The Gateway Hotel sits on the Umhlanga Ridge with direct internal access to the Gateway Theatre of Shopping — the largest mall on the eastern seaboard — putting delegates inside a self-contained precinct of restaurants, entertainment and team-build infrastructure without leaving the property. Five conference venues serve the hotel's 146 rooms, with capacity scaling from the 40-pax Cycad 2 to the combined Umdoni 1-3 venue at 400 cinema or 360 banquet — the property's primary plenary capacity reaches 500 delegates across combined rooms. The mid-sized Cycad 1 (60 cinema, 30 banquet) and Cycad 1 & 2 (100/70) handle breakaway sessions. King Shaka International is 15 minutes north; Durban CBD 20 south. A natural fit for national-conference brief where mall-based hospitality, retail-led incentive programmes and a single-precinct delegate experience are part of the value proposition.
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