We've stayed here many times before as hotel guest...

We've stayed here many times before as hotel guests and when staying somewhere else in town we enjoyed to go there for an afternoon lunch and some cocktails. Always had excellent service and enjoyed it so much. But things changed. We went there on Wednesday this week for our usual lunch and cocktail. As we were not staying there this time and was camping we thought it would be nice for decent meal and cocktail , only to ve told that we need to pay a 120 rand per person before entering the hotel as entrance fee. We asked if we would get it discounted on our food bill or part of it only to be told it was only the entrance fee with no vouchers or discounts. As we were 4 people it worked out 480 just to enter without anything to eat or drink yet. We off course turned around and left as we as a family cannot jusify paying that to enter a hotel for lunch. La montagne was good to us for many years ( over 14 years) but will unfortunately not see us again.