City Lodge Hotels group opened its 184-room City Lodge Hatfield in Pretoria on October 20.

Located within easy access of the Gautrain’s Hatfield station, which will be opened in 2011, the R140m hotel has opened 76 of its rooms and will be fully operational by mid-November.

This brings to five the number of City Lodge properties in the Pretoria area, following the opening of the 203-room City Lodge Lynnwood, which opened in June.

The group’s other Pretoria hotels include Courtyard Arcadia, Town Lodge Menlo and Road Lodge Centurion.

City Lodge Hatfield offers wireless Internet throughout the hotel, a coffee shop, a mini gym and 10-seater and 12-seater meeting rooms.

Next month, the group will open its 52nd hotel, the 203-room Town Lodge Port Elizabeth, completing its biggest ever expansion phase, involving the opening of nine new hotels since the middle of 2009, taking total rooms numbers to 6 440 across South Africa.