichlich und von guter Qualität; ein reichhaltiges Angebot an nicht alkoholischen und gepflegten alkoholischen Getränken verfügbar; die Zimmer verfügen über einen hohen Standard und ein großes Bad mit Wanne und separater Dusche; alles in allem ein ausgezeichnetes Preis/Leistungsverhältnis, ein sehr empfehlenswertes Haus, in das wir gerne zurückkomme

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Nov 2019

Verified traveler

+ Ein sehr leckeres Abendessen war inklusive. Tiere kamen bis zur Terrasse. Ein super Schönes Erlebnis.
Die Zimmer waren schön eingerichtet, unser mit Blick auf Pool. WiFi war vorhanden.
Entfernung zum Crocodile Bridge Gate nur ca 50 Minuten
Diese Lodge kann ich absolut empfehlen.

- nichts

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

24 Aug 2019

Riccardo

Perfetto per soggiorno vicino al Kruger Park. Personale molto cortese e professionale.....la gita in jeep nel parco con Patrick esperienza imperdibile!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

27 Jul 2019

Robson

Fantastic stay!

What a stay we had at Needles Lodge! Outstanding service team, great room and the food...ah food...one of the best we`ve ever had! Thanks to everyone...Dennis, Colin, Gail, Manny, Willem, Patrick and all the girls who serves incredibly well and keep the fantastic atmosphere!

Family