Awards | On safari with andBeyond

2012 - Conde Naste Gold List

Condé Nast Traveller (UK) has released its prestigious Gold List 2012, viewed by many as the definitive guide to the world’s best hotels, which are carefully selected for service, location, food, rooms, leisure facilities, and ambience and design. Among the Best Hotels for Location, &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge receives top honours in the Africa, Middle East & Indian ocean category.

2011 - TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence!

Ngorongoro Crater Lodge has won a 2011 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence!. TripAdvisor awards this certificate to properties who consistently receive excellent ratings from our members. We feel this prestigious award is something to be proud of.

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2011 - One of the World's Top 10 Tour Operators

&Beyond has been rated as one of the world’s Top 10 Tour Operators in the US Travel + Leisure’s World's Best Awards 2011 readers survey.

2011 - Going for Gold!

More than 25 000 readers of Condé Nast Traveler (US) recently voted for their favourite hotels, resorts and cruise lines in the 17th annual Gold List of the World’s Best Places to Stay. In the Africa and Middle East category, we are delighted to see 6 &Beyond properties listed: • Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge • Kichwa Tembo • Ngorongoro Crater Lodge • Phinda Private Game Reserve • Madikwe Safari Lodge • Ngala Private Game Reserve Well done to all lodge teams for striking gold!

2010 - 5 Gold Stars

More than 25 000 readers of Condé Nast Traveler (US) recently voted for their 681 favourite hotels, resorts and cruise lines in the 16th annual Gold List of the World’s Best Places to Stay. In the Africa and Middle East category, we are delighted to see four &Beyond properties listed: Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge, Phinda Private Game Reserve, Madikwe Safari Lodge and Lake Manyara Tree Lodge. In the Best by Design category, &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve earned the #2 spot in all of Africa and the Middle East.

2010 - 5th Best Hotel in the World!

The Condé Nast Traveler (US) magazine’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards have been published and we are thrilled to announce that &Beyond Phinda has been voted the 5th best hotel in the world! &Beyond Madikwe Safari Lodge was voted the 75th best hotel in the world and &Beyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge the 82nd best! We also had an impressive seven lodges mentioned in the 50 Best Resorts in Africa category: · Phinda Private Game Reserve (2) · Madikwe Safari Lodge (9) · Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge (10) · Ngala Private Game Reserve (18) · Kichwa Tembo (26) · Ngorongoro Crater Lodge (32) · Lake Manyara Tree Lodge (40) Congratulations to our fabulous lodge teams who wow our guests and the readers of this magazine who, in turn, vote for us because of the incredible time they had at our lodges! These awards are voted for by 259 116 readers of Condé Nast who are passionate about travel.

2010 - Award-winning Family Fun

The winners of the World’s Best Family Hotels and Cruises are published in the fall issue of Travel + Leisure. This is a prestigious list of the top family-friendly hotels, resorts and cruises around the globe. We are delighted to see &Beyond Bateleur Camp included in the Africa & Middle East category, celebrated for its Maasai storytelling and tracking lessons for children. Congratulations to our Kichwa team for being included in this esteemed list two years in a row!

2010 - Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Award

&Beyond has once again received the honour of one of the Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Awards. This year &Beyond came first in the small hotels category for Health Initiatives at Kwandwe Private Game Reserve, and was runner up overall.

2010 - East Africa Shines

The latest issue of Travel + Leisure features their annual World’s Best Awards for 2010, as voted by the readers. Jumping nine spots from last year, we are delighted to see &Beyond Kichwa Tembo Masai Mara Tented Camp at #30 in the year’s Top 100 Hotels. In the Top 20 Lodges and Resorts in Africa & the Middle East, Kichwa Tembo takes the #7 spot and &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge sits at #14.

2010 - World's Greatest Hotels, Resorts and Spas

&Beyond Xudum Okavango Delta Lodge is included in the 2010 Edition of Travel+Leisure’s World’s Greatest Hotels, Resorts and Spas. Referred to as “the iconoclastic new kid in town”, Xudum is hailed for its “part-land, part-water experience on a wildlife reserve that’s one of the largest in any permanent African Delta.” The article makes special mention of Xudum’s nine suites that are “furnished with canopied platform beds, freestanding porcelain tubs, and recycled side tables crafted, astonishingly enough, from rubber tires and beer cans.”