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Grootbos Family Fun Package

At Grootbos Nature Reserve the children’s activities are not just activities – they are a combination of education and fun in our wonderful nature setting. Our tailor-made Family Fun Package is about inspiring, educating, enthusing and exhilarating the children to make them curious of what is coming next and to ensure that they spend an exciting, interesting and enjoyable time with us.
Specialized guides accompany the children during exciting treasure hunts, excursions to the beach, the rock pools and trips through the reserve. The children get familiar with our fascinating eco-system and the history of the area. Picture Frame or Shell Bracelet Making are great activities to inspire their creativity and to give them a lifelong memory to take back home. While exploring their immediate and natural environment they can collect shells, porcupine quills or bugs, which will be brought back to their own activities rooms for exciting identification. At the same time we teach the children not to destroy or interfere in the natural habitats that they can find everywhere.
We cater for their physical well-being with special children’s menus as well as refreshments and snacks during the activities.

The central theme of the Family Fun Package is a combination of the Marine Environment along the South coast of the Western Cape as well as the incredible fynbos vegetation. The three main aspects are:
1.    The physical marine and floral environment
2.    Historical uses of the coastline
3.    Conservation

Rates:

Accommodation in One-Bedroom Luxury Suite at Garden Lodge.
Rate per adult per night / sharing:             R 2800.00
Rate per adult per night / single:                R 4200.00
Rate per child (0-3) per night / sharing:     R 0.00
Rate per child (4-5) per night / sharing:     R 435.00
Rate per child (6-14) per night/ sharing:    R 665.00
All standard terms and conditions apply.
The Family Fun Package is valid from 23 June - 15 July 2012.

The rate includes the following:

  • Accommodation in freestanding luxury suites
  • Welcome drink served upon arrival
  • Fresh fruit daily in suite
  • Light lunch
  • 5-course dinner
  • Breakfast buffet with full English breakfast menu
  • Exploring of the inter-tidal zone
  • Conserving the African Penguin
  • A day in the life of a Strandloper
  • Pancake cooking class
  • Treasure Hunt through fynbos and forest
  • Children's dinner at the playground and night walk around the Lodge
  • Swimming in the Lady Anne Barnard Cave in De Kelders
  • Pony rides in paddock, under supervision. The emphasis of this experience would be both recreational and educational, with the younger kids being introduced to horses and riding.
  • Horse riding on reserve for kids older than 12. For the older kids, a one hour guided riding experience on the reserve combined with an introduction to our unique fynbos environment.
  • Half-day orienteering exercise/hike for kids over 12. With the aid of orienteering equipment (local 1:50 000 scale maps and compasses), we will teach the kids the basics of orienteering and then set up a challenge route, with way points for them to find. Each point found, will provide the clues and co-ordinates to the next point.
  • Spot the bird / tree / flower, etc. (various levels for ages). Certain of the more common and easily recognisable bird and plant species will be given to the younger age group to spot and identify (under supervision of a guide) and for the older group, we will add a few of the more challenging species.
  • Kite-flying.
  • Nursery tour, learning to plant own seeds/ cuttings, etc. Our nursery is an ideal environment to not only explain this to the kids, but to give them the first hand experience of planting their own seeds / saplings.
  • Videos / DVD’s on bad weather days (animations and nature documentaries)
  • Making an artistic representation of the day, using natural resources collected during the day. During the day, the kids will be encouraged to collect materials from the various environments through which we take them, and then incorporating these into their own story / work of art to represent their day.
  • Abseiling (stepped 33m steep slope) at waterfall in Afro-montane forest.
  • 4x4 Drives in open landrovers.
  • Mountain Bike trails (you are welcome to bring your own bike)
  • Children are welcome to help feeding our horses and farm animals, i.e. pigs, bunnies etc.
  • Family High Teas with a variety of hot and cold snacks.
  • Babysitting service is available. 
  • Horse riding for non- and experienced riders through the reserve  (please note that the weight limit is 90kg/198lbs per person/ children under the age of 12 are only allowed on guided pony rides)
  • Guided Walks including fynbos nature tours and Milkwood walks
  • Nature, marine & coastal drives and walks including the Walker Bay Nature Reserve, De Kelders cliff walk, Klipgat Cave combined with seasonal land-based whale watching (whale watching especially during June – December)
  • Bird-watching; experience a great variety of bird species on the reserve
  • Various maps of the reserve and the area for self-guided walks
  • Transfers to/from all activities
  • 50% discount on the Marine Big5 boat trip (R 450.00 per adult instead of R 900.00 / R 275.00 for children 5 – 11 instead of R 550.00 / children under 5 go for free)