Hazy view

TripAdvisor lists accommodation rated by guests, but as much as we love peer reviews, they don’t offer a comparative voice – so how do we know No. 1 is really the best? Pippa de Bruyn, who has reviewed accommodation for 20 years for the likes of Frommer’s and The Telegraph, scours TripAdvisor and other online accommodation sites when researching a destination. For Hazyview, she created a longlist of 29 to inspect. The following made the final cut.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

• Romantic luxury on a rose and fruit farm

• The best hotel in town

• A special-occasion spoil with fantastic views

• An old-school guest lodge

• Riverside camping with all the mod cons

• A country escape with a self-catering option

• A classic Lowveld inn at a steal

WHAT I FOUND ABOUT ACCOMMODATION HERE

There’s a lot of stock, with a clutch of really top-class lodges – a result of the international interest in a quality base from which to visit the Kruger Park, given that accommodation in the reserve is