Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre Swakopmund, Walvis Bay & Surrounds

The Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre is located on the magnificent Namibian coastline in the quaint town of Swakopmund. Dating back to 1901, Swakopmund’s historic Old Station Building is today the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre.

The hotel rooms at the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre are all decorated in a Victorian style reminiscent of a bygone era of grace and civility. Visitors can find air conditioning, television, tea and coffee making facilities, bathrooms with bathtubs, showers and toilets, direct dial telephones, electronic safes, electric razor plugs, fully stocked mini bars, and hair dryers in the hotels rooms at the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre.

The Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre services range from babysitting, laundry services and dry cleaning, to valet service and concierge requests.  Shops and cinemas, a hair salon, a children’s games room, secure parking, internet facilities, a casino, a curio shop, a swimming pool and a gymnasium are available to guests.  At the Casino, which forms part of the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre, visitors may enjoy exciting games of Blackjack, Roulette, Stud poker, and Rais’em poker.

Facilities and services at the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre, Namibia

• 89 hotel rooms
• 1 wheelchair accessible room
• 46kms from Walvis Bay Airport
• Platform One Restaurant
• 24 hour room service
• DStv
• Mermaid Casino with tables and slot machines
• 2 cinemas
• 18-hole desert golf course nearby
• Swimming pool
• Conference facilities for up to 350 delegates
• Wireless internet connectivity
• Valet service
• Medical service on call
• Foreign exchange
• Gym facilities
• Health Studio
• Hair salon

Accommodation at the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre

The hotel rooms at the Swakopmund Hotel in Namibia are bright and spacious, decorated in a Victorian style, and most have a pleasant view of the pool terrace. The rooms feature mini-bars, individual air-conditioning, TVs, tea and coffee-making facilities, bathrooms with bath, shower and toilet, direct-dialling telephones, electric razor plugs (100/200V), and hairdryers.

The hotel offers the following room types:

• 43 Twin Rooms
• 30 Family Rooms
• 14 Luxury Rooms
• 2 Luxury Suites
• 1 Wheelchair accessible Room

Dining at the Swakopmund Hotel

Whether it is dining in style or something more casual and laid back, visitors have a choice of different dining venues at the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre in Namibia. The Platform One Restaurant offers a more refined experience in true Victorian style.  This 160-seater restaurant has been carefully designed to take guests back to the old-world charm of a bygone era.

Guests may choose between the gourmet à la carte menu or renowned speciality buffet spread. The restaurant is open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Casino at the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre

The Swakopmund Hotel and Entertainment Centre features the Mermaid Casino, which boasts a variety of games including American Roulette, Stud Poker, Blackjack, slot machines and the latest interactive video slot machines. The Mermaid Casino also offers a sack menu as well as a full bar service.

Location of the Swakopmund Hotel, Namibia

The city of Swakopmund in Nambia is located on the B2 road and is also connected to the Trans-Namib Railway from Windhoek to Walvis Bay.  The Swakopmund Airport is located 7 km away from the Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre and Walvis Bay Airport is 47 km away from the hotel.

Swakopmund is a city on the Atlantic coast of north western Namibia, 365 km west of Windhoek, Namibia's capital. Swakopmund is a beach resort and an excellently preserved example of German colonial architecture. This town in Namibia was founded in 1892 as the main harbour for German South-West Africa. It is one of the few places anywhere outside of Europe where a sizable minority of the population speaks German and has German roots.

Attractions in Swakopmund include a transport museum, the National Marine Aquarium, a crystal gallery and spectacular sand dunes near Langstrand south of the Swakop River. Outside of the city, the Rossmund Desert Golf Course is one of only five all-grass desert golf courses in the world. The city is also known for extreme sports. Nearby lies a camel farm and the Martin Luther steam locomotive, dating from 1896 and abandoned in the desert.

Surrounded by the Namib Desert on three sides and the cold Atlantic waters to the west, Swakopmund enjoys a temperate climate. The average temperature ranges between 15°C to 25°C. Rainfall is less than 15 mm per year, making gutters and drainpipes on buildings a rarity.

Directions to Swakopmund:

• Get onto the Kalahari Highway, travelling in a southerly direction
• Drive over the bridge (this is a different bridge from the one mentioned above)
• You will find yourself on a highway with palm trees on right hand side.
• You will come to the traffic lights (there is a BP behind you and a shopping centre diagonally across from you).
• Keep straight in Sam Najuuma Avenue.
• Pass the Engine service station,
• Travel further down until you get to the Total service station.
• Turn right into Nathaniel Maxuilili Street and drive for another 3 blocks, and you will be able to drive directly into our parking area.

Directions from Walvis Bay:

• Get on to the Kalahari Highway (the only road leading out of Walvis Bay in a northerly direction)
• Drive for about 33km.
• Enter Swakopmund driving in the Nathaniel Maxuilili Street and keep straight on that road.
• You will pass the Catholic Church on your left (a big orange-coloured church) - keep straight.
• At the end of that block you will see the hotel.
• You drive directly into our parking area.
• You will travel a total of 7 blocks from the time you cross the Swakop River Bridge.