Best Hotels with Activities in Johannesburg

Johannesburg is where most South African family trips begin, and the family hotels sit north of the centre in Sandton, Rosebank, Melrose, Houghton and Westcliff. That belt holds the pools, the family suites, the kids clubs at The Leonardo and Four Seasons Hotel The Westcliff, and the only two hotel playgrounds in the city. The Gautrain links O.R. Tambo to Rosebank and Sandton in under half an hour, which lets a family skip a hire car entirely on a short stay. Days out run to the Johannesburg Zoo and Zoo Lake, Gold Reef City, the Apartheid Museum and the Cradle of Humankind. The city sits at 1750 metres, so summer afternoons bring hard thunderstorms and winter days are dry and sunny with cold nights.