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COVER STORY: GUVON HOTELS & SPAS
Experience unforgettable hospitality at Guvon Hotels
Guvon Hotels & Spas is a leading hospitality group offering a collection of hotels in Gauteng. All four properties offer excellent accommodation, conference and teambuilding facilities, and are located close to popular highways and central business hubs.
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Guvon Hotels & Spas offer unforgettable experiences for delegates and guests alike.
Three of the properties offer an array of spa treatments and accommodation near the Cradle of Humankind in Muldersdrift. All hotels are in close proximity to popular highways and central business hubs.
Par with excellence at The Fairway Hotel
The Fairway Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort is situated on the Randpark Golf Course, two kilometres from Cresta Shopping Centre in Johannesburg and 15 minutes from Sandton City centre. This business hotel provides the ultimate destination for conferences, functions, corporate golf days and events in a safe residential area with tree-lined streets. The luxury development overlooks the famous Randpark Golf Course and is situated just northeast of the clubhouse, on the first hole.
Mano Sequeira, general manager, The Fairway Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort, said: “The Fairway Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort provides flexibility for conferencing and is situated in an absolutely fantastic location on the Randpark Golf Course, accompanied by highly professional service offerings.”
The Randpark Golf Club is the ultimate urban golf destination, on par with excellence. With two of the best manicured courses in South Africa, as well as the Creek 9 Mashie Course. Firethorn and Bushwillow are two distinct 18hole championship golf courses, offering golfers of varying ability an unforgettable experience.
Tim Dutch, operations manager, The Fairway Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort, said: “This hotel is amazing, and has everything a delegate could want, with fine dining, casual dining, three bars, two pools, a spa, a golf course, driving range, and a huge variety of rooms, there is nothing we don’t have. Being located in Randburg, means it’s so central.”
In terms of conferencing, Mr Dutch said: “We have a team of excellent coordinators for conference and banqueting events, and we get it right the first time. More than 50 per cent of conference business is return clients. That says something about the way we do things.”
The cherry on top, Mr Dutch added: “Our spa offering is extensive, with loads of aquatic and body treatments, a full nail salon, and overnight accommodation packages.”
Accommodation
The Fairway Hotel has 62 hotel rooms and fourteen villas. The hotel rooms include 35 luxury rooms, sixteen premier rooms, one paraplegic room, two suites and eight family rooms, each with its own private bathrooms. The villas consist of seven double-storey golf villas with four en-suite bedrooms, six double-storey garden villas with four en-suite bedrooms and one singlestorey garden villa with two en-suite bedrooms, bringing the total number of rooms to 116. Breakfast is included in the room rate. Gym, tennis courts and spa facilities further add to the enjoyment and comfort of guests during their stay.
The Spa
The Fairway Spa invites you to immerse yourself in an oasis, providing an ideal retreat from the demands of the city. Services include individual treatments, day packages, corporate conference spa packages and packages for non-golfing delegates who don’t want to be excluded from the company’s corporate golf day. All packages can be customised to suit your specific requirements.
The Fairway Spa is situated to the left of the hotel entrance, nestled between the golf club and the hotel rooms. Soothing hues of blue and reflections of water and light greet spa guests as they enter the airy double-volume lobby en-route to the relaxation lounge or their chosen treatment room. A sun deck, Café style Bistro and private gardens make this a wonderful destination for relaxation. With eleven treatment rooms, the spa is spacious enough to accommodate small pamper party groups, for leisure or business purposes. Visit the Spa for top-to-toe treatments at one destination.
Facilities
The 8,200m² hotel comprises a multi-volume foyer and private internal pool courtyard. A comprehensive range of venues, facilities and services are available to make your event unforgettable with a conference centre, boardrooms, breakaway rooms, lounge and deck with stunning views. Your banquet, conference, product launch or private celebration may be hosted in venues as intimate as our downstairs wine cellar, as expansive as the Vista Deck, as jovial as the Roundabout Bar or as elaborate as the Windsor Ballroom.
Entertaining options at The Fairway are aplenty, but Balata Restaurant deserves the first mention. Balata Restaurant was a finalist in the recent Top Restaurant Award, RASA Rosetta Award of Excellence 2022. Offering a variety of seating arrangements, vibrant décor colours and modern fireplaces, the restaurant is famous for its outstanding breakfasts. Light business lunches are popular, but Balata is known for its exquisite fine dining under the leadership of the executive chef. Using the freshest produce available, all meals are served with great care and attention to detail.
Bar Verve with its trendy ambience is perfect for a business meeting, a quick get-together or just for unwinding after work. A secluded wine cellar hides behind Bar Verve and provides a sophisticated private venue for executives to have a drink after a long day of conferencing.
The Roundabout Bar has wonderful views over the golf course and is popular with the golfing fraternity who need to recuperate after a strenuous round of golf, or that drink on the way back home after a long day at the office.
Whether guests are on business or leisure, they will find it is an experience that they will want to repeat sooner rather than later.
Being the place to meet in Johannesburg, Roundabout Bar is renowned for after-work cocktails which may well extend into unparalleled late-night fine dining in Balata Restaurant.
Conferences and Meetings
Taking conferencing and business meetings to a whole new level of luxury.
Conference facilities include two conference rooms (Windsor I and II) which are joined to create one larger conference room accommodating up to 180 delegates, depending on the seating configuration.
Four boardrooms are available adjacent to the Windsor Rooms and may be used as separate breakaway units or three can be joined to form a venue with capacity for up to eighty delegates. As stand-alone boardrooms, the setup will comfortably accommodate ten delegates each. The Randpark 1, 2, 3 and 4 boardrooms open up onto the Vista Deck, where cocktails from the upstairs bar ease delegates into the night with spectacular sunset views over the golf course, club house and greens.
It would be our pleasure to show you our facilities and supply you with more information regarding our conferencing packages. Please contact our conference department to arrange a site inspection.
Contact info
Tel: 011 478 8000 Email: banqueting@thefairway.co.za
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Kloofzicht — five-star luxury with a touch of country
Kloofzicht Lodge & Spa epitomises five-star luxury in a relaxed country environment. A combination of textured interiors, sandstone tiles, majestic mahogany and bold warm fabric colours are carried throughout the interior of the lodge. Nestled at the foothills of the Zwartkops Mountains in the Cradle of Humankind, Kloofzicht Lodge & Spa is a comfortable forty-minute drive from both Sandton and Pretoria.
Kloofzicht Lodge comprises sixty suites and overlooks six exquisite fly-fishing dams and the lower reaches of the Blaauwbank Spruit, as it meanders through the unspoilt Zwartkops gorge. Five-star hospitality and service are the benchmark of Kloofzicht Lodge & Spa.
The lodge accommodates up to 120 conference delegates within five conference venues and two smaller meeting rooms. Spa conference packages are popular, while fly-fishing packages are available as an interesting teambuilding alternative.
The small but magnificent nature reserve upon which Kloofzicht is built, is home to kudu, impala, blue wildebeest, eland, red hartebeest, springbuck, gemsbok, zebra as well as a fascinating array of bird life.
Both Kloofzicht Lodge & Spa and Glenburn Lodge & Spa have become synonymous as the venues of choice in Gauteng for hot air ballooning safaris, due to the favourable flying conditions.
Accommodation
The five-star Kloofzicht Lodge & Spa offers a total of sixty bedrooms made up of eighteen deluxe suites, nineteen executive suites, ten superior suites, telve family suites and one royal suite. With sweeping views over the Zwartkops mountain range and fly-fishing dams, all suites have en-suite bathrooms, with seating areas leading onto an outside patio area and heated towel rails.
Kloofzicht Spa
Guests entering Kloofzicht Spa are greeted with the stunning view over the Kloofzicht dam, finally settling into the Zwartkops mountains in the distance. Kloofzicht Spa delights, with lazy days in the Jacuzzi or indoor pool, or just lounging on the deckchairs drinking in the stunning views after a relaxing treatment.
Kloofzicht Spa offers a variety of Spa treatments, massages, facials, manicures, pedicures and tailor-made spa packages all combined with five-star facilities and service. While couple’s treatments are very popular, men may prefer to rather enjoy fly-fishing in one of the six dams or watch the latest sport on the big screen in The Little Foot bar at the main lodge.
Spa conferences for smaller groups of ten or less are popular at this country spa.
Restaurants Uitzicht Restaurant
The stylish contemporary décor of Uitzicht Restaurant presents a perfect canvas for sophisticated a la carte dining. With a highly skilled and creative culinary team, this is an experience not to be missed. Lunches are a decadent affair, with an extensive buffet with the freshest of ingredients and finest linen.
Oevermeer Bistro
Oevermeer Bistro has a relaxed and jovial atmosphere — a place for unwinding where down-to-earth good food is presented with artistic flair. Reserve your spot on the deck with great views over the dam or nestle around the large fireplace in wintertime. The eight-seater harvest table is ideal for group gatherings.
Conferences and meetings
Kloofzicht Lodge & Spa is the ideal venue for upmarket conferences, special functions or product launches. The lodge accommodates groups from two to 120 delegates, within five main conference venues and two smaller meeting rooms. Spa conference packages are popular with cutting-edge companies, while fly-fishing packages are available as an interesting teambuilding alternative. Allow the highly trained and experienced staff of Kloofzicht Lodge to take care of all the details, to ensure a stress-free event, from catering to décor. The venue includes basic equipment (screens, flipcharts and whiteboards). Additional equipment is available, and rates are supplied on request. A variety of different teambuilding areas are available.
Conference add-ons and teambuilding
• Spa conferencing and spa treatments
• Royal Suite conference experience
• Wine Cellar events — wine and whiskey tastings
• Fly-fishing
• Hot air ballooning
Should you require any assistance with teambuilding options, please contact our conference department who would gladly recommend tried and trusted suppliers, with whom we have long-standing relationships. We highly recommend taking your conference to new heights with hot air ballooning for your executives. Take their breath away with your teambuilding choices.
It would be our pleasure to show you our facilities and supply you with more information regarding our conferencing packages. Please contact our conference department to arrange a site inspection or to enquire about our tailor-made packages.
Contact info
Email: conference@kloofzicht.co.za Tel: 011 317 0600
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Glenburn Lodge & Spa — offers delegates tranquility
Glenburn Lodge & Spa is situated in the tranquillity of the Zwartkops Mountains, on the banks of the Blaauwbank and Crocodile Rivers. Situated within the Cradle of Humankind, this 100-bedroom hotel, conference, wedding venue and spa is a mere 30 minutes from both Johannesburg and Pretoria. The natural scenic beauty of Glenburn Lodge & Spa makes it the ideal setting for conferences, product launches, think-tanks and teambuilding exercises.
Conferences and Meetings
The Glenburn Lodge & Spa conference centre includes eleven venues: Glenkyle, Glencove and Glenwillow feature banqueting as well as conference facilities. The largest venue, Glenkyle, can seat up to 300 delegates. The Coachman, the Boardroom, Greenwell’s Glory, Mallard, Marabou, Minnow, Muddler, Pheasants Tail, Royal Clansman and Williams Favourite provide conference facilities for groups between six and 150. Conference venue names were either inspired by Glenburn Lodge’s fly-fishing tradition and fly names, or the Scottish names reflecting the beautiful natural surrounds.
A range of conference packages are available to suit your specific needs and budget.
Delegates can expect sumptuous tea and coffee break snacks and a wide selection of coffee and tea options. In wintertime, Glenburn Lodge serves soups and hot chocolate during breaks. The aroma of popcorn in the conference, all day long, has been a favourite with conference-goers for many years. Standard conference equipment is included in the conference packages while we can make arrangements for any special requirements the company may have.
Teambuilding
With excellent teambuilding facilities in a scenic mountain and river surrounding in Muldersdrift, Glenburn Lodge & Spa is the obvious choice for outdoor teambuilding events such as treasure hunts and survivor games. Up your game with a hot air balloon ride over the Cradle of Humankind — special corporate rates are available from AirVentures who can accommodate up to 36 delegates at a time.
The universal sports field is popular with rugby, soccer, hockey and school teams, for training and matches purposes. School teams often combine their training camps with affordable accommodation in Bush Willow Tented Camp, at the foot of the mountain. Your teambuilding company or event organiser will be overjoyed with space and options available at Glenburn.
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Bush Willow Tented Camp — a more rustic experience
Bush Willow Tented Camp is built in a sector of Glenburn Lodge & Spa, which is surrounded by indigenous bush, at the foot of the Zwartkops Mountains, on the banks of the Blaauwbank River.
Accommodation comprises comfortable walk-in tents, including hot indoor showers and a small kitchenette. All meals are prepared and enjoyed in the thatched boma area where one can relax while the tantalising aroma of food grilling fills the air.
Not everyone is cut out for stiff boardroom meetings. If you believe (like we do), that being outdoors clears the mind, then the tented camp is the answer to you conference needs.
We highly recommend that you hire out the entire tented camp for a day or two, to secure exclusivity for your group, but if time is of essence, we do provide further options.
Ideally situated on the Blaauwbank River, Glenwillow is the dedicated indoors conference venue. The Boma and thatch gazebo overlooking the mountain can be utilised as a breakaway area. Or maybe sitting on a rock overlooking the river gets your creative juices flowing?
Established teambuilding companies are rating this venue as one of the best in Gauteng, due to its natural surroundings and ample space for teambuilding activities, such as drumming and firewalking. In addition to this, the exclusive use of a heated swimming pool, access to river fishing as well as nature walks along marked trails in the mountain are some of the leisure activities available.
Bush Willow Tented Camp is ideal for a self-catering venue, with braai stands and a basic kitchen at the Boma. Catered meals may be supplied by Glenburn Lodge & Spa, but need to be organised prior.
It would be our pleasure to show you our facilities and supply you with more information regarding our conferencing packages. Please contact our conference department to arrange a site inspection or to enquire about our dinner, bed and breakfast add-on rates. Self-braai dinner options are available.
Contact info
Email: conference@glenburn.co.za
Tel: 011 668 1600
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