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Hotels for meetings and events in South Africa

Sun City Resort
Hotel · Sun City, South Africa
12–1,500 guests12 event spaces
Six ballrooms, over 100 breakout rooms and four hotels: conferences for up to 1,200 in the King's Ballroom, next to the Pilanesberg
Delaire Graff Estate
Hotel · Stellenbosch, South Africa
Capacity on request10 rooms to stay
Laurence Graff's wine estate on the Helshoogte Pass hangs his South African art collection in the restaurants and the lodges.
Saxon Hotel, Villas and Spa
Hotel · Johannesburg, South Africa
Capacity on request
Nelson Mandela lived in this Sandhurst house in the early 1990s and worked here on the manuscript of Long Walk to Freedom.
The Ranch Resort
Hotel · Polokwane, South Africa
20–1,300 guests4 event spaces150 rooms to stay
Thirteen event venues for up to 1,300 delegates and 150 bedrooms on a 1,000-hectare conservancy, 25 km south of Polokwane
The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa
Hotel · Cape Town, South Africa
Capacity on request70 rooms to stay
Spa treatment rooms set in rock grottoes, with the Atlantic in front and the Twelve Apostles range rising straight behind the hotel.
Vineyard Hotel
Hotel · Cape Town, South Africa
35–150 guests4 event spaces
Ten meeting venues for up to 150 delegates in eight acres of gardens in Newlands, on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain
Cape Grace
Hotel · Cape Town, South Africa
Capacity on request
Built on its own quay between a yacht marina and a working harbor, with Table Mountain filling the view across the masts.
Drakensberg Sun Resort
Hotel · Winterton, South Africa
18–250 guests7 event spaces78 rooms to stay
Conference rooms for up to 250 delegates, a lakeside session space for 100 and 78 rooms in the Central Drakensberg
Piekenierskloof Mountain Resort
Hotel · Citrusdal, South Africa
60–120 guests4 event spaces22 rooms to stay
Two conference rooms combining for 120, lawn weddings and 22 rooms plus 16 chalets on the Piekenierskloof Pass, two hours from Cape Town
Beacon Island Resort
Hotel · Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
14–150 guests2 event spaces208 rooms to stay
A garden-level conference room for 150 and an ocean-view boardroom, with 200 rooms and eight suites on Plettenberg Bay
The Silo Hotel
Hotel · Cape Town, South Africa
Capacity on request28 rooms to stay
Twenty-eight rooms in the elevator tower of a 1924 grain silo, above Zeitz MOCAA, with windows that bulge outward like pillows.
One&Only Cape Town
Hotel · Cape Town, South Africa
Capacity on request131 rooms to stay
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.
Singita Boulders Lodge
Hotel · Sabi Sand Game Reserve, South Africa
Capacity on request12 rooms to stay
Twelve suites built around the granite boulders of the Sand River, on land the Bailes family has held since 1926.
Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel
Hotel · Cape Town, South Africa
Capacity on request198 rooms to stay
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.
Royal Malewane
Hotel · Thornybush Game Reserve, South Africa
Capacity on request
Liz Biden's 1999 safari lodge in the Thornybush, where the guiding team holds more master tracker qualifications than any other lodge in Africa.
La Residence
Hotel · Franschhoek, South Africa
Capacity on request
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 color.
Singita Lebombo Lodge
Hotel · Kruger National Park, South Africa
Capacity on request15 rooms to stay
Fifteen glass-walled suites hung on a cliff above the N'wanetsi River, inside a private concession of 33,000 acres in the Kruger.
Pumba Private Game Reserve
Hotel · Makhanda, South Africa
Up to 60 guests4 event spaces
Conference room for 60 delegates and exclusive-use weddings for 50 guests in two lodges of an Eastern Cape game reserve

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18 hotels in South Africa host meetings and corporate events, ordered by renown and by how fully each is documented. Of those that publish a capacity, the largest, The Ranch Resort, hosts up to 1,300 guests. Each page has the key facts and a request form for the events team.

Wedding venues in South Africa

Questions and answers

Which venues in South Africa can host 100 guests or more?

4 of the 18 venues publish a capacity of 100 guests or more: Sun City Resort, The Ranch Resort, Drakensberg Sun Resort, and Piekenierskloof Mountain Resort.

Which venues in South Africa list their meeting rooms?

7 of the 18 venues name their meeting and event rooms, with capacities where published: Sun City Resort, The Ranch Resort, Vineyard Hotel, Drakensberg Sun Resort, Piekenierskloof Mountain Resort, Beacon Island Resort, and 1 more.

How are these venues chosen and ordered?

By documented renown first, then by how fully each venue is documented (photographs, rooms, capacities), never by payment: venues do not pay to appear and the guide takes no commission. How we select venues.

List updated on November 9, 2026.