Best Hotels with Activities in Soweto

Soweto sits on Johannesburg's southwestern edge, the township where South Africa's anti-apartheid movement took its most visible shape. Vilakazi Street once housed both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu within a few hundred metres of each other, a claim no other street in the world can make. Families base themselves here for the Hector Pieterson Memorial, the Apartheid Museum a short drive away, and Gold Reef City's rides and casino floor, roughly 14 kilometres from the township's hotels. Hotel choice inside Soweto itself stays narrow right now: most visiting families still sleep in central Johannesburg and drive in for the day trip. The single property currently vetted here suits a one or two night stop close to the memorial sites, with family rooms and a kid-friendly breakfast buffet rather than a resort built for a full week.