Hog Hollow Country Lodge · A Forest Lodge on the Garden Route

5 minutes from the N2,
and then, silence.

Hog Hollow Country Lodge has kept its place inside a private nature reserve since 1993, close enough to Plettenberg Bay for an easy drive and far enough to forget it exists. Indigenous forest presses close on every side, and the Tsitsikamma Mountains hold the skyline above Matjies River Gorge. Nothing here is built to compete with that scale. It is built to let you stand inside it, and then come back to a fire.

The approach to Hog Hollow Country Lodge through indigenous forest

The reserveForest on every side.
Closer than you'd think.

Ours is not a lodge you pass on the way to somewhere else. Askop Road is tarmac the whole way, just 5 minutes off the N2, birdsong and the occasional bushbuck for company, indigenous canopy closing overhead until the lodge appears like a clearing kept just for you.

A Simplex Suite at Hog Hollow Country Lodge, with fireplace and private deck

The Suites

Two ways to sleep
deep in the forest

The Duplex Suites rise over two levels, room enough for a family to spread out or for two people to keep their distance from everything but the fire. The Simplex Suites keep it all on one level, with private viewing decks built for slow mornings and long views, and some interleave for groups travelling together. Every suite has its own fireplace and a deck over the valley.

Choose betweenDuplex & Simplex

In every suiteFireplace & private deck

OutlookTsitsikamma Mountains

Where you'll stay

Suites built around
fire and forest

A Duplex Suite at Hog Hollow Country Lodge

Two Levels · Families & HoneymoonsDuplex SuitesRoom enough for the whole party, or space for two to keep the view to themselves. Never far from the fireplace.

A Simplex Suite at Hog Hollow Country Lodge

One Level · Interleading OptionsSimplex SuitesA private deck, a wood fire, a king bed and forest pressing at the glass.

Guests gathered at the fire-pit Boma at Hog Hollow Country Lodge in the evening

The Boma, after darkA fire that has not
gone out since the start.

Every evening, guests walk down to the Boma as the light goes copper over the gorge. It is fire-pit dining in the truest sense: communal benches, wood smoke, and dinner that arrives when it is ready, not when a clock says so.

Morning coffee at the Boma, Hog Hollow Country Lodge

Traditional Boma Dining

One fire.
Two entirely different days

Mornings, the Boma is where the lodge wakes up: coffee poured before check-in, birdsong instead of traffic, plans for the day made over a low flame. By evening the same fire pit becomes the heart of dinner, a shared table under the stars with the forest close enough to hear.

The pool deck at Hog Hollow Country Lodge with forest views

A pool with nowhere
else to be

The deck holds its sun loungers above the treeline, the outdoor pool cooled by the same mountain air that moves through the forest below. It is less an amenity than a place to stop moving. Guests have been known to spend an entire afternoon here and call it the best part of the stay.