Sandriver Lodge
Sandriver Lodge | St Francis Bay Bed & Breakfast Accommodation
Our rooms each have their own personality, thanks to Marc who has a love for the sea, and for St Francis, with his nautical touch and great eye for details. Simple, but comfortable, clean with white linens, and comfy beds. All you need for a relaxed seaside holiday. The rooms are all en-suite with tea and coffee facilities. Some rooms have just had DStv added to their facilities, other rooms, we ask guests to bring their DStv decoders, should they wish, and there is Wi-Fi working in our garden, near, and inside the restaurant, we are exploring the upgrade to limited usage in the rooms.
Sandriver Lodge serves a delicious omelette, written about by guests across the world, come and enjoy one in our garden restaurant, prepared and served by owner and chef Anneke May. We serve other breakfasts options as well, all with homemade jams and freshly plunged coffee. dinner is available on request.
Parking is off road, we don’t have credit card facilities, and we are child friendly. Our atmosphere is comfortable and relaxing, helpful and friendly. Come and visit anytime. While you are here, walk to the restaurants, the beach, the golf course and shops or just make yourselves comfortable in one of our ‘fisherman cottages’.
Sand Box
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R1150 per unit
- Capacity : 2
This unit is definitely something different. The sun streams in from the North facing sliding door, keeping it a warm room. Leave this sliding door open in Summer to smell the sea air, with a slight wind to cool you down. Exposed copper pipes carry the hot water to the shower, along bagged white walls. Antique furniture combined with driftwood, and open ‘hanging’ area for your clothes, as well as the 1/2 stable door only partially closing the bathroom from the bedroom, give this room a ‘different’ feel, nothing ordinary or old fashioned about sandbox! too cute.
Sand Storm
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R1200 per unit
- Capacity : 3
Tucked away at the “back” of the lodge, sandstorm overlooks its own garden. Upstairs, the ceiling going up into the roof, gives this unit a wonderful spacious feeling. Marc went to town on the ‘cutest’ kitchenette, open plan and fully equipped to allow a relaxing long stay. A single bed in the front room is perfect for a ‘smaller person’ , and through the inter-leading door, a double bed and bathroom en-suite await mum and dad. enjoy the exposed copper pipes, whitewashed wood, cool tiled floors of sandstorm. No 6 is perfect for a couple needing a quiet break away, come and relax.
Sand Stone
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R912 per unit
- Capacity : 2
Our smaller ‘tucked away’ room is warm and sunny. Outside is a private “nook” in the garden to sit and read or watch the birds in the garden. Perfect for a quiet hideaway or a single. tea and coffee facilities, shower, and a double bed. Please note there is no TV in this unit.
Sand Spray
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R1710 per unit
- Capacity : 5
Spacious family unit, 2 rooms and a bathroom. A comfortable queen-size bed is freshly made up with linens of white and blue, it is in the ‘back’ of this unit with a couch and the TV, and a cupboard and dresser . The front room has a cute kitchen, fully equipped with a small stove and oven, fridge and sink, perfect for light meals. Enjoy your time together around a round dining table. 3 single beds spaced out comfortably, perfect for the children with shelves and cupboards handmade with local ‘wattle’. Families relax and stay comfortably under exposed white roof trusses. The back balcony, through the sliding doors over looks the luscious green garden. Enjoy your St Francis beach holiday with us..back from the beach with sandy feet, is no problem with our painted cement floors, just sweep it away!
Sand Shark
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Two single- or 3/4-beds
- Priced From : R1150 per unit
- Capacity : 2
Sandshark is a spacious bedroom with ceilings going up into the roof. 2 comfortable single beds, pushed together or apart guarantee’s a great nights sleep. The beautiful sun streams in from the North facing sliding door, as you open the curtains to overlook your balcony, with views of a green garden. Listen for the owls, or the sea. Tea and coffee facilities are available as well as a small fridge. A chunky wooden table and chairs welcome a take away pizza or a board game, or your morning cup of tea. This is where you might enjoy your breakfast delivered on a cold Winters morning as well.
Sand River
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R2150 per unit
- Capacity : 6
This was where it all began. Our 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house, with kitchen, dining and lounge area and spiral staircase, was once our reception, offices and dining room when the lodge began in 1997. This comfy holiday house sleeps 6 in 2 double bedrooms en-suite, as well as a twin room, with a 3rd bathroom with a corner bath. The newly renovated kitchen, has granite tops, and white washed shelves, a stove and oven (able to to fit a Christmas turkey), fridge, microwave and a good number of pots, salad dishes and crockery. There is a covered stoep, dense garden, including a fairy garden with braai area, Please bring along your DStv decoder to plug in. Become one of our revisiting families who enjoy spending their holiday time together at Sandriver Lodge.
Sand Piper
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R950 per unit
- Capacity : 2
Sand Piper is almost hidden with a quiet enclosed courtyard area overlooking a lush green garden. Double bed and comfortable couch, with a shower, this unit also has a glass topped table to enjoy a glass of wine or a warm cup of coffee and a snack, tea and coffee facilities and a writing desk, this cosy room, cool in summer, has all you need for a comfortable stay.
Sand Hill
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R920 per unit
- Capacity : 2
Leave the door open and watch the finches in the dense garden, just beyond the long, undercover ‘stoep’, even if its raining. Perfect for 2, this open-plan self-catering unit has a 1/2 round bath, and shower, with comfortable beds dressed in shades of fresh white and blue linen. Beautifully cool in Summer, and snug in the winter. There is a braai area just at the end of your stoep, with a glimpse up to the owl box, see them if you can, what a treat. Please bring along your DStv decoder to plug in, and feel right at home, as many of our revisiting guests do.
Sand Dune
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Queen-size bed
- Priced From : R980 per unit
- Capacity : 2
This comfortable unit is perfect for a couple to enjoy themselves in St Francis Bay. Fully-equipped self-catering facilities, bath and a shower, queen-size bed with fresh white linen, and 2 comfortable couches, looking out the big window at the passing by of St Francis Bay. Full blackout curtains ensure a good sleep in, even with the Eastern Cape Summer sun shining. You’ll feel right at home in Sand Dune and are welcome to bring your DStv decoder to plug in and watch. enjoy the beachy way of life with us.
Sand Drift
- Configuration : Room in Guesthouse/B&B
- Bed : Double Bed
- Priced From : R1850 per unit
- Capacity : 6
Sand Drift has 2 inter-leading rooms, each with their own bathroom, making up this spacious family unit. 2 comfortable single beds and a queen-size bed, as well as a small double bunk ensure that families of 4 to 6 will feel at home. This unit is also suitable for 2 couples travelling together. A sliding door opens onto a courtyard, and garden, with a small braai, table and chairs. The open-plan kitchen was handmade by Marc with granite tops, open whitewashed shelves and a few shells in the wall. All you need on holiday to prepare light meals and the facilities to warm up something, or keep something cold. Make yourself comfortable for a relaxing holiday on the beach with your family.
Sand Castle
- Configuration : Free Standing Unit
- Bed : Queen-size bed
- Priced From : R2850 per unit
- Capacity : 8
This house is on top of hill at the end of our property. Large thatched roof- lovely family holiday space. Overlooking the village, golf course and the rest of the Lodge, this house on the hill is filled with sun. Large house, separated into 2 , it can be rented as a large unit, sleeping 10 in total- [rates available on request] Pool, and sheltered braai area- stay a weekend, stay a week.
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- Braai Area
- Secure Parking
- Free Wifi
- Braai Area
- No Smoking Indoors
- Restaurant On Premises
- Satellite TV
- Self Catering
- Free Wifi
- WiFi
- English
- Breakfast
- Dinner By Arrangement
- Lunch
- Fishing
- Bird Watching
- Cycling
- Game Drives
- Swimming
- Secure Parking
142 St Francis Drive St Francis Bay 6312 Eastern Cape
From R912 per unit
3 Reviews (4 / 5)