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The team debated for months over which stage to go out to a local audience and over dual pricing, and then opened the hotel to South Africans.
“We’ve been floored by the positive local response.” Ferreira mentions that, in the short time the hotel has been open, there have already been return visitors. It’s not hard to see why. Hospitality pundits can talk about guest-centric experiences, but what does that actually mean to the traveller?
At Kruger Shalati, it means the luxury of choice. You decide how to spend your time. Gone is the routine of even the most high-end game lodges.
Kruger Shalati is all about understated luxury and true leisure. The cleverly designed spaces seduce you into lingering in the hotel, whether it’s to soak in your bathtub with a river view or lay about at the pool suspended above the river (no diving allowed), lured by the friendly bar-carriage staff.
An external walkway the length of the train means an incredibly roomy carriage.
It also means that, as soon as you step outside your door, you are part of a greater wild universe — the river below you, the park stretching out ahead in every direction. Internal space is maximised in the carriage with floor-to-ceiling windows and cleverly added blisters or pop-outs, so you get a king-sized bed.
The rooms epitomise contemporary elegance, with embroidery-embellished photo images of the Sabie River and Selati Bridge by artist Sakhile Cebekhulu and a striking graphic blanket by textile designer Bonolo Chepape, made by SMTNGgoodstudio.
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