Cape Vidal Camp Reviews

My family and I received a very warm welcome at the gates and reception. The staff are pleasant and very helpful. The accommodation was comfortable and my stay was enjoyable even my 9 month old daughter had a fun time. The beach is safe, clean, beautiful and the fishing is great. I will definitely be going back soon. Well done Cape Vidal....

Cape Vidal is a beautiful natural area. However more should be done to keep the areas clean around the cabins. We are non smokers and the area around the cabin and braai area were littered with sigarette buds. A sign and stiff penalties might work.
The cleaners should also remove their brooms and cleaning materials as it spoils the "natural" experience of the bush.
The interior of the cabins are run down and the bedding should be replaced regularly. The roof fans in our cabin were delapidated. At the price we paid per night one expect a better service.
The booking experience was a nightmare trough "Accommodation Direct". The service was poor and because of their delay I was forced to take a 8 bed cabin (2 adults and 1 baby. I had a 4 bed cabin lined up but the agent took several days to come back to me. I was overcharged and had to contact them again to rectify the mistake. After this the wrong days were booked. Once again I had to rectify it.

Our stay at Cape Vidal was great but there was a huge mix up with our booking. I had booked 2 chalets, each with a separate reference number, and separate payments were made for each chalet. However, when we arrived at Vidal on 27 March, only one chalet had been allocated to us. The office staff seemed completely disinterested and incapable of dealing with the problem , and I feel we would have had to cancel our holiday and go home had it not been for Leo, the camp manager. He managed to sort things out and allocated us a chalet that was still under renovation.
In future it might be a good idea to make sure that a chalet has been allocated to each reference number.

Otherwise we had a good holiday.

For us this was a first time stay-over at Vidal. We arrived on Saturday 20/03/2010 and had confirmation to stay at Log Cabin no.14. During registration we were instructed to stay at No.2 as a result of the new booking system which no longer allocates a number....

After we entered no.2, I soon discovered funny noises up in the roof which never stopped along with a bad smell internal and external to this unit. During the early mornings this got worse. Not able to sleep, I did some investigation and discovered that a large bat colony was housing in the roof. The terrible smell and noise never stops!!!

This cabin condition is not happening over night and how can they allow to book guests into such a unit knowing these conditions?

After planning for a memorable time with my family, this weekend turned out into a disaster!!

We do expect compensation for this bad experience.

The bathrooms nead attension. A huge sand problem, Sugar Loaf do not have the same problems. Overall we had a great stay, staff friendly beaches beautiful and clean, we had some animals early in the morning on our stand. Children loved that. I can higly recommend Cape Vidal. Just give a little attension to the bathrooms.

Cape Vidal was terrific. The cabins was perfect for
5 guys. Two bathrooms were ideal for the guys.
Would definitely come back again and enjoy fishing on
those lovely beaches. Recommendation : cleaners
should not start cleaning an hour before checkout.

Thank you to Accommodation Direct for choosing this wonderful resort, for Mr.Chetty and other executive members as they enjoyed the area as well as the excellent accommodation. We had fun in comfort. I would recommend Accommodation Direct to anyone.

We found the accommodation liveable but in dire need of renovating. The bathroom floor tiles were coming loose, there was mildew in the shower and the blankets, although had no holes, need to be replaced as they were very thin and scratchy. The kitchen utensils were also a very limited.The setting is lovely and well placed, within easy access to the beach and snorkeling was great.