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Tsala Treetop Lodge

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Unique Garden Route boutique resort Tsala Treetop Lodge gives you a bird's eye view of South Africa's indigenous forest canopy from a luxurious stilted hut. Think Tarzan, but with wraparound decking, private infinity pools and flatscreen TVs. Better still, all this back-to-nature wilderness is just 10km from the beaches, bars and boutiques of Plettenberg Bay. Jungle living simply doesn't get more glamorous…

Need to know

• Rooms 16: 10 suites and 6 two-bedroom villas.
• Rates Double rooms from $359.25 (ZAR3,596), excluding tax at 14 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (ZAR3,596) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates include breakfast.
• Facilities Gardens, library of books and DVDs, boules court, sundeck, free WiFi, valet parking. In rooms, open fires, infinity plunge pools, sundecks, flatscreen TVs, DVD/CD player, under-floor heating, exclusive Charlotte Rhys toiletries.
• Poolside Every suite and villa has its own private infinity pool cantilevered out from the decking over the treetops, with comfortable sunloungers to sink onto.
• Check-out 11am (flexible by prior arrangement, subject to availability). Check-in, from 2pm.
• Children Kids aged 10 and over are welcome; children sharing parents’ rooms are charged from SAR490–SAR640, depending on season.
• Also Massages, reflexology, Shiatsu and beauty treatments are available on request.

Food and drink at Tsala Treetop Lodge

• Hotel restaurant Tsala serves up modern Euro-African fusion fare, cooked using herbs and vegetables from their own gardens. Other local organic ingredients are sourced from within a 500km radius of the resort.
• Dress code I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Into Here! (Smart casual.)
• Top table Pull up an African-baroque leopardprint-upholstered chair at a table by the open fire, or dine by candlelight on the deck outside.
• Last orders Breakfast, 7.30–9.30am; lunch, 12–2.30pm; dinner, 7–10.30pm.
• Room service A light menu of simple in-room dishes is available 24 hours a day, but restaurant meals may also be taken in-suite by prior arrangement. Alternatively, book a gourmet picnic basket for two and take it into the forest with you…
• Hotel bar There’s no bar as such, but you can drink sundowners on the restaurant deck (or your own private deck), and Tsala has a fantastic wine cellar: wine-tastings can be arranged on request and the restaurant occasionally holds gourmet wine evenings in winter.

Also worth knowing

• Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...

Tsala Treetop Lodge off the N2, 10kms West of Plettenberg Bay, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, 6600