Name: Durban Spa Hotel
Location: Durban Beach
Use: New Hotel on top floors above existing timestare units
Floors: 28F
Status: Proposed

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Hotel Durban Spa - Beachfront

The Durban Spa is located in the heart of the Durban beachfront. This existing timeshare Kondotel project, with 520 beds and with a present occupancy of 88% per annum, has additional hotel development rights for a beachfront hotel with 100 rooms. For more information contact kondotel@global.co.za

• Hotel Durban Spa will be developed as an extention of the highly successful Durban Spa timeshare leisure resort, and will consist of a further 14-storey, 100 room hotel development offering an exceptional opportunity to invest in the prime position on Durban's world-renowned main beach.

"On Durban's Golden Mile"


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Awesome news...another rather high rise for Durban. Good find!

since u put up the small version i thought i should post the large image version...not the most architecturally stimulating development, but will fill the beach skyline more.

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Kondotel Group - Profile

The Kondotel Group was founded in South Africa more than 30 years ago.
The group previously co-owned and operated 6 hotels in Durban, including the well-known 4-star Tropicana Hotel on the Durban beachfront and the Durban Spa.

The group was founded in 1971 by Jan Kruger. Its first project was the marketing and development of the 60-unit Albatros apartment block in Amanzamtoti in KwaZulu-Natal, which were all sold under share block. In 1973 the group also successfully marketed and developed La Ballito, a 15-storey, 102-unit holiday apartment project on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast under sectional title. This was one of the pioneer sectional title developments in South Africa. Over the next 33 years the Kondotel Group has successfully developed some 24 hotel and leisure property development projects in South Africa.

Tropicana Hotel
(Dbn, KZN)
(Hotel & timeshare development)

166 hotel rooms and suites

4 star

Durban Spa (Dbn, KZN)
(Sectional title timeshare development)

104 holiday apartments, conference
centre & restaurants

Kondotel Management Team

The existing management of Kondotel is well equipped and experienced to handle resort property management in South Africa.

Jan Kruger has vast experience in leisure resort and hotel development, having founded Kondotel Group in 1972 and has since completed more than 24 major property developments.

The board of Kondotel Holdings Ltd further consists of

Elsabe Heystek - B.Com, LLB (PU for CHE), LLM (RAU), Dipl.Acc.
Jannie H Kruger - B.Com Acc (Stell), BLC (Pta)
Johan Reyneke - B.Com Acc (UOFS)
Pieter J Steenkamp - B.Com Hons (Pta)
Maria M Yelverton - BA Hons (PU for CHE)
The board is further assisted in a management advisory capacity by:
Francois Froneman - B.Com Hons, CA(SA)
Desmond Yelverton - B.Com Hons (PU for CHE)

The board and management above have many years of various levels of successful experience in leisure property development, marketing, and management.

great find, Ill add to emporis as proposed. wow they are really comming out the woodwork.
Mosi have you introduced yourself to us on the intro thread?

reading into this it seems they haver the development rights but want an investor to undertake it. This is more of a very slim possibilty of proceeding . It is added as proposed for now

I know this place, we should throw stuff from Mt Blanc onto the garden area, :D lol, "good times"

This is sooo cool. We still have timeshare in this building! Our flat is on the first floor, because mom is afraid of elevators. I was always sooo jealous of those living higher up. Glad to see they are going to spruce up the old lady a bit.

Well i hope they do do it tho, cos more density is always great!

This is great news! I hope this comes through. It will really add to the beachfront skyline. Will also add some density as it's close to the highrise coming up right behind the Holiday Inn (South Beach) and the Wheel.

Thats true...they in spitting distance of each other

What's in the current position of the proposed hotel?

its being built on top of the existing Durban Spa building

I hope Mt Blanc goes back to being painted white. Looks cleaner and more sophisticated. I'm not a fan of it's current pinkish colour.

i agree!! i think it looks terribly tacky! Then again i imagine it is terribly hard to keep those buildings looking crisp and clean if they are painted white, for the sea air must wreck havoc on them!

but how incredibly stupid to name a building white mountain (mont blanc) and then decide to paint it pink? I never liked it. Tall, garish and one gets the eerie feeling that it might tip over.

Sorry, but this building will be butt ugly. Too boxy. Where's the sense of fun?

^^ i agree...but from the looks of things it has to match the existing 14F...then again why dont they redo the whole block to be modern and fresh? would leave a far better impression and modernise that end of the beach!

it is an ugly building, but so are those surrounding it. the mont blanc is my least fav high-rise. ah, but I had good times in the spa. Very 80's, you can visit the website and look for yourself. but good times none the less.

I actually like mont blanc. i think it has alot style, but the pink at present doesnt show that off...

hmmm...i can only imagine what u did... :)

I remember that my brother always told me mont blanc was leaning over to our side - due to bad construction. I was always wondering when it would just fall over. Guess my impressions of mont blanc was formed by my older brother. To me durban was just the most magical place. The wheel, mini-town, the beach... Christmas lights!

we should show mt blanc the respect she deserves as she has been durbans 2nd tallest and the building with the most floor in durban for over 20 years

I agree. It's a Durbs landmark that appears on almost every postcard of the beachfront.

All hail Her Royal Majesty, Mt Blanc!

My only request is that they change it back to white.

I am surprised by the response regarding this development in Durban. This is really a prime site which will be interesting as it will be on top of a timeshare block that was built in the 1980's. I hope the project goes ahead as planned.

I hope so too.

I think people generally support the development but would prefer a revised design.

yes i do support the development, esp since it is in the dodgy part of the beach, but yeh the style is my only gripe! But then again, its the same as the rest of the building

Hey we had a flat @ Mt Blanc, its the only place in Durbs I could get a head rush by taking the lift from the ground floor till level 34!!!

I agree that it's ugly, but what else will be built in what Dysan accurately called the 'dodgy part of the beach'? Beggars can't be choosers, and (speaking as a former short-term Mont Blanc resident from 1990) that area's definitely a beggar!

I actually don't think it looks too bad. It'll blend in so at least it's not an eyesore. In the pics it looks kinda small for 28F.

yeh it does...but its next to the 40F mont blanc, so that will make it look small. put it next to something its own size to compare i think. And its not terrible, it blends with its existing structure

yeh, it would look kinda odd if you have this old building @ the bottom with a super cool structure on top of it. Hey the sardines are beaching in this area, lol, can imagine the sale ad's for this one " watch the sardine frenzy from the comfort of your home" :crazy:

Are the renovations complete?

Nope, I dont think they've started on this one yet, I could be wrong, anyone care to correct me?

I stayed in durban spa this week, we have had timeshare there since 1989. It is the first time in ten years that I have been there. The entire building is getting a revamp - but I don't think this will mean more floors being added. That part of south beach looks better than I expected. It seems even the grotty wheel is getting a makeover. Mt blanc looks just as intimidating as always. We stay on the first floor - we have a unit here because my mom is terrified of lifts... expected more noise, but we had a great time. Durban Spa is like a late-1980's time warp. But it is clean, everything is immaculate within the building. And we a had a lot of fun watching a new bollywood channel - ZTV.

Lmao, I cancelled Z-tv, my mum hardly watches it & it was pissing me off.

Did you watch that one soapie? They do these insane slow motion sequences. No-one talks for minutes. One character would say: "you are but an ugly whore." For the next five minutes they zoom in and out. replay the statement. they make swoosh sounds as the camera pans over everyone's shocked faces three times. It is so funny!

Z-TV, the only one better is that new nigerian movie channel on dstv. nollywood can also be entertaining.

The evil Mt Blanc (white mountain in french) towering over our little apartment at Durban Spa.

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^^ nice pic! impressed to here its feeling good down there. have not been to south beach in over a year

Did you watch that one soapie? They do these insane slow motion sequences. No-one talks for minutes. One character would say: "you are but an ugly whore." For the next five minutes they zoom in and out. replay the statement. they make swoosh sounds as the camera pans over everyone's shocked faces three times. It is so funny!


HAHAHA, yip, thats the shit I got sick off, terrible viewing, but hilariously funny!

^^ nice pic! impressed to here its feeling good down there. have not been to south beach in over a year

They deploy security guards every day at sundown. the beach is clean, and the paving was replaced by grass in many areas after the high tide damage. After sundown it is still dodgy - but this is the feeling I get throughout - even at north beach. 3 tourists were mugged on the beachfront while we were there, and they told us not to walk around after sunset. The street running past the wheel and the four seasons, right behind the parade, is extremely dodgy. prostitutes, drug dealers and general grime. but it does look better than october last year.

Gillespie Street has been dodgy for years, if not decades. Hopefully the People Mover route will help change that.

One wonders how long the clean up campaign for the area will take to get started!

One wonders how long the clean up campaign for the area will take to get started!

I'm sure you also have a division in Durbs municipality that specifically deals with cleaning and beutifying the CBD, its BEST to lodge a complain with them so that they take action. I must say that Pickitup in Jozi is doing a great Job, we just log calls with them and they phone you back and take action. I once complained about filth at Cnr West and Anderson street and within days they came back to me and up until now the area is being kept clean.


I think you Durbs SSC members need to log calls with your departments as cleanliness makes the city lookable.

Has anything happened on the hotel expansion or is the tower block a "Never Built"?