Periwinkle Lodge is a stylish guesthouse overlooking Robberg Beach, a long sandy beach in Plettenberg Bay of the Garden Route. It's decorated in a relaxed and comfortable way as would typify your own beach house, if you had one, with lots of beach references (shells surrounded mirrors and wooden artefacts) along with a provencal style - with bright cheerful fabrics. The sitting/dining room is attractive - a large open plan space with an arched yellowwood roof - with floor to ceiling glass windows and doors leading out to the balcony overlooking the beach and Robberg Nature Reserve on the other side of the bay.

The four superior rooms at Periwinkle Lodge offer gorgeous views of the Indian Ocean from the bedroom, with floor to ceiling window and French doors opening onto a balcony, and a full bathroom with bath and shower. The standard rooms are similar in size but with sea or partial sea views from their balconies only, and with a shower only in the bathrooms. One room has a garden view only. All are furnished in a bright, colourful Provencal style and offer TV, telephone, tea/coffee facilities and bar fridge. Enjoy breakfast on the balcony, from where you can watch the dolphins frolicking in the bay (all year) or whales coming in to calve (typically from August to November). Dinners are available at Periwinkle Lodge on alternate nights of the week for guests who don't want to eat out. (Most of the restaurants in Plett cannot offer the view from the balcony that Periwinkle Lodge can!). There's no swimming pool at Periwinkle Lodge but the beach is only metres away.