The Houghton Hotel

Contemporary luxury above the fairways.

The Houghton Hotel, Spa, Wellness & Golf opened in May 2019 in Houghton Estate, five kilometres from both Sandton and Rosebank and half an hour from OR Tambo. Built at a cost of R880 million, it is one of the few hotels in the country designed from the ground up around wellness: 67 rooms and suites, including seven penthouses and four presidential suites, set above the fairways of the Houghton Golf Club's 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature course.

The flagship Amani Spa has nine treatment rooms. There are four heated pools, an eight-kilometre parkland running track, a gym, a business lounge and four private dining rooms, and an on-site medical centre with its own practitioners. Dining is led by The H, the signature restaurant, with the Nova deli and a whisky lounge alongside.

The Houghton's guests are here for the quiet, the space and the view, and the hotel competes on how it makes them feel. That standard runs right through to the bathroom.

The partnership

Hospitality Classics has supplied the hospitality trade from Johannesburg since 1972. We make three ranges of our own, Elements, Soak and Botánico, and we import Molton Brown from London for the trade in Africa. For a property like this one the work is less about a single product than about a standard: a room set that is right for the guest, delivered on time, in the sizes and quantities housekeeping needs, every week of the year.

That means hotel sizes alongside full retail formats, consistent fragrance across bath, body and hair care, and packaging that can carry the property's own identity. It also means an account manager who knows the hotel, forecasts with it around peak season, and keeps the back-of-house stocked without the property having to think about it.