Huab Lodge & Bush Spa

A fabulous place to stay off the beaten track, recommend staying 2-3 nights or more. The owners are fantastic and go above and beyond to ensure you have a superb, enjoyable stay. Excellent food. Easy access to get to Etosha National Park afterwards.

The Villa @Huab Lodge – Nov/Dec 2024 My partner, Barbara, and I sought out an opportunity to spend a breakaway birthday long weekend and found Huab Lodge’s new Villa (room 9). We were the first paying guests and how lucky were we! Deon and Lidia, their manager Rihette, Ouma Ursula and the team made us feel so at home and from the moment we arrived we were spoiled to the extreme. The Villa is magnificently built, the woodwork is sublime and the furnishings take the Villa to a next level of luxury. Views aplenty from various angles and heights make the experience so brilliant, light floods into the many large windows and the expansive deck on the ground level offers so many options to entertain oneself. The Villa comes with a plunge pool which is a godsend and ensures that you can cool down at your whim and still enjoy the magnificent views of the surrounding hills. Bedroom and bathroom (with bath) plus a desk area is upstairs and lounge, kitchenette and bathroom (with shower) is downstairs. Spacious, lovely linen, luxury towelling and gifts galore awaited us. An easy walk to the dining room for breakfast, lunch and or dinner is an option or a drive from the Villa to the main lodge buildings can be undertaken. For a lodge well off the beaten track breakfast offered everything and more and dinner was shared with other guests and the owners. Menu options are explained by the chef and then “sold” in one of the local languages which added to the fun. Service is wonderful and friendly and everyone is only too happy to go the extra mile for you as a guest. I was spoilt with a full-on breakfast service at the Villa for my birthday. Everything was transported and set up and our every request was exceeded in leaps and bounds. We can highly recommend a visit to Huab Lodge for anyone seeking a break away where one can enjoy your own company or choose to go on a variety of drives with Deon “the white bushman” to view game and in particular Deon’s passion – the desert elephants. A spa is currently under construction. Additionally, a swimming pool and a hot spring (warmquelle) are available for use by all guests which makes a visit even more of a must! We spent 3 nights at Huab Lodge and it felt like a week to us so we highly recommend a absolute minimum of 2 nights stay there for all locals and tourists alike. We have vowed to return next year.

Unique experience in a stunning natural environment!! Deon, Lydia and their staff managed to create a hospitable paradise from where you can experience the search for Desert Elephants in their natural habitat. By sunset the flocks of Quella's fly in dancing formations along the thatched main house.

The Huab lodge is situated near the riverbed of Huab river; it offers several beautiful located small bungalows. It is not the cheapest lodge in the area but certainly it is worth the money you pay. The bushmans drive to unknow bushmans paintings is a must. The drive to find the elephant is also a lot of fun; specially if there are fresh traces (dung) an you know they are near, but are unable to find them. You are treated to a very good bushman's coffee with homemade boeren beskuit as well as a bbq'd lunch over open fire. In the evening good food with the possibility for very good wines against reasonable prices. Try the South African Fonkelwijn!!