General discussion on proposed hotels in KNP

[Penga Ndlovu]

There isn't a market Mel. I am a South African that works hard and gets well paid for it, but there is no way I can afford to spend 5 days at R1500 per person in Kruger. That would cost my little family R22,500 and I just can not afford that. Add the cost of traveling to SA for overseas people and tell me if that's good value for money.

Rumruti, from the SP forum is in that line of business and when the word cam out at first the tourists were very happy, but the happiness declined so quickly when prices etc came out that there is hardly any requests for it anymore.

In my opinion it is a dead Goose.

[Mel]

That's what I wonder about as well, Lis. I read some comments on accomm in KTP on Trip Advisor
not too long ago. And those I found quite alarming because lots of the people reviewing the
camps were kind of disappointed that the accomm is rather basic (I reckon, the wilderness
camps are absolute luxury!) Then I ask myself if they are prepared to dish out more money
to get a supposingly nicer place to stay.

Ah, iNdy basically gave the answer to that.

Oops, sorry, I just realized it was Penga.

[Lisbeth]

We do not know what the prices of the hotels will be if sold in bulk to tour Operators Remember who is going to run at least the Malelane Hotel!

[Penga Ndlovu]

We do not know what the prices of the hotels will be if sold in bulk to tour Operators Remember who is going to run at least the Malelane Hotel!

We do not Lis, but they already do.

[lowveldboy]

So again we are back to the point that these hotels are for rich "western noses" instead of the "black diamonds" as advertised by Mabunda and Sanparks!!!

[Penga Ndlovu]

So again we are back to the point that these hotels are for rich "western noses" instead of the "black diamonds" as advertised by Mabunda and Sanparks!!!

Yeah bud.
The ones who are "not allowed to have an "opinion" how to run Kruger.

In other words:

"give us your money and for the rest shut up or get the hell out of here"

[lowveldboy]

"give us your money and for the rest shut up or get the hell out of here"

Exactly!!!!!!!!!

[Richprins]

I think we should wait for absolute confirmation of whether the PDZ has actually been approved or not, and that should take a few days. SanParks and V&L have already denied this!

Maybe the above discussions belong under the "Hotels" thread? Done!Lis

[Poplap]

As you may know, I contacted Projek Aardwolf a year ago to ask them to look into this matter. They will seemingly look into this matter next weekend.

[Flutterby]

I think that is the program Gerhard Smit referred to:

It has just been confirmed that the Aardwolf shoot about the KNP hotels will be screened on the Kyknet channel (channel 111) on 8 July 2012 at 20:00. this will also be the last of the current series.