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Gin and jungle oats

My initial impression was not, I am afraid to say, wholly positive. The main entrance to the hotel is reached via a large car park, as unbeautiful as can be. The strip of sandy beach on which the hotel perches is liberally dotted with oil. Our roo ms were decorated in that nasty hotel pinky-orange, with lots of nylon ruffles, and smelt damply off-season. But I knew everything was going to be all right when, rifling dismally through the dressing-table drawer, I came across room laundry details from "Jeeves", who seemed to assume that normal garments to be laundered would be "pyjama suits", "safari suits (shorts)" and "safari suits (long)".

The Oyster Box Hotel at Umhlanga Rocks, 15 ...

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