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SETTING THE BENCHMARK The Spa at The Oyster Box – an award-winning
haven of tranquillity offering a range of wellness
The Oyster Box has set the benchmark for providing and beauty treatments
five-star business and leisure facilities in Durban and People
KwaZulu-Natal. From accommodation, to dining
establishments and The Spa, The Oyster Box has set Part of the internationally recognised, Red Carnation
unprecedented standards of excellence in service and Hotels Collection, The Oyster Box is proud to have
delivery that are renowned locally and abroad. been accredited as the first company to achieve
Investors in People’s new Gold Standard across
The investment involved in the re-building and its entire worldwide operations since 2010. The
renovation of the iconic Oyster Box 11 years ago, was Investor in People award is given to a business that
one of the most significant private investments in a demonstrates that people are at its heart and crucial
hotel property in Durban and KwaZulu-Natal in 30 to its success. Furthermore, it must demonstrate that
years. Over the past 12 years, The Oyster Box and The it has robust systems in place (which are externally
Spa at The Oyster Box, have won numerous national assessed), to ensure that its employees are able
and international awards, putting the property to play their part in helping the business to meet
firmly on the global tourism radar and contributing its goals.
significantly to visitor/tourism numbers for the City of
Durban and the Province. Training and Development
With its Corporate Investors in People status at Gold
These include:
Standard, The Oyster Box’s Training and Development
Luxury Lifestyle Awards - Best Luxury Beachfront
Hotel in South Africa - 2022 Plan links directly to its business goals and strategy
which is communicated openly to all of its people.
Pink Book - Voted one of the Top 3 Beach
Wedding Venues - 2022 Everyone works toward the same main goals: to match
the quality of service to the outstanding and superior
World Travel Awards - South Africa’s Leading
Luxury Hotel – 2021 quality of its product – with no fuss!
Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards Environment
– Voted No.9 in the Top 30 Hotels in Southern Across the globe, a dramatic shift has occurred in the
Africa- 2021 way people look at the world. People are more aware of
Travel + Leisure ‘World’s Best’ Awards - No.2 in the effect they are having on the environment and it is
the Top 3 Africa Resort Hotels and voted in Top becoming progressively more difficult for travellers to
100 Hotels in the World - 2021 leave only footprints. Through the implementation of
With 86 luxurious rooms, suites, including a Presidential its Green Policy and ongoing efforts, The Oyster Box is
Suite and villas to choose from, The Oyster Box can committed to ‘green best practice’, the effects of which
accommodate the varied individual needs of every it is hoped, will make The Oyster Box one of the most
type of visitor. The hotel’s dining and relaxing facilities ‘environmentally-caring’ hotels in Africa.
include: Community
The Grill Room, with executive chef, Kevin Joseph The Oyster Box sees itself as an integral part of the
at the helm, has always been the epitome of style broader community in which it operates, as well as
and fine dining in Durban within the communities in which its staff members
The beautiful Ocean Terrace overlooking the reside. As a result, all the hotel’s CSI projects are
rolling Indian Ocean - perfect for families, groups aimed, not only at improving the quality of the
and more casual dining lives of the less fortunate and needy in these
The Palm Court - perfect for informal meals and communities, but also as assisting recognised
the sumptuous traditional High Tea, served daily charities, wherever possible, to meet the ongoing
financial and material demands required to carry
The Oyster Bar is the perfect place for fresh Sushi out their valuable work.
and seafood, light meals, tea and scones,
predinner drinks and freshly harvested oysters. Staff from across all departments (and usually different
The Lighthouse Bar is a place is unwind over staff members each time), regularly go out to assist
cocktails or sundowners with the distribution of items such as linen, towels,
slippers, uniforms etc. to various charities.
The Chukka Bar has its own entrance and is
The Oyster Box’s only smoking venue. The perfect This way ‘The Oyster Box Family’ becomes part of ‘the
place to end an evening over a whiskey and a cigar solution’, in their own communities.
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