The Protea Hotel Kruger Gate is an African tree-house style hotel located 100 meters from the entrance to the Kruger National Park, on the banks of the Sabi River. The entrance is a towering indigenous portico with a wooden walkway up to the reception area. The 96 guestrooms feature African influenced light décor with wood furnishings and tiled floors. All feature dial-up Internet connections, air conditioning, minibars, televisions with satellite channels, tea and coffee making facilities, hair dryers, in-room safes, telephones and views of the bush.
At the Kudyela Restaurant guests can enjoy a wide range of international dishes from the breakfast buffet and à la carte lunch menu. The restaurant features a traditional African sundeck with vaulted roof supported by trees and looks out over the bush. The open air Lapa Restaurant serves a buffet dinner of African dishes under the stars, on the banks of the Sabi River. A drum calls guests to a dinner served by firelight and Shangaan dancers perform every Saturday evening. At the Shilovo Bar guests can sip cocktails smoke cigars and dine from and a`la carte menu. The bar is split into a cigar lounge and an open air bar set on wooden walkways above ground level, and features a fireplace and chess boards. The hotel features an outdoor swimming pool and children's pool surrounded by greenery and sun loungers. Guests can also take advantage of the games room, or browse for souvenirs and postcards in the gift shop. Guests arriving at the hotel by car benefit from complimentary parking facilities and, for business guests, a nearby exhibition center with a range of audio-visual equipment is available for use. The hotel houses a tennis court and offers miniature golf, volleyball, table tennis and a children's playground. Other activities include bush driving in the hotel's private reserve, tree house sleep outs and safari. Nearby attractions include the Kruger National Park, famous for its elephants, leopards, rhinos and buffalo, and the Skukuza Camp, 18 kilometers away. Hazyview, with its banana plantations is 42 kilometers away and Shangana Cultural Village, an African tribal market village is at a 50 kilometer distance. The Panorama Route, which incorporates Gods Window, Bourkes Luck Potholes, Blyde River Canyon and the Mac Mac Falls, is 80 kilometers away. Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (FAKN) is 150 kilometers from the hotel.

Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property’s location to the point of interest or attraction, and may not reflect actual travel distance.

Distances are displayed to the nearest 0. 1 mile and kilometre.

Kruger National Park 109.9 km / 68.3 mi

The preferred airport for Protea Kruger Gate is Skukuza (SZK) 8.5 km / 5.3 mi.