A private nature reserve on the edge of untamed forest, with views across the Tsitsikamma Mountains and Matjies River Gorge.
A family-run forest lodge established in 1993, folded into the hillside above the Matjies River Gorge.
Hog Hollow Country Lodge has welcomed guests to this private nature reserve on the Garden Route since 1993. Each suite sits at the forest's edge, with its own fireplace and a private viewing deck over the Matjies River Gorge, the Tsitsikamma Mountains rising beyond the tree line.
There is no grand facade here, and no need for one. Just an indigenous forest lodge that has kept the same unhurried rhythm for three decades: coffee at the Boma, a slow walk through the reserve, a fire lit again by evening.
Explore the Suites
Set into the hillside above the gorge, where the mountains replace any need for glass facades.
Turacos and sunbirds move through the canopy above the pathways connecting each suite.
Close enough to Plettenberg Bay for a day out, quiet enough within the reserve to forget you left.
Duplex Suites over two levels, or Simplex Suites on one. Every suite has a fireplace and a private deck, and every one opens straight onto indigenous forest.
Hog Hollow's most generous suites, set over two levels with a fireplace for cool forest evenings and a viewing deck that looks straight down the gorge. Room enough for the whole family, private enough for a romantic forest honeymoon.
Quiet, single-level luxury suites dressed in warm timber and stone, each with a king bed, a wood fire and forest pressing close against the glass. Some interleave through a shared door for families and groups.
The Boma is where Hog Hollow gathers: coffee and the day's plans at sunrise, then a shared table and a wood fire once the forest goes dark.
Coffee & check-in
Unchanged since 1993
Shared plates, seasonal menus
Sun loungers, a forest sauna, and an outdoor pool cut into the hillside, with nothing but birdsong and the tree line for company.
Hog Hollow Country Lodge, The Crags, Garden Route