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Hawks Rest Bed and Breakfast

Gillitts - South Africa

Email Hawks Rest Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com

For those on holiday, adventure seekers and sports people, we are twenty minutes from Durban's beaches, and literally on the Comrades Marathon route.
Each June we have 12 500 odd athletes running past our front gate, several of whom have stayed with us. In addition, since we are close to Inanda Dam, we offer accessible accommodation for participants, their families and support crews for the Dusi Canoe Marathon.

Hawks rest bed and breakfast accommodation

INYANGA ROOM:
- Normally set up with a double bed , but can be configured with twin beds or a single bed.
- Off-suite, private, bathroom with shower and bath.

DRAKENSBERG ROOM:
- Normally set up with a double bed , but can be configured with twin beds if necessary.
- Large en-suite bathroom with shower and bath.
- Smaller room off the bathroom , fitted with bunk beds for children and teenagers.
- Ideal family room separate, external, entrance.

OUTENIQUA ROOM:
- Maybe set-up with single bed, double bed or twin beds.
- Seperate, external, entrance.
- Private Pool access.

SOUTSPANBERG ROOM:
- This is one of two rooms located in the private cottage.
- Both rooms have access to a kitchenette, a TV lounge-cum-dining room and a private verandah and garden.
- The cottage is ideal for larger family groups , and business colleagues wanting to be accommodated close to one another.

VUMBA ROOM:
- This is the second room in the cottage, which has access to the same facilities as the Soutpansberg room.
- Normally fitted with a double bed, this room can be configured with twin beds or a single bed.

KILIMANJARO ROOM:
- This is our largest room (40 square metres), and is normally fitted with a double bed for guests, but owing to its size, a second double bed, as well as an additional three single beds may be added for families, sports teams and so on.
- It has a big en-suite bathroom with a bath and a shower, as well as a mini-balcony / verandah which adds to a guest's experience of spaciousness and comfort.
- Massive amounts of cupboard and hanging space
- This room is situated on the same level as the Mulanje room and Magaliesberg room, in a private section of the guest house , should a family or group wish to have privacy and adjoining rooms.

MAGALIESBERG ROOM: This room may be configured with between 1 and 6 beds, and is designed as an extended family room for children, teenagers, sports teams, etc.
- The room has no dedicated bathroom, and hence is offered as a family room, whereby the occupants can share bathroom facilities with parents or other family or team members.
- The tariff for this room is determined on a case by case basis, and is cost-effective for families, groups, etc

MULANJE ROOM:
This room is on the same level as the Kilimanjaro and Magaliesburg rooms.
- It is a cosy room with an en-suite shower tucked away in one corner
- It has plenty of cupboard and hanging space.

Features of Hawks Rest Bed and Breakfast:
- Swimming pool
- Two thatched entertainment areas
- Off-street parking
- Individual access control to the property
- Televisions with DSTV in all rooms
- Tea and coffee facilities in all rooms
- Hairdryers in all rooms
- Heaters and extra blankets
- Heated blankets
- Restaurant within walking distance
- Individual choice of full cooked breakfast

Services offered, charged separately in some cases:
- Laundry, washing and ironing
- Shoe cleaning
- Car wash and valet
- Babysitting
- Airport transfers
- Directions to places of interest and business premises in and around Durban
- Car hire
- Late arrivals until 11:00pm
- Rooms serviced daily
- Breakfast times - weekdays [6:30am - 8:30am] & weekends [7:30am - 9:30am]
- Office facilities i.e fax, phone, photocopying, scanning and internet

Conference facilities:
We officially opened our brand-new conference room in April 2008, and are proud to offer it for conferences, training and meetings in a congenial environment in the western suburbs of Durban.
We can seat up to 30 delegates classroom style, and up to 60 delegates cinema style. A major benefit is our off-street parking which can comfortably accommodate 35 cars.

We have the infrastructure to seat and feed 60 guests with the assistance of Amanda from Tiramisu, a professionally trained chef.
We have a break-away room and two entertainment lapas that can be used for teas, or as additional break-away areas.
Accommodation is also available on-site for those delegates that have travelled into Durban for conferences. A shuttle service is available 24 hours per day to fetch and carry delegates and guests to and from the airport, or anywhere else they may require.

The conference room itself has a very warm and intimate feel to it, and has the following to offer:
- Brand new equipment, tables and chairs
- Hot and cold air conditioning
- Floor to ceiling windows
- Thick curtains which may be drawn to change the mood of the room
- Dimmable ceiling lights, positioned in three banks - each of which can be operated separately
- Mood lights
- Data Projector - linked to delegates laptop, CD, DVD, video and SABC and DSTV, with remote control
- Electric screen
- Individual power-points for 24 delegates
- Individual internet connections for 24 delegates
- Wireless internet access
- Upholstered chairs
- Free-standing white board
- Flip charts
- Laser pointer
- Conference pads and pens by prior arrangement

Juice, water and peppermints placed on the tables
We offer a standardized Daily Conference Package or, alternatively, we can customised a proposal to suit your particular or unusual requirements.

Entertainment & Sightseeing:
- Kloof Country Club and Golf Course
- Emberton Driving Range
- Krantzkloof Nature Reserve and trails
- Drakensberg mountains (11/2 hours drive)
- Itala game reserve
- Crocodile park
- Raptor flights and demonstrations
- Inanda Dam (water skiing and bass fishing)
- Shongweni dam
- Valley of 1000 hills
- Durban's beaches
- Restaurants
- Take away and fast food franchises
- Traditional Zulu dancing
- Craft village

Adventure Sports:
- Rock climbing at Monteseel
- Dusi Canoe Marathon
- Comrades Marathon

Directions:
From Durban to Hawks Rest
Take the western freeway, N3, out of Durban, heading west towards Pietermaritzburg. Pass the huge Pavilion shopping centre on your left, and Westville.
Keep in the centre or left lane. Travel for approximately five kilometers and you will find yourself on a large bridge with a large white block of flats ahead to your left.

Just after the Paradise Valley Bridge the freeway will split, left to the M13 and Pinetown and straight ahead for the N3 toll road.
Take the M13, which is similar to a freeway off ramp. Drive past the St Johns off ramp. Drive past Pinetown( you will see caravans and boats on your left and right).
Drive up Field's Hill (Go past Jerome Drive, Exit 22 and Exit 23). At the top of the Hill you will go under a bridge and pass John Dory's Restaurant on your left, as well as the Delcairn Centre (Woolworths, Standard Bank, etc).

Drive through Kloof and you will see the Kloof County Club golf course on your left. Drive past the Old Main Road / Abrey Road off ramp (Exit 24).
Pass the Maytime Shopping Centre on your left and simultaneously drive under an overhead pedestrian bridge.
Take the next off ramp, exit 26, "Everton Road / Gillitts".

At the top of the off ramp you will get to a set of traffic lights. Drive straight through and Hawks Rest is 1.7 km from these traffic lights. Do not turn left or right.
You will now be in Old Main road, which runs parallel to the M13 freeway. Drive past Longwood road and Blue Gum road and you will come to a line of trees beside the road.
Continue on past a double storey shopping centre on your left which includes a Harley Davidson dealership. Pass Hamilton Crescent on your right and Stockville road & Gillitts Hardware on your left.

Pass the Fire Station and Police Station on your left. Pass Moyeni Road on your left. You will pass a Caltex fuel station and then Clifton Road, also on your left.
Remain on Old Main Road. We are the second house on the left after Clifton Road, (17 Old Main road, Gillitts) with two hawks on the gate posts. These will normally be lit up at night.
Outside our gate is a white, reflective, 1000 Hills Experience sign as well as a brown "Hawks Rest B & B" sign.
Press the buzzer and drive up the driveway to the right of the house, to the back. Drive up the ramp onto the tennis court & park in such a way that other cars can park & get in and out without obstruction.

From Pietermaritzburg to Hawks Rest
Having passed through Pietermaritzburg,Cato Ridge and Hammarsdale on the N3 you will ascend Key Ridge, a long steep hill that starts 4km after the Hammarsdale off-ramp.
At the top of key ridge the freeway splits into two, the right hand lanes remain the N3 and head towards Durban as a toll road.
The left hand lanes become exit 35, marked as M13A Hillcrest / Durban. Take this Exit 35, drive past the next exit, Exit 33, which says Shongweni / Assegai / Hillcrest West.

Drive past the next exit, Exit 31, which says Hillcrest. You will wind up and down a hill and past a small dam on your left.
Take the next exit, Exit 28, which says Gillitts / Old Main Road/ Hillcrest. As you approach the top of the off-ramp you will come to a stop street.
At the stop street, turn right towards Winston Park, which is signposted. You will cross over the freeway on a bridge and will come to a set of traffic lights.

Drive through the traffic lights and you will then have a BP fuel station on your left. At the next traffic lights / yield sign, you will see a brown and white signboard pointing left to Hawks Rest B & B. Turn left into an avenue of Elm trees. This is Old Main Road, Gillitts.
After going through a sharp right hand bend you will be travelling parallel to the M13 freeway, in Old Main Road. We are situated at number 17 on the right hand side,(a light-brown double-storey building), about 500 m from the sharp bend, with two hawks on the gate posts, and three white garages that can be seen from the gate. The hawks will normally be lit up at night.

Outside our gate is a white 1000 Hills Experience sign, as well as a brown "Hawks Rest B & B " sign. If you pass a Caltex garage you have gone too far.
Press the buzzer and drive up the driveway to the right of the house, to the back. Drive up the ramp onto the tennis court & park in such a way that other cars can park & get in and out without obstruction.

GPS Co-ordinates: S 29° 47' 42" | E 30° 47' 22"

Email Hawks Rest Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com