A double room with white linen and the pool visible through the window
Pilanesberg National Park · 11 km away

Safari

Malaria-free Big Five country, a short drive from your room.

Game drives →
101 rooms · from R1 510 a night

Stay

White linen, soft light, the pool outside your window.

Pilanesberg Hotel

A hundred and one rooms on the edge of the Pilanesberg.

Twelve kilometres from Sun City, two hours from Johannesburg, and eleven kilometres from a malaria-free Big Five reserve. A pool, a restaurant, a bar and five conference venues - at honest prices, because a good night in the bush shouldn't cost a fortune.

Rooms

Three ways to sleep.

Double room

Double

One queen bed. Air-conditioning, en-suite bathroom, Wi-Fi, tea and coffee. Sleeps two.

from R1 510 per night
Twin room with two single beds

Twin

Two single beds - for friends, colleagues, or anyone who likes their own side. Sleeps two.

from R1 510 per night
The family room: a sofa and table in front of the bed The door through to the joined twin room

Family

A double room and a twin room joined by an interleading door. Sleeps four.

from R1 850 per night

Executive rooms - the same rooms with a refreshed finish - from R1 700. Rates are per room per night and change with the season; check availability for the current price.

All rooms and rates
Game drives

The Big Five, eleven kilometres from your door.

Pilanesberg National Park sits inside the crater of an extinct volcano: 55 000 hectares, malaria-free, and home to elephant, rhino, lion, leopard and buffalo. Open vehicles leave at dawn and at dusk.

Game drives and the park
Experiences

The bush is the point.

A white rhino in the Pilanesberg

Game drives

Pilanesberg National Park is 11 km away: Big Five, malaria-free, open vehicles at dawn and dusk.

Quad biking towards the hills

Quad biking

Out through the bush and up to the viewpoint, with a guide in front.

The pool from the air at golden hour

The pool

Long, blue, and quiet by four o'clock. The bar is under the slate roof at the far end.

The waterpark slides

The waterpark

Slides and a splash pool, free for hotel guests - for the days the children win.

Everything there is to do
The Pilanesberg

Nothing to do until six. Then the bar.

Conferences & events

Five venues, one hotel.

From a boardroom for forty to a cocktail evening for eight hundred - with delegates sleeping on site and dinner a short walk from the last session.

  • 5venues
  • 60-120delegates per venue
  • 500combined, cinema style
  • 800combined, cocktail
Conference venues and capacities
A conference venue set in a U-shape
Getting here

Two hours north-west of Johannesburg.

Take the N4 towards Rustenburg, then the R565 towards Sun City. The hotel is on the R565 at Boshoek, twelve kilometres before Sun City. From Pretoria it is about the same.

Directions and driving times