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Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch

3.0 star property

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Restaurant
Dune Chalet
Living area
Living area
Lobby lounge

Reviews

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Breakfast included
  • Pool
  • Housekeeping
  • Laundry
  • Free WiFi
$449
includes taxes & fees
Dec 11 - Dec 12

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Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch, Kalahari, Mariental, D1268
  • Place, Kalahari Red Dunes
  • Place, Hardap Reservoir
  • Place, Hardap Dam Overlook

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Garden Room

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful
(2 reviews)
  • 215 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Large Twin Beds

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Dune Chalet

Dune Chalet

  • 215 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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Savannah Chalet

Savannah Chalet

  • 344 sq ft
  • Sleeps 4
  • 4 Large Twin Beds

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Dune Exclusive Chalet

Dune Exclusive Chalet

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • 301 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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About this property

Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch

3-star Mariental lodge with restaurant
Along with an outdoor pool, this smoke-free lodge has a restaurant and a bar/lounge. Free English breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, laundry facilities, an arcade/game room, and a library are onsite.
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch offers 12 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers with deep soaking bathtubs. Housekeeping is provided daily.
Recreational amenities at the lodge include an outdoor pool.
The lodge offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.

This Mariental lodge also offers an outdoor pool, a library, and an arcade/game room. Onsite self parking is complimentary.

Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch is a smoke-free property.

A complimentary English breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 9 AM.
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch has a restaurant on site.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • Free English breakfast available daily 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Things to do

  • Arcade/game room
  • Library
  • Outdoor pool

Family friendly

  • Arcade/game room
  • Laundry facilities
  • Outdoor pool

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Garden

Spa

  • Massage

More

  • 1 floor
  • Mosquito nets
  • Smoking not allowed

Room amenities

Bathroom

  • Bathtub or shower
  • Deep soaking bathtub
  • Private bathroom
  • Towels provided

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Electric kettle

More

  • Air conditioning

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Late check-in subject to availability

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

There is no front desk at this property
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted

Property is also known as

Bagatelle Game Ranch
Bagatelle Kalahari
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Lodge
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Lodge Mariental
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Mariental
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Namibia/Mariental
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Lodge
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Lodge
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Mariental
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Lodge Mariental

Reviews

Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

9.2/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.8/10

Amenities

8.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.2/10

Eco-friendliness
Rating 10 - Excellent. 60 out of 90 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 17 out of 90 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 8 out of 90 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 90 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 90 reviews

Reviews

8/10 Good

Grant, Hannans

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

8/10 Good

Grant, Hannans

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice enough lodge in a great Kalahari setting. Some of the rooms are set quite a distance from the main lodge so a great opportunity to get your steps up (maybe e-scooters or similar could be handy). Variety of food was fine. Some Staff were more friendly & guest focused than others (no more needs saying) TIP - ask Staff about viewing the Meerkats between 08:00-08:30 when heading to brekkie. Worth a visit 👌
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Camille

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Perfect and wonderful station and experience
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Patricia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Must stay

For couples rooms, there should be one double mattress to improve in comfort, our room had two separate ones placed together with a gap inbetween. We didn't know that we had to pre-book game drives and missed the afternoon one which we had rushed to check in in good time to be able to join but were told it was fully booked. Aside the above, all was excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Joanna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Expansive Kalahari views

We had a two night stay at Bagatelle - stsying in one of the dune chalets. The view of the Kalahari is spectactular from both the balcony and the room and it is possible to see several animals. Apart from the dune chalets, it looked like the view from other rooms was far inferior. The room itself was large (not massive) and well conditioned. The main lodge building has the restaurant and pool - both are functional but nothing special - except Kudu wander in. The food was excellent - highest quality we had in Namibia. Overall staff service was good if a little unenthusiastic. The lodge offers a few activities. We did the nature drive around the ranch and cheetah feeding which was excellent. They also offer star gazing but the astronmer was not there so we were unable to do it.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Rodney

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely lodge, a self contained safari resort really. One could spend days here relaxing!
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ami

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Amazing stay

We loved our stay. The location is amazing and so is the service. We really enjoyed the Game Drive, it's a must (we took the combo tour and we loved it). Service was great and food was really good. Dinner was at a very high level. For me, being Vegan, they had a lot to offer which is not common in Namibia. I would highly recommend it.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
This is at best a 2 star facility. We stayed in the Dune Exclusive and would strongly recomment to keep to the lower budget options as this was not worth the exhorbitant price. Everything is very dated - furniture, towels, jacuzzi, tablecloths and napkins, one poorly functioning toaster with 70 plus guests. Cleanliness is well below standard. No wifi if you have a Samsung device even in main lodge as advertised. Staff is poorly trained and disinterested. Meals were average at best.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good stopover between Windhoek and Fish Rivet Canyon. Though it’s very commercial. Lots of activities on offer.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

2/10 Terrible

martin

Booked a Savannah chalet months in advance & paid at time of booking. On arrival we were told all Savannah Chalets were full & we'd been upgraded to the farmhouse. This sounded odd as ours was already paid for months ago. I asked what made the farmhouse an upgrade? The front desk guy just had a constant smirk on his face & said was better, but could not explain why. We were told the farmhouse was 2 miles off site & we'd need to drive there ourselves & get the staff to collect us for dinner. This didn't sound like an upgrade & sure enough when we got there, instead of being in our own chalet, we were in a building converted into 5 different rooms. No view, less space, no bath like the Savannah chalet would've had. Our view from the room was parked cars & hosepipes left on the ground. Inside the room was ok, but it wasn't the room I paid for & certainly no upgrade. There were no facilities here, apart from a pool round back of the building in front of someone else’s room. We noticed all the rooms in the farm building were occupied, so we weren’t the only ones that were allegedly upgraded. We waited 90 mins for the dinner pick up. There was no phone to call front desk. The meal was nice & had a nice atmosphere sitting outside. This was the only nice part of our stay. Basically we were lied to & told we'd been upgraded, rather than apologise for giving our room away. A bad experience made worse by incompetent staff. Would not visit again & not recommend it. Avoid!!!
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Perla, Belgium

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We had a wonderful stay. The lodge is in a beautiful location. Dinner and breakfast were very good. Staff is very friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

meerkats

Really enjoyed Bagatelle, especially the animals roaming around the grounds - and the chance to see the local meerkats! The morning drive in the Kalahari was beautiful and the night drive was resplendent with stars.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Relaxing stay, high standard

Really fabolous place to be. Many services offered which can be attractive. Unfortunately the pool was under construction. Food was really excellent!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Jane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great location

A unique desert experience with red sand dunes around you. Great food and comfortable rooms. Some redecoration of some rooms is needed. A very enjoyable stay.

10/10 Excellent

cowen , london uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Lovely lodge in Kalahari

Bagatelle is really worth at least one night's stopover if not two. We stayed for two and were glad we did. We were upgraded to a Dune Chalet 😊which was really comfortable, crisp linen bedding, good and much needed air con, with amazing west facing terrace with views. Sitting with a sundowner watching the meerkats play was magic. The communal areas are stylishly furnished. Food here is also of a very good standard....and the pool is great for cooling down in. You meet an interesting mixture of people...some camping, others driving from lodge to lodge as we were. We went out on the morning scenic drive and really enjoyed it.....it's low key but you do see some game, we were lucky, a bat eared fox....but it is what it says, scenic. You can also go out on horses. Staff all very friendly and helpful.

8/10 Good

Penny, Oregon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Beautiful location

We stayed in a dune chalet which was beautiful and right on the edge of the desert which afforded us a gorgeous view and complete silence. The lodge was lovely as well and the service good. The one big drawback, and largely the reason we selected Bagatelle, was that we wanted to see the cheetahs. There were 3 in an enclosure, and our half-hour ride to see them was OK but not great. It paled in comparison when we saw cheetahs in the wild at Erindi.

10/10 Excellent

Cinzia

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Bagatelle Una grandissima tenuta

Location molto bella: grande con gli chalet di varia tipologia ben distanziati.E’ un ranch molto grande con molti animali anche liberi. Si svolgono lezioni di equitazione. Bellissimo l’ingresso con vari prodotti esposti di alta qualità.Una delle impiegate alla reception ù stata poco empatica e cortese. Lo chalet assegnato 7 molto grande, pulito. Bagno pulito con set di asciugamani profumati e morbidi.Presente set di cortesia Dinner: ampia e molto suggestiva sotto un grande tendone la sala dove si cena con pavimento in sabbia rossa.. Servizio inadeguato con tempi di attesa lunghi. Il cibo proposto al banco del self service abbondante e di buona qualità. Breakfast: vario e abbondante con presenza di dolce e di salato. Frutta yogurt marmellate pane e brioches di ogni tipo.
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Chalet
Sala dinner
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Andrea

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Das frĂŒhstĂŒck sowie abendessen war sehr gut. Wor hsben uns sehr wohlgefĂŒhlt.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

MASATOSHI

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Benjamin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice hotel, but slow checkin
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

8/10 Good

Marco

Traveled with family
Liked: Amenities
Disliked: Staff & service
Personale non eccessivamente formale
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Anne-Francoise

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Parfait
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

Nathalie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

TrÚs dommage, le tapage nocturne a ruiné le reste

Tout aurait Ă©tĂ© parfait si seulement j'avais pu dormir! C'Ă©tait la nuit du 31 dĂ©cembre, c'est sympa de faire une animation musicale, mais si j'avais voulu faire la fĂȘte toute la nuit je ne serais pas venue dans un lodge cher au milieu de nulle part! Je voulais juste me reposer et profiter de la nature, Ă  la place jai eu un concert puis une musique de boite a tue tĂȘte qui m'a empĂȘchĂ© de dormir.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Patrik

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Einfach nur WOW!

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Andre Christian

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Ein wundervoller Fleckchen Erde mit atemberaubender Kulisse, super nettem und zuvorkommendem Personal sowie einer der schönsten Aussichten die man sich vorstellen kann. Tolles Essen. Wir hatten die teuerste Zimmerkategorie, Exclusive Dune Chalet, und es trotz des wirklichen hohen Preises nicht bereut. Lediglich der Hauptpool könnte dauerhaft etwas mehr saubergemacht werden. Wir haben keinen Cent bereut und wĂŒrden beim nĂ€chsten Mal wieder dieselbe Zimmerkategorie wĂ€hlen und die Abstriche woanders machen.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2024