Swartberg Hotel
Prince Albert
Succulent Karoo biome · Spekboom
Gives back to Prince Albert Community Trust (PACT)
From R 697 a night
Where every stay makes a difference
Spekboom finds you stays that give back, across South Africa and beyond. Part of every booking funds the conservation and community work around the place you sleep.
We are not Spekboom Tours, and not the SANParks Spekboom Tented Rest Camp.
Behind the name
Why Spekboom?
Named after the spekboom, the plant that restores the Eastern Cape thicket. SANBI records that restored spekboom thicket can store carbon at rates comparable to a deciduous forest, and that it brings degraded, overgrazed land back to life. Just as the plant regenerates landscapes, we turn travel into funding for the places you visit. Every booking contributes to projects that repair ecosystems, protect wildlife, and uplift communities across Africa.
Read our storyHow your stay helps
Every booking contributes to these areas of impact
The places
Reserves, farms, camps and lodges chosen for where they are and what they do for it. No listing is here only because it asked to be.
The causes
Conservation, community and wildlife work we have met in person. Each stay is tied to one, and part of every booking reaches it.
The people who host
Owners and rangers who chose a cause before they chose a booking site. They set their own rates and answer their own enquiries.
The good on the ground
A whole town, lifted
In Prince Albert, and small Karoo towns like it, your stay keeps good people doing good work: the guide, the chef, the teacher, the reserve warden. This is tourism the town can feel.
Prince Albert · under the Swartberg
The town that taught us the model
A creative Karoo town of olives, figs and dark skies. Every booked bed reaches its cafes, studios and kitchens, and backs the community trust, the skills school and the reserve on its doorstep.
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Gives back to Prince Albert Community Trust (PACT)
From R 1,700 a night
Dennehof Karoo Guesthouse
Prince Albert
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Gives back to Prince Albert Community Trust (PACT)
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Support a cause directly
You don’t have to stay to give. Back any cause on Spekboom with a direct donation.
