Surprisingly in these challenging economic times, Portfolio’s 2010 Country Places, City & Safari Collection contains 13 new entries, 9 of them brand new establishments - a record growth despite current trading conditions.
  
The year ahead will be an exciting one for all, given the hype and expectations around the 2010 Soccer World Cup.  Positively, the weak Rand makes South Africa an attractive destination for overseas visitors, offering fabulous holidays with exceptional accommodation, excellent food, friendly service and spectacular scenery.  What more could one ask for!

Portfolio is a benchmarking organisation and the best news of all is that these establishments have each been personally visited and selected to ensure that guests are not disappointed, and that descriptions in the Collection are accurate.  Today the internet provides the easiest opportunity in the world to misrepresent accommodation with amazing pictures which bear little resemblance to the reality, and glowing text which describe every establishment as ‘luxury’ and every room as a ‘suite’.

The new establishments in the 2010 Country Places Collection include:
A romantic beach hideaway in Mozambique, fabulous new boutique hotels in Johannesburg, a magnificently restored original Sir Herbert Baker, a tranquil new game lodge in the Waterberg, an inspired Cape Dutch homestead and three stylish new boutique hotels in the Winelands.  All of them exceptional and unique.

Beverly Hills

Dugong

Grand Dedale