Karoo View Cottages - Prince Albert Accommodation, Karoo

Beautiful, well equipped, and great attention to detail...We love the fireplace in the room - and make sure to pack your swimwear even in winter for the hot tub...

Very friendly and informative host. The view of the landscape is great. Cottage 1 has a woodfire pool. It’s really cool to chill in this. The cottage is well laid out and spacious. There a fireplace, Aircon and solar power which allows certain amenities to be available when load shedding. The only downside is the number of mosquitos and flies. It ruins the experience. The room has a large bed plus a single. There no fly control measures in place. This needs to be done along the fence and also each unit should have a flytrap in place.

The place was not clean, sheets not clean, water not coming down in the shower. Lots of mosquitoes without nets in the clinics. Definitely not a pleasant night and not in proportion to the price.

Very pleasant little little cottage, after a long day in the road we decided to opt for the braai pack and salad. R565 for 2 people is crazy! We’d suggest that any restaurant is way better value.

We only stayed one night, but would loved to have stayed their longer. Beautiful setting and very helpful host who recommended interesting things for us to do in the area. Accomodation was excellent

We regularly stay in Prince Albert. I am sorry to say that the Karoo View House, a new addition to the properties offered by Karoo View, is by far the worst place -- but also by some distance the most expensive place -- we've stayed in in this town. We were going with friends, and the booking was made late in the year this time, in Nov, for 3 nights over New Year. (We got 2 quotes, 2 weeks apart, in Oct and Nov, first for 2 nights, then for 3. In the 2nd quote, the price per night mysteriously increased by R1000 per night. According to the owners, they increase prices annually in Nov. Why would one suddenly have a big annual increase on a property that had been priced and introduced to the market only a few weeks before?). The pictures didn't look promising, but nothing else was available by now, and the other properties offered by these owners, and their reviews, seemed great. So we booked. A big mistake. Karoo View House is an old property, in which only the barest repairs have been made. It's filled with a mishmash of very unattractive and saggy throw-out furniture -- hardly usable. The Karoo garden is messy and neglected, with an old bath and a non-functioning old jacuzzi. The building is incredibly drafty and the wind that blows every afternoon howls like a gale right through the house, even with all doors and windows closed, in part because one outside door has four panes of broken glass (exposing sharp edges that provided a hazard for 3 small children). The cramped and dysfunctional kitchen is woefully equipped -- no tea towels, dishwashing cloths, oven dishes, bread knife or salad bowls. There's a dishwasher, but it's disconnected, with no socket to plug it into. Only 4 knives and forks were available for 7 people for the entire period we were there, requiring constant dishwashing, even during dinner. There is a minute little waste bin without a bag to line it. The house was advertised as 2.5 bedrooms, but the .5 bedroom turned out to be an uninhabitable lean-to that was locked. A positive was that the beds and linen were reasonably comfortable (although with some staining on the linen -- it clearly wasn't very new). And there is working air conditioning.I'm sorry to say that this smacks of the owners quickly throwing together some leftovers from a store room in a property that isn't actually fit for letting to make a quick buck over the high season. It was unpleasant, unattractive, uncomfortable and barely functional. The price charged is easily double what it should be in this market. If one leaves reasonable customers feeling cheated, and wanting their money back, then your position in a competitive market become a precarious one. Marion did ask us, on one occasion where I was present, whether everything was okay. But what does one say if almost everything is wrong, and you've been wildly overcharged? We weren't going to spend the 2 days we had there debating this matter. And they couldn't, in any event, fix the fundamental problems in a day or even a month. The owners know, or should know, that this place is unacceptable. They also offer the Karoo Masterclass house, which is clearly of a really high standard. If the Karoo View House, which is the opposite, had been priced properly, we would have been more tolerant of the poor quality and not have felt so exploited.

Spacious, luxurious, clean and comfortable unit with attention to detail. Great view from the stoep. Loved the frequent check ups by the friendly dog and purrrr cat.

Our cottage was spotlessly clean with all sorts of thoughtful extras in the kitchen to get your self catering stay started like coffee, milk, rusks and more.. top this with stunning views and an attentive host and you have a winner. Prince Albert is a delightful dorpie - stay 2 nights at least!

Arrived in the lovely little town of Prince Albert late afternoon and decided to stay over.Phoned around and the first three establishments could not accommodate us.Howard from Karoo Views went out of his way to source a cottage that met our needs. The cottage was in the centre of town, well equiped and extremely comfortable.His staff were friendly and made us feel at home. The rusks, cereal and milk supplied was a nice touch too.The whole experience exceeded our expectations.

This accommodation was my favourite of the three places we stayed at the hosts have thought of everything they supply cereals, coffee, tea and milk. The rooms are large with great decorations. They have solar power so load shedding is not an issue. They are pet friendly and even set up gates to keep the fur kid safe.