Twelve Botswana safari lodge properties have made the 2010 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Travel Awards as top resorts in Africa. Four of the twelve properties, Mombo and Little Mombo Camps, Jao Camp, Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge and Duma Tau Camp are also prominently ranked in the TOP 100 resorts and hotels worldwide category.
Condé Nast Traveler is one of the world’s premier travel magazines providing travel tips, vacation ideas and destination information. For the past twenty three years Condé Nast Traveler surveys readers to rate properties all over the world on a variety of characteristics such as activities/facilities, food/dining, location, overall design, rooms and service.
• The following Botswana camps and lodges in the 2010 Readers' Choice Travel Awards are listed below by their rating and rank in the top-50 resorts in Africa. The first four properties listed also have a ranking listed in bold for the TOP 100 resorts and hotels worldwide category - the list described by Condé Nast as being those with “sky-high scores and planet-wide choices.”
• Mombo and Little Mombo, Wilderness-Safaris (98.4/ #1/ #3 (tied))
• Jao Camp, Wilderness-Safaris(94.3/ #8/ #67)
• Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge, &Beyond Africa (93.6/ #10/ #82)
• Duma Tau Camp, Wilderness-Safaris (93.9/ #11/ #94)
• Khwai River Lodge, Orient Express Camps(91.4/ #14)
• Savuti Camp, Wilderness-Safaris (91.2/ #15)
• Camp Okavango, Desert & Delta Safaris (91/ #16)
• Chief’s Camp, Sanctuary Retreats (90.5/ #17)
• Vumbura Plains Camp, Wilderness-Safaris (90.3/ #18)
• Chobe Chilewero, Sanctuary Retreats (85/ #36
• Jack’s Camp, Uncharted Africa Safari co. (83.3/ #38)
• Chobe Game Lodge, Desert & Delta Safaris (82.3/ #44)