Ascot Inn

You stay at Ascot Inn in converted racehorse stables that once housed champions from the nearby Scottsville Race Course. The rooms, now with en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning, retain traces of their racing past while offering modern comforts like electronic safes and sixty-eight TV channels. Indigenous gardens surround the property, with ponds and benches tucked into quiet corners.

The Gallop Inn Pub & Grill serves buffet dinners at a horseshoe-shaped bar, and breakfast comes with fresh coffee in a sunlit dining room. A swimming pool and covered braai area blend into the landscaped grounds. The inn runs on borehole water filtered for safety and has a generator to keep lights on during power cuts. Two security guards patrol at night.

Pietermaritzburg’s city centre is ten minutes away by car. The New England Road off-ramp from the N3 highway leads directly to the property, which sits two kilometres past the Golden Horse Casino.