Malealea Lodge - Digital Guest Guide

Main Wi-Fi Network

• 📶 Network: Malealea5
• 🔑 Password: Malealea@05

🏠 Room Wi-Fi Access

➡️ Please collect a voucher at the bar if you are in the following rooms: (All other rooms can connect to Malealea5)

• Malealea3: Rooms 16, 17, 38, 39
• Malealea4: Rooms 21, 22, 26–31, 43–46

📶 How to Use Your Malealea Hotspot Voucher

• Turn on Wi-Fi on your phone, tablet, or laptop.
• Connect to the Wi-Fi network:
  • 👉 Malealea 2, Malealea 3, or Malealea 4
• A login page will appear automatically.
• Enter your voucher details:
  • o   Username: xxxx
  • o   Password: xxxx
• Tap Login.
• You now have 4.8 GB of data to use during your stay.

⚠️ Tips

• 📸 Take a photo of your voucher (username & password) – you’ll need it when moving between access points.
• The voucher works until the 4.8 GB is finished
• If you run out of data, please ask the barman for another voucher.

✨ If you experience any issues, feel free to walk around to find the best signal.

Dear Guests

To keep our shared spaces comfortable for everyone, we kindly ask that you:

• 🎧 Use headphones when watching videos or listening to music.
• 📵 Avoid using loudspeaker for phone calls.

Thank you for your consideration and for helping us maintain a peaceful, relaxing environment. 🌿

We appreciate your feedback as we continue improving the service.

Activities can be booked at a moment’s notice.  Enquire at Reception Day activities are sent off daily as required. If you have small children, enquire at reception for family discounts.  Small children wanting to go on pony treks can take a walking guide to lead the horse at a small extra cost. We do require Indemnity Forms to be signed.  Helmets are compulsory for pony trekking & mountain biking.

Open daily 7:30 am – 9:00 pm
📞 Call/WhatsApp: +266 5883 9646

Do not drink the water from the taps. Bottled water is available for purchase at the Bar. 

Before showering, check to see if the pilot light on the geyser is burning.  If the light is not burning, please notify someone in reception/bar to assist you.  Do not attempt to relight the geyser yourself or adjust any of the settings.
 

No music from cars and radios is allowed to be played on the property.  Musical instruments are allowed to be played until 10pm in the Bar area only.  We have the right to ask musicians to stop if other guests are being disturbed.

The Malealea Development Trust uses the old clothes as “payment” for various community projects.  Leave any clothes that you would like to donate at Reception or with the Barman.

A local choir sings every evening at 17h30 in the summer months and 17h00 in the winter months. This is followed by the Band playing with their home-made instruments.  These groups are not paid by the lodge so please support them with a small donation.  Their music is inspiring.  (Suggested donations are R30pp for the Choir and R25pp for the Band).

• Tennis rackets and balls are available in the bar.
• Please wait for the court to dry properly before using after the rain. 
• Tennis Lessons/Hitting partner available on request.

• For a bigger selection of locally made curios, please support the handicraft center. 
• Ask Reception for opening times and directions.

The weather in Lesotho is unpredictable. In mountain valleys annual rainfall is 20 inches, with most of it falling in the summer months from November to March, though there is also an average of almost 9 hours sunshine per day. Of course mountain masses can cause uplift of cloud making higher peaks rather wetter, particularly in the afternoons. Snow has been recorded in the mountains throughout the year, though it is not common in the months when we are travelling except on the highest peaks.

Summer temperatures in the lowlands can reach 30 degrees Celsius, but there is a fall of about 1 degree for every 100m gain in altitude. Night time temperatures are frequently below zero in the mountains, and during the day there can be rapid falls in temperature if cold cloud and rain sets in. Our trekking seasons are selected as the best possible - April is towards the end of Autumn, the best season for trekking and the picturesque harvest in the villages. September/October is Spring, with masses of blossoms and clear, warm weather interspersed with occasional short, sharp storms.

November to April (Summer)

The countryside starts becoming green after the first rains usually in October/November. Summers can be hot with short, intermittent thundershowers and hail storms with lightning.  Most of the rainfall comes in the seven-month summer season from November to April.

May - October (Winter)

Winters are generally dry with bright, sunny and crisp clear skies.  The early mornings are very cold until about 9am. During the day the temperatures are moderate to warm with sudden cold temperatures just after about 4:30pm. Minimum temperatures of around 0°C are common in June, the coldest month. Snowfalls often occur either at the beginning or the end of the winter season. When it does snow on the ground at Malealea, it’s usually not very thick and melts the next day as soon as the sun comes up. The Thaba Putsoa mountain range in the distance usually stays covered in snow  for longer, resulting in spectacular views. 

Flora

February is a good time to see Red-hot Pokers and flowering Aloes

March/April you can see fields of cosmos

September – the countryside is dotted pink with peach blossoms