Loerie Lodge Corporate Guest House

Loerie Lodge Corporate Guest House Guest House accommodation in Phalaborwa Limpopo

Description

THREE STAR GRADED & AA Quality Assured Highly Recommended ACCOMMODATION.Five aircontitioned units and Five garden flatlets with own entrances. Fully serviced complete with Satellite TV, Shower ensuite, fridge coffee and tea trays. Desks & e mail facilities for lap top computers. Swimming Pool and BBQ available. Covered, secure parking on property.Only 4 Km from the Limpopo Trans Frontier Park main gate and Hans Merensky PGA Golf Course. Contact us to send you our list of things to do and places to visit to help make you visit a memory to last.

Accommodation

All rooms on the property are air conditioned and covered by our Wireless Broad Band Network

The dining room & lounge open onto the Braai (BBQ.) and pool entertainment area, which again is for the exclusive use of guests. Here there are a variety of tables and chairs often a favorite for early morning fresh air breakfasts or those coffee and cigarette junkies 

 There are swimming towels and sun beds in the pool garden and a host of Palm trees for shade. Night swimming has become popular due to our balmy evenings and cold beers.

Loerie Lodge advice

• We try and eliminate breeding places for mosquitoes e.g. blocked gutters, old vehicle tyres, tins and bottles etc. The Municipality sprays our property regularly. And we spray your rooms daily but this is not enough. You can assist.
• Spray behind the curtains under the beds, desks and toilet seat when you go into your room especially just before sunset.
• Apply an insect repellent to exposed skin, especially when one is outside at sunrise or sunset, or at a braai (BBQ)
• Avoid unnecessary excursions to possible breeding places e.g. rivers, dams and long grass etc. especially at night.
• Your rooms have sprays and repellant, as well as a plug in mosquito pad. All these are under your suitcase table. Please switch the pad off in the morning.
• A ceiling fan is in your room and this is a great help if turned on.
• Consideration can be given to the taking of malaria tablets, which are obtainable from all chemists.
• Possible symptoms of malaria at the early stages are similar to flu and progress to severe attacks of “chills and fever�?, headaches, muscular pains, joint pains and nausea.
• If in any doubt when feeling under the weather within ten days of your stay – go to a doctor, tell him you were in a Malaria area, and ask for a blood test.
• For employers who have staff in the area, ask about their health condition and that of their families. Please then assist them where you can and pass on as much advice as possible.
• Do not ignore the above, your family might regret it afterwards
• Frogs, lizards, geckos, spiders and bats are a mosquito’s worst enemy; please try not to kill them – if you can!

Safety during your visit
We do not hide the truth - You are in Malaria epidemic areas in more places than you are informed. Cars kill there is no repellent against them but you still drive. The symptoms and cure if you know the signs are clear and easy, painless and quick and should not spoil your holiday

KEEP COOL AND AVOID HEAT FATIGUE

• On exceptionally hot days, at a moderately to high work rate, the body needs 600 ml of water per hour.
• Thirst is an obvious indicator of fluid loss and very yellow urine is an indication of dehydration – coke is not the answer.
• Water has to be taken at regular intervals to assuage thirst. Preferably one cup every 30 minutes.
• Salt tablets are not recommended. Enough salt is taken with meals. The same goes for Champion, which is a salt and sugar solution.
• Vitamin C tablets 0 – 100mg per day can speed up acclimatization for visitors from cooler areas and tourists.
• Your host will provide you with fruit and juices at breakfast and your fridge has a jug of cold orange - these will all help.
• Heat related problems such as Prickly Heat (heat rash), caused by blockage of sweat glands is prevented by good skin hygiene. Avoid strong soaps, which dry the skin and oily creams and lotions, which only increase the blocking effect.
• Heat Collapse and Heat Cramps: This usually happens immediately after a person has stopped work in a hot environment. It is due to re-shunting and pooling of blood in certain parts of the body. The basic cause of this is water loss.
• Heat Stroke: This is the most serious complication and could be fatal if not recognized in time. The condition must be treated early when a person becomes emotionally unstable, irritable and aggressive or apathetic.
• Late signs are a hot and dry skin, muscle twitching, maniacal behavior, hysterical, vacant staring eyes, convulsions, loss of sphincter control and coma.
• First Aid: Cool the person down with fine water spray and a fan. Do not use ice as it constricts the skin blood vessels and reduces heat loss
• Too much alcohol and a subsequent hangover are not advisable in extremely hot weather. Get yourself well before going to work or driving a long distance. Advise your host and ask for help.
  

FOR YOUR SECURITY

• The wearing of excess and expensive jewelry is a temptation for the less privileged.
• Try and dress cool and casually blending your clothing to local conditions.
• Be confident and avoid being isolated alone in crowds. Try and be unpredictable in your movements.
• Use the reflection of shop and car windows to see who is around or following you. Try and avoid queues and crowds.
• Do not obviously show that you either have a mobile phone or a wallet on your person and never take them out and leave them on a table or counter while paying for purchases.
• Keep cameras, binoculars, handbags and luggage locked in the boot of your car. Do not display your mobile phone. Use car parks
• Leave your travel documents, passport and travelers cheques locked up until you need them.

IT IS CONSIDERED UNSAFE TO TRAVEL TO UNKNOWN SUBURBS AND AVOID STOPPING OR PICKING UP PASSENGERS

Attractions

1. Tours of up to one day duration:

• Self Drive Tour - visiting quaint villages of Pilgrims Rest, Sabie , Graskop – Gods Window – Bourke’s Luck Potholes - Blyde Canyon)
  
• Self Drive Tea Estate Tour -  travel through citrus and banana plantations up to the high Sapeko tea estates for lunch or afternoon cakes and locally grown tea & coffee.
• Bombyx Mori Silk Farm, Mohomoholo Wild Life Rehabilitation Center and Swadini Reptile Park. A traditional lunch at The Trading Post and visit a showcase of African Art and Hand Craft at The Monsoon Gallery
• Famous White Lions and Kampama King Cheetah projects in the Hoedspruit area. (Driving distance 72 km)
• Olifants River - Boat Cruises/ Animal Safari (Guests can be collected from Lodge)
• Kruger Park 4 x 4 (Five hour) trail (Guests collected from Lodge)
• Kruger Park Gate night drive and BBQ (Guests collected from Lodge)
• Kruger Park Gate Big Game early morning walking safari (Guests collected from Lodge)
• One day or three day hunting safari’s (Guests collected from Lodge)
• Cultural tour of tribal villages and visit to a Sangoma / Witch Doctor (Arrangements to be met for tour)
• A selection of routes for daily trips into the Kruger National Park.
• Golf on the International PGA, Hans Merensky Golf Estate (Distance from Lodge 4 km) or Letaba Country Club in the Mountains (110 Km)
• Township tour in a real minibus (Pick up at lodge)

2. Short duration

• Maroela Lapa promotional tasting and tourist centre and Amarula Factory production tour (Mondays to Fridays 09h00 – 16h00)
• Horse back safari of three hour duration
• Quad bike safari in and along the Selati River
• Microlite safari of about one hour
• River boat safari of three hour duration
• Escorted Mine Tours about 3 hours
  

3. IN SEASON

• Gold panning in Sabie in September
• Foskor charity Golf Day – Every September

• Golf on four different courses (Phalaborwa-Hoedspruit-Orangedene & Letaba) all within one hours driving distance
• Limpopo Ivory Trail 4 x 4 Trail blazing
• Hot Springs Health Spaar & family pleasure resort at The Eiland
• Tsonga Tribal Kraal and museum

Facilities

There are swimming towels and sun beds in the pool garden and a host of Palm trees for shade. Night swimming has become popular due to our balmy evenings and cold beers.

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