Idle Winds Lodge and Conference Centre — Hotel in Gauteng

A large, somewhat worn complex with attractive and extensive gardens, within 30 minutes from Pretoria or Sandton. Rooms are huge and rather old, but clean, with decent showers and comfortable beds. Quite fine if you are not going to spend long in your room between conference or celebration activities. Some of our party’s aircons unfortunately were shockingly loud which prevented comfortable summertime sleep. The meeting rooms and banquet facility, which we used over our two-day conference, are pleasant and workable and good value for the price. This isn’t going to appeal to someone on a top-notch budget but for us it was quite fine. There was some road noise from parts of the property but not in the conference rooms. The food was the supreme highlight; my compliments to the...

My review is on the service received even before we could check in. We have had to isolate due to contact with Covid 19 and we called the establishment to advise thereoff. A very caring Donald advises that the manager would call us back. I received a call from the manager Cornelius Nyahunda who had no sense of customer service. When my husband referred to any Covid policy regarding a refund, he immediately stated that we should not get into a legal discussion, he also stated that he was calling from his phone and we should listen to his suggestions, which we gracefully did. This call left me feeling like he was doing me a favor and that it was his own money he was refunding us. The fact that a manager gets to treat potential patrons in such a manner is just sad,...

We visited Idle Winds restaurant on Sunday 10 Jan 2016 for lunch. The garden is peaceful and the restaurant calming and elegant. The air-conditioning was very welcome. ||||Service was excellent from very friendly, professional and attentive waiters. The food was wonderfully tasty, very well presented (complements to the chef here) and the portions generous, the menu varied and very reasonably priced. We especially appreciated the attention paid to the smaller things, such as the half a lemon wrapped, to catch the pips as you squeeze the juice over the fish, the sorbet served between courses to cleanse the pallet and so on. The filter coffee is of a particularly aromatic and flavourful variety. All together a very pleasant experience. Highly...