Independent, Johannesburg - Gauteng Hotels

always stay here. its one of my favourite hotels in the world

I definitely enjoyed my stay here! The staff were wonderful and very helpful and responsive to my needs. When I arrived at the airport they had a shuttle to pick me up immediately. Also, the arranging of my tours went smooth and my tour guide Steven was very knowledgeable and informative. I really appreciated the "honesty policy", not every place will be trusting enough with a self serve bar lol. The atmosphere was very nice and quiet which made it easy to relax. It's gated as well which gives and extra blanet of security. You would have to be an Olympic high jumper to get over that gate but the barbed wire just may get you. The only thing that bothered me was the spider in my sink lol. I have spiders around my home as well so I found it easy to get over, it just left me a bit uneasy being a spider in Africa. I killed the spider and closed the window and solved that problem. I wouldn't change a thing about my stay here and in fact, I'm considering another visit!

They charged us at time of check in saying they did not receive any payment from Expedia. They didn't bother to check before charging and made a big fuss to return them money, and did it only after I put my foot down. One more issue was that they were confused whether or not to charge extra for breakfast. They charged for one day out of 6, and when I demanded an explanation they didn't have one and finally took the charge out. Bottom-line, they do not have any process and people are untrained.

The staff was preoccupied with a wedding and made me wait two hours before letting me into my room. I was checking in early, but I'm not sure it would have mattered what time of day it was because they were so busy with the wedding. Having travelled for two days, I was exhausted and ended up sleeping in my car while I waited! Finally I followed the staff around until they let me into the room. The room itself was nice and comfortable, the the noise from the wedding made it difficult to sleep until late into the night.

Good location walking distance to Loftus Versfeld Stadium, and not far from University and town. Nice outdoor bar garden and eating area.

Nice rooms with garage for your car. Free WIFI in the room. Nice small clean bedroom.

We were disappointed by the hotel. Our room had many lights that did not work and no attempt by staff to fix them. There were lots of ants in the kitchen area and nothing could be left out.

Excellent guest house for the price you pay. Quite neighbour hood and safe. Only problem is you hear flight arrival and departures. Will be noisy sometimes but if you are tired you may not hear anything.