Ideal Student Accommodation: We are conveniently situated for students of the International Hotel School, one block to the east at 140 Kelvin Drive.  The Hotel School is a 5- to 10-minute walk away along a main road with a paved sidewalk and street lights.  Students at Varsity College in Waterstone Drive are only about 3.1 km away by minibus taxi or occasional bus along Rivonia Road (cost about R7 per trip) plus a 1.5 km walk (Map from Megaplex to Varsity College).  The Health and Fitness Academy at Planet Fitness in Rivonia is about 3 km away –a quick jog if you are fit (which you must be to study there!), or by minibus taxi along Rivonia Road.

We are within a short walk of two shopping centres, Morning Glen and "90º on Rivonia" (formerly called the Pavilion), both on Kelvin Drive.  Facilities include a Post Office, Postnet, Pick 'n Pay, stationers, Nando's, Steers, Wimpy, various other restaurants and take-aways, several hairdressers, two bottle stores, a Pharmacy, Medical Rooms (Manor Medical Centre), Optician, Video Hire, ATMs (ABSA, FNB, Nedbank, and Standard), hardware shop, Zenex and BP Garages, and tyre repair/replacement.  The local "Mr Delivery" operates from 90º on Rivonia, where a Spar also opened in May 2006.

About a 15-minute walk (or a 5-minute drive) away is The Morningside Wedge shopping centre on Rivonia Road, containing several other restaurants, a Woolworths food store, pharmacy/dispensary, Fruit & Veg City, a larger hardware shop, Nedbank, Mr Price, etc.

Slightly further, but still in walking distance, is central Rivonia with its wide array of restaurants (read Restaurant Reviews here), supermarkets, shops, banks, and clubs.

The nearest cinemas are at Village Walk and Sandton City, a 15-minute drive away in central Sandton (half an hour in rush hour).

For fitness fanatics, the Morningside Country Club is close by, as is a private gym on Rivonia Road corner North.  The Morningside Virgin Active Club is about 3 km south on Rivonia Road corner Centre Rd.

We do regular walks almost every Sunday along the nearby Sandspruit Hiking Trail, and have keys to the gates both for access downstream, and upstream through Ernest Ullmann Park.  The Ernest Ullmann Park Recreation Centre has a tea garden on Sundays and a monthly craft market.  The trail itself is good for walks of up to four hours in peaceful and natural surroundings with running water, spectacular rock formations, lawns, indigenous vegetation, willows, wattles, kakiebos and black-jacks.  There are geese, ducks, plover, guinea fowl, various ibis, other birds, and occasionally a rare sighting such as a leguan.  Dogs are allowed under control or on leads.  The Braamfontein Spruit Hiking Trail, where walks of a whole day are possible, is in the next valley.

For our tenants, it helps if you like dogs and cats: We have three cats and three adult Labradors, plus a puppy we are puppy-training for the SA Guide Dogs Association for the Blind.  We breed Labrador pups for the Guide Dogs Association, who would welcome a donation from you!

Great news if you are a Barbet: We have three nesting logs.  Apply now to avoid disappointment!  The ability to get on with other birds, such as sparrows, weavers, doves, African hoopoos, redbilled woodhoopoos, crested barbets, red-collared barbets, hadeda ibis and, we hope one day, spotted eagle-owls, will be a recommendation.