Name: Buccaneers Backpackers
Address: Chintsa West, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, 5275, South Africa
Rating: 9

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Excellent accommodation for all age groups. Easy access to lagoon and beach. Great facilities and a good spot for photography and birding. Our hosts were very friendly and obliging. We enjoyed the excellent meal provided in the dining room for New Years Eve. We will definitely book there again in future.

Great venue for a family re-union holiday.

We stayed at Buccaneers for our sardine run trip. The place is very homey with amazing people running it. Sean and his family and team are very nice and helpful. They helped us with arranging our safari trip at Addo Park when our flight got canceled and we had extra day. The food were great and homey. We really love our stay and had a great time.

Homey place with amazing team

What a fantastic place, my family and I were towing a car from East London to KZN, ended up getting "stuck" at Buccs because our towbar bent. 
We were welcomed with open hearts and arms by every individual of such a united and happy team/family from Buccaneers!

From the Groundsman, to the wonderful souls that cooked the amazing food that is on offer to everyone, to the owner who offered his hands on help to assist us with our 'car issues' 

Thank you for all the love and energy that was shared with us.

I am already planning my return trip!

Transformational & Amazing

It is always great to stay at Buccaneers. Friendly people/comfortable accommodation and good food! Due to a cancellation I was upgraded without asking to a deluxe unit for free! What service!

Lots of activities for young and old. The beautiful scenery never tires! 

Great as always

My friends and I stayed here for a quick detour to the beach before heading back to Jhb. 

Buccaneers is so beautiful, and the views are to die for. The rooms are clean and pleasantly decorated. And the beach just a short stroll away. Everything you could want for a beachside getaway.

The price was very reasonable too. 


Love the vibe

We had the most beautiful view from our room we had in South-Africa. Our room had sea view, was new and very comfortable. The staff was friendly and very helpful. We had a good meal in the restaurant. There are just natural noises, such as bird and the waves from the sea. We made a nice walk along the beach, but even in January I found it to cold to swim in the  sea. The fact that fishermen on the beach were fishing for sharks, did not encourage me to go into the water either. The surrounding is nice green.

Wonderful sea view

I have frequented Buccaneers many times over many years and have stayed in each of the different types of accommodation and every one was great value. We stayed in one of the new options and it was awesome. The entire experience was one of complete bliss. From the great view, the fantastic wild beach, the backpackers fantastic staff. All of these make it easy to recommend Buccaneers to any age, tourist, traveler, or holiday  maker. Oh and the food is amazing, super tasty, healthy and good value! Thanks for a wonderful holiday!!! :)

The Real Deal

Down a dusty unpaved road Buccaneers accomodation hides between green foliage. Pick up a paddle at reception and take a canoe for free to paddle in the river estuary on the doorstep. Walk for 10 minutes along the river or through it to a seemingly endless wild and untouched beach that stretches to the horizon. You can sign up for surf lessons or horse riding.
They run a communal evening meal where you can meet other travellers and have a chat. Conversations continue over a few beers in the bar afterwards. I wish I could have stayed longer.

Slice of paradise

Our family group of 12 rented out the whole of Tree House for our 6-night stay. This comprises 6 bright, airy and modern en-suite rooms with private balconies, four of which have great sea-views. There is also a large kitchen dining room and outside deck. Obviously this is shared with other users if you don't book out all 6 rooms as we did. The property was spotlessly clean. It is highly recommended - ideal for a large group like ours. The rooms all have modern art works on the wall - these weren't to our taste, but that's a very minor nit-pick. Other accommodation on site includes tents, chalets, dormitories and a camp and caravan site.
Buccaneers is set in a large area of coastal bush, and was pretty quiet for most of our stay. The beautiful beach is a 5-minute walk along the edge of the lagoon to the nearest point - but you can keep walking as far as you want. It was a further 20-minute walk to a tidal pool, which we enjoyed too. Boogie boards are available free of charge, which was great fun in the warm Indian Ocean. I also recommend taking one of the free canoes up the river that leads to the lagoon - very peaceful, and a great way to see birds. Note that the three canoes are not all equally easy to steer!
There is a grocery shop 10 minutes walk away on the other side of the lagoon, while some curios can be bought at reception. There is a restaurant on site for communal evening meals, and a cafe for lunches and breakfast. We mainly self-catered, but the cafe was fine. The outdoor pool under palm trees and weaver bird nests was still a  bit cool when we were there in early October, but that didn't put off our kids from making good use of it.
Every Wednesday there is a trip to a local primary school available. I highly recommend this - you get to meet local kids and the staff, and they put on a wonderful half-hour of Xhosa singing. At the end, a donation is expected to the school via Buccaneers - you will not need much persuading to be generous with this!
Other activities which we didn't get round to include visiting a soup kitchen, and surf lessons. Our kids did enjoy the beach horse-riding, which was very reasonable.
The site is set on a slope, and is a short but steep walk from the lower end by the lagoon up to the cafe and reception. This wasn't a problem for us, but might be for others.
My understanding is that having begun 40 years ago as a family holiday location, Buccaneers then changed tack to the student / backpacker market in the 90s. They seem now to have returned to being very well geared towards families, while still retaining some backpacker clientele.
This was the second part of our family holiday from the UK to South Africa. As with our first stop, It exceeded our expectations. it's just a shame that this part of the country is not better known to UK tourists - they don't know what they're missing.

Ideal group/family accommodation on the beautiful eastern Cape coast

My family of four stayed at this backpackers in August. We absolutely loved it. The views were spectacular and we felt spoiled with the large cottage at an excellent price. We loved the freedom to borrow the SUP's and Boogie boards at any time and for free! Buffet meals were delicious. It was a very relaxed and comfortable environment with friendly, welcoming staff. We also loved the opportunities to do things around the community including working with Temie in the local Khosa village by helping her make soup for 70 kids. It was a rewarding experience that my kids will never forget. Thank you Buccaneers for giving us a wonderful South African experience. 

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