It's Africa's glitziest safari company. Its locations within South Africa's Sabi Sands National Park dominates almost every travel survey in the world, regularly ranking as the world's top luxury resort. Those visiting Singita Sabi Sands choose between the Ebony and Boulders Lodge. Ebony is the older of the two; a collection of 12 luxury suites in an Out of Africa mix of safari-chic decor. A colonial hello reveals an airy space of pitched ceiling and living area tossed with natural skin rugs and large sofas fluffed with oversize pillows. Open walls frame the surrounding bush uninterrupted by anything man made except a massive private deck off the restaurant separating you from 45 grazing elephants on the horizon.
 
Eating at Singita begins with a morning breakfast following the early game drive. Enjoyed on an outdoor terrace suspended under a canopy of giant trees, guests nibble from a daily breakfast buffet or menu of eggs and traditional American breakfast staples. After breakfast, guests can return to rooms or hit the in-house spa with its locally derived skin treatments utilizing bush traditions and organic products. There is also an extremely well equipped gym with upgraded cardio equipment and LCD TV for a quick fix of CNN, MTV and CNBC.
 
Dinner is served in a thatch-room dining room with well-spaced tables to ensure the privacy of guests while dinning on a menu of Nala fillet, wildebeest carpaccio and local seafood from coastal fish markets. After dinner guests mingle near the lobby fireplace while enjoying South African ports before making their way back to their private lodges where a stoked fire and candlelight bath await.

The Room:

Ebony Lodge rooms recreate the classic safari experience, from décor to design, with conservatively luxurious details. A small mini bar overflows with gourmet goodies and refrigerator stocked with champagne and premium alcohols. A sturdy fireplace is viewable from living room to the bedroom, with its domed thatch ceiling and canopy bed. A small dressing area with horn-encrusted wardrobes leads to a tumbled bathroom, also surrounded in glass, with freestanding soaking tub and oversize rain shower that opens to an additional outdoor terrace. No detail is overlooked including complimentary laundry service that picks up your soggy socks in the morning and delivers them in a gift-wrapped package in the evening. Rooms are stocked with a collection of books to pass the time as well as watercolors for any burgeoning Renoirs. An on-site boutique, Singita Trading Post, offers a kitsch-free freestanding shop of African goods ranging from skeletal heads to natural skins and decorative arts. Afterward, lunch can be enjoyed in your room or back on the terrace at anytime, before making your way back to the main lodge around 3pm for the evening game drive.