Personal Hotel Reviews

So many websites give you the same identical boring lodge descriptions that actually tell you nothing. Not us! With loads of pics as well as our expert opinions on WHAT’S HOT & WHAT’S NOT about every lodge, we’ll truly put you in the picture!

Before we started this business, one of the things that really irritated us about most travel websites was that they all seemed to carry the same identical hotel descriptions (clearly written by the hotel itself!) with no opinions or personal insights being expressed at all.

Our lodge reviews should be genuinely useful tools to potential travellers with our personal opinions of the strengths, weaknesses and individual characters of each property.

Derek & Rosie Palframan
Barefoot Breaks Owners

So when it came to designing our own websites, we were determined that our hotel reviews should be genuinely useful tools to potential travellers. And we do so by giving our personal opinions of what we feel are the strengths, weaknesses and individual characters of each property.

Hopefully you’ll find the WHAT’S HOT & WHAT’S NOT sections as useful as we intended them to be, whilst the comprehensive lodge profiles should help give you a fuller picture of what the lodge is really like - all in an easy-to-read style.

Add to this access to a comprehensive gallery of large images of each property and hopefully you’ll be able to build up a real feel for each property and whether they suit your specific tastes.

How are we Different?

The major tour operators in South Africa today invariably feature only large “rack ‘em, pack ‘em and stack ‘em” type resorts – Barefoot Breaks instead focuses on smaller, more intimate and more exclusive retreats.
We don't work through travel agents but instead deal direct with our customers. Nothing personal against travel agents, but they sell such a vast array of products that they cannot even hope to give truly expert advice to clients. Instead, as specialists dealing with customers direct, Barefoot Breaks give you truly expert and in-depth insights into our range of destinations and lodges.
While they may be using the Internet to do their research, people still largely want to deal with people, not machines, when booking their holiday - so call or e-mail us and we'll give you the dedicated and truly personal service you need.
By selling direct and with no travel agents and as few intermediaries as possible, we are able to offer the best possible prices to our customers.
Barefoot Breaks will not simply sell every lodge or resort on every island – instead we've hand-picked the best; those properties that we feel offer the best value and experience to our clients and which we are totally comfortable selling.
This Barefoot Breaks website is designed to give you all the useful and relevant information so often lacking on other websites – you’ll find our personal opinions and loads of images, enabling you to choose the lodge or resort that's right for you.

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