Did my first trip to Madikwe this past weekend. My first experience of not being able to drive myself, but was well worth it. We stayed at Mosethla Bush Camp, a eco lodge in the middle of the park. No electricity, and long drops all the way, but was a great experience. The experience is centred around the game drives (4hrs in the morning and afternoon/evening), which suited me fine. The sightings were good, and off-road driving is not a problem in the park, so you get nice close encounters with all the animals. They also limit all sightings to a 3 vehicle max, so no crowding and fighting for positions.
Negatives: Because there is a 3 vehicle limit at sightings you may find yourself waiting in line to see some of the more popular predators. This just feels wrong. Our guide did her best to avoid this, and would rather do a detour and approach the sighting from a different route, but you still end up waiting for your spot.
They limit the amount of vehicles on the road for each lodge based on the amount of people allowed at the lodge. So in other words our lodge (18 person capacity) were only allowed 2 vehicles on the road at any time. If the lodge is full, the vehicle can become crowded. I can’t imagine myself and General Gumpie sitting in one row….
Any vehicle out after dark is only allowed one spotlight. The guides obviously do a good job, but you can only view one side of the vehicle at a time, and you get the feeling that you are missing out on the nocturnals. We had very few sightings after dark. The lodge did however have a resident brownie and civet which visited every night, so I got a bit of a fix.
One thing that sounds really cool, and that I am hoping to do (if the funds are available) is a trip to the lodge in winter when the wild dogs are denning. The guide said that they do a special drive where you head out to the den first thing in the morning, and sit and wait for the dogs to return to the den, and watch the interaction between them and the pups. I’ve never seen wild dog puppies, so I think this must be nice.
On the subject of the wild dogs. I’m not sure if it was reported elsewhere on the forum, but Madikwe lost around 18 dogs due to rabies. Only one pack of 6 dogs left in the park. The entire northern pack was wiped out. Sad news !
Anyhow – hope that helps any prospective visitors.
It sounds frustrating but also good that they limit the number of vehicles. 
I'd better not go there 
Can obviously pee when they stopped, but judging by some of the close encounters we had with ele's that might be too late for some....