A Fabulous Experience - Ted our Ranger was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of information about the animals we spotted on the tour of the reserve. We had some very close up experiences of the Elephants, Giraffes and my favourite the Rhino - a fabulous experience. An excellent way to spend a couple of hours on our journey across South Africa.

Interesting 2 hours - Never done anything like this before so was unsure of what we would see and how informative it would be. We had a great time, apart from Hippos we saw every type of animal they had. Although they hippos only showed their ears. We went mid morning so would have probably been better early or later in the day to see these. Guide was very good and got us as close as he could without frightening the animals. Although this is a game reserve it did feel like they were in the wild and could roam wherever they liked. Would have been nice to be able to have had a drink there, but no catering facilities.

Beautiful animals, poor guide - The animals were of course amazing and the place was beautiful. Worthwhile doing to get up so close with the incredible elephants. However the guide was clearly bored, disinterested and just going through the motions. This was our third game drive on the garden route and paled in comparison to the others

Poor much better game drives to be had - Was very disappointed especially for South Africa very dark dingy reception and drive around was poor with mainly antelope a few elephants and one rhino and a few giraffe. The guide was poor and didn’t seem very knowledgeable about wildlife so sorry that we wasted our time

Not worth the money - Not worth the money or the drive. Ever been so disappointed a few elephants, few giraffe hippo one rhino and antelope no buffalo and the guide was hopeless. We had seen most of it before we even got to reception, very run down and just not welcoming at all. For South Africa this was very very poor.

Disappointing and not worth the price and effort - It was a disappointing experience. Had to travel a fairly long distance from Knysna to the Park and then find out it didn't have any big cats. Didn't even see any elephants though the guide insisted there were some in the Reserve. On top of it the tour truck got stuck in the soft ground during the tour and had to be rescued.

Waste of time and money - This was an expenesive waste of time. There was nowhere to buy drinks. The drive was adequate yet very few explanations. When we asked a question there were short snappy answers and some poor jokes The reserve is severly lacking animals for the amount of money we paid. No predators which was a huge let down. Some of the animals were to far away to get a picture. I do believe with a trained tour guide that could spot animal tracks, droppings, foot prints and explanations about the different species could have made this experince far more worthwhile

Plettenberg Bay Reserve, A huge dissapoint - Took us 2 hours to drive there. Could not even buy a bottle of water there. What a dissapointment, its not as advertised, no coffee shop, was told to drive to the Welness centre for coffee where there was no one in sight. no directions to a coffee shop. Then drove back to the reception for the safari drive which was 2 hours We would not recommend going here, and it was pretty expensive for what we got and saw

Absolutely not worth it - The lions have died, the leopard has moved away, the rhino only lives in the mountains in summer and the one hippo only comes out of the small pond at night. So we saw a few zebras, hoofed animals, a couple of elephants and 2 giraffes on the flat pastures. The price for this is an absolute disgrace but even for free it's a complete waste of time and you get shaken up quite a bit. Better to go to a nice zoo in Germany - it's more worthwhile and cheaper!! There's absolutely no African feeling here.

This reserve needs a shake - Nature did not disappoint. We had some lovely sightings. However, the trip was marred by the HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE comments of the ranger in response to a question about homosexuality among giraffe. His answer revealed his ignorance and was also offensive. He let himself down by trying to be clever with his "social" commentary rather than impressing us with a knowledgeable and informed response about wildlife. As a former tourist guide, I was also disappointed at his lack of effort and enthusiasm to fully engage with us and share his knowledge of the bush. This reserve will never have the allure and magic of Kruger or Addo or Pilanesberg et al. However, an enthusiastic , knowledgeable guide would have added great value to the experience and made up for what the reserve lacks in the way of wildlife and energy. Unfortunately for us, the ranger let himself down in this department too. The outing would have been richer for him as well had he made more effort to interact with us. HIS BAD.