AN AFRICAN ADVENTURE – Part 2 Sun City

Our next destination was back to civilisation with a five night stay at The Palace of the Lost City, Sun City. After flying back to Johannesburg, a transfer of 2.5 hours took us to this luxury and exclusive resort. With its high ceilings, marble floors and amazing grounds with gardens and water falls it is a complete polar opposite of our previous stops! On checking in we were shown to our room, and shown where everything was kept and what was available, and wine and fresh fruit waiting for us.

The palace offered three restaurants, Plume (French cuisine), Grill (speciality steaks and fish which turned out to be our favourite) and Crystal (a buffet restaurant). As palace guests you also dine at the restaurants and use the facilities of all the other hotels and areas on Sun City. This is made up of four hotels; Palace, Cascades, Sun City Casino, and Cabanas.

There is a central entertainment centre with shops, games arcades for the children and informal dining areas like Nandos and Mexican, and a cinema. The Valley of the Waves Water Park has a man-made beach and huge wave pool. There are two 18 hole golf courses; The Gary Player Nedbank course and the Palace course, which we played. There are also Segway safaris, which we also did and it was great fun! There is also the casino and tennis courts.

There is a 24 hour transportation system to take you around the resorts facilities and staying in the Palace meant this was complementary, and always to hand.

We could do as little or as much as we wanted and there is definitely something for everyone. Waiter bar service and snack service around the pool meant I didn’t have to move from my sunbed for my afternoon cocktail!

Although this is a very opulent five star resort, the costs here were really good, with a three course evening meal with wine and drinks for the three of us in the a la carte restaurants costing around £20 a head. Golf at the Gary player Nedbank course, with hire of clubs and caddy (which is compulsory) for 18 holes with food at half way house was around £60 per person. The Palace course was around the same but with a buggy not a caddy, which is also compulsory.