A right royal welcome awaits every guest at the Palace of the Lost City at Sun City. Behind a fountain of bronze buck, caught in mid-leap as they free the outstretched claws of cheetah, lies a soaring, reception atrium with a hand-frescoed dome, six storeys high. From here, guests experience the kind of memorable courtesy, attention and luxury which is unique in Africa. Faux stone columns of bamboo rest on elephant's feet, painted leopards peer through foliage above the hand carved chairs and magnificently laid tables at the Villa del Palazzo. Conjured out of African myth, The Palace of the Lost City is an African Fantasy world of incredible jungle, cliff-tumbling gardens, sparkling streams, waterfalls and swimming pools, and al-fresco entertainment areas. The Palace of the Lost City is one of the world's best hotels in every regards, it includes the Valley of Waves, the only sub-tropical water adventure park in South Africa. The Palace of the Lost City can be described as the seventh wonder. The skyline is dominated by The Palace of the Lost City, one of the finest and most extraordinary hotels in the world.
The Palace's 338 rooms and suites are decorated in a unique style to reflect the rich flora and fauna of the area. The Hotel features the incredible King, African, Royal, and Desert Suites (available on request) - each is individually decorated in evocative African-style colours and the ultimate in luxury. Standard rooms have entrance foyers, en-suite bathrooms and seating areas. Amenities include air-conditioning, TV, radio, safe, telephone, mini-bar, and butler station.
Rooms Tip: If you can afford just to stay in this hotel, then the standard rooms are excellent and you will be enchanted by the magic in the Palace during your stay.
Dining options at the Palace include: The Crystal Court Breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Tusk Lounge where you can enjoy a casual relaxed atmosphere. The fully stocked bar features a selection of wines and exotic cocktails. Jazz pianist in the evening hours. The Villa del Palazzo is a dining experience of regional Italian cuisine. Dinner is served Tuesday - Sunday. Piano music each evening. The Palm Court Lounge is an elegant lounge offering pre-dinner and after-dinner drinks. Butler service, open Tuesday - Sunday. The Pool Restaurant and Snack Bar is situated next to the grand pool. Light lunches are served daily. The Pool Cocktail Bar is a relaxing pool-side bar in the cool shade of a pavilion. Exotic African Cocktails served daily.
Dining Tip: The Sun City Complex offers a wide variety of dinning options. Ask the concierge to direct you to the restaurant of your choice
Sun City Resort is set in the stark ruggedness of the North West Region of South Africa, and is surrounded by mountains and the untamed majesty of the African bushveld. It is a wedge-shot away from the Pilanesberg National Park, where elephants, rhinos, lions and antelope roam freely.
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The Atlantic Beach Golf Course is a links course in the tradition of fabled courses such as St Andrews and Pebble Beach Golf Courses.
Winding its way through the undulating dunes, and peppered with islands of Fynbos, the challenging (yet fair) course has been designed to be as enjoyable for the expert as it is for the weekend golfer.
A golf course renowned for it's superb conditioning and excellent golfing greens, this undulating parkland layout has the largest membership in the Cape.
Watch out for cardiac hill, the 11th hole if you are not a fit person, the golf course is sheltered from the Cape South Easter.
The Gary Player designed course is demanding but fair test set in beautiful surroundings. The generous kikuyu fairways and fast bent grass greens give a taste of the type of course, which is popular on the US tour.
This course is a recent addition to Fancourt's championship courses.
Green Fees: 01 Jan - 31 Mar 40 01 Apr - 30 Sep 35 01 Oct - 31 Dec 40
The Clovelly Golf Course is ideal for the holiday golfer. The rolling fairways are tight but short, making them teasingly challenging while still having birdies and par opportunities.
The course is well known for being in great condition year round and boasts computer controlled irrigation of the fairways and championship-quality greens.
This international championship golf course, designed by Peter Matkovich, lies next to the Stellenbosch Golf Course in front of stunning mountains and surrounded by softly undulating vineyards.
The Blaauwklippen river, lined by oak trees, winds its way through the expansive park of the golf estate and comes into the game in some places.
This Gary Player designed 18 hole championship golf course has fast become renowned throughout the golfing fraternity, both locally and abroad.
Host of the 1996 World Cup of Golf, this is an estate golf course of two distinctly different nines.
The front nine is on flat, winding between the many houses in this part of the golf estate, while the back nine climbs up the lower slopes of the magnificent Helderberg mountain.
Probably South Africas most famous golf course and with good reason!, the Gary Player Country Club plays host to the annual Nedbank Golf Challenge, past winners include Ray Floyd, Steve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam Ernie Els and Nick Price.
It is wise not to deviate from the immaculate Kikuyu fairways and bent grass greens, as stray shots are likely to end up in the bushveld of the Pilanesberg - not an easy place from which to play a recovery shot!
This undulating, densely wooded course is an established favourite with the local market because of its scenic setting and memorable layout.
The course feels as if it has been carved out of a forest but the fairways are a generous width, so only wayward shots end up in the trees. The perfect setting for holiday golf.
The Goose Valley Golf Course is situated in pristine surroundings, only 2km from Plettenberg Bay and bordering on the Keurbooms Lagoon.
Golfers will experience breathtaking views of the lagoon, the ocean and the Tsitsikamma Mountains, and also the beauty of the natural fynbos, trees and an abundance of animal and bird life.Goose Valley plays relatively short, but requires pinpoint accuracy as the brutal rough and high-walled pot bunkers have swallowed many a ball.
Situated nearby on the shores of Knysna Lagoon, this is probably the only golf course in South Africa which can boast holes below sea level.
When the course floods, which it does from time to time, it is actually possible to canoe down the fairway on the 509-yard par-five 4th! The courses flat terrain and superb greens make it appear deceptively easy, but the interesting parkland layout provides a challenge to golfers of all standards with the emphasis on accuracy rather than length.
The Lost City Country Club is a conversation piece and an experience not to be missed. Like an oasis in the arid bushveld, the course offers many surprises.
The short 13th is played over a crocodile-infested waterhole in the shape of the continent of Africa.
The views of the surrounding countryside and the Palace are breathtaking.
The Milnerton Golf Course, is famous for its superb location between the sea and a lagoon, and magnificent views of Table Mountain and the City of Cape Town.
On this golf course the best holes are those closest to the sea, and unfortunately there are not enough of them. With a tee built close to the beach, the long par-4 12th is a real golfers challenge, played in the prevailing south-easterly wind.
Green Fees: 01 Jan - 30 Apr 40 01 May - 31 Oct 30 01 Nov - 31 Dec 40
A modern course with a mature parkland feel, considered one of the best conditioned in South Africa. It is cleverly designed, picturesque, and presents an enjoyable challenge to all levels of golfers.
The par-three 17th hole where a midto long-iron has to be struck over a wide expanse of water to a green strikingly similar to that of the par-three 12th at Augusta National.
Golfers can see the sea from every tee on this layout, perched atop imposing cliff that plummet into the Indian Ocean.
Although not overly long, Mossel Bay has tricky modern golfing greens and the golf course is susceptible to sea breezes.
Mowbray Golf Club is only minutes from the city centre of Cape Town.
The course is seemingly on flat terrain, however, this belies the classic challenge of what is regarded as a true championship course.
The fairways thread through avenues of trees and lead to excellent greens that are well protected by either clever water features or traditional bunker complexes.
Named after the mountain range that runs along the Garden Route coast, this resort course has aesthetically pleasing design features such as rivulets and colourful gardens.
Like its neighbour the Montagu, the golf course is in magnificent condition year round.
Green Fees: 01 Jan - 31 Mar 75 01 Apr - 30 Sep 55 01 Oct - 31 Dec 75
This golf course, re-designed by David Frost, features an extra 9 holes bringing the total to 27 holes.
Sandwiched between the famous Paarl Rock and Berg River allows one to play in a typical African setting. Although a parklands style course it is most noticed for its magnificent old trees and picturesque water holes in breathtaking mountain surroundings.
7162 Yards Par 72, Nicklaus has stayed true to his design principles by working closely with nature and has provided a golf course that fits in with the environment. This fairly flat and largely uninterrupted terrain enabled Nicklaus the freedom to develop hole strategies making this a golf course the golfer has to think his/her way around. In its engineering and planning detail, the course is very rare. It is crossed by roads in only three places, and the drainage system allows play to continue just minutes after a severe cloudburst.
Green Fees: 01 Jan - 31 Dec 60
Pezula
Situated on the East Head at Knysna, spectacular views of the mighty Indian Ocean, tranquil Knysna Lagoon and majestic Outeniqua Mountains frame the estate and its 18-hole Scottish links-style golf course.
Pezula course will prove challenging to the expert, yet it has five tees to every hole which makes it accessible to the everyday player. The course offers breathtaking views over the forest, the Knysna Lagoon and the Indian Ocean with holes such as the 14th built right on the breach of the cliffs.
With fantastic weather and breath-taking landscapes, Pinnacle Point has already been rated as "the best golf course on the planet" by pro golfer Darren Clarke.
Some of the holes are situated along the cliff side. In addition to this, the natural beauty of the indigenous flora and fauna complete this unique golfing experience
Upgraded by Rob OFriell, in 2000, the 18 superb, new bent-grass greens have been built to USGA specifications. Their new shapes and slopes plus the new bunkers and water features have created a challenging yet beautiful course.
The golf course is set in a park-like, proclaimed nature reserve and is the pride of the golfers of Plettenberg Bay.
This course is essentially a return to the original concept of golf, being very much a parkland-type of golf course from which the game evolved.
Some tight driving holes, compounded by undulating fairways and the ever-present threat of strong winds provide some interesting play.
The course has been changed recently and some new features have been added making the course a good test of golf for all levels.
Green Fees: 01 Jan - 30 Apr 40 01 May - 31 Oct 30 01 Nov - 31 Dec 40
The course has slick greens which present a real challenge. It is a flat parkland layout and is an ideal introduction to golf in the Cape. It is in typical Cape Flats country and therefore exposed to the wind.
On a benign day Royal Cape can be forgiving, but in a stiff breeze it can be an absorbing and often very difficult challenge, although the ferocity of the wind is tempered slightly by the many trees that line the fairways.
Green Fees: 01 Jan - 30 Apr 60 01 May - 31 Oct 50 01 Nov - 31 Dec 60
The course was designed and built by one of South Africa's leading golf course architects, Peter Matkovich.
The 18 hole championship golf course meanders leisurely through the Steenberg vineyards, pine forests and gentle waterways.
Green Fees: 01 Jan - 30 Apr 70 01 May - 31 Oct 50 01 Nov - 31 Dec 70
A championship course in a parkland setting surrounded by mountains and vineyards. Scenic and in excellent condition, Stellenbosch presents a fair challenge with some memorable holes. The stroke index 1 hole does not give up par easily.
To reach this par four in two you need a long drive followed by an approach over some out-of-bounds vineyards to an elevated green.
Unique to South Africa, the course presents undulating windswept terrain and dune-style landscape.
Every hole has received detailed attention to ensure that there is an overall balance in terms of length, position of hazards and shot values. As a result, the Links presents a stern test in all weather conditions.
6525 Yards Par 73, This 18-hole par 72 course is covered with lush vegetation with towering trees lining many of the fairways. It is not a long course and if you manage to stay out of the trees you will achieve a good score. A very interesting but user-friendly design with quite a few doglegs. Teaching professionals, Nicolaas Lochner and Clive Holmes offer expert tuition.
