City Lodge Hotel Group has announced the official opening of its Courtyard Hotel Waterfall City in Midrand.
Headed up by opening gm, Brendan Luttig, this is the 63rd hotel in the Group, the 56th in South Africa and the sixth in the Courtyard Hotel brand, bringing to 8 070 the total number of rooms in the group.
The new hotel is designed to attract business travellers during the week and leisure guests over the weekend, as well as a combination of ‘bleisure’ guests who are working remotely while taking a little time for themselves. The hotel is also open for day visitors keen to enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner at one of the restaurants, or a quiet space to work.
The hotel is conveniently situated for business visitors to Johannesburg or Pretoria and is across the road from the Mall of Africa. It’s also close to the Sandton and Midrand CBDs, Gautrain Midrand Station, major highways, Gallagher Convention Centre, Kyalami International Convention Centre and Netcare Waterfall City Hospital. It’s close to its sister property, the 149-room City Lodge Hotel Waterfall City.
The group brought on board Louise Nogueira Dracopoulos for the interior design, and the result is a hotel that takes the look and feel far into the future, while remaining timeless, and inspired by its proudly South African roots. Louise said: “Not only was it important that the aesthetics play a role in this 168-bedroom hotel but there is a synergy required where technology, sustainability and design meet to create an unforgettable guest experience; an authentic ‘home-away-from-home’ experience.”
Key features:
164 rooms and four penthouse suites. Provision has been made for an additional 50 rooms, as a separate wing was planned into the original design.
Restaurants include the Protea (serves breakfast, lunch and dinner from a sophisticated, contemporary menu), and Highline restaurant (specialises in gourmet light meals for lunch and dinner, and is also the perfect place to watch the sunset with drinks), plus the Club Lounge, an intimate space for relaxing, events or private dining.
Three event areas can be combined into one large space. Skyrocket, Sugarbush and Mountain-Rose cater for 40 people each when partitioned off, and 120 people when opened up into one space. (These are pre-Covid-19 numbers, which are now reduced to 20 people in each space, and 60 people when combined.)
The elegant Pincushion Boardroom accommodates three people currently to be COVID-19 compliant, but is built to host six people.
Co-working spaces
Lobby lounge
Fitness room
Swimming pool
The hotel offers complimentary Wi-Fi throughout; contactless check-in; QR codes for restaurant menus; an app that controls guest-room doors, air-conditioners and televisions; free, secure underground parking; same-day laundry and dry-cleaning service; photocopy services; and 24-hour security.
In keeping with City Lodge Group’s ideals on sustainability, the property was designed with environmentally-friendly practices in place and received a Green Star four-star Custom Design certified rating from the Green Building Council of SA in February. (This was in recognition of its efficient water and electrical designs that conserve these resources; energy-efficient lights and appliances; intelligent lighting management systems; and building monitoring systems.) The hotel’s on-premise laundry is a state-of-the-art facility taking care of all the hotel’s linen and terry products using energy-, water- and laundry-efficient chemicals and equipment, which contributes to the environmental sustainability efforts while ensuring guests have spotlessly clean bed linen and fluffy towels at all times.
Courtyard offers the ‘YourPrivateOffice’ product at Waterfall. This offers a quiet, productive space to work and is available from R495 per day, from 08h00 to 15h00, and includes WiFi, parking and tea- and coffee-making facilities.
The hotel has a number of opening specials for different types of rooms
COVID-19 sanitising, wearing of masks and social distancing protocols are adhered to throughout the hotel, ensuring the safety of guests and staff.
