Love it, peace and quiet, will visit them for a week or three every year. I must say it is not noisy with music that wants to make your eardrums burst or information speakers that gets to a point of annoyance, it just peace and quiet.
Wildlife is well looked after and the area is stocked with controlled number of wild life. I'm a real big fan of animals and the "klipspringertjies" is beautiful and amazing to see. I would just liked to see parents taking charge to prevent the children from chasing them or attempting to to box them in. Birdlife is out of this word, I even had a "Piet my vrou" that came and sit down on the table across of me with no fear in the world to visit or say high😀😁😃.
As a camper - my stand was kept clean by the cleaning staff. I had daily visits from the resort supervisor, just to know if everything is still fine at my stand and if I still enjoing my stay and was always friendly and willing to know, what they can do for us or what they can do more or even better to service me and my family as the customer.
I always had excellent service and, security is always active and friendly to ensure the safety of everyone and their belongings.
Bathroom was always kept clean as expected by a 5 ⭐ resort.
On the safety side
The small shop has wheel chair provision/ accommodation and a small stairway but -⚠️ no hand rail to split the two and to give visitors that 3 point contact safety support should someone loose their balance/ footing or support to go up and down into the shop or to the pay point.
As mentioned, it is a very small shop with the very bear minimum stock, depending on your needs, from person to person and cannot cater for everything and everyone's needs.
On the stand I was on at no 17, 18 and 19, there was no water taps, but the co-ordenator informed me that it is in the pipeline to get it in, as there is a pipeline that needs replacing due to aging.
Maintenance was ñ bit slow, but understandable as it is the holiday season at the time of a pipe that burst.
I must just say this, the water from the taps and bathroom facilities is really clean and tasty - job well done to the water management team.
On the water rides:
I will recommend more water onto the supertube rides. Bigger people is getting stuck because there is not enough water to go down with. You need more water to have more force to stop at the bottom and that was a shortfall.
The silicone links of the supertube rides are not user friendly at this stage, as the support glaze is warn off that does, hurt people that goes down the rides on their backs, leave painful marks and loss of some back hair - if you are as hairy as I am 😂😂😂
I am big and fat and once I went down, there were not enough water for the people behind me, to use as force to stop, witch resulted in some people getting injured. Apologies for the people that came down the ride behind me😌.
An lightning warning can be an advantage at the water park area, that will give warning to kids to get out of the water in an event where a storm is coming in, to prevent possible natural weather (lightning ⚡ electrocution).
But for the rest of De Voetpadkloof, I would not change a thing. Unless you want more lucheries that will chase cost to stay there - for example a netted car port for a Bakkie or any form of vehicle if there is no shade to protect your valuable vehicle against the sun or an hail storm. The option of a bigger braai for bigger families at the caravan stands, and so thorth
The restaurant food is really very tasty and well priced for an holiday resort.
The road from the entrance sliding gate to reception is getting some maintenance after big rains and their is places to give people chances to pass each other safely on the narrow gravel road, especially people with big vehicles (Campers and really big caravans) but, I still believe some paving will keep that farm/ nature reserve feeling that will bring down maintenance cost and depending on the road conditions, wear and tear on vehicles and caravans, to and from the sliding gate to reception.
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