What started with one family's love for the Sabie River has grown into a collection of exceptional places across South Africa. We're proudly rooted in conservation, driven by an obsession for detail, and energised by the joy of sharing Africa's most remarkable destinations. We keep evolving, keep caring, and keep working to make every moment matter.
A Bigger Family
Family has always meant more than bloodline. It's the exceptional people across our lodges, hotels, and residences who bring our story to life. It's the communities we support and the wild spaces we protect together.
We celebrate our individuality - it's through our different talents, aligned in the common purpose to enrich our guests' lives, that we create meaningful impact.
Four Generations of Conservation
Guy Aubrey Chalkley, Robert's great-grandfather, purchased Kingston farm along the Sabie River in 1933 - not for profit, but for protection. Fifteen years later, he became a founding member of Sabi Sand Nature Reserve, one of Africa's first private conservation areas.
Louise, Robert's mother, welcomed our first guests to River Lodge in 1978, turning conservation into connection. Two of her sons, Nick and Robert, together with Robert's wife Britt, grew Lion Sands from that single river lodge into what MORE Collection is today - a family vision inspired by their childhoods in this extraordinary landscape.
Nick’s passion for conservation lives on through MORE Field Guide College. Britt's warmth and vision shaped Ivory Lodge - she saw what it could become, and her heart lives in every detail.
Led by Robert, we're now in our 4th generation - still a family business, but modern in our thinking and relentless in our pursuit of exceptional experiences. Each generation has cared deeply for these wild places, from Guy's bold conservation vision to today. That dedication continues in every experience we create, every guest we welcome, every wild place we protect.
Robert's great-grandmother, Dora Winifred Chalkley
Nick More's sons, Ant, Matt, Jono and Jack, with field guides at Lion Sands
Robert and Britt More and twins Mackenzie and Madison
Robert, Britt and Nick More
Robert, Mackenzie and Madison More
Our Values
We are stronger together
- Ubuntu “I am because we are” means that we treat people with respect for their humanity
- We help others because we are a team
- We Speak up when we need help
We take pride in what we do
- We arrive prepared
- We own it by seeing an issue through until it is resolved
- We keep learning by being open to better ways of doing things
- We give and welcome honest feedback
- We choose to be kind, honest and professional
We look, listen and make it better
- We pay attention to what is happening around us
- We step in and lend a hand
- We take responsibility for making our part a little better each day
The People Behind Every Stay
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