Rissington Inn

Rissington Inn - the Warmest Welcome in the Lowveld

Description

Rissington Inn is an affordable, award-winning country lodge in the heart of the Lowveld. Stylish but relaxed and informal, the inn is the perfect stopover on the way to the game reserves and an ideal base from which to explore all that Mpumalanga has to offer.

Outstanding breakfasts. Light meals, lunch and dinner in the … la carte restaurant, open 7 days a week. Extensive choices and superb food. The welcoming, friendly bar is fully licensed.

The 14 individual rooms and suites are surrounded by 10 acres of extensive colourful gardens and offer comfortable, spacious and airy accommodation. All rooms have their own entrances and verandahs. Each has a private bathroom and the magnificent garden suites also offer minibars and outside showers. The rooms and the charming, thatched farmhouse are shaded by magnificent trees and have breathtaking views down the valley.

Rissington's congenial, easy-going hosts ensure cheerful, attentive hospitality allowing guests total freedom to unwind and enjoy the peace of the bush, lie by the sunny pool or walk down the valley with its spectacular birds and game sightings.

Rissington is the perfect balance of friendly, unobtrusive and personal service - everything you need and a little more than you expected.

One kilometre through indigenous bush on a gravel road off the R40, just South of Hazyview. 10 minutes from the Kruger National Park and close to all the attractions of the Great Escarpment and Panorama Route. Golf, riding and a host of activities nearby.

Accommodation

We pride ourselves on our outstanding hospitality. Sundowners in the bar, a delicious dinner in the restaurant, coffee and a nightcap, before retiring to your comfortable room with the night sounds of Africa to lull you into a peaceful sleep.

The rooms at Rissington Inn all have their own individual styles and have en suite bathrooms and a full range of facilities. Importantly, all have ceiling fans.

Combretum and Kapok – The Courtyard Rooms

Our smallest rooms each have a double bed and a small verandah. Bathrooms have Victorian baths. These rooms are ludicrously reasonably-priced!

Saligna, Euphorbia and Camelfoot – The Original Larger Rooms

Each of these rooms has its own individual style and all are situated in the shady, thatched former-tobacco barn, next to the main house.

They are cool in Summer and warm in Winter and are furnished throughout with antiques and interesting pictures from around the world. Each has its own small verandah.

 Baobab, Mahogany and Kigelia – The Newer Larger Rooms

With long views and verandahs, these are recent additions. Furnished with a queen-size bed and a single bed, these rooms can accommodate three people in great comfort. The rooms are light and airy. The romantic Victorian bath is in the bedroom and the shower in the bathroom looks straight down the valley.

Sycamore and Ivory - The Original Garden Suites.

These rooms are very spacious, with large verandahs and long views. One has two double beds and the other a huge superking-sized bed and a single bed. Bathrooms have Victorian baths and walled-off outside showers.

Acacia, Coral, Ebony and Teak - The Thatched Garden Suites

Under thatch and surrounded by trees and shrubs, tucked away near the donga. Light and airy, these rooms have high roofs, Victorian baths, outside showers and plenty of space.

Acacia & Coral have a superking-sized bed and a single bed. Ebony and Teak have two queen sized beds. These rooms are suitable for 2, 3 or 4 people. Acacia is also suitable for wheelchair access

The Hillside Suites

Pumalanga and Shonalanga are the pride of Rissington Inn. Each suite has two bedrooms, two en-suite bathrooms (with our signature Victorian baths) and an outside shower. Both suites have a spacious sitting room, a large stoep, a sun terrace, minibars, tea and coffee facilities and a television with full DStv.  The two suites share a private swimming pool and the best views on the property.

 Pumalanga and Shonalanga are both ideal for families or for two couples travelling together and each suite is able to accommodate from two to five people.

Umkhaphi – The Guide’s Room

For the budget traveller, this small room has a double bed, shower and loo, but no bath and is tucked away at the end of the original building.

Attractions

A game drive in the Kruger National Park. Golf, tennis, bowls, trout-fishing, hot-air ballooning and horse-riding are all available nearby.

Recommended places to visit within one hour’s drive of Rissington Inn

• God’s Window - a stunning view from Highveld to Lowveld

• The Pinnacle - a stack on the edge of the escarpment

• Bourke’s Luck - fascinating rock forms at the confluence of the Blyde and Treur Rivers

• Blyde River Canyon - endless viewpoints over the third largest canyon in the world

• Lisbon, Berlin and Mac Mac Falls - impressive scenery and deep waterfalls

• Pilgrim’s Rest - restored Gold Rush mining town and home of Jock of the Bushveld.

• Hoedspruit Cheetah Breeding Project

• Shangana Cultural Village - festivals of song and dance (http://www.shangana.co.za)

• Barberton - Sheba Mines and the first Stock Exchange

• Kruger National Park - the best in the world (http://www.sanparks.org/parks/kruger/)

• Kapama Lodge - for open vehicle night drives with spotlights

• Fanie Botha Trail and others - hiking through indigenous forest and plantations

• Sudwala and Echo Caves - the oldest in the country

• Lowveld Botanical Gardens - on the banks of the Crocodile River

• Moholoholo Animal and Bird Rehabilitation Centre

• Sabie River and Horseshoe Falls - trout-fishing for all capabilities

• Crocodile and Swadini Reptile Parks

• Farm Tours of banana, citrus, mango, coffee, macadamia and other enterprises

• History Tours and Museums of Anglo-Boer and Voortrekker history

• Tsinini Silk Farm - silkworms at work

Sub-tropical Hazyview offers a year-round climate for visitors and is the perfect base to explore the scenic wonders of the escarpment.

A healthy farm breakfast will set you up for the day or leave early with a picnic basket for a game drive in the Kruger National Park. Golf, tennis, bowls, trout-fishing, hot-air ballooning and horse-riding are all available nearby.

Golf Courses in the Area:

• Sabie River Country Club - Web Site: http://www.golfing-safaris.co.za/golfing/sabie.htm

• Kruger Park Lodge - Web Site: http://www.krugerparklodge.co.za

• Skukuza Golf Course - Web Site: http://www.places.co.za/html/kruger_golf.html

South African National Parks (SANParks)

Experience the beauty and diversity of South African National Parks, Travel and explore South Africa!

Web Site: http://www.sanparks.org/

This site hosts details of South African National Parks, their camps and wildlife and community relations. It will help tourists and visitors with planning trips to the parks - self drive safaris, game viewing, accommodation tariffs, adventure activities such as guided walks and hiking, bird-watching, 4x4 trails, sightseeing, cultural and historical experiences, mountain biking, golf, canoeing, swimming and many more. You can also learn how to become an honorary ranger or how to take part in organised events within these conservation areas.

The Blyde River Canyon

The third largest canyon in the world and the largest green canyon. Magnificent views from God’s Window, Bourke’s Luck Potholes, World’s View and The Three Rondavels. w, Bourke’s Luck Potholes, World’s View and The Three Rondavels.

God’s Window is a spectacular 1000m drop on the edge of the Escarpment. Incredible views across the Kruger National Park into Mozambique.

Hazyview is ten minutes away from the world-famous Kruger National Park and even closer than ever with the opening of the new gate at the Albasini Ruins.

Nearby Sabie and Graskop have a superb variety of interesting rock formations and waterfalls, including the Macmac Falls, Forest Falls, Lisbon Falls and Lone Creek Falls

Hazyview

Hazyview is strategically situated 35kms east of Sabie and 17km west of the Kruger National Park, midway between the spectacular scenery of the great escarpment and the world-famous game lodges - a town on a crossroads, where six major roads, all leading to different tourist attractions, converge.

Within a short drive of Rissington Inn are the Numbi, Phabeni and Paul Kruger Gates of the world’s largest Game Reserve. The Blyde River Canyon, the third largest in the world, with magnificent views and drops as deep as 3000ft (1000m) is half an hour away, as are God’s Window, a sweeping view over the Lowveld from high up on the escarpment, Bourke’s Luck Potholes - where the Blyde and Treur rivers meet, causing fascinating rock foundations - and Pilgrims Rest, the restored gold rush town, home of Jock of the Bushveld.

Not to mention all the magnificent waterfalls, superb and varied scenery, deep and wonderful caves and plenty of history from Bushmen to Voortrekkers….

The first recorded mention of Hazyview was by Harry Wolhuter, the famous Kruger National Park ranger. His life was saved here by Perry, a French-Canadian member of Steinaecker’s Horse, a cavalry regiment in the Anglo-Boer War. Wolhuter was suffering from Black Water fever.

Perry was granted a farm on the Sabie River by the government and there he founded a trading store. He had no family and on his death he willed the farm to Wolhuter, who was obliged to sell it to liquidate his debts.

The village of Hazyview was officially promulgated in 1959 when the first Post Office was established and Hazyview station came into being when the old Selati line was re-routed outside the Kruger National Park at Kaapmuiden in the late 1960’s.

Hazyview is now not only a tourism hub, but also a thriving farming community - a centre for the farming of bananas, coffee, avocados, mangoes. lychees, citrus fruits and macadamias among other things. More than half of the world’s bananas are grown within 100km of Hazyview and the ground is so fertile it is said that if you planted a gum boot you’d grow a rubber tree! The bananas were planted in the 1950’s and since then the number of farms has grown and grown.

Hazyview is the perfect place for a base for a holiday - golf, tennis, bowls, horse-riding, squash, river-rafting, bird-watching, hiking, mountain biking, history tours and magnificent game-viewing are all available and to be strongly recommended.

Accolades

	:Tourism Council of SA Star Grading
	:Portfolio benchmarked:
	:AA Guides quality assured

Facilities

The rooms at Rissington Inn all have their own individual styles and have en suite bathrooms and a full range of facilities. Importantly, all have ceiling fans.

Combretum and Kapok – The Courtyard Rooms

Our smallest rooms each have a double bed and a small verandah. Bathrooms have Victorian baths. These rooms are ludicrously reasonably-priced!

Restaurant & Bar

The perfect place to enjoy fine food, excellent wines, good company and the warmest South African welcome!

The Rissington Bar

Rissington's bar is the focus for many an interesting tale - a great place to enjoy a relaxing drink, discuss the days events or kick of your shoes and read the newspapers.

 The bar has its own verandah with a wonderful view as the sun goes down over the Sabie River Valley. What better place for your pre-prandial drink, or a cognac after your meal to the echoes of the night sounds of Africa?

A look at our Dining Room

The restaurant can seat approximately 30 people. We have an extensive à la Carte Menu with wonderful soups, an array of interesting starters, a variety of trout dishes, fine curries, the best fillet steak in the land and a range of vegetarian dishes.

The Sitting Room

The sitting room is situated next to the restaurant - perfect for coffee after dinner. There is also a television for the sports fan (or the soap addict) and a library of books on a wide range of topics and in a number of languages.

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