Yorkim Parmentier

Review of Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel

Where to start with a hotel review, it's always co...

Where to start with a hotel review, it's always complicated because you have to look at many things.

The room: The room was big enough for 2 people, the bed was comfortable and you had a ton of pillows. The one thing that I really don't like about hotels is when they have carpet. I more a personal thing but yeah.

The bathroom: It was clean, (which is really important) and big, I had a shower and a bad. The bad was pretty big as well. One problem was the water, it would take ages to drain, result, my bathroom turned into a swimming pool onto a daily basis. This is probably a problem with the room and not with the hotel in general.

The internet: Well, thats a whole different story. The internet was just bad. With speeds to maximal 5Mbps, it just wasn't enough for the entire hotel. It was working-ish until 8PM local time. After that you would lose so many packets that websites would no longer load. I spoke to the reception about this but they didn't really gave an answer. So make sure that you have mobile internet if you really need it. Getting a SIM card is really hard as well! Read about it before you come to South Africa

The restaurant: The hotel has a pretty good restaurant, food that is served is from high quality and prices (compared to euro) are relatively cheap. They have a big menu (at time of writing) and many different choices.

The breakfast: It was not super special, but it was better than average for sure. The possibilities were big.

Staff: The staff was friendly in general!

It's definitely worth coming here, it's not a pleasure hotel but a real business hotel. For example, we met many crew members of British Airways and I saw some other airliene companies here as well.