South African Fashion Week  launches the Spring/Summer 2013 Collections at the Crowne Plaza, The Rosebank, Johannesburg from 11 – 13 April 2013. Designers include Black Coffee, Rubicon, Colleen Eitzen, Ephymol, Naked Ape, Lunar, Vesselina Pentcheva and Clive Rundle.  The SAFW Buyers Lounge will be open for a closer viewing of the collections [...]

The Grace hotel in Rosebank started as part of the Brand’s family-owned and run group of hotels.  The first of these hotels was the Mount Grace in the Magaliesberg.   In 1983 Chippy Brand and his wife, Cynthia, with no training in the hospitality industry, transformed the venue from a run-down church camp into a popular [...]

Here’s a copy of an Email received from Theresa  (booking enquiry)  to Chris on Radio Today:
I have been looking for a month’s accommodation for someone and made contact with Liz at Lancaster Guest House. She did not have availability – but she PHONED all the guesthouses in the area in order to be able [...]

Congratulations to the Crowne Plaza, which used to be the Rosebank Hotel, on Tyrwhitt Ave, Rosebank . See
http://blog.therosebank.co.za/crowne-plaza-facilities/the-crowne-plaza-johannesburg-the-rosebank-turns-80/

Nice article on Liz at Lancaster by Whatsupjozi http://www.whatsupjozi.com/2012/jozi-people/art-heritage-culture-and-breakfast-with-liz-at-lancaster/3148 T

Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse has been selected as the Gauteng regional winner in the category Guest House with breakfast, in the 2012 AA Accommodation Awards. We will go forward to the National Awards Evening which will take place on Thursday 30th August at a Gala Banquet to be held at the [...]

Thank you to all the guests who have filled in rating forms after your stay at Liz at Lancaster. Thanks to your votes and ratings, Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse has been nominated a regional Finalist in the AA Quality Assured Accommodation Awards in the category Guest House with Breakfast. Regional winners will be announced in [...]

Tourism figures – two very different reports. Figures for business tourism good  http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/sa-business-tourism-is-booming/  but those for leisure tourism gloomy. http://www.fm.co.za/Article.aspx?id=166928

After 14 years of success in Cape Town, The South African College of Applied Psychology’ (SACAP) has expanded to accommodate Gauteng students.  Located in Lower Rosebank a mere 2 km from Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse, the College is located at 160 Jan Smuts Ave on the corner of Tyrhwitt Ave. See http://www.rosebank.co.za/view/index/psychology_college_opens/62/1/139

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 [...]