CORNERSTONE GUEST HOUSE – SWAKOPMUND

Cornerstone Guesthouse is a small, peaceful bed and breakfast is set on the corner of Rhode Allee and Hendrik Witbooi Street in the quieter, old part of Swakopmund within an easy walk to the seafront and the town centre on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

The guesthouse is family run with just 7 rooms and occupies a quiet corner of Swakopmund’s old town near The Marine Museum and The Old Brewery, Cornerstone Guesthouse offers the charm and intimacy of a family-run B&B combined with the modern amenities of a luxury hotel.

Within a few minutes from the guesthouse you can walk to beaches, cafés, restaurants, lively pubs, Swakopmund’s tourist attractions and a variety of interesting shops and markets in the town.

LOCATION

The guesthouse is located on the corner of Rhode Allee and Hendrik Witbooi Street in Swakopmund on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia.

You can drive to Swakopmund in around 3.5 hours from Windhoek or around 5 hours from Sossusvlei.

GUESTHOUSE

Cornerstone Guesthouse has a choice of double, twin and family rooms which all offer an ensuite bathroom with shower (one room has a bathtub), satellite TV, a mini fridge, kettle with coffee and tea facilities, an outside entrance with private patio, room safe, international wall sockets and WIFI. The family rooms a sleeper couch to accommodate families.

The main area of the guesthouse has a lounge area with satellite TV and there is a lovely private garden with grassy areas and flower borders.

The rooms all have private entrances and patios with table and chairs; inside, the rooms are light, spacious and neat with tile and wood floors, beach house colours and your choice of double or twin beds. Secure off-road parking is available, and the guesthouse has an activities and dining booking service.

ACTIVITIES AND WILDLIFE

There are so many things to do in Swakopmund and you can easily spend two or three days enjoying the town and activities in the area. Some of the options are listed below – we can book your activities as part of your package, or you can book activities on arrival at the guest house:

Marine cruise in Walvis Bay lagoon (Walvis Bay) – enjoy a half day trip on a large catamaran or motorboat – the bay is calm and the waters full of life. This half day trip offers close contact with seals, dolphins, birds and if you’re very lucky sightings of whales and a strange creature called a mola mola. The cruises finish with a champagne finger brunch and fresh Walvis Bay oysters on board.

Living desert tour (Swakopmund) – a fascinating guided excursion into the world’s oldest desert. Discover the minutiae of life in the seemingly barren wilderness including the odd Welwitschia plant and other bizarre desert-adapted lifeforms; eerie Martian landscapes and sensuous dunescapes offer a fitting backdrop.

Quad biking (Swakopmund or Long Beach) – a very popular option with families, a guided quad bike trail through the dunes is fun, interesting and safe. The tours follow strict ecological guidelines to protect the fragile ecosystem and maintain the unspoilt beauty of the Skeleton Coast.

Sandwich Harbour excursion (Walvis Bay) – a wetlands birding heritage site, this guided tour takes you to the almost inaccessible Sandwich Harbour south of Walvis Bay.

Scenic Flights and Ballooning (Swakopmund or Walvis Bay) – enjoy spectacular scenery as you fly over the dunes, wrecks and shoreline of the Skeleton Coast.

Kayaking Tours (Walvis Bay) – a gentle and peaceful way to explore the lagoon. Seals and dolphins always come and visit and you get much closer than the marine cruises.

Adventure Sports (Swakopmund) – sky-diving, land yachting, karting, paragliding, sand-boarding, deep sea and shore fishing, surfing, kiting…

Birdwatching (Walvis Bay) – the Walvis Bay Lagoon, along with Sandwich Harbour, is a RAMSAR wetlands site crammed with flamingos, plovers, grebes, terns, oystercatchers, gulls and many other migrants and residents.

Tourist Attractions (Swakopmund) – galleries, museums, aquarium, craft markets, curio shops, antiques, jewellers and souvenirs.

Sports (Swakopmund) – golf (all-grass desert 18-hole course), gym, horse riding, camel rides, tennis, squash, bowls…

Dining and Entertainment – Swakopmund has a large selection of coffee shops and restaurants specialising in seafood, game and meat, German fare and international standards. The town also sees a regular parade of music shows and stage productions and the German carnival is an annual extravaganza that transforms the town every June into a Bavarian film set.

CORNERSTONE GUEST HOUSE IS OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND

THE LODGE WELCOMES FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN OF ALL AGES