Welcome to South Africa with a gift hamper of specially South African delicacies and treats Guests from the U.S stayed at Liz at Lancaster a few week-ends back and to celebrate Duane’s birthday, his daughter asked me to make him a gift hamper. Lots of local goodies went into the pack …. and they loved […]
Five month stay at Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse At the end of September we bid farewell to a guest who had stayed with us for 5 months. It’s a long time to be away from home so we were delighted that he felt so comfortable here and felt that it was a ‘home away from home’. […]
Liz at Lancaster nominated a provincial finalist in the 2013 Lilizela awards The new national tourism and travel awards programme resulting from the merging of the AA Accommodation Awards and the Imvelo Awards [for Responsible Tourism] is backed nationally by the Department of Tourism and the Tourism Grading Council of SA [TGCSA]; and locally by […]
Who decides what makes a ‘World Class African City’? And on what basis? There has been recent controversy around Joburg using the line ‘ A World Class African City’ in its advertising and marketing. I came across Michael Clark’s article– brief but interesting – around what it might mean to be a “world class city” […]
Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse announced as provincial finalist of the Lilizela Awards The Tourism Grading Council has launched a new award programme: the Lilizela Awards which now incorporates the AA Awards programme. Five award categories will be presented this year: service excellence emerging entrepreneur of the year sustainability universal accessibility the minister’s award. The Lilizela Tourism […]
AA Superior Quality Assured grading renewed Our AA assessor gave a glowing report after her annual visit to assess us for the AA Quality Assured Accommodation . Here are some excerpts for her report: Following their 2012 Certificate of Excellent, Liz at Lancaster has just been awarded a Winner of Trip Advisor’s Traveller’s Choice Awards […]
Why Liz at Lancaster? Guest feedback A repeat guest who comes out with an international law delegation chooses to stay here at Liz at Lancaster rather than with his colleagues at a 5 star hotel in Sandton. When he booked again I thanked him as always for his loyalty to us. His reply was: ‘A […]
Liz at Lancaster’s winter garden Although our oak tree (which is the origin of Liz at Lancaster’s acorn logo) is dropping leaves at an alarming rate causing Thandie, Zac, Alick and Catherine the Sisyphian task of never-ending leaf sweeping , other plants are in full bloom. Our indigenous pavement garden has wonderful colour accents […]
Liz at Lancaster’s radio guide results in US visitors tuning in to Classic FM on their return home Recently we had guests from New York stay here at Liz at Lancaster, one of whom was Molly-Vivian Huang, an accomplished concert pianist. They were visiting South Africa for a niece’s wedding up near Kruger, and I wrote […]