Hotel and Conferencing
The Highlands Meander area offers excellent conference facilities only 2 - 3 hours' drive from Gauteng.
Be it for a private Indaba, a wedding or corporate break-away, we could package a deal to suit your budget and needs.
Group sizes may vary from 10 to 150 with accommodation ranging from ultimate luxury and elegance to farm stays with an informal country feel.
Without adding to the price, we negotiate a package for your group at the following establishments (and others..):
Hotels - TownCritchley Hackle (23 rooms) (L)
 Elegant upmarket hotel in town overlooking beautiful trout-filled lake.
Smoking and non-smoking lounge. Bar and dining room. 3 Tower rooms with large
double bed and comfortable couch facing a fireplace, private writing desk and telephone. Full bathroom, private patio.
12 standard rooms - 2 single or 1 double beds Sep. lounge with fireplace.Lake-facing. TV m-net. Telephone & safe in room.
4 Cottage rooms - same as waterside rooms - not lake-facing.
4 Royal suites - 2 separate en suite bedrooms (1 double and 2 singles), private garden and patio, beautiful views.Mini bar. Lounge with fireplace.
2 elegant conference rooms seating up to 60. No children under 12.
Weekend bookings require 2 nights
Dullstroom Inn (11 rooms) (E)
 Family hotel in town; 11 en suite rooms ( 4 double, 5 single ) including 2 family rooms (bath); Kettle, coffee & tea, radio in rooms. Well-known olde English pub with open hearth log fire and a history that tells a story.
Dining room seats 50. Small and large conference rooms (15 people : U-shape) with all facilities
Pub/dining room:
Mo-Su 10h00 - 23h00 Pub hours;
Mo-Su 07h00 - 21h00 Kitchen hours.
Elegant Self-catering AccommodationWalkersons Country Estate (21 rooms) (L)
 Walkersons, with its stone and thatch buildings and 1500-acre Highland Estate offers an almost Royal experience if you are seeking something truly special. The main lodge exudes atmosphere and warmth. All bedrooms are very private with lake views and afford the guest every comfort ? fireside armchairs, a well stocked private mini bar and television. Excellent cuisine and handpicked wines are a speciality of the house and friendly and attentive staff compliments fine dining. Indulge in gentle country pursuits, the estate offers beautiful forest and river walks, as well as walking trails into the nature reserve where indigenous game abides in a mountain wilderness renowned for its birdlife and prolific flowers. Why not take a Highland Game Drive into the reserve? For the fly fisherman all equipment is provided, with the chance of fly-fishing for rainbow trout in several kilometres of Private River or one of the many lakes. Walkersons boasts excellent conference facilities and a charming 30-seat wedding chapel. Only 2,5 hours from Johannesburg International Airport, en route to the Kruger National Park, on the outskirts of the trout-fishing village of Dullstroom. Wine Magazine Top 100 Restaurants. Dinner&lsqou;s Club International 2001 Platinum Wine Award. Newly tarred 1000m airstrip.
Valley of the Rainbow (10 rooms) (L)
 The Manor House
Guests have a choice of five luxury suites each with a comfortable lounge area and a well appointed en-suite bathroom. A spacious lounge with an open fire-place for cold winter evenings, bar, dining room with fire-place, library and TV invites guests to more than home luxuries. The spacious deck overlooks a river running through the valley, gardens, forests, mountains and lakes
The Country House
The Country House is decorated in a classic country style and offers five luxurious double bedrooms, each with en-suite bathroom access to the veranda, with a magnificent view over the valley, indigenous forest and mountains. The country house is self-catering and accommodates a maximum of 10 persons
Dunkeld Country Estate (31 rooms) (L)
 Elegant hotel on country estate 3km from Dullstroom, ideally suited for conferences, weddings or individual stay-overs.
Full board accommodation in luxury en suite rooms with TV's, facing one of several trout dams. - licensed restaurant on premises.
Kloppenheim: Highland Suites (55 rooms) (L)
 Kloppenheim Country Estate is the ideal country retreat for business and leisure in the heart of the Highlands Meander, near Machadodorp and Dullstroom and just 2 hours from Johannesburg International Airport.
With 34 luxury venues suites and 10 elegant 2 bedroomed self-contained lodges, each beautifully appointed room has a magnificent view of the rolling hills and features underfloor heating, gas fireplace, designer couches, heated towel rail, DSTV and telephone.
There are 3 stylish conference rooms, large theatre for events, dining room, private dining room, breakfast terrace, colonial style lounge, library, pub and restaurant, wine cellar, gym and cr?che. For the energetic, enjoy 6 trout dams, horse riding, hiking trails, clay pigeon shooting and swimming.
Lakenvlei Forest Lodge (12 rooms) (L)
 Lakenvlei Forest Lodge nestles amid lush forest vegetation and wetland in the heart of the Eastern Highlands of the Mpumalanga Province.
Twelve luxury chalets, permeated with the fresh smell of real pine, provide an exclusive haven for visitors to the lodge. Chalets include:
Six 8-sleeper chalets, with two en-suite double bedrooms and a loft room sleeping four persons, and
Six four-sleeper chalets, with one double en-suite bedroom and a loft room sleeping two persons
Forest Creek Lodge (5 rooms) (L)

This lodge is situated at an amazing site with views on majestic mountains and the magical Cloud Forest. 2 Luxury rooms are privately situated in the woods with lovely en suite bathrooms and an outdoor stone showers. One elegant bedroom with spacious en suite bathroom closer to the lodge. Fully serviced with meals served in the dinning room or on your private veranda. Take a romantic bush bath in the woods with plenty of bubbles - both in the bath and in your glass! All suites have DSTV and now Forest Creek boast it's new "Forest Spa", enjoy the treatments and go home feeling relaxed and refreshed! Forest Cottage is a rustic wooden cabin that is part of the forest. Self catering and totally private. Open air braai area. Meals can be enjoyed at the lodge with prior arrangement. The Hikers Cabin contains 8 bunker beds for groups of young people. Activities include a games room with DSTV, Scenic walks, hiking trails, fishing on a neighbouring farm, horse riding and bird watching. Plenty of wild game to be seen.
Trout River Falls (8 rooms) (L)
 Brand new country estate at the foot of an awe-inspiring waterfall (with some Kruger Million connections...) between Dullstroom and Lydenburg.
8 elegantly appointed en suite cottage rooms, fully equipped with TV, log fire, bar fridge and verandah with magnificent view. Fully licensed restaurant/ dining room and tea garden; dams and scenic surrounds. Hikes to spectacular waterfall nearby and in the foothills of the Steenkampsberg; flyfishing in 5 well-stocked trout dams and 2km of the Dorps river. Rods to hire.
| Hotels and Conferencing In Town Critchley Hackle (23 rooms) Dullstroom Inn (11 rooms)
Country Dunkeld Country Estate (31 rooms) Forest Creek Lodge (5 rooms) Kloppenheim: Highland Suites (55 rooms) Lakenvlei Forest Lodge (12 rooms) Trout River Falls (8 rooms) Valley of the Rainbow (10 rooms) Walkersons Country Estate (21 rooms)
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