So Mother’s Day is coming up- I’m keen to know what you guys have planned! My mom has just moved back to PE- she wasn’t loving JHB, it was too busy and hectic for her, and she got very lonely. If she was around, I’d totes be keen on stealing this giveaway for myself 🙂 […]
I’ve done the whole Kruger thing a few times, and while it is great, I think many people aren’t aware that you can get just as good a big 5 experience in Pilanesberg, which is only 2 hours away from Jozi. Also, 5 star in Pilanesberg is WAY cheaper than 5 star Kruger. Late last […]
A few weekends ago, I flew up to Durban for one of my closest friend’s weddings. I was hosted at the 5 star Suncoast Towers in Durban and I just fell in love with it. It’s super luxurious without being huge and impersonal. Here are 3 reasons I think it’s awesome. 1. Location Situated in […]
You may be aware that I do some social media work for the Gauteng Tourism Authority (GTA), including writing blog posts for them here and managing their Twitter account from time to time – @visitgauteng. It’s fun when I do get to do these things- being a voice for a “product” I’m quite passionate about is great. […]
If you missed the first post I wrote about Camp Jabulani, read here. I ended my last post with pictures of the dinner we enjoyed. I was soon to find out that our CJ schedule was as follows: wake up, eat, game drive, eat, elephant safari, sundowners, eat, sleep. I never really look forward to hotel […]
This is the first time I’ve written a post in a long time where I haven’t been in a rush/ exhausted/ stressed. The reason for that is that I’m not on deadline for the Sunday Independent this week (I’ve got a double page in tomorrow’s issue), and I’m home in PE spending time with my folks, doing absolutely […]
This post is sooo long overdue. I went to the Orient Hotel a while ago, but because I can only write about stories on the blog after they’ve been published in the Sunday Independent, I had to wait to see if we were going to do a story on it there before I could cover […]
In terms of fine dining, we’re quite limited in Jozi. CT has most of the best restaurants, but we do have 1 or 2 in Jozi. One is Restaurant Mosaic at the Orient, which I’ll be covering in the Sunday Independent soon. The other is Roots at Forum Homini. I picked this spot to spend […]
I write this post with a heavy heart, because I spent most of our time at Zimbali complaining. Granted, we had just returned from quite possibly the best holiday ever in Seychelles, and I’m not sure if Zimbali ever had any hope of competing against that, but even without the Seychelles trip I would have […]
We decided to plan a spontaneous getaway this past weekend. As you might have guessed, my calendar is pretty jam packed at all times, so a free weekend is rare. It so happened that I had a work event that ended early on Friday afternoon, so we thought it would be a waste not to take advantage […]
While many of my Joburger friends love going back to their hometowns- whether it’s Dbn, CT or even PE… I hate it. The only 2 things PE has to offer me are my family and the beach. I think that I hate it because I cannot handle small town mentality.. and the city is pretty sad as well. For eg, Vovo Telo […]
A home away from home in Durban
August 16, 2014 by Hasmita Nair • Durban, Travel • Tags: weekend getaways • 0 Comments
It’s been close to 2 months since we moved out of our home, and since then we’ve been living out of bags, moving from one hotel to the next. My focus is luxury travel, and after a while 5 star chain hotels just turn into a blur. I know exactly what to expect, and nothing really […]