Woodall Country House & Spa

Woodall Country House & Spa is set amongst peaceful orchards on a fully functioning citrus farm, a mere 45 minutes from Port Elizabeth, and neighbour to the malaria-free Addo Elephant National Park (8 km away). This award-winning boutique hotel caters for the discerning traveller by offering five-star luxury and standards of service, reflected in the attention to detail and spacious accommodation.

It is the ideal base from which to explore the adjacent Addo Elephant Park, and nearby game reserves such as Schotia, Amakhala, Pumba, Kwantu and Elephant Back Safaris. Honeymooners are specially pampered in an environment of peace and privacy.

Woodall is renowned for its gourmet cuisine, which is inspired by the flavours of local ingredients. The award-winning wine cellar boasts a unique and comprehensive collection of fine South African wines. The thatched waterside sitting, and dining area creates an enchanted mood for savouring sundowner snacks, cocktails, moonlit dinners, and after-dinner drinks, with great sightings of South African water birds. Packed breakfasts, picnics, and lunches are available. Specific dietary requirements can be accommodated (advance notice is required).

The Citrus Spa offers a unique range of treatments, inspired by the surrounding orchards. A comprehensive range of massage, health and beauty treatments are on offer.

Accommodation

Opening on to the fresh sight and scent of lush gardens, the rooms at Woodall are seeped in luxury as they are in comfort. Each room is individually designed, spacious, private, and equipped with every convenience from climate control to internet access. Other features include private patios, en-suite bathrooms, outdoor showers, mini-bars, percale linen, bathrobes, tea/coffee making facilities, telephones, and safes. Twin or King bedded rooms available. Two rooms have annexes for families.

The Suites offer additional features including private pools, separate sitting / dressing rooms and a private garden area. The family suite is suitable for families or 2 couples travelling together. This unit has 2 separate bedrooms, both en suite as well as a private pool) - The first room is larger with bath and shower en-suite as well as an outside shower. The second room has a bathroom with double showers en-suite. There are Inter-leading doors.

Woodall Game Drives

Drives are conducted daily in Woodall’s 4 x 4 Safari vehicles to Addo Elephant Park. The safari includes return transfers from Woodall, entrance fee, drinks & snacks, 4-5-hour drive with a private ranger. The minimum age for children: 6 years. Private safaris can be arranged.

Other Excursions

Bookings for safaris to private game reserves such as Amakhala, Elephant Back Safaris, Schotia and Pumba can be arranged, as well as transfers to Port Elizabeth Airport and Game Reserves.

About Addo Elephant National Park

Now South Africa's third-largest national reserve, Addo Elephant National Park lies in the malaria-free Sundays River valley in the Eastern Cape, just over an hour's drive from Port Elizabeth and 9 hours’ drive from Cape Town (817km).

The Park stretches from the semi-arid karoo of the north, over the Zuurberg Mountains and down through the Sundays River valley to the coast, to between the mouths of the Sundays and Bushman's rivers.

Addo is home to one of the densest African Elephant populations on earth, roughly 550 of them. They once roamed the entire continent. By 1979 there were only 1.3 million African elephants left, and in 1989 they were added to the international list of the most endangered species, with only sixteen left in the Greater Addo area.

The Elephants play a key role in the environment - pulling down trees, breaking up bushes, and digging waterholes and trails. Their droppings are particularly important as baboons and birds pick them over for undigested seeds and nuts, and the dung beetle (the flightless dung beetle is only found in Addo) use them in which to reproduce.

More recently the Addo Elephant National Park has expanded to become the only park in the world to lay claim to Africa's 'Big 7' - elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo, leopard, southern right whale, and great white shark. It has done this by expanding along the coast from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria, and by adding an offshore marine reserve that includes St Croix Island and Bird Island, both essential breeding grounds for penguins and gannets. St Croix has the largest African penguin colony in the world.