Eagle Wind Manor House  Verified Listing

The main house offers a large, comfy lounge with seating arranged in such a way that it facilitates private conversation as well as accommodating larger groups - perfect for discreet business meetings, armchair seminars or just quiet relaxation. The lounge has a beautiful fireplace for cold winter nights, and is equipped with a big screen TV. Books and board games are available for guests to enjoy.

With five up-market double bedrooms, we can accommodate 10 guests, with the executive suite large enough to accommodate a family. Elegantly furnished and luxuriously appointed, the rooms offer exquisite décor, with superb en suite bathrooms. Our great service and attention to detail includes offering all the little luxuries one would expect from a top-grade establishment.

The sheer luxury of sinking into our top-of-the-range Simmons beds, with the finest quality 350 thread-count bed linen and goose-down duvets and pillows, will make you want to come back again and again - just for the joy of a wonderful night’s sleep.

All rooms are equipped with a TV, with a bouquet of selected DSTV channels, including M-Net, Movie Magic 1 and 2, M-Net Series, the SuperSport channels, Discovery and CNN. Tea and coffee making facilities include a coffee machine for freshly-made filter coffee and a selection of fine quality teas and other hot beverages.

*TV, with selected DSTV channels
*Heating and air-conditioning in all rooms
*Safes in rooms to lock up valuables

High up on the east coast, Durban is South Africa's sub-tropical beach getaway. The city centre overlooks a long, golden beach that is probably the single most culturally diverse spot in Africa. Here you will find frolicking families of every hue, busy executives out for a quick lunchtime jog, teenagers in full breeding plumage, elegant sari-clad matrons strolling the sand, buff surfers running into the waves, and bead-bedecked sangomas collecting therapeutic sea water in bottles.

Durban is actually all about the beach. It is home to South Africa's only surfing museum, and is one of the most surf-friendly cities in the world. Frustrated wage slaves can look out of their office windows onto awesome breaks - and then shed the tie and jacket or the high heels and paddle out straight after work. Durban is the closest seaport to Johannesburg and is also an integral part of the city. As well as all the usual container docks it has not one, but two yacht clubs and a great little cultural spot right in the middle of the harbour - the BAT centre. Short for the Bartle Arts Trust, the BAT Centre is a hotbed of local visual art and musical creativity mixed in with some good restaurants, coffee shops and pubs. All overlooking the small boat harbour so you can sip cappuccino while watching stubby-nosed tugs coming in to rest after a hard day pushing supertankers around.

Durban Bay is one of the better natural harbours on our coastline. Its narrow opening is protected by a huge headland, called the Bluff, on one side and, on the other, a point called Point - granted not the most imaginative of names, but it's a cool place. Here you'll find another batch of fun eateries where you could - if you were sufficiently anti-social and quite strong - pitch a beer bottle onto a passing container ship as it enters or leaves harbour. Close by is the newly built uShaka Marine World - a state of the art aquarium, wet playground and shopping mall, where children of all ages can ooh and aah at the sharks in the predator tank, snorkel with the fishies (the cute little ones, not the sharks) and watch dolphins performing.

The whole Point area is the most interesting part of Durban. At one stage it must have been very fashionable indeed, but then - well, you know, cities are living things and they grow and change - it went downhill. A drive along Point Road will reward you with the sight of row upon row of abandoned art deco warehouses and factories - but not for much longer. Already the developers have set their sights on this little treasure, and there'll pretty soon be loft-style apartments, boutique hotels and designer malls. The beachfront is lined with multi-storey hotels and restaurants, with unashamdely kitsch attraction, like a huge pool complex and a snake park. Curio sellers line the walkways and dramatically outfitted rickshaw-wallahs offer rides and photographic opportunities. The best part about Durban's beachfront, though, is the water temperature. It's rarely below 20°C, which makes ogling those tanned, buff surfers just so much more interesting, as they don't wear wetsuits.

*Fax, photocopy and internet /email facilities
*Ample, secure parking
*Laundry service, by arrangement
*Meals, other than breakfast, by arrangement
*BBQ / braai facility
*Pool, with pool loungers
*Conferencing facilities

*1000 Hills Bird Park
*1000 Hills Arts and Crafts Village
*PheZulu Crocodile and Snake Park
*African Bird of Prey Sanctuary
*Pavilion Shopping Centre
*Umgeni River Bird Park
*Heritage Market