The rooms are comfortable and modern with custom-made fittings, en suite bathrooms, air conditioning, heated towel rails, satellite TV and the usual hotel extras like tea and coffee, direct dial telephones. The decor is basic but as they say "less is more" and here, since the refurb, we'll tell you that less definitely is more indeed. Simple and unsophisticated, which really is fine, since you could not be better located or have better views.

The restaurant, quite rightly, places an emphasis on fresh seafood, plucked from the shores beneath your very room. The terrace outside has an oyster bar beside a large pool and lush garden - all facing the sea of course. A sauna - with sea view - provides complete respite from the chilled wind that blows in from the Antarctic.

In front of the hotel is a private beach that is safe for swimming, if you don't mind the cold water and the town and surrounds of Lüderitz provide plenty of daytime interest. A pleasant diversion while you work up an appetite for your next dinner.