Meeting and event venues in South Africa

Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel

Painted pink in 1918 to mark the end of the First World War, the Union-Castle Line's 1899 hotel still sits in nine acres of garden below Table Mountain.

198 rooms

The Silo Hotel

Twenty-eight rooms in the elevator tower of a 1924 grain silo, above Zeitz MOCAA, with windows that bulge outward like pillows.

28 rooms

Singita Lebombo Lodge

Fifteen glass-walled suites hung on a cliff above the N'wanetsi River, inside a private concession of 33,000 acres in the Kruger.

15 rooms

One&Only Cape Town

Sol Kerzner's homecoming hotel, opened in April 2009 at the V&A Waterfront with Africa's first Nobu and rooms on a private island in the marina.

131 rooms

Singita Boulders Lodge

Twelve suites built around the granite boulders of the Sand River, on land the Bailes family has held since 1926.

12 rooms

Royal Malewane

Liz Biden's 1999 safari lodge in the Thornybush, where the guiding team holds more master tracker qualifications than any other lodge in Africa.

Saxon Hotel, Villas and Spa

Nelson Mandela lived in this Sandhurst house in the early 1990s and worked here on the manuscript of Long Walk to Freedom.

Cape Grace

Built on its own quay between a yacht marina and a working harbour, with Table Mountain filling the view across the masts.

The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa

Spa treatment rooms set in rock grottoes, with the Atlantic in front and the Twelve Apostles range rising straight behind the hotel.

70 rooms

La Residence

Eleven suites and five vineyard cottages on a 30-acre working farm in the Franschhoek valley, each room decorated by Liz Biden in a different colour.