COMFORT & STYLE
YOUR STAY AT MILKWOOD HOUSE
In 2025 Milkwood House was opened. Milkwood House provides an additional two guest rooms, tucked behind Whalesong Lodge with a private entrance on Vyver Street.
The home unfolds across two storeys. Downstairs, the house breathes with the garden. The living area is open-plan lounge, dining and kitchen forming one continuous flow. Large framed sliding doors open up onto the garden.
Once guests ascend to the upper level they are greeted by the sweeping views of the ocean.
Upstairs both guest rooms feature a private en-suite bathroom and an ocean facing balcony overlooking Walker Bay.
MILKWOOD HOUSE AMENITIES
- Tranquil garden with an ancient Milkwood
- Comfortable lounge area
- Fireplace
- Honesty bar
- Dining area where breakfast is served
Breakfast is served downstairs from 8h00 till 10h00, or you can choose to have it delivered to your room.
Our breakfast includes fresh seasonal fruit, thick creamy yoghurt, dried fruit poached in spiced rooibos, homemade granola. Platters filled with cheese from the Stanford area, cold meats and pâtés. Whalesong’s finest jams, marmalades and preserves are served with home baked rolls and croissants. Tasty Overberg honey on a warm slice of toast. Happy chicken eggs from a little farm up the road, prepared to your liking.
Enjoy a pot of tea from our large selection, or try our own specially roasted blend of coffee.
Tea/coffee can be found on your right going into the kitchen, help yourself or ask one of the girls to assist you. Please make yourself at home! Find the milk in the fridge. Try some of Whalesong’s home-made biscuits and rusks. Available most afternoons, cake of the day, fresh from the kitchen. Please help yourself to a slice and savour a sweet delight!
Our water is passed through a nano filtration filter to remove the lime, and we have a second filter in the kitchen, the small tap at the basin. Each room is supplied with a flask of filtered water, you are welcome to refill it in the kitchen. Bottled sparkling and still mineral water are available in the honesty bar.
There is an Honesty Bar in the cupboard in the dining room. Here you find local craft beer and cider, along with wines from the Overberg area, ranging from Elgin to Elim. Wine by the glass is available from one of the local vineyards.
Bubblies we have chosen our favourites for you to enjoy. And after dinner taste a Grappa / Witblitz, new and interesting bottles keep finding us. Brandy, Gin and Whisky from exciting small producers in the region.
Milkwood House features a comfortable lounge area on the ground floor.
You are also welcome to use the lounge, pool and other facilities at the main Whalesong Lodge.
Our team consists of four ladies from the Masakhane community Onke, Nyameka, Busiswa, Marden and Vee make sure the table is set and breakfast is served, see that the laundry gets done, the beds are made, in short: they will ensure you have a delightful stay!
If you would like to leave something for them, they have a communal tip box which gets shared among them on Fridays.
Unfortunately no guest pets are permitted.
We are striving to be greener. Environmentally friendly cleaning products, together with lemon juice, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda see to the cleaning needs. All biodegradable food matter is fed into our worm farm where thousands of little wrigglers do their job in assisting with fertilizing our garden.
Recycling for bottles, plastic, paper and cans. Please use the silver bin on the way to the kitchen.
Towels: As we live in a water scarce area, you can help by indicating if you wish a change of towels by leaving the used towels in the bath.
We support “Just Pure” from Hermanus which offers a range of products that are kind to your body and the environment. So the mind can relax too!
Laundry can be done, if you stay 2 nights or more. If it is an emergency, we can always make a plan.
At Whalesong Lodge we strive to provide exceptional experiences to our guests while ensuring the preservation of our environment and supporting local communities. By promoting sustainable practices, ethical operations, and fair treatment of our employees and partners, we aim to contribute to a better future for tourism, fostering a positive impact on both people and the planet.
Since April 2013 we have been Fair Trade Tourism Accredited. The FTT accreditation is awarded on the basis of a rigid assessment, assuring that the company is operated ethically and in a social and environmentally responsible manner.
Whalesong Lodge is also one of the founding members of the Creative Skills Factory NPC to initiating, promoting and assisting in skills development, early childhood learning and family support in the surrounding area. In the Early learning program families are equipped to help their children develop in an interactive way and succeed in school and beyond.
We are proud members of Pack for a Purpose, an initiative that allows travellers like you to make a lasting impact in the community at your travel destination. If you save just a few kilos of space in your suitcase and take supplies for the projects we support in need, you’ll make a priceless impact in the lives of our local children and families.
We also form part of a community called Trees for Tourism. TFT is for locals and tourists alike a way to counter-balance the human footprint by planting trees for reforestation purposes. Creating pristine forest eco-systems on selected sites in different parts of the Western Cape and safeguarding the richness and robustness of South Africa’s biodiversity.
We can arrange for relaxing massages and revitalizing reflexology by a professional, in the privacy of your room, and beauty treatments can be booked in the village nearby.
It is best to book activities and treatments on the day before.
Even though we are in a malaria free area, mosquitoes can be irritating and their bite can be itchy, so use the electrical anti-mozzie plug you have in your room.
