A Ballito Mum’s Holiday Toolkit
A Beach Holiday should be about lazy sunny days, sandy toes and complete relaxation…but for Mum, holidays often mean kids underfoot, relatives filling the house and more stress than monthly work deadlines! A quick toolkit for holiday stressed mums.
Free Babysitting… at Burnedale
Voted the most ‘Yummy for Mummies’, Burnedale is a destination shopping experience for visiting tourists and harried local mums alike. The centre offers a variety of lifestyle boutique stores, hairdressing salon, beauty spa and make-up studio…but best of all, toddlers are safely entertained by onsite nannies in the variety of play areas – including a petting zoo!
Super Idea:
Enroll your child in to one of the holiday cooking classes at Fine Young Cooks and take the opportunity to enjoy a relaxing massage at Oasis Beauty Spa, a Cut and Color at Hey Gorgeous hair salon and a cappuccino at Burnedale Cafe to make the day all a mom could wish for.
Burnedale Centre: 1 Burnedale Road, Umhlali Village.
Your Own Personal Chef…at Tiffany’s Spar!
Jason Turner heads the deli kitchens at this Salt Rock goldmine. Meticulous to detail and fanatical about quality, Turner has systematically revitalized the deli offering, introducing a Gourmet element to the take-home variety of dishes. Family favorite dishes are made as your grandmother may have, with fresh ingredients, the best cuts of organically sourced produce and a dash of love!
Quality is premium to us. We source from carefully chosen suppliers and cook each dish from scratch every day. Mass produced, preservative filled sauces are simply NOT used in our kitchen.”
Priced to fill a hungry man’s appetite at around R 45 a plate. A variety of traditional home-style meals or a hint of the more exotic (try the pulled pork!) gives a busy mum the option of feeding her brood a healthy, nutritious meal every night of the week – without soiling a pan.
Great Bonus:
Buy your own ingredients in-store and let Turner and his team cook your preferred dish to perfection – complimentary!
Tiffany’s Spar at Tiffany’s Centre, Salt Rock.
A Day Trip Dash…Rain Farm Lodge
As the holiday hostess, finding more fun and innovative excursions to entertain your guests can be exhausting. Rain Farm Lodge, just 15 minutes from Ballito, offers the perfect day escape. Set on a small private game farm, this is the perfect day excursion to send visiting grandparents, in-laws and cousins, while you relax at home or run urgent errands!
The lodge offers a game drive suited to eager young children with antelope, giraffe and various smaller animals to find in the bush, a putt-putt course, swimming pool, horse rides and spa facility.
This is the perfect venue to entertain my grandchildren. Enough for them to see in the bush, without the long car ride a trip to the game park usually requires.”
Bonus Opportunity
Rain Farm has a limited number of self-catering cottages at reasonable rates offering an authentic ‘bush’ experience just minutes from home.
Rain Farm Lodge: F9 Rain Farm, Esenembe Road, Umhlali. Tel: 032 815 105
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