Cathedral Peak Hotel

November 22nd to Cathedral Peak

A sleepless night with various power cuts. After another delicious breakfast we enjoyed the balcony for the last hour before departing soon after 10. We arrived at Cathedral Peak after 90 minutes, the last 15 or so of these in the national park. We were too early for the room to be available, so we wondered around for 40 minutes or so before going in to lunch: this was a buffet, nothing special, but adequate.

We had a discussion with reception before this as we were allocated to a table without a window view and told that we would have to keep this for our whole 4 day stay. They did not deal with the situation very well, but we were assured that we would be moved to a table we liked the following lunchtime.

When we got to the room after lunch, we discovered, David’s iPad had been left behind at Three Tree Hill. David emailed the them and they said they had found it, and could leave it at the Dam View Butchery in Bergville. We went to the large swimming pool, this was some distance from our room and I enjoyed my swim there then we had afternoon tea on the terrace.

Soon after five, we wondered out for a walk towards Dorian Falls, but it was too far away for us to reach there. Then we went to the bar and enjoyed cocktails there looking at the fantastic Drakensberg mountains. The cocktails were very cheap. Then in to dinner soon after eight: this was another buffet. The soup and the roast beef were very good. There were a large selection of puddings, but nothing excelled here.

This was a (very) cheap hotel, and clearly kept their rates down by doing only buffets for all meals. It was good value for money, but we would have preferred to have paid more and got more

Cathedral Peak Hotel. November 23

Chris went for a swim before breakfast, and then we left soon after 10 for Bergville to collect David‘s iPad from the Dam View Butchery where Cheryl had left it for collection. The round trip took little over two hours.

After a pleasant lunch, Chris made an appointment for a massage the following day. Then a siesta before a swim and tea. By this time there was thunder around but no rain came. We enjoyed a cocktail outside the bar again before dinner . After this we sat in the bar finishing David's beer for awhile.

Cathedral Peak Hotels. November 24th

There was thunderstorm during the night but sunshine in the morning and I had a swim before breakfast and again just before lunch.

And after this, I had a massage then tea before a two hour walk to the Doreen Falls. The storm had lowered temperatures from the high 30s to the low 30s, but this was still fairly hot.

We showered and went down .for drinks at the bar. Later we dined, by now accustomed to self service for everything. There was a big group of up to one hundred who created much noise at times.

Cathedral Peak Hotel. Sat Nov 25.

There was a thunderstorm, and much rain during the night and the temperatures were down to 17° by breakfast time. We went for a wander in very light rain after breakfast, discovering the Bowling Green tennis courts, the climbing tower and various other activities en route .

Then to the room for more reading before a swim. We had an early lunch, this, a so called Brai, out on the lawn, nothing exciting.

Then I had a very relaxing facial massage.

We drove to the golf club after tea and started the climb towards Williams Lake: after just thirty minutes we got quite high and had a wondrous view. An energetic walk, if only of an hour's duration.

My last Pina Colada for 2023 at six and a final, self serve, roast beef dinner

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