Pezula Resort Hotel & Spa
Located on the Eastern Head of Knysna, surrounded by a lush paradise of indigenous forests, mountains, lakes and pristine beaches, our hotel offers unsurpassed luxury on South Africa’s iconic Garden Route. With a Championship Golf Course on your doorstep and luxurious suites, an award-winning spa and a restaurant focused on locally sourced dining to enjoy, it’s easy to see why Pezula Resort Hotel & Spa should be your Knysna luxury hotel of choice.
Construction of the Pezula Hotel commenced in 2003 and was developed by Keith Stewart.
The hotel opened in December 2004 and consists of a main hotel building with restaurants, bars, pool and spa, as well as 76 suites and 2 presidential suites.
INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR PEZULA – Knysna Plett Herald (Mar 2011)
KNYSNA NEWS – Pezula continues to receive international praise and accolades. Most recently chairman of the Pezula Group, Keith Stewart, has been awarded the Senses Entrepreneur Award 2011 by the German magazine Senses, which honours outstanding entrepreneurship in the luxury hotel sector.
In addition the Pezula Resort Hotel and Spa has been nominated for five awards in the 2011 World Travel Awards, in the categories for Africa’s Leading Spa Resort, Africa’s Leading Sports Resort, Africa’s Leading Suite, South Africa’s Leading Resort and South Africa’s Leading Spa Resort.
The Senses award specifically recognises Stewart’s work with regard to the rehabilitation of the resort, much of which was once a commercial pine and blue gum plantation, and his contribution to sustainable tourism. In response to receiving the award Stewart said, “For me the opportunity and, indeed, the responsibility to transform a landscape that had been exploited for over 10 years, and to rehabilitate the prime acreage of South Africa’s coastline was both exhilarating and rewarding. I can imagine how an artist must feel creating a masterpiece. The restoration of the Pezula landscape is like painting a picture and seeing it come to life, with natural water courses starting to flow again, birds and animals returning, and the once-choked forest now beginning to flourish again.”