Okuti

By light aircraft from Maun to Xakanaxa airstrip, about twenty-five minutes in the air, and then the open-vehicle drive of around twenty minutes that the camp counts as your first game drive. The scheduled flights are seat-in-plane services in Cessna Caravans and similar bush aircraft, they can land at up to three other airstrips on the way, and the departure time is confirmed only the day before. If you would rather fix your own timings, we can arrange a private charter, typically a Cessna Caravan or a Pilatus PC-12, straight into Xakanaxa. Coming from Kasane rather than Maun, allow about an hour and a half in the air.

On every flight the limit is twenty kilograms a person including hand luggage, in a soft bag with no wheels or frame, and anything larger can be stored free of charge in Maun until you come out. A representative meets you at Maun airport and walks you to the aircraft, and the departure tax charged on flights leaving Maun and Kasane is something we build into the quote rather than leave you to pay at the desk.

Yes. Moremi lies in the northern half of Botswana, which TravelHealthPro, the UK's official travel health service, classes as high risk for malaria from October to May, listing antimalarial tablets among its recommendations for those months, and as low risk from June to September, when it advises awareness and bite avoidance. The CDC names the Okavango and Ngamiland districts among the parts of Botswana for which it recommends prescription medicine to prevent malaria, and the camp's own guidance says the same. Low risk is not the same as no risk.

We do not make medical recommendations. We are travel planners, not doctors. Which tablets are right for you, whether they suit your own health or anyone else's in the party, and what is appropriate for a child, is a conversation between you and your doctor or a travel clinic. The practical side we can speak to is not medical: cover arms and legs from late afternoon and keep repellent to hand.

Yes, and it is one of the more practical family camps in Moremi. The two family houses give parents and children their own bedrooms with one bathroom between them, the kitchen runs a children's menu, and a child sharing with parents is charged at a child rate rather than an adult one, which we price for your dates. The Young Explorers guide is a separate specialist who is booked in advance, so tell us the ages when you enquire and we will build the guide, and a private vehicle if your party needs one, into the quote from the start.

Two things to weigh. Because the camp sits inside a game reserve, the days are drives and boat trips rather than walks, which suits children who are happy to sit and watch, and the camp is unfenced, with a pool that is not fenced either, wildlife walking through and an escort to your room after dark, so younger children need a parent's eye on them at all times. Board games live in the lounge for the hot hours between the morning and afternoon outings.

Yes. Raised wooden walkways link every reed house to the lounge, bar, dining room and fire deck, so a guest in a wheelchair can move between their room and the main areas without steps, and the camp describes itself as wheelchair accessible throughout.

Be realistic about the edges of it. A guest who stayed in a wheelchair reported sandy ground where the vehicles load, steep ramps down to the pool and the jetty, and lifts in and out of the game-drive vehicle and the boat with the guides' help, so a travelling companion who can assist makes the difference between a good stay and a frustrating one. Tell us exactly what you need and we will put the specific questions to the camp before we hold a room.

Two seasons and a flood. Rain falls between November and March, with January and February the wettest months, brief but sometimes heavy afternoon storms and days in the low thirties. From April the rain stops and the flood arrives from Angola, filling the Delta's channels through the cool, dry winter, when a June, July or August morning on the jetty can be close to six degrees before the day warms into the mid-twenties. September and October are the hottest and driest weeks, with afternoons reaching forty and the game pulled in tight to the permanent water in front of the camp.

Pack a warm, windproof jacket, gloves and a hat for winter mornings on the water, a light rain jacket between November and April, neutral colours, strong sun protection and closed shoes, and binoculars for the heronries; sealable plastic bags keep dust off camera gear. The camp launders daily and the flight limit is twenty kilograms in a soft bag, so pack less than you think. Wifi in the rooms is limited and there is no mobile signal, so download anything you will want before you fly.

Three nights gives the two safaris their due: a full day on the floodplains by vehicle, an afternoon and a sundowner on the lagoon, and a morning by boat to the heronries upstream, which is an hour or more each way and at its best between September and December. Stay five nights or more across the camp and its sister camps in the Delta and a long-stay discount applies, on condition that the flights between the camps are booked as part of the same package, which is how we book them.

The rate is fully inclusive: the room, all meals and snacks, house wines, local beers and spirits and soft drinks, the shared game drives and boat trips with the camp's guides, daily laundry, and park fees and taxes. We include medical evacuation cover as standard. Outside it are the flights, imported wines, spirits and champagne, a private vehicle or a specialist guide if you want one, the helicopter flight over the Delta, a single supplement if you travel alone in the shoulder and high seasons, and a small nightly donation to the owners' community fund; we show every one of those as a line in your quote.