In 2004 the conference business in South Africa was a patchwork of brochures, fax forms and regional agents. If you were planning an offsite in Cape Town from a Joburg office, you either knew someone, or you spent three weeks phoning hotels. We started this site to fix that — a single, editorially-curated index where planners could compare venues across the country in one place.
Twenty-two years in, the mechanics are the same. Planners tell us what they're running. We come back with a shortlist. They pick. We stay out of the way once the conversation starts.
The model is simple — and it suits planners.
Free to use
Planners pay nothing. Search the index, request a shortlist, enquire directly with venues. No account, no paywall.
Independent curation
We don't feature venues because they paid to be featured. We feature them because our planners actually recommend them.
Small rebate on bookings
Venues pay us a small rebate when a booking goes through. That's our revenue. It doesn't change the price you pay.
"The alternative is a planner making forty phone calls. We've made them for twenty-two years already."
What we're not.
We're not a booking engine. We don't have an app. We don't stream inventory from a global GDS and quote you rack rates. We're a small, independent South African team that happens to know a lot about conference rooms.
That means we're slower than Expedia — you won't get an instant confirm. But the shortlist you get is built by a person who actually knows whether the projector at that Stellenbosch lodge hums, or whether the Umhlanga hotel's 200-pax room is really 200-pax or secretly 150 once you add a stage.
Who we work with.
Corporate event managers, PCOs, internal comms teams, association secretariats, agencies, and anyone running their first offsite. We place events from 12-person exec sessions to 2,000-delegate conferences.