Holiday Inn Express Holiday Inn Express is a budget hotel franchise, operated in Africa by ISO Leisure. The franchise aims to offer affordable accommodation without unnecessary amenities. The Chief executive of ISO Leisure is Gavin Watson. ISO Leisure is 26% owned by Amabubesi Investments.
Reservations for the Holiday Inn Express may be made at the Intercontinental Hotels Group website.
Physical address |
101 St George's Mall |
Contact details |
0800 999 136
(reservations) |
Physical address |
Woodmead and Maxwell Drive |
Contact details |
0800 999 136
(reservations) |
Cape Town's Holiday Inn Express has 175 hotel rooms each containing coffee and tea utensils, DSTV, a shower, safe. Guests may make use of abusiness centre with internet access. The Holiday Inn Express does not have a restaurant, but offers breakfast and a bar. The rooms have showers instead of baths, and a convertible sofa for children up to the age of 14.
Amabubesi Investments was co-founded by Sango Ntsabula (a chartered accountant and the chairman), Thabiso Tlelai (a non-executive director) and Peter Moyo (of Alexander Forbes fame and previously deputy CEO of Old Mutual South Africa). The word "Amabubesi" is from the Nguni language and associated with a pride of lions.
2010 |
The Umhlanga Holiday Inn Express is due for completion, at a cost of R200m. |
Mar 2009 |
The Sunnyside Holiday Inn Express is due for completion, at a cost of R180m. |
Jun 2008 |
The Sandton Holiday Inn Express is completed, at a cost of R122m. |
1 Mar 2008 |
Intercontinental Hotels Group opens the first Holiday Inn Express in South Africa, in Cape Town's St George's Mall. This is a 175-roomed hotel in St George's Mall, which was completed at a cost of some R130m. Constructed together with ISO Leisure, Cape Town's Holiday Inn Express is the first of 25 that the Intercontinental Hotels Group plans to build in South Africa together with ISO Leisure. Cape Town's Holiday Inn Express is in the busy city centre, has views of Table Mountain and is close to the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. |
2007 |
ISO Leisure signs an exclusivity agreement with the InterContinental Hotels Group to develop Holiday Inn Express hotels in South Africa.The vice-president of the InterContinental Hotels' Africa division, Ewan Cameron, indicates that InterContinental Hotels had chosen ISO Leisure because of its BEE holding (i.e. its 26% ownership by Amabubesi Investments). |
2005 |
The relationship between Southern Sun and the Inter-Continental group (SA) dissolves. |
2004 |
Old Mutual purchases a 20% stake in Amabubesi Investments, allowing Amabubesi to draw on and manage a R150m investment fund. |
2002 |
Amabubesi Investments is co-founded by Peter Moyo, Sango Ntsabula and Thabiso Tlelai. Moyo and Tlelai provide most of the capital, with the idea that Ntsabula would provide the executive leadership (Moyo and Tlelai had full-time jobs at the time). |
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maggie | hi iam interested to find out about the holiday inn express as i have hotel project in botswana my tele is +267-71678947 |
