Crafters Lodge
Fully serviced and staffed, air-conditioned and pet friendly, Crafters Lodge is designed for privacy and comfort. This small secure complex offers simple living ideally suited to the climate, with a large deck, expansive windows and charming rural surroundings.

What we offer
Offering individual chalets each nestling in the natural bush, Crafters’ Lodge is securely fenced and safe for pets. Our well- trained staff will take care of you while you and your family enjoy an exciting and adventurous holiday. Chalets offer 2 bedrooms, 1 bath/shower room, and an additional out- door rustic shower, hanging and washing facilities for dive gear, controlled speed fans throughout, open plan lounge/dining room/kitchen, wooden balustraded deck with Weber braai, comfortable outdoor hardwood furniture and charming local craft contributions in the form of curtains, place mats, floor mats, waste-paper baskets, bedside tables, kiddies chairs and occasional tables.

Sisal Cottage
Sisal Cottage, our flagship is a bungalow with 2 air-conditioned twin bedrooms and additional fans in the open plan lounge and kitchen. It can sleep up to six people.
Outdoor living is enhanced by a gas burning Weber Braai and a wood burning barbecue on the huge deck.

Bead Cottage
Bead Duplexes are great for families and singles. With a private air-conditioned queen bedroom downstairs and a big air-conditioned loft bedroom upstairs, there are also additional fans in the open plan lounge and kitchen. Each can sleep up to six people.
Outdoor living is enhanced by gas burning Weber Braais and wood burning barbecues on the huge deck.

The architectural language at Crafters Lodge is ideally suited to the climate, with screed floors, and rush mats. Furnishing is simple, incorporating items made locally and sold in the rural market at the beach. A exterior colour palette of rich earth tones unites the chalets with the African soil.

Beach Access
Beach access is through the main Parks Board Gates, controlled by Simangaliso Wetland Parks. A fee of R 20 per adult is levied to access the beach. A Golden Rhino Card can be bought for R 495 per year which gives unlimited access to all of the Natal Game Reserves and Parks.
There is a secure parking area behind the world's highest forested dune, and there is unique 4 x 4 access onto the inter-tidal zone, so people wanting privacy can travel for 4 km up the beach to deserted private areas to swim or fish.

Shopping and Dining
There are 3 restaurants in Sodwana Bay Village, a Sports Bar and large Screen TV at Maak ‘n Jol. Inside the Controlled access area and on the beach is a Beach Cafe . There is also a Beach Shop on the beach, and a SPAR general dealer inside the park. The small town of Mbazwana 9km from the Lodge sells everything, from petrol to cheap clothing to groceries.

Things to do
Sodwana Bay diving is unique in the world. Abundant corals, well-balanced fish-life and breathtaking natural beauty make Sodwana Bay reefs some of the most spectacular and fascinating in the world. Diving is on reefs where the reef population balance is complete with huge shoals of barracuda, eagle rays and an abundance of reef fish. In summer the pregnant female ragged tooth sharks lie in the warm waters, fasting while they gestate.

Laze on the extensive swimming beaches, or drift into the warm tropical waters to snorkel off Jesser Point and enjoy a beach breakfast at the Beach Cafe, then dine at night at Mi Casa on their mouth-watering fillet steak

Try a quad bike trail through the pine plantations, try surf fishing, book a kite surfing lesson. You can dive the reefs in the morning, book a Game Viewing Safari to Tembe Elephant Park in the afternoon and take a

Turtle Tour to watch turtles laying their eggs at night

Big Game and Deep Sea fishing made Sodwana Bay famous, and many Prestigious International competitions are held there. Fisherman can book day trips or bring their own boats.

View the bay from a microlite aircraft, or try body surfing or boogie boarding.

Buy a sarong or handwoven beach- bag from the local market, or take a set of handwoven table mats home as a memento. Sodwana Bay has it all. You just have to be there.

Rates and prices for Crafters Lodge Sodwana Bay

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Bead Cottage

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Read Cottage

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Sisal Cottage

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Address: Sodwana Bay

Directions to Crafters Lodge

Where we are
Crafters Lodge lies in Sodwana BayVillage within 40 km of four of KwaZulu Natal's major Game Reserves, 80 km from Hluhluwe and 1700 metres from World Heritage Site Sodwana Bay by line of sight, 7 minutes by road. The world’s highest forested dune and a dense mangrove water system separate the village from the sea.

Getting there
Fly in to Durban International Airport.
Make sure you have your International Driving License with you, and be careful to obey the speeding laws. KZN has a Zero Tolerance policy towards speedsters.
Europecar will offer you a budget car, but book before you travel.
AVIS can provide a 4 x 4, but book before you travel.

From the airport follow signs to North Coast N2, by-passing Durban.
With a full petrol tank travel North for 4 hours. Then take the off-ramp to Hluhluwe. Follow sign boards to Sodwana Bay
Fill up with petrol at the small town of Mbazwana. Take signs towards Sodwana Bay. After 9 km you will have reached the Sodwana Bay Village. Followa Crafters Lodge yellow and Black signs to Crafters Lodge.

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A Deposit is required to confirm the booking and balance payable before departure.

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