Sandton Shopping, Sandton Attractions & Sandton Nightlife
Being situated in Sandton, Africa's shopping and business Mecca, puts Holiday Inn Sandton, Rivonia Road in exactly the right place for you, whatever your travel requirements are.
If you're interested in Sandton shopping, for instance, you're right next door to The Village Walk Shopping Centre and within an easy walk of Sandton City, one of the largest and most cosmo- and metropolitan shopping centres in the Southern Hemisphere.
If you're more focused on tourism, then you're between one and three hour's drive of some of South Africa's major sight-seeing destinations.
For instance, Soweto, the world's most famous township during the apartheid era, can be reached by tour bus in less than half an hour. Warm, friendly residents will welcome you to their homes and businesses.
Downtown Johannesburg, with its vibrant Newtown theatre and crafts precinct can be reached in the same time, as can South Africa's new Constitutional Court building, one of the most remarkable of its kind architecturally and also a tangible symbol of South Africa's bill of rights, considered the most progressive in the world.
Also within easy reach are museums devoted to everything from apartheid and the heroes who fought against it, gold, military and Boer history; and transport, to money, zoology, culture, medicine, anthropology, and beer.
On the entertainment front, there are nightclubs and cocktail bars with live music and spinning DJs, casinos, theatres (in Johannesburg and Pretoria) – and all the latest movies are showing in cinemas in Sandton City Shopping Centre. Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton City Shopping Centre also offers a wide range of top class restaurants.
World class game parks are within a short, local flight of Sandton but, if you don't have much time and you want to see some animals close up, the Johannesburg Zoo and the Lion Park are half an hour away by car. Even closer is the Monte Casino Bird Park. And, by the way, Johannesburg is the only city, other than Vienna, in which you can see Lippizaner horses at work.
If you're into palaeontology and archaeology, the Cradle of Mankind, where Mrs Ples was found, is an hour's drive away. For more of a focus on plants and geology, you should visit the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, and the Mellville Koppies.
| Downtown Information | Distance |
| Johannesburg | +/- 20 km |
| Convention Centres | Distance |
| Sandton Convention Centre | +/- 500m |
| Gallagher Estate | +/- 23km |
| Fairgrounds | Distance |
| Gold Reef City Theme Park | +/- 35 km |
| Attractions | Distance |
| Johannesburg Zoo | +/- 10 km |
| New Town Cultural Precinct | +/- 18 km |
| Gold Reef City Theme Park | +/- 35 km |
| Apartheid Museum | +/- 35 km |
| Soweto | +/- 47.5 km |
| Lion Park | +/- 51.5 km |
| Lesedi Cultural Village | +/- 55 km |
| Sun City | +/- 180 km |
| Lost City | +/- 180 km |
| Pilanseberg National Park | +/- 200 km |
| Shopping | Distance |
| Village Walk Shopping Centre | Adjacent to hotel |
| Sandton City Shopping Centre | +/-500m |
| Nelson Mandela Square | +/-500m |
| Entertainment | Distance |
| Civic Theatre | +/- 15 km |
| Brightwater Commons | +/- 15 km |
| Monte Casino | +/- 20 km |
| Golf | Distance |
| Houghton Golf Course | +/- 5km |
| Dainfern Golf Course | +/- 6km |
| Johannesburg Country Club | +/- 16 km |
| Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Course | +/- 25km |
| Other | Distance |
| Wanderers Cricket Ground | +/- 5 km |
| 2010 Soccer City | +/- 16km |
| Coca-Cola Park (formerly known as Ellis Park) | +/- 16km |
| NASREC | +/- 26km |