Cathedral Peak Hotel Northern Drakensberg

In recognition of its cultural and natural beauty, the Drakensberg mountain range with the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park has been recognized as a World Heritage Site. Nestled in these beautiful surroundings lies the Cathedral Peak Hotel.

The Cathedral Peak Hotel is located just 250km from Durban and 400km from Johannesburg. The Cathedral Peak Hotel, nestled in the valley where the San (Bushmen) people once hunted, is one of the most popular Hotels in the Natal Drakensberg.

Situated on 400ha of land, the Cathedral Peak Hotel is unique in that it falls within the boundaries of the Cathedral Peak Nature Reserve, and nestles right up against the spectacular Cathedral Peak range of mountains.

Visitors are able to enjoy the solitude of the mountains without the disruption of many other tourists. Despite all the odds stacked against the hotel in those early days, the van der Riet family has always been able to extend warm hospitality to their guests and the Cathedral Peak Hotel has grown over the years into one of the most popular and successful resorts in the Natal Drakensberg wonderland.
   
Accommodation at Cathedral Peak Hotel, Drakensberg

The Cathedral Peak Hotel offers a wide variety of accommodation. The comfortable en-suite standard rooms and standard thatched rooms are ideally situated in the beautiful hotel gardens and can accommodate between two and four guests.

The spacious deluxe suites feature a private verandah and garden and the interleading family deluxe rooms are able to accommodate up to 4 guests in either twin or double beds. All hotel rooms at the 3 star Cathedral Peak Hotel provide tea/coffee making facilities, heaters, telephones, televisions and en-suite bathrooms with both bath and shower.

The well-appointed executive/honeymoon suites are set in secluded gardens. Each suite has been individually decorated to enhance its appeal and create a luxurious, intimate ambience. These suites all provide a large four poster bed, television, telephone, mini bar fridge, electric fireplace, underfloor heating, spa bath, and private verandah with breathtaking mountain views.

The Mponjwane Presidential Suite boasts a fireplace, spa bath, steam bath, under floor heating, two televisions with full DSTV, air-conditioning, electric curtains opening onto a private verandah with spectacular mountain views. The suite is decorated in warm textured hues with high quality finishes and sophisticated lighting. The natural surroundings are introduced into the décor and the guests will have the use of a private golf cart for the duration of their stay.

Dining at Cathedral Peak, KwaZulu-Natal

The hotel's dining room offers an extensive buffet of superb culinary creations for breakfast and dinner. A separate children’s dining room provides younger children with nutritious meals, toys and entertainment and the opportunity of meeting new friends (babysitters are available on request).

Cathedral Peak Hotel: Indoor Activities

The Hotel's indoor facilities include table tennis, a games room, fully equipped gym with steam bath and a beauty therapist where guests are invited to relax and be pampered with one of the many treatments available from Peak Performance Vitality Centre.

After dinner, guests can enjoy a game of pool, darts or sport on the big screen in the well-known Harry's Bar or relax in the comfort of Albert's Cocktail Bar with the ambience of a roaring log fire.

Cathedral Peak Hotel: Outdoor Activities

The hotel offers different outdoor activities including free daily guided hikes (incl. walks to Bushman paintings and specialist birding hikes with a qualified guide) horse-rides, Mountain bike trails (own bikes required), jogging route, tennis, squash, bowls, outdoor chess, beach volleyball, badminton, floodlit mini-adventure golf, 10m climbing tower, heated & cold swimming pool and fly fishing.

In addition, the 9-hole gold course situated on the hotel property offers alternate tees for an 18-hole game. The club house boasts rest rooms, a lounge area, pub (Philip's Pholy) and a terrace with spectacular mountain views - the perfect 19th hole. The length of the course is 5542m and the course is graded a par 70.

The Cathedral Peak Hotel is also a welcome family retreat with a host of children's facilities including pony rides, a children's playground, jumping castle, heated paddling pool and trampoline.

Heavenly Honeymoons at the Cathedral Peak Hotel

The well-appointed honeymoon suites are set in secluded gardens amidst peaceful surroundings. Each suite has been individually decorated to enhance its appeal and to create a luxurious, intimate ambience.

The Cathedral Peak Hotel provides for a unique honeymoon destination throughout the year: in the winter the snow-capped peaks are magnificent, in autumn the leaves turn red and gold and the landscape looks spectacular, and in the summer the days bring a cloak of lush green to the mountains.

World Heritage Status of the Drakensberg Park

The magnificent Drakensberg mountains have taken their rightful place on the international tourism stage with the proclaiming of the 243 000 hectare uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park on 29 November 2000 as a World Heritage Site (WHS).

International recognition was granted to its unique richness of biological diversity, its endemic and endangered species, its superlative natural beauty as well as its masterpieces of human creative genius in the form of tens of thousands of San rock paintings.