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Pleasure kingdom
As South Africa’s Sun City Resort gears up to celebrate its
30th birthday, now’s the time to remind clients about its
world-class golf, entertainment, safari and luxury hotels
hen it comes to opulence on a colossal 284-bedroom Sun City Cabanas; a relaxed and
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scale, few resorts can match South more family-orientated hotel that acted as the perfect
Africa’s Sun City Resort. And as the counterbalance to its hedonistic older sister.
country’s premier holiday complex Thirty years on, the resort now boasts two further
approaches its 30th birthday, Sun City shows no hotels – the 243-bedroom Cascades, named after the
signs of waning. 12 tumbling waterfalls that flow through the lush
The resort, which is often dubbed ‘Africa’s Kingdom tropical forest in which it is set, and the jewel in Sun
of Pleasure’, celebrates its anniversary on December 7. City’s crown, the Palace; a sumptuous five-star
It will be 30 years to the day since the 340-bedroom 338-bedroom property befitting of kings and queens,
Sun City Hotel, casino and Gary Player championship and a member of the Leading Hotels of the World.
golf course first opened in the sub-tropical ‘bushveld’ The original Sun City Hotel has since undergone an Par-fect golf
of north-west South Africa, a 187km drive west of extensive £21.4 million refurbishment, completed in Sun City’s 18-hole, par 72 Gary Player
Johannesburg. November 2008, to give it a sleek, contemporary edge, golf course is arguably one of the most
Within a year of its inauguration, the complex had while the Cabanas has been extended to create an famous in the world, and certainly the
almost doubled in size thanks to the construction of extra 96 bedrooms. busiest in Africa.
the Sun City Hotel’s Extravaganza Theatre – a 620-seat A stone’s throw away from the Pilanesberg National Home of the Nedbank Golf
venue that brought fast-paced show-girl musicals Park – a 55,000 hectare game reserve famed for its Challenge – better-known to fans as the
to South Africa for the very first time – and the elephants, rhinos, lions and antelope – the Sun City ‘Million Dollar’ in reference to the prize
Resort can provide a range of safari excursions for money on offer at the competition’s
your clients, including day and night-time game drives, launch in 1980 – the course has
hot-air balloon flights and elephant rides. hosted some of the world’s best players,
And for guests who simply want to take advantage including Seve Ballesteros, Ernie Els
of what’s on site, there is now a second golf course to and Berhard Langer.
complement the first – The Lost City Golf Course, It is overlooked by The Gary Player
featuring a crocodile pool at the 13th hole – plus a Country Club, which features all the
world-class water park, incorporating a 6,500sq m fitness-related features your clients
For more details on Sun City and Sun International,
wave pool and five exhilarating flume rides. would expect from a five-star resort,
contact Lucy Havercroft. Tel: 01491 419600, or send an
With all this on offer, and more than 30 restaurants including pro-golf shop, spa, gym,
email to
lucy.havercroft@gb.suninternational.com
and bars across the resort, it’s little wonder that Sun squash courts and spinning studio.
City welcomes nearly three million guests a year.
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