The Best Sustainable Hotels in South Africa

Planning a trip not sure which Sustainable Hotels in South Africa are the best for the environmentally conscious traveler

There are various ways hotels can reduce their impact on the environment like reducing their greenhouse gas emission, buying from local businesses, starting a garden or even introducing a towel and sheet reuse program.

Sustainable Hotels in South Africa

The sustainable South Africa hotels to book now:

The City Lodge Hotel Group

The City Lodge Hotel Group (CLHG) has stellar eco-credentials. In 2019, this sustainable South African hotel group rolled out a large-scale solar panels project at 25 hotels at cost of R20m, with a combined energy output of approximately 1.45 megawatts of power or 10% of the entire group’s energy requirements. They’ve supported local sustainable businesses by introducing a new amenities range, including a Zero Bar made by The Bespoke Amenities Company (TBAC).

Product	Description	Net Result
Hair & Body Zero Bar	Made using no water, with a dollop of avocado and argan oil, to replace liquid shampoo and liquid body wash	Minus two plastic bottles and two plastic caps
Hand Bar	Replaces the soap bars and made with a dollop of coconut and sunflower oil	Minus two plastic flow wraps.
Body Cream	Enriched with shea butter and packed in recyclable aluminum tube and cap made from recycled plastic	Minus plastic bottle.
Shower Cap	Made using corn starch.	Minus plastic flow wrap

City Lodge is also rolling out hydration stations at its hotels, offering a free alternative to plastic water bottles. Filtered, magnesium-enriched water is now available for all guests.

Hotel Verde

Rated the Greenest Hotel in Africa, Hotel Verde was the first hotel in Africa to offer guests a fully carbon-neutral stay, which is offset by benefiting local communities living in and around Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. They achieve this by creating new jobs, strengthening social infrastructure, and protecting the local wildlife through supporting and helping those to rebuild forest cover.

Guests who are staying at the hotel are encouraged to do their bit by using the stairs instead of the elevator, not turning on the air conditioning, or heading to the gym to use the hotel’s energy-generating equipment. Guests staying at this eco-friendly hotel in Cape Town are awarded Verdinos – the hotel’s in-house currency that rewards you for being involved in making green choices. One Verdino is equivalent to R5. Verdinos’ can be used towards your bill, at the hotel bar or towards your treatments and products at Renew Treatment Room.

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Thaba Eco Hotel

Surrounded by the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, Thaba Eco Hotel and Spa features elegant suites. This sustainable hotels in South Africa won the prestigious South African Grading Councils – Lilizela Tourism Award 2019 for the ‘Best 4-Star Hotel in South Africa’.

Thaba Eco focuses on xeriscaping. *Xeriscaping – refers to the conservation of water through creative landscaping at the Hotel to minimize the need for water use. They also offer eco-drive safaris that educate you on biomes, trees, plants, grasses, animals, and their role in the ecosystem.

 

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The Vineyard

The Vineyard situated on the Eastern slopes of Table Mountain in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town has been recognized by the international Skål Sustainable Tourism Awards. The hotel was built on three hectares (eight acres) of land and is surrounded by over 9,000 plant species, of which 70 percent are unique to the Western Cape.

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