On September 30, 2009, the Oyster Box Hotel finally re-opened its elegant, timeless, welcoming doors once more, rolling out the red carpet to over 800 excited guests including His Majesty King ...

The Oyster Box is an upscale colonial-style hotel set within lush vegetation and landscaped gardens on the beachfront in Umhlanga just north of Durban and 15 minutes from its international airport.

Skabenga, the resident cat at the Oyster Box hotel in Durban, South Africa, prefers to sit in the middle of the red carpet during special events.( Courtesy ) DURBAN, South Africa — As Durban ...

Built in 1954, The Oyster Box Hotel is situated on the spot where The Oyster Lodge once stood - a 19th century cottage that acted as a navigational beacon. Since its construction, many a celebrity ...

But we’ll get to that... The Oyster Box’ remarkable interiors are the work of Toni Tollman and her mother Bea, president and founder of the Red Carnation Hotel Collection. When they took over ...

Recently renovated, after being torn to the ground and painstakingly built up again from scratch, it can be said that that the Oyster Box remains secure in her place as the Grand Dame of Umhlanga. The ...

PHOTO: The Oyster Terrace at the Oyster Box hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean in South Africa. (Photos by David Cogswell) I had heard many superlatives about the Oyster Box hotel but not many ...

The old picture shows the terrace of uMhlanga’s famed Oyster Box Hotel, probably in the 1950s soon after it opened. With its dramatic, some might say diabolical, large print curtains ...

However, one family-owned hotel, surely a historical heirloom of the province, offers a bit of our heritage, albeit in the lap of luxury. A large part of the legacy of The Oyster Box is that it ...

The five-star Oyster Box Hotel, a member of Luxury Hotels by Dnata, was named by Conde Nast Traveler magazine as one of the “Hot Hotels” and one of the “Hot Hotel Spas” for 2010, The Oyster Box in ...

An interim court interdict obtained by the plush Oyster Box hotel against the EFF has been withdrawn. In return the EFF has given an undertaking to distance itself from any unlawful conduct from ...

Drill down into cost breakdowns and export the results. The Oyster Box is an upscale colonial-style hotel set within lush vegetation and landscaped gardens on the beachfront in Umhlanga just north of ...