Njaya Lodge

10/10

Exceptional

20 Aug 2025

Timothy

As previous reviews indicate, this is a wonderful setting, rivalling a Greek Island or even the Amalfi Coast in Italy. Beautiful view and accommodations. Very warm and friendly staff. Good food with many choices. Good hot water even with Solar. Would have liked internet access in the room and perhaps a little more attention to timely food delivery. We had a delightful stay!

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Aug 2025

Genevieve

Njaya Lodge is a little slice of paradise! We fell in love with this place as soon as we arrived. Nestled on the banks of Lake Malawi, surrounded by beautiful landscape and amazing locals, it’s the most relaxing place we have been to in Africa. The staff here go above and beyond with their service and always so friendly! I hope we make it back one day! ❤️

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

07 Jan 2024

James

Pleasant lakeside cabins; very responsive staff; good prices; fantastic views of the lake. Beach consists of rocks; access road poor; located in a village which can be noisy. Owner very pleasant and accommodating. Clean, and would stay again, but not appropriate for a \"luxury\" lakeside stay.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

28 Aug 2023

GRACE

We enjoyed the scenary of the lake, the rhythm and sound of the lake was soothing

Inside the chalet we were in needed a bit of maintenence especially the show tap was a bit rusty.

All in all everything else was good.

Business_and_leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

27 Nov 2019

Simon

Amazing place

Although a bit run down it was impossible to fall in love with the location. Because we were on our honeymoon l had book the luxury lodge unfortunately we were one day late due to border problems then when we did arrive we were told our lodge had been booked out to others. however, the staff were lovely and after offering us numerous bottles of wine as compensation for the oversight.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Dec 2016

Adam

Beautiful cliffside lodge right by the beach

We only planned to stay 2 nights here over Christmas, but the setting, staff and owners were all so nice that we had to extend by two more. Dixon, Gilbert and Kingston are all fantastic characters that really make you feel welcome and add that family vibe. Thanks also to Paul and Collette for making us feel that much more at home. We'll be back for sure.

4/10

Poor

20 Nov 2016

Charl

not impressed.

1. booked and paid on website for most expensive rooms. rooms not as advertised.
2. wifi not working.
3. no cold drinks, little ice, could not make a plan to get more ice.
4. credit card machine badly operated by pulling out card while still in operation and immediately pushed it back. sms on my phone as paid, but machine printed declined. had to pay again, and therfore another sms. paid twice? will see if they will refund me?

10/10

Exceptional

14 Nov 2016

Verified traveler

Beautiful place, awesome location,

Would like to keep it a secret, but that wouldn't be fair, a long way north of the airport, but well worth the effort. Highly recommend

10/10

Exceptional

13 Nov 2016

Helen

Place was very quiet as it was low season when we stayed. Very helpful staff, friendly atmosphere. Food simple but fine. Would stay again. Good value room, breakfast and coffee a bit overpriced

Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Jan 2016

Bill

Great spot next to beach

What a pleasure! We had booked for 1 night but came back for a second. Terrific staff made us extremely welcome. Lovely jubly! . It is a great spot overlooking the lake,which was a good place to swim. Would recommend. Like all Malawi,getting a little tired!

8/10

Excellent

29 Jan 2025

Ralf

In die Jahre gekommene Anlage

Unterkunft war sauber aber stark in die Jahre gekommen. Schöne Lage und schönes Restaurant und Bar. Das Frühstück mittelmäßig das Essen gut. Gutes WLAN aber nur im Restaurantbereich. Sehr guter Service.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

05 May 2019

Verified traveler

オーナー（多分イギリス在住）はきちんとインターネットをチェックしているようで、チェックインはスムーズだった。
　従業員たちが懇切丁寧にもてなしてくれたので満足。ただし料理には期待せぬように。
　場所は眺めが最高。

Leisure Self

4/10

Poor

06 Jun 2017

Verified traveler

Nice view, poor service

Hotel with a lot of potential but unfortunately not much service to go with it. Our room (beach cottage) had a nice view but there was no hot water for our entire stay and we had to deal with plenty of spiders and ants in the room (which can be expected in this part of the world). The internet was down on the first day but it more or less worked afterwards. Obviously, there was no coverage in the room. The food was average at best and they mostly didn't have what was offered on their menu. The price of the food and beverages was ridiculously expensive for the place, so were other services (e.g. laundry). Also, the price of activites offered was more than twice the price of what we paid in another lodge nearby. Plus, the visa machine didn't work so we had to pay in cash.
That said, we really enjoyed the beach and our room. The lodge is a bit far from the village and the port (30min walking), but is makes it more like a secret place. Still, the staff were kind...

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