Most amazing place to travel with kids and doggies.

We have been at Areena now two times and truly love it. The owner and staff are super friendly and all the rules which apply at the resort (such as no loud music after hours, no littering, behaviour etc etc) make it a very tranquil place to stay. But this doesn't mean you cannot get any action there. Kids can explore the resort freely, ride their bicycles, dogs are welcome everywhere (you have to book in advance for them and they charge a fee) they have 3 trampolines and lots of playgrounds available and lots of fun activities to choose from. Not to forget the semi tame giraffe Abby which rooms around freely and if you are lucky gives you a big kiss. Book a tour and they drive you through the game resort and give you the opportunity to feed him. (yes its a male) Amazing expperience!!

You can stay rather on the camp site, in one of the rondavels or if you prefer it more quiet and not so rustic in one of the timber chalets right at the river banks.

Bring your boat or book a canoe ride as the ocean is only 5km up the river.

I'm sure it isn't as easy to manage a huge resort like this as a family business but they do and even though we had some hickups, what ever it was like the tv wasn't working, or the water tabs leaking the management was only a Whatsapp message away and always responded to it very quickly and mostly fixed it within the same day.

We stayed in the Larks River chalet which was beautiful and we liked the fact that we didn't had right next door neighbors like in the Timber chalets. A private jetty was the highlight of this a house. We hope in the next years they will give this one a little bit of a needed touch up tough.