Liz at Lancaster won another award last night when the 2012 AA Quality Assured Accommodation Awards were announced. Although we didn’t win in our category Guesthouse with Breakfast, (congratulations to Cycad Guesthouse in Polokwane), we won a special award:  Travellers Value Award for “Top-end Executive and/or Leisure Travellers City.Vanessa Weltmann explained the process behind this [...]

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

Included in Frommer’s 2012 SA edition under Hyde Park and surrounds, Liz at Lancaster appears in the ‘moderate’ price category below Southern Sun Hotel Hyde Park.  The moderate category seems a fairly elastic one as the rates for Southern Sun Hotel are shown on the range  from R1100 to 3,700 whereas Liz at Lancaster’s are shown [...]

SA-venues (one of the leading South African accommodation and general tourist websites)  has started a new initiative getting locals ‘in the know’ to write what they call ‘visitorials’  about the area  where they live and its surrounds.  I was privileged to be asked to write about Craighall Park.  See http://blog.sa-venues.com/provinces/gauteng/love-craighall-park/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sa-venues%2FCbjt+%28South+Africa+Travel+News%29&utm_content=FaceBook 

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 [...]

Warm and Glad has opened around the corner from Liz at Lancaster Guest house.  As its name suggests, its a welcoming coffee shop with interesting pics on the walls, nice reading  material and good coffee. At Alban’s Square, 357 Jan Smuts Avenue, Craighall Park
http://www.jhblive.com/reviews/coffee%20shop%20/%20cafe/warm_and_glad_in_jhb/102760 

 
 
A few weeks ago a guest staying at Liz at Lancaster & who is a musical-aholic, told me he had seen ‘Phantom of the Opera’ SEVENTEEN times – in NY, London and now the night before at Monte Casino, his 2nd time in SA. And he thought it was the best performance he had ever [...]

Pooh Bear had his honey pot,  but Liz’s search for the perfect honey has been far more complicated.  Several years ago at a farm stall whose location, let alone its name, I have long since forgotten, I found some special honey. What really caught my eye – apart from the fact that it was Blue-gum [...]

Had a wonderful dinner with friends last night outside on their terrace overloooking Saxonwold and Killarney with Rosebank on the opposite hill top where all the cranes attest to the major building activity around the new Standard Bank satellite campus. Was one of those glorious balmy Highveld summer nights under a cloudless clear starry night sky.  So what’s happening [...]

Delta Park, 104 hectares of open park land, is just 5 blocks from Liz at Lancaster. The area now known as Delta Park was part of the  farm Klipfontein in the 19th Century. In 1902 it became a grazing area for cows as part of William Rattray’s estate.   Delta Park as we now know it, [...]