City Lodge Hotel: A Road Lodge in the pipeline

THE CITY Lodge Hotel Group would start developing the 90-room Road Lodge Pietermaritzburg early next month, it said yesterday. The hotel is scheduled to open for business in November and will cost about R45 million to develop, including land, building, furniture and fittings. Located at the corner of New England Road and Hesketh Drive in Hayfields in Pietermaritzburg, it will become the 22nd Road Lodge in the country and the 56th hotel in the City Lodge Hotel Group. It is expected to provide employment for a staff of 15. Road Lodge is the budget one-star brand within the four brand City Lodge Hotel Group. The group’s other three brands are its four-star Courtyard Hotel, three-star City Lodge Hotel and the two-star Town Lodge brands. Shares fell 0.57 percent to close at R136.50 yesterday. – Roy Cokayne