Our Self-Catering Apartments, cottages and Suites have everything one could need where you can feel comfortable and relaxed in the privacy of your own unit.

If for any reason you want to drag yourself away from your home away from home, and you feel want to connect and network with other guests, tourist and travellers.

We invite you to come join us in the guesthouse to enjoy our public entertainment areas, this is made available for all our guests, so come hang out in our spacious guest lounge, while lazing out on one of our comfortable sofas, while watching satelite(DSTV) or find a quite area to read a book from our library.

Or go outside to connect with others or to just get some rays on our sun terrace or have a Braai(BBQ) by the Pool. You can prepare your meal in our fully fitted out kitchens and if you have had enough of the sun you could come in and have your meal in our warm dining room.

So when you have arrive and have settled in you can reconnected with your loved ones or business partners, updated your emails or research your adventure so you can travel through Johannesburg and South Africa. Allowing us to enhance our Guest House and self-Catering accommodation units.

Up the road from Da Arden, only a few minutes drive, is the Exclusive Upper Market Hyde Park Shopping Center, if you drive a bit further along the road you will reach money center of Johannesburg, Sandton Cities and its Mega Shopping Complex, driving further along William Nicol Drive, you will go through Bryanston, where its splits so you can go to Fourways or Midrand and then all the way to Pretoria.

From our Guest House if you go up the road past the exceptional Johannesburg Zoo, across the road is the Zoo Lake, travelling on to Braamfontein which is the home to Wits University, Braamfontien is one of the many places were local students hang out, it has vibrant energy and night life.

You need to be aware that Braamfontien is also a dangerous area, if you go further on you will arrive at the Johannesburg City Center with all its cultural and adventure based offering, hosting the Carlton Center, where you can go up to the 50th floor to see the whole of Joburg. If you go straight on you will go through Gold Reef City to Soweto and Nasrec where they host the famous Rand Easter Show.

I would recommend you check local maps and speak to our staff or locals who are not youngsters, ask them were dangerous places are that the locals would generally avoid, get them to show you were they are on local Maps.

Then use this Map to avoid these places if you can where possible, bypass these areas, if this is unavoidable, you should practice safe awareness travel.

Check out our “SAFETY and SECURITY INFO ” on Johannesburg. We believe and recommend that you should  stay in a safe suburb, eg… the Northern Suburbs and then venture out from there, to your different adventures you would like to participate in.

If you stay in one of the more risky areas as mentioned above, you may become desensitized to your surroundings, and will become less aware of the dangers in that suburb that may place you at risk.

If you stay in a more dangerous or volatile  neighbourhood you can be watched or loose you sense of awareness of your surrounds as they become common to you and that’s when you can be caught unaware. If you ever find yourself in a bad situation feel free to Give us a call so we can see how we can help you!