Thursday, May 6, 2010

30 April 2010 - Night away

A few weeks/months ago I won a competition which included a night's stay and extras at the 5-star Peermont D'Oreale Grande Hotel at the Emperor's Palace complex. So for the 2nd time in almost six years Ed and I slept out without the kids. My in-laws looked after them, which I am ever so grateful for.

So off we went to "see how the other half lives" and checked into our hotel room on Friday afternoon. After chilling out a bit we go ready for dinner, which was a fully-paid meal at Tribes, a fantastic "African" steakhouse. The meal was fabulous and it was so nice to just be able to sit and talk without any interuptions :). After dinner we tried our luck at the slots in the casino, but lady luck was not on our side and we gave up after R100.

On the Saturday, after a glorious lie-in, we made our way to breakfast. Now dinner was amazing, but breakfast was a total wow! Luckily we only had to be out of our room at 11am, so we rolled back there and relaxed until then.

The final part of the prize was a couples full-body Swedish massage. Off we then went to Octavia's Sensorium where we hung around in the roman baths until we were called for the massage. Another absolutely amazing experience - quite a nice for Ed too who was a massage virgin before this :). Swedish showers, sauna and steam room sessions ended our time and our break-away.

It was so lovely to reconnect with my husband again and relax a bit. Worst of all is we rushed home to the kids and ends up they did not even miss us - maybe we can try this again sometime.......
Our room
Ed
Me
The view from our room
The roman bath

1 comment:

cat said...

Sounds like a great night out!