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Set in acres of beautiful and well kept park-like gardens,
our rooms offer a peaceful escape from the hustle of city life, which by
choice have no televisions in the rooms.
Our Bar is stocked with all kinds of interesting
board games, cards, thinking games and many others. In the evenings the bar
is an ideal venue for after dinner drinks and a round or two of your
favourite game.
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The Nest Hotel is the oldest and most well-known of all the Berg resorts in
the Natal Drakensberg. Celebrating its 72nd year of welcoming guests in
2005, The Nest Hotel has a strong following of guests who make a point of
coming year after year, returning to this most special place of comfort,
wonder and beauty.
Garden Rondavels: lovely round shaped rooms with
thatched roof.
Premier Garden Rooms: Recently refurbished with
underfloor heating, heated towel racks, fans and new décor.
All rooms are en-suite, have tea / coffee making facilities
and radio, and will soon also all have ceiling fans, electronic safes,
undercarpet heating and heated towel racks.
A delightful country hotel set amidst the scenic Drakensberg Mountains.
Charming thatched rondavels and rooms are set in 25 acres of trim, tranquil,
park like gardens.
The Nest offers a wide range of activities with swimming pool, tennis courts,
mountain bikes, croquet lawn, horse riding, river walks and guided hikes
into the mountains and championship bowling greens with professional
coaching offered. We have an amazing inclusive tariff of all three excellent
meals as well as morning and afternoon tea or coffee served on our verandah
overlooking the Drakensberg range.
The Nest Hotel offers a wide range of activities and entertainment. Bowls
for beginners is encouraged and informal games welcomed.
The Nest has always been rich in history and adventure. From around the Late
Iron Age the Bushmen painted eland and other images on the walls of caves
from the Sebaaini Caves to Anton's Shelter and continued to do so through to
the early Voortrekker days.
On 21st September 1849 David Grey of Cathkin in Scotland left with his wife
and 4 children on the barque Aliwal for Port Natal (Durban). In 1855 he
moved to The Nest on the Voortrekker Farm bought from Opperman, which
stretched well into the Drakensberg. It was he who named Cathkin Peak after
Cathkin Braes in his native Glasgow.
During the Langalibalele Rebellion in April 1874 rebels rushed into the
house and stabbed their sons, David (29) and Walter (15), before David Grey
Senior fired a shot through the verandah post. The rebels bolted and luckily
David and Walter recovered. The homestead on The Nest was however burnt down
that night.
On the 24th January 1900 close to The Nest in the area known as Spioenkop, a
major battle erupted during the Anglo-Boer war, known as The Battle of
Spioenkop.
In 1933 Leslie Forbes Gray opened a Guest House in the re-built farmstead,
and in 1943 the present hotel was built by Italian prisoners of war. In 1963
Thoedore Haug took over The Nest Hotel and ran it for 16 years. The
Malherbe's thereafter for 9 years.
In June 1988 Willi and Veronica Germann acquired The Nest Hotel and the
adjacent farm and are delighted to be your hosts in this scenic, beautiful
and historic part of Kwa-Zulu Natal in the very heart of the Drakensberg. |
