African Affair Bush Retreat, strives to offer our valued guests an unforgettable experience in the breathtaking bushveld environment. We would therefore appreciate it if you equitant yourself with the following conditions:

 

• Security: For your own safety, please ensure to lock up the lodge and rooms when you are leaving the premises unattended. Do not attract unwarranted attention by openly leaving cash, expensive jewellery, laptops, cameras, binoculars and other valuables unattended or unsecured.

• Monkeys/Baboons/warthogs are visitors to the lodge. They patrol the reserve and see the lodges as an easy source of food. DO NOT FEED THEM AND DO NOT LEAVE FOOD, DRINKS OR LITTER UNATTENDED on the deck, boma area. The consequences of this will be perpetual raiding, potential for injury to occupants and costly cleaning of African Affair Bush Retreat and replacement of damaged items. Everyone must be aware and disciplined in this regard.

• Smoking: There is a strict non-smoking policy applicable inside any African Affair Bush Retreat buildings. If smoking outside, please use ashtrays and ensure your cigarettes, etc. are properly extinguished. Please don’t leave cigarette butts in the bushveld. Littering: No littering will be allowed in and around the Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate area that may damage or deface any fauna or flora. Cigarette butts included.

• Fires: Exercise extreme caution when making a fire in the boma. Make sure you know where the nearest water source (hosepipe) is located.  Extinguish all open fires / braai coals in the braai and boma area prior to going to bed.  Do not leave open fires unattended.   Do not use dustbins for hot ash.  No fires / braai allowed on the deck. Open fires are not permitted on windy nights. The thatched roof of African Affair Bush Retreat presents a great fire risk – please exercise extreme caution.

• Swimming:  Children should not be allowed to swim without adult supervision. No diving or jumping allowed in the pool.

• Energy Conservation: Turn off lights and appliances when not in use during your stay. Please ensure to do the same upon check out. Don’t forget the stove/oven.

• Water Conservation: Please keep your water usage within reason.  Ensure that taps are properly closed.

• WiFi: Please be responsible with the WiFi and do not download any movies or large files as our network bandwidth is limited. Password available.

• Emergency contact numbers: Owners: Helmo 082 608 2046 or Yvonne 083 280 1693. Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate Security: 065 8070888 Fire: 015 793 0728 After hrs medical: 063 051 2999.

• Noise: In consideration for the neighbour’s and the wildlife, noise must cease between 22:00 and 07:00.  African Affair Bush Retreat has a low noise and very low music and noise volume policy, which applies to every day, 24 hours a day. Failure to comply will result in fines.

• Speeding: The Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate has a no-speeding policy. Only 40 km on tarred roads and 20 km on gravel roads. This is to protect the wildlife. Speeding will result in fines.

• Tenants and guests: A room at our Bush Lodge, sleeps 2 people – no additional guests are allowed. No day visitors are allowed without permission of the lodge owner / letting agent.  Children must always be supervised by an adult.   No domestic animals / pets allowed General:  Keep all windows and doors closed when not in the room in order to prevent wild animal entry.   Keep the doors at the entrance, closed. It is not advisable to sleep with the doors open, use the fly screen.   Use repellents for mosquitoes, particularly during the rainy season.

• Fauna and Flora: Do not in any way disturb the plants, trees, insects and animals around African Affair Bush Retreat. Animals have the right of way. No person is permitted to hunt, cull, capture or shoot game or fish anywhere on the Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate.  No collecting of firewood allowed. The feeding of animals is strictly prohibited in terms of the reserve rules.  All wild animals must be treated with caution and respect, approaching and the petting of wild animals is not permitted and unsafe.  Visitors are not allowed to write, mark or affix any name letter, figure, symbol, drawing or any other mark onto a building, road, tree or rock. Open space and environmental control: No camping and or picnicking shall be permitted except at any place set aside for the purpose and designated as such. Swimming is not permitted in any dam or river in the Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate.

• Conduct at the estate: No washing of any nature, may be hung out or placed anywhere to dry except in the drying yard or such other area designed for such purpose.  The lighting of fireworks is not permitted.  Visitors may not stay overnight at any place other than the Lodge they are checked into.

• No pets allowed.

Rules for Visitors

The Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate is a residential Estate in a wildlife area, residents choose to live here because of the tranquillity in a natural setting that the Estate offers.

Please be respectful of the residents, both human and animal, at all times.

•  No Speeding – 40kph on tar & 20kph on gravel
• No feeding, approaching or catching animals
• No walking on roads & public areas at night – large predators do occur on the Estate
• No collecting of firewood
• No fires – except in braai facilities
• Cover unattended fires
• No littering
• No pets
• No noise, loud music, etc (immediate fine after 10pm)
• No fireworks
• No drones
• No access to green belt between 22:00 & 05:00