The Olive Exclusive All-Suite Hotel

Excellent high end hotel suite with 7 rooms in the heart of Windroek. The staff at the restaurant was especially kind and accommodating!

Excellent boutique hotel! Beautifully appointed rooms, stayed in suite 3. Jane has been very friendly and helpful in the restaurant and reception. Will definitely return. A great start to our Namibia road trip. We arrived at Windhoek airport and checked into Olive Exclusive, we loved the touch of Africa, and the smiles on the staff’s faces as they welcomed us. Do yourself a favour and eat in, the menu is excellent as well as the wine selection. Nothing was too much trouble.

An unbeatable way to start your Namibian vacation. The Olive Exclusive has all the quality of a big-brand hotel chain. At the same time, it’s small and personal; so it feels like you’re staying at home with friends. And certainly the management and staff make it feel like home. Gavin, Melissa, Daphne and Antoinette were happy to go the extra mile and more. A small example: we wanted to wander over to Independence Avenue and see the Christuskiche. Though it’s a pretty safe city, Gavin said it gets a little too quiet on a weekend (this was a Saturday). So he drove us there and then picked us up after we’d had a bit of a wander. The food at the hotel is great and the suites are tastefully done. We didn’t use the plunge pool but it looked nice, though a little small. Our guidebook says that Namibia makes for a soft landing into Africa. Well, in the same way, The Olive Exclusive makes for a soft landing into Namibia! Strongly recommended. It’s a small property with only 7 suites, so plan well and book in advance.

Windhoek needs a top quality hotel and the Olive Exclusive could be fabulous Arrived to find a glorious room bathed in sunshine but soon found that maintenance was severely lacking. The door lock did not work and the room was freezing cold as it transpired that the heating units were actually set to cooling. Three visits later (including from the head of maintenance) nobody could do anything and they produced a small old oil filled radiator. When I tackled the manager at dinner on this she looked at me and said well are the units set the heating rather than cooling. In one visit from her it was sorted - none of the people who had been to the room to look at this were able to identify the problem - complete lack of training - how about some instructions in the room? Dinner was equally uninspiring - ordered a fillet steak almost London prices to be presented with a tough cold piece of meat which is clearly been reheated - sent it back they cut it in half put it on the grill and returned it lukewarm. I sent it back again and said I wanted a new piece of fillet and it was delicious - complete try on to get me to eat old meat? This hotel could be fabulous if only they could get everyone in the place to be as efficient and friendly as the reception lady who greeted me when I arrived Completely unmet potential

Great friends with great Taste. Proper food , safe parking -friendly helpfull staff and managers. Excellent view from deck. Everything you can wish for in the room. Bliss , a must for the executive.