THE four-star Avalon Springs Luxury Spa Resort Hotel at Montagu in the Western Cape is investing more than R25m in new developments and upgrades.
Owner, Wolf-Dieter Sowade, says R20m is being spent on 28 new five-star timber-log chalets located on the mountainside behind the hotel. Six chalets have already been completed; another six will be finished soon, with the remainder due to open by the end of 2008. The chalets are available for sale on a fractional ownership basis for five, 10 or 50 weeks per year or can be rented throughout the year on a B&B basis for R700 pppn for the first two occupants and R300 pppn for additional occupants. The 100sqm chalets accommodate six people in two double bedrooms, each with full en-suite bathrooms, and a queen-size sleeper couch in the lounge. Facilities include a covered veranda with built-in barbeque, LCD TVs in all bedrooms and in the lounge, open-plan granite kitchens fitted with the latest steel appliances, underfloor heating and air conditioning. Each chalet has its own outdoor spa bath fed from the resort’s natural hot spring.
The hotel has received a new reception area, a new indoor heated pool and a new health spa and sauna, all valued at R1.5m. Dining, lounge and bar areas were refurbished recently.
Sixty percent of all bathrooms in the time-share apartments are being refurbished, while all bedrooms will receive a R1m makeover in 2008. This will include new carpets, soft furnishings, Internet accessibility and new flat-screen TVs.
Some R3m has been spent on a new day visitor complex, which now includes a 60m long waterslide, a children’s amusement park and entertainment centre, an adventure lake with boats, a new nine-hole mini golf course and two new pools for toddlers.
