Keurfontein Country House

What a great stay, beautifull setting, conveniently 40min from our Leopard Trail start & exactly what we wanted the night before & after our Leopard Trail. Clean spacious rooms, friendly staff & delicious food. We had a wide choice on the menu for dinner & breakfast & make sure you have their vetkoek! Had delicious cake on offer on our return from the hike. We’ll definately visit soon again.

I had two bookings about a week apart. Both instances, there was no clean water to shower. The water was muddy. The owner sad this was due to loadshedding. Surely at R 1100 per night, the minimum requirement is a clean bed and decent bathroom facilities. This will definitely be the last time I book this establishment

We chose Keurfontein as a stopover for our family and three dogs as it was advertised as a pet friendly establishment. As we arrived, the owner’s dog attacked and nearly killed one of our dogs. After this had happened the owner made no effort to restrain the dog which then tried to attack another one of our dogs. We went to the vet in George to next morning where we had to settle a R5000 bill. I forwarded this to the owner with deafening silence as the only response. Don’t go to this place. The owner clearly has no ethics or moral principles.

I had an early lunch here on a Sunday in January 2023. I last visited Sophia's about 5 years ago when she was still in Willowmore itself and really liked it. The farm setting, on an arid hillside surrounded by beautifully hued mountiaslns, is quite spectacular and the restaurant is filled with interesting curiosities and objets d'art. I had a venison pie with a salad, and vegetables which arrived in a cute phylo pastry basket. The pie was good, albeit not properly warmed through and not exactly bursting with flavour. The veggie basket was smotherd in melted cheddar which definitely struck a false note. The salad was served with a mayo dressing which I also thought peculiar. The whole thing was prettily presented and adequate, but I wasn't blown away. Cheesecake (fridge, not baked, as I was incorrectly told) and a decent coffee to end off with, at R240 all in incl tip. There is accommodation available as well which looked very nice, from the outside at least, but I noticed that the swimming pool was dry. I had decided to sleep over at The Willow Guesthouse in the town itself and will write a review of that later. I've realised that one has to adjust one's expectations when visiting this part of the world. I'm sure it's difficult enough to get good produce and keep standards up, so that anything more interesting or creative than a Wimpy burger and chips is generally to be welcomed.

We arrived on a very cold and rainy Sunday night, the fireplaces in the rooms helped alot however there could have been more wood available as we had to bring our own wood to make fire in the rooms as well as the braai boma, otherwise a nice stay and breakfast was excellent!

We visited for lunch as part of a tour group . A lovely setting , with very unusual, unique & quirky decor. Food was delicious, when we saw the size of the portions we opted to share , they were too large for us . Drinks a very reasonable price too . We would certainly recommend stopping here , the guest rooms looked lovely, there is a pretty garden with outdoor seating , sitting there with a bottle of chilled wine would be idyllic.