Royal Livingstone, Zambia

The Royal Livingstone Hotel

After 6 days on safari this is a wonderful place to relax. The grounds are immaculate and the staff are very attentive to your every whim.

We had a king room with a fab view of the falls from our patio. The room was very clean with a very large bathroom and walk-in shower, which blasted all the cares away. We were warned to keep our patio door shut as the monkeys can be troublesome and will take anything that is not nailed down. We witnessed this a couple of times during breakfast and also had one jump on our table at sundowner to steal our nuts. It made for fun drinks.

Breakfast was amazing with everything from cereal to sushi. You could also order pancakes, waffles and eggs by separate order.

The main restaurant served almost Michelin class meals. Although one night we decided to try the Assiette Gourmand (chef's dessert plate) and it turned up with almost every full size dessert on the menu. We were expecting bite size so as you can guess quite a lot was left on the plate.

The grounds are open to wildlife and on our last morning we had 6 zebra walk past the pool to stop and eat the freshly watered grass. An excellent opportunity to get good close up photos.

The hotel is also within a 10min walk of Vic Falls, which is spectacular. We headed off with our bag wrapped camera and raincoats - neither of which lasted long against the Zambezi shower we were soon to encounter.

Sunsets are gorgeous from the sundowner deck but the mosquitoes are also out in force so take plenty of repellent. The hotel supplies mosquito patches but not sure these were terribly effective.

A couple of days here is enough if you just want to relax after a safari.














breakfast with zebras video