The Winston Hotel

5 S V - 3 weeks ago

I didn't stay at the hotel but attended a bridal shower at this beautiful venue. This hotel is a hidden gem and well located. The service was great, the food was excellent and overall a good time was had by all. This is certainly a great place to hold a small function.

1 Charlene Roets - 3 weeks ago

Our booking was lost by their system (as new managers took over recently). The room type we booked was no longer available on our arrival. No real attempts to correct or make up for the issue. We decided to rather go to 54 on Bath, just around the corner, which I can highly recommend.

5 Mignon Nonnie - a month ago

We travel a lot, and we have stayed in a few hotels thus I can honestly say that The Winston Hotel is EXCELLENT.
Friendly staff, big rooms, great service and affordable prices.

Thando at reception is so sweet and always friendly! Paul is always there to assist with anything.

The Hotel itself is beautiful, lovely decor and they even make a bond fire every night for guests to enjoy.

It’s our second time staying at the Winston Hotel, this will definitely be our go to hotel for Johannesburg.

Only thing that could be better is the Wifi.

2 Archi Rastogi - a month ago

The property is quite beautiful no doubt. There is no gym though and they discourage you from going for a run outside.

The worst part was that the internet was down throughout the evening. I could get no actions besides "IT guy is working". I would come up with solutions and they would go to talk to the manager and would never come back.

I had persuaded my work to let me stay here instead of a chain hotel around the corner. I was so disappointed and stressed during this stay. I'm surprised they let the property run in this manner.

1 Raphael de la Harpe - 2 months ago

The Winston Hotel was previously a favourite of mine. I have stayed there a number of times, whilst on business in Johannesburg. Unfortunately, the last time I was denied such pleasure, because they saw fit to place my wife and I in an (unnamed) sister hotel, because guests elected to extend their stay. So, we had to be inconvenienced, because we booked via booking.com. Secondly, we were told this the night before, whilst we were abroad. What if we were in transit and found out about this unilateral change on the day we were to arrive? Attempts to empathise was misplaced. How could they? I am only glad that booking.com resolved the matter and arranged a free cancellation, whilst we had to make alternative arrangements.

They have lost a client and our firm will definitely not do business with them.

1 mussollini salem Mugumbate - a week ago

My friend just traveled back to Ireland yesterday. I referred him to stay at Winston Hotel. He booked for 5 days, l had to change him to City Lodge Hotel in Fourways. One, his iPhone was stolen by the staff after forgetting it where he was eating his dinner, one of the staff asked him to withdraw 4500 rands, the reason was that the employer is paying them peasants and he was poor. How can hostel staff beg money from customers? My friend was also complaining about the staff for begging money too much from him and poor service. They are obsessed with tips only.
I had to remove my friend from the hotel and transfer him to City Lodge Hotel as he was complaining about the staff. We tried to report these issues to the manager but it seems both the manager and the staff are birds of the same furthers flocking together.

1 Hush - 2 weeks ago

It is extremely sad to say such a beautiful venue with such bad service. Waiters were disinterested in serving, food was cold and just seeded as if they had a don't care attitude.