Our stay in Joberg was during our honeymoon. We had a few days to fill between Cape town and safari in kruger park. On the pictures it looks like a good hotel with some nice facilities. But in reality it is barely a decent hotel.
To be clear this has nothing to do with staff as that was good to excellent, but everything to do with maintenance, noise and pungent marijuana being smoked next door and in the pool area.
If you have the bad luck to find yourself at the poolside, brace yourself as every morning at or just before 9 the music starts blaring. Perhaps you would want to close your windows to block the noice, but then you are confronted by a non-working aircon.
Perhaps you want to take a nice warm shower after thus wake up call? Good luck under the tiny dribbles of water that come out of the nice looking shower head. Oh yeah we only had warm water 1 time out of 3 usages, and then the choice was between burning and luke warm.
Handles doors and light switches are in desperate need of maintenance. As doors stick or dont close, switches barely hang in the wall and towel holders look like they will break if any weight is applied. Salon table is rocky like a ship in high water. And couch has the metal braces poking you when you sit on it.
At all times of night people are smoking, talking, making merry and beeping car horns. Not restful at all.
We were very pleased with the staff that cleaned the room, made the bed and the quality of the clothes cleaned.
