Pamuzinda Safari Lodge takes luxury outside

As if you are in the wild, but no, there is a man-made stone-paved shower floor with sophisticatedly cobbled walling with water running from a tap with options to select the temperature of your choice, complete with lighting options should you choose to do this in the evening or night. An inside feel, but outdoors.
As if that’s not enough, in this garden — a small enclosure capturing the wild, the tame and the domestic — a luxuriously large bath tub with its own water-flowing mechanism sits majestically, providing a bathing alternative, should the shower not beckon.
Not to be outdone, a Jacuzzi jealously squats on an elevated stoep in that same garden. To soak in a tub, or to shower — become the contesting choices of the moment. To instal yourself cosily in the Jacuzzi, or better yet — the apex of leisure – to soak in the sun, lying on a lounger by a teeny weeny bit of tendered lawn and small flower bed this enclosed and tamed piece of the wild.
Welcome to the garden suites at Pamuzinda Safari Lodge — where luxury meets face to face with the wild. The garden suites at the lodge which were introduced at the tourist establishment in 2011, where an outside concept was added to existing standard rooms, have taken tourists and the hotelier public by storm. 
“The garden suites are proving quite popular,’ says Chris Chiparaushe, group general manager at the Dunhu RaMambo, which comprises Pamuzinda, Chengeta Lodge, Shumba Lodge in the Selous area as well as the Umbozha Houseboats in Kariba. “We started off with two garden suites and have had to increase them due to demand. We now have ten of them and they are always the first booked amongst all our rooms.”
A four star  establishment, Pamuzinda has a capacity room occupancy of 30 from the total of 15 rooms on offer ten of which are the garden suites, two rondavels and three standard rooms.
“We have managed to build a big conference market during the week — averaging two conferences a week — and tourist and leisure visitors over the weekend,” says Chiparaushe.
Pamuzinda is a favourite for companies undertaking strategy sessions for their companies and organisations; as well as for Christmas lunches and day trips which are increasingly become popular. With the establishment being an hour from Harare, organisations and tourists in the capital find they can come travel to and from within a day and also manage some work in between.
Future plans for the establishment include constructing a bigger conference room and increasing capacity.