The AA’s assessor visits anually to monitor and check on the standards of the Guesthouse. Nothing escapes Bev Balusik’s eagle eye! Here are some comments from her report submitted to the  board of the AA Quality Assurance:
Such seamless but thoughtful touches in all areas:

a splendid, attractive notice board in main core public area
guest internet station [...]

The nationwide winners of the 2011 Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards were announced last night. Congratulations to 3 restaurants in the Parks Region who scooped awards. -

Best steakhouse countrywide: The Local Grill Parktown North
The City Press ViP Sunday Breakfast Award: The Salvation Cafe 44 Stanley Ave
no 7 in Best Restaurants nationwide [...]

Another excellent review for Liz at Lancaster on Tripadvisor the influential international travel site. See http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g312578-d574068-Reviews-Liz_at_Lancaster_Guesthouse-Johannesburg_Johannesburg_Gauteng.html

The Gautrain station opening in Rosebank has added a further impetus to the fast growth and development in Rosebank which is seeing  an increase in new office and retail spaces.    see http://www.rosebank.co.za/view/index/additions_to_thriving_rosebank/62/1/134  Liz at Lancaster is ideally place for easy access to Rosebank being a mere 2.8 km from the Gautrain station. And where possible,  we [...]

What makes Rosebank so different from say, for example, Sandton. While Sandton’s leisure and shopping area is focused on  the huge enlcosed megamall of Sandton City and the central space of Mandela Square modelled on an Italian piazza. Rosebank however has a greater variety of smaller malls linked by open air areas each with their own different [...]

 
 
 
 
Four blocks from Liz at Lancaster is the well-known Video Spot in the The Colony, 345 Jan Smuts Avenue  Tel: 011 447 1401 .   Their selection of movies is amazing – from the latest releases to golden oldies, British crime and detective series and arthouse movies.  Customers come from all over Joburg to the Video Spot as [...]

The service might be a little slow when it’s busy but the prices are VERY reasonable.  Plus if they are full, they take your name and phone you when they have a table ready for you.  This means you can wander off and do some browsing in some of the funs shops along 4th Ave.  Not many [...]

Rosebank is fast becoming Johannesburg’s third largest high-rise business centre, after Sandton and the inner city, according to the research conducted by Broll, one of Africa’s leading commercial property services group. ‘Rosebank is reviving, with great retail and new office developments which are well-supported by the surrounding residential nodes and the Gautrain station,’ says Jane [...]

Liz at Lancaster received two great accolades at the AA Travel Guides American Express Awards on 8th May. The establishment was a finalist in the category Small Guesthouse with self-catering. Within this category received Highly Commended (ie came in the top 3).  Then Liz and her staff also received the prestigious award for ‘People who go [...]

See http://www.jhblive.com/reviews/restaurants/the_king_of_soups/67210