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Robert Bloom
CityLodge Johannesburg Airport
Senior Citizen
Was in Johanessburg on my first visit to South Africa for a wedding last weekend and stayed at the Rosebank Hotel, a very friendly three-four star affair with very tasty food, good rooms and an interactive lobby; one of its best points is the short walking distance to 'The Mall', which provides,well priced and large variety shopping/activities. Does anyone know of nightclubs close to the hotel, as i will be going back before years end.
Hi
I dont know Jburg THAT well - but there are clubs in Rosebank - email the hotel and ask them !
I know that a lot of nioghtlife happens there
You bet there are.
Depends on your taste but I can recommend these places in or close to Rosebank.
Latinova - Rosebank
Manhattan - Rivonia
St Tropez - Bryanston
Colony - Filthy fun- only saturday nights- Hyde Park
Casablanca - Fourways
FTV - Sandton and Fourways
Ok those places I've mentioned are all pretty close to Rosebank, not an expensive taxi ride at all to all of them. All kinda similar vibe (exc colony), pretty flash, good crowd, good times!
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WesBank Raceway, situated in the epicenter of Gauteng in Ekurhuleni (East Rand) just off the N3.
Offers spectators and drivers a multiplicity of motorsports at a world class facility which also offers a wide range of entertainment activities, with a motoring theme where possible.
Its a nice venue to watch South Africa`s fastest Drag Racers battle it out. There is lots of Restaurants and bars and so forth to catter for your every needs while you watch the races. Bring Along your car and a helmet and race against anybody in your catagory in a drag race known as Illegal to Legal. This normally occur when the days events is over.
The Oriental Plaza in Fordsburg is an emporium that attacts visitors from all over the country. Packed with stores that sell everything from saris, jewellery, shoes, big name labels, knowck offs, curtains - you name it, they have it.
Better than the choice are the prices. Saris, punjabis and lifestyle decor items from India and Pakistan that range from 10 to 1000.
Great eqyptian cotton sheets and linen Assorted depending on what you buy
Johannesburg
Greyhound Bus
Booking Hotline
083-915-9000
Johannesburg - Park Station - Gauteng
Park City Transit Centre
Johannesburg Station
Tel: (011) 276 8500 / 083 915 9000
Fax: (011) 276 8550
enquiries@greyhound.co.za
Call Centre: 24 hours
Operations: Mon - Sun: 04:30 - 23:00
Johannesburg - Polly Street - Gauteng
Cnr Polly & Church street
Johannesburg
Tel: (011) 336 9184
Mon - Fri: 06:30 - 11h30 / 13h30 - 16h30
Sat - Sun: 06:30 - 11h30
Nelspruit - Mpumalanga
Old Mutual Place
Louis Trichardt Street
Opposite Hotel Promenade
Tel: (013) 753 2100
Fax: (013) 753 2414
Mon - Thurs: 07:00 - 19:00
Friday: 07:00 - 21:30
Saturday: 07:00 - 13:00; 16:00 - 19:00
Sunday: 10:00 - 13:00; 15:00 - 21:30
This is not a recommendation, particularly, for international tourists. Unless specifically embarked on tracing the footsteps of Gandhi, they surely should be spending their time in other ways. However, residents of Johannesburg, enjoying their own city should head to the city for lunch. Some friends and I did that on Saturday after having read about Lucky Moo for Yum Yum Chinese food on Gandhi Square. (For those readers who haven’t been into the old CBD for twenty years or more, it used to be Van der Bijl Square). I suppose I should mention that it is the restaurateur, Jaco Welgemoed, who proved to be the attraction. Over the years he has set up various restaurants which have all provided some fine dining. Lucky Moo is somewhat different to his other ventures in that a meal at Lucky Moo won’t break the bank. And it is delicious! Highly recommended.
I showed the menu from the Lucky Moo to my sixteen year old niece. It has cherry blossoms and Chinese cartoon dolls named Lucky and Missy Moo, and is bright red. She was concerned that there were only two vegetarian meals. I countered by telling her that it was definitely Halaal and that we had had the Missy Moo Summer Salad with beef with a delicious dressing and two portions of spring rolls and some kung pao chicken. She still looked dubious but thought she might try it as it looked “funky”. I thought so too, but wasn’t sure what “funky” was (any more than I truly understand what “kung pao” is), so contented myself with telling her that the meal we had was Thai rather than Chinese and that we sat under umbrellas on benches in the Square. She looked unimpressed. She obviously never travelled on the dirty, unwelcoming buses which departed from the dirty, unwelcoming Square. Otherwise she would have known. that for me to sit there, the place must have changed greatly since the renaming of it in honour of Mahatma Gandhi.
A brass statue of Gandhi on a plinth is on the Square. Not one of him in old age wearing his loin cloth. No, this is one of him as a young attorney wearing his robe over a suit, clutching a book, on his way to court in the bustling city of Johannesburg, to which he moved in 1903. The old law courts were situated where the bus square is today. Gandhi had offices in Rissik Street in partnership with Henry Pollak. The history of Johannesburg has many links to Gandhi, and it was here that his ideas of passive resistance were born. The sculptor of this statue was Tinka Christopher.
All round I was pleasantly surprised to note how clean the area was. One block away where I parked it was also clean and I returned to find my car as I had left it (always a slight worry) and a Hare Krishna parade on the go in Eloff Street. Joburg is changing for the better. Go along and enjoy a fabulous meal in a very different surrounding. I don't do "favourite dishes" - they're so limiting!
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