Twenty-one years after the opening of GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World in Cape Town, the complex’s Grand Hotel is to be spruced up with a multimillion-rand investment from Sun International.
This week, the Sun International hotel chain announced an initial investment of R122-million to expand the Grand Hotel.largest casino and leisure complexBarring the Covid lockdown, the four-star Grand Hotel has operated at full capacity since it opened, with rooms booked well in advance, explained Mervyn Naidoo, the general manager of GrandWest. “This hotel has had 100% occupancy every single day. Granted, it’s only 39 rooms. We’ll be extending the hotel with 68 rooms.
Cape Town mayor Geordin Lewis-Hill has voiced his enthusiasm for the project, one of the first big projects to get off the ground after the Covid pandemic.