This is a stylish small hotel with a red-roped lobby entrance, a sumptuous bar, and friendly management. The sense of affordable prestige suits the suburb’s easy-going attitude. Rooms are smallish but well presented. The Ascot also hosts occasional jazz performances. The prime selling point here is the location, within hollering distance of some of the neighbourhoods’s best bars and restaurants.
Ascot Hotel
Johannesburg
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