Are you spending the weekend before or after the festival in Durban and wondering where to stay? Then here are a few suggestions:
Durban is a coastal city. If you really want to be in the heart of it, then the place to stay is North Beach. Chris’s family will be staying at The Palace . There is also a large ‘Holiday Inn’ resort nearby, namely Holiday Inn Garden Court. Feel free to ask the staff at Garden Court about other hotels in the area - remember, Saffa’s love to talk!
If you wish to stay somewhere a bit more upmarket, then try Umhlanga. Umhlanga is around 25 minutes North of Durban along the coastline. This area is known as the’millionaires paradise’ of Kwa-Zulu Natal. It also boasts the ‘largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere’ -Gateway. Gateway has a multitude of shops, but also boasts a surfers wave pool (which creates the perfect ‘big’ wave for a duration of 15 minutes), one of the biggest indoor climbing walls, a massive skateboarding park (which has hosted a number of world skateboarding championships), basketball courts…etc etc!!
Be prepared to fork out a bit of cash if you stay here…one of it’s most famous hotels is The Beverly Hills. Those in Australia who know of Sol Kerzner (the Guy who is building the tall apartment block on the Gold Coast) might be interested to know that this was the first hotel he ever built at age 29 and where he began to amass his fortune! This was the first 5 Star hotel in South Africa and was the beginings of ‘The Southern Sun Group’, now known world wide.
If you do book one of these hotels, or find something even more fun and exciting, please let others know by posting a comment below - it’s always more fun to share your experiences!
